SMILE - ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING

With family responsibilities, work deadlines to meet, it can be tempting to become sidetracked and stressed by a multitude of little problems and lose sight of what really matters in this increasingly complicated world. If your working days are over and your retirement fund that once paid 4 per cent for your living expenses has been reduced to less than one per cent there can be pause for reflection. Or sometimes these funds have disappeared altogether in a black hole in the stock market.

There is one thing we can still do and that is to change our thinking according to Lee L. Jampolsky, Ph.D. in his book “Smile For No Good Reason.” At this point it is time to rewire our thinking patterns and choose peace and happiness through the doors of forgiveness and love. “People can and do begin smiling for no good reason when they find that in order to be happy they need only to change their own thinking and attitudes. Use a few more smiles from the heart that ‘Attitudinal Healing’ can bring.

True and lasting happiness is not tied to income, jobs, partners, material possessions or friends that seem to vanish. When you catch yourself reacting with negativity keep rewiring thinking patterns and choose peace and happiness or your own conflict and pain. Nothing outside of us has more power than our own decision to be happy. One page of his book opens with this advice, “Think of God as a good dry cleaner.” He explains that God can remove stains - painful emotions and past choices – nothing and no one outside of us has more power than our own decision to be happy.
There is always family for emotional support to rely on and new friends will pop up on your journey. And keep your smile handy. More information can be found at l-800-723-1112.