Lightarted Living: Love~Let there be Laughter and the Sharing of Plea...

Lightarted Living: Love~Let there be Laughter and the Sharing of Plea...: 'With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.'  William Shakespeare 'May this marriage be full of lau...

Lightarted Living: Love~Let there be Laughter and the Sharing of Plea...

Lightarted Living: Love~Let there be Laughter and the Sharing of Plea...: 'With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.'  William Shakespeare 'May this marriage be full of lau...

Love~Let there be Laughter and the Sharing of Pleasures

'With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.' 

William Shakespeare

'May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.'

Rumi

'In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. 

For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.'

Khalil Gibran

'Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.' 

Victor Hugo

'The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.' 

e. e. cummings

Created with snippetts of song sung by Perry Como 

"Papa Loves Mambo" humming through my head.

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Lightarted Living: The Marvels of Ordinary Life: Mark Nepo

Lightarted Living: The Marvels of Ordinary Life: Mark Nepo: The Extraordinary is Waiting Quietly Beneath All that is Ordinary "The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that...

The Marvels of Ordinary Life: Mark Nepo

The Extraordinary is Waiting Quietly Beneath All that is Ordinary

"The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and

 the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. 

Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, 

and music is in both the flowing violin and 

the water dripping from the drainage pipe."

Mark Nepo, The Awakening 

"We begin so aware and grateful. 

The sun somehow hangs there in the sky. 

The little bird sings. The miracle of life just happens."

Mark Nepo, The Awakening

Be Open to The Marvels of Ordinary Life

Return to experiencing the marvels of ordinary life. 

Stay open to the magic of falling in love with life at first sight. 

The dawn of each day brings a fresh perspective and

opens us to the possibility of falling in love at first sight.

 “The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. 

It blossoms and the bee comes.” 

Mark Nepo, The Awakening

Bloom where You're Planted

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Lightarted Living: Fate Leads the Willing and Drags the Reluctant

Lightarted Living: Fate Leads the Willing and Drags the Reluctant: FATE LEADS THE WILLING AND DRAGS THE RELUCTANT SENECA GIDDY-UP! Sign Up for Free E-mail updates              ...

Lightarted Living: Happy Day!

Lightarted Living: Happy Day!: “There is only one way to happiness and that is  to cease worrying about things  which are beyond the power of our will.” E...

Happy Day!

“There is only one way to happiness and that is 

to cease worrying about things 

which are beyond the power of our will.”

Epictetus

 “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, 

and the life of the candle will not be shortened. 

Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

Buddha

“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, 

of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, 

and not bothering.”

Winnie the Pooh

“We tend to forget that happiness 

doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, 

but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”

Frederick Keonig

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

Aristotle

“We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness 

and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong 

and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness 

oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others 

who surround us as members of the same human family. 

The wiser course is to think of others 

when pursuing our own happiness.”

Dalai Lama

“In every moment we have a chance to make a choice 

to bring light into the world. When we bless others 

with the gift of our positive energy, instead of letting 

circumstances affect us negatively, 

we bring a little peace to the world every day.”

Madisyn Taylor

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, 

you should put a good deal of thought 

into the happiness that you are able to give.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“When I look back on all these worries, 

I remember the story of the old man 

who said on his deathbed 

that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, 

most of which had never happened.”

Winston Churchill

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives 

through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.”

Rose Wilder Lane

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Lightarted Living: Blaming Others Can Be Entertaining Sport

Lightarted Living: Blaming Others Can Be Entertaining Sport: 'Stop blaming everyone for your problems. Just pick one person who you don't care for very much and heap it on them.&#...

Lightarted Living: Bloom where You're Planted~Live a Sweet, Fruitful ...

Lightarted Living: Bloom where You're Planted~Live a Sweet, Fruitful ...: Each Moment of My Life is New, Fresh, Vital and Yummy What do you want to Harvest Today?  ��We reap what we sow--so w hat are you...

Lightarted Living: Bloom where You're Planted~Live a Sweet, Fruitful ...

Lightarted Living: Bloom where You're Planted~Live a Sweet, Fruitful ...: Each Moment of My Life is New, Fresh, Vital and Yummy What do you want to Harvest Today?  ��We reap what we sow--so w hat are you...

Bloom where You're Planted~Live a Sweet, Fruitful Life

Each Moment of My Life is New, Fresh, Vital and Yummy

What do you want to Harvest Today? 

💓We reap what we sow--so what are you sowing in that fertile brain of yours? 
💙What seeds are you planting daily? 
💛What are you doing today to grow a sweet and fruitful life that allows you to bloom where you're planted?

There's no time like the present to plant new seeds. 

Live a Yummy Life!
Take a BIG bite of life and let the sweetness envelope you!

Life is Good. All is Well.

My Future is Bright, Joyous and Secure. All is Well.

Refresh your Belief in Life and Yourself daily

Give the World the Best you have 
and it may never be Enough.

Give Your Best Anyway.  

Mother Teresa

Choose a Sweet and Fruitful Life
Put Your Gifts to Work for the World

Life is but a Dream

Be in Awe

Bloom where you're Planted
and Stand Tall in the World

A BIG thank you to Sue Flynn and Steve Flurry for growing such a yummy pear. So fat, fresh, sweet and juicy--just like life!

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Lightarted Living: Upbeat People: What Sets them Apart?

Lightarted Living: Upbeat People: What Sets them Apart?: What Sets Upbeat People Apart? Face it--some days you wake up ready to enthusiastically dive into the day, while other days you wa...

Lightarted Living: Upbeat People: What Sets them Apart?

Lightarted Living: Upbeat People: What Sets them Apart?: What Sets Upbeat People Apart? Face it--some days you wake up ready to enthusiastically dive into the day, while other days you wa...

Lightarted Living: Life Suck? Deal with it!

Lightarted Living: Life Suck? Deal with it!: 'If you're going through hell...just keep going.'  Winston Churchill Sometimes Life Sucks. It's How You Dea...

Lightarted Living: Life Suck? Deal with it!

Lightarted Living: Life Suck? Deal with it!: 'If you're going through hell...just keep going.'  Winston Churchill Sometimes Life Sucks. It's How You Dea...

Lightarted Living: All Stressed-out and No One to Choke?

Lightarted Living: All Stressed-out and No One to Choke?: 'A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.' Chinese Proverb How are you today? '...

Lightarted Living: All Stressed-out and No One to Choke?

Lightarted Living: All Stressed-out and No One to Choke?: 'A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.' Chinese Proverb How are you today? '...

Lightarted Living: Anxious about Being Anxious? Turning the Volume Do...

Lightarted Living: Anxious about Being Anxious? Turning the Volume Do...: Do You: ❓ Sometimes get overwhelmed by anxiety?  ❓ Worry about being worried? ❓ Wind yourself up feeling anxious about being anxious...

Anxious about Being Anxious? Turning the Volume Down on High Anxiety

Do You:

❓ Sometimes get overwhelmed by anxiety? 
❓ Worry about being worried?
❓ Wind yourself up feeling anxious about being anxious, or get stressed about being stressed?  

Stop it. There's nothing wrong with you experiencing anxiety or stress. While it's uncomfortable when anxiety takes up residence in your life, the solution is to turn the volume down, not up. Hyping yourself up by becoming anxious about being anxious does you no good.

Turning the Volume Down on Garden-Variety Anxiety 

Stress and anxiety are normal--and even helpful physiological signals--that help us more effectively deal with the challenges of life.  Turning the volume down on feeling anxious begins with accepting the uncomfortable feelings as a normal reaction to life.

Used properly stress and anxiety focus our attention on getting busy meeting the current challenges that are creating the anxiety. 

Used improperly--at the first whiff of anxiousness--we catastrophize the situation, hyperventilate, and blow up our ability to function effectively.

All is Well

Learn to turn your attention away from 'feeling anxious about being anxious' by reframing how you interpret those feelings. 

Change how you talk about anxiety. Try naming your creeping anxiousness as 'everyday garden-variety' anxiety instead of 'something's terribly wrong with me' anxiety. Choose to be comfortable being uncomfortable, and change your viewpoint so you see anxiety is serving a useful purpose--as it's intended.   

If you let it, anxiety can serve as a penetrating signal for you to act and move your life forward instead of turning you into a nervous wreck. The key is to respond to the annoying signal with appropriate action.

Let Anxiety Work in your Favor

None of us likes feeling anxious but we can learn to befriend the feelings. Yes, free floating anxiety is a bit like someone continually poking you with a hot poker. After a while it gets on your nerves and all you want to do is get away from it and lash out at someone. 

But just like the physiological feedback you'd get from touching a hot stove, anxious feelings show you what you want to move away from as quickly as possible at the same time it prods you to step into actions that move you towards what you want quicker. 

Become a Master at Quieting Anxiety

It doesn't matter how anxious you are. What matters is your ability to deal with anxiety. 

Never underestimate your ability to master the art of dealing with anxiety through consciously choosing to change your outlook, logical reasoning or circumstances to turn the volume down.

Sometimes your life circumstances demand great persistence to overcome road blocks to your goals turning your anxiety up. But every time you persist and overcome those challenges you strengthen your mastery of life--showing yourself you have all the ingredients to successfully handle life and quiet anxiety. 

  As Anna Freud noted:

"It is not the presence or absence, the quality, or even the quantity of anxiety which allows predictions as to future mental health or illness; what is significant in this respect is only the ability to deal with anxiety."    Anna Freud, 1965

In her new book 'Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls', Lisa Damour, Ph.D. sheds more light on who gets through the stressful experiences better:

"The children whose outlook for mental health is better are those who cope with the same danger situations actively by way of resources such as intellectual understanding, logical reasoning, changing of external circumstances...by mastery instead of retreat."

Sometimes Life is a High-Wire Act 

Sometimes life can feel like a high-wire act, with one wrong move and it all comes tumbling down. But to train for a high-wire act you focus on developing the skills and mastering the moves to keep yourself up and moving forward rather than focusing on the fear and self-doubt created by looking at the ground. 

Cope with anxiety-producing situations through mastery instead of retreat, by use of intellectual understanding, logical reasoning and changing of external circumstances.

Stop 'awfulizing' your situation. Choose a life strategy for dealing with anxiety-producing situations head on.  And keep on keeping on. 

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