“Sometimes the most meaningful journeys of your life are taken while being absolutely still.”
Article by Stefanie Johnson
There are magical places that exist within each one of us, inside our minds, hearts, and souls. By visiting these places, we can tap into the infinite and bring peace and abundance into our lives.
Each journey will be unique, as we are unique, so you may want to have a notebook and pen nearby to record your experience afterward. You may choose to have another person read the meditation to you so you may experience it more fully.
Find a comfortable place, close your eyes, open your mind, and prepare yourself to travel within.
Let’s walk together and truly look at the people surrounding us. The media and our culture seem to spend so much time dwelling on the negative in the people every day that sometimes we forget the goodness they all around us are capable of.
So let’s focus this week on honoring the goodness in them and forgiving their imperfections. In the end, that is the only way we can truly honor and forgive ourselves as well. Read More »
Article By Kevin L. DeWitt
How do you feel about your job? Do you love it? Do you hate it? Chances are, if you have a job today, you are thankful simply to be employed!
For me, how I feel about my job depends a great deal with the people I work with. If there is stress, annoyance or dislike in my job, chances are it’s because my co-workers get on my nerves. If there’s love in the office, it’s because I enjoy my co-workers to the point that it is almost like not having to work.
Often times in our work experience, we come across those whose only task seems to be making our workday miserable. That’s disheartening considering most of us seem to spend more and more time at work – if we have a job – and far less time at home. And when we are at home, we seem to either be on the run or trying to slip in a little sleep.
At my office, I had a co-worker named “Sally” who I considered my nemesis. And I say this with affection. Really. I think every office probably has a Sally. Here is a little story about my Sally and our ever-evolving interactions. Read More »
“It doesn’t take very much to create a spark of joy. Be responsible and be confident, people will notice and reciprocate.”
Article by Make The Days Contributor Chris Bennett
Happiness is fundamental root of all things that are good in your mind. Life is too short to be without it, so how do you make the best of it every day?
The content of your own happiness should come from within, despite … all external hindrances.
How hard is it to be truly happy if you hate your job? Or simply feel like you are mulling along in life and selling yourself short? Genuine happiness is balance of responsibility and satisfaction.
Is happiness biological? Sure it is. Is it part metaphysical? Possibly. Is it psychological? Yes. The mentality of contentment is complex in nature yet simply beautiful.
A person’s own knowledge of his or her persona thought process (called metacognition), can be a good starting place to discover your personal route to contentment. What do you know about your own thought process that can help rid poisons such as anger and frustration and lead to a more pleasant state of mind? Think about it. No one knows his or her way around your conscience better than you. Read More »
Article by Make The Days Contributor Marie Monroe
“In our Night Sea we forge ourselves and change our worlds forever. In the mornings of our lives we laugh and remember…”
I have a Cuban friend who came to the U.S. when he was 15. From the 2nd generation of his family to live in severe poverty, he says that one night he stood on the beach in his home country thinking that, at 15, he was a man ready to make his own way in the world and to help his family. He talks only rarely about his actual journey to the United States, but says more about his home country, his thoughts and feelings that night on the beach, and how much he misses his family.
One day, at lunch, we sat with 4 other friends around a rectangular table just big enough for the 6 of us. During our conversation about movies and music, he became quiet - unusual for this gregarious, happy man. After a moment he said “the boat I came in was smaller than this table.” Read More »
Article by Make The Days Count Contributor Marie Monroe
“How he’d run to meet it, run like wild horses, he’d
say, down the hills to wave to the engineer and
run alongside till he could run no longer …”
I became a refugee of a minor sort in the last week or so. Homeless in a winter blackout and deep-freeze brought on by a major ice storm that fell on the Midwest, I was uprooted like so many of the beautiful trees that have stood watch over this city for generations. I took sweet, warm, lit shelter with a dear friend who opened her home and her heart to me.
The world was at once magical and glorious … frightening and darkly powerful … a fairyland of sparkling, ice-gilded shrubs and grasses and trees - glassy gingerbread fancy along eaves and overhangs, utility lines and cornices. But nature came to say these ways of my usual comforts are tenuous and superfluous.
The temperatures plummeted. Read More »
