| Note From Mollie:
Dear Friend, Welcome to the first edition of my new newsletter. If you are receiving this communication from me it is because we actually have been in contact with each other at some time. It is my intention to publish about once a month. My desire is to provide you with short, thought provoking content that will be useful in your life, as well as to be a little more transparent to you, personally. The topic that seems to be calling to me lately is that of Happiness. What are the Secrets to Happiness? I will start here, for as long as the subject has life in it for me. If there are any particular topics you would like to hear more about, please drop me an email. Warmly, Mollie |
| July, 2008 Share this newsletter with anyone you think may enjoy it!
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| Feature Article:
Random Thoughts on The Secrets to Happiness Recently, I have been reflecting on the idea of happiness and wondering when it first showed up for me as a conscious life goal. My earliest memory seems to be a time when I was first in University. I had been going through a time of deep uncertainty and turmoil. What the reason was, I no longer remember. I was riding my bicycle back to the apartment I shared with a friend who I felt I no longer knew. I was about nineteen years old and feeling weighed down by life. I remember thinking “All I really want in my life is to be happy.” I had no idea how one actually achieved happiness, but I could feel the desire for it deep in my being. It seemed as if being happy should be a simple thing, but instead, the circumstances of my life were weighing me down. From that time on, maybe longer, I have been learning, healing and making choices that bring me closer to experiencing happiness on a regular basis. What I now know for sure is that happiness is a choice. It is not a result of the conditions of our lives. The source of happiness is our conscious choice to focus on what makes us feel good. Today, for example, I had been thinking about going body boarding in the ocean. This is something that almost without exception brings me incredible joy. Unfortunately, in my human patterns, as the time I had designated for my ocean-time arrived, I noticed that I felt really tired, the wind was blowing, the sun had gone behind a cloud and the waves were probably choppy and conditions generally unpleasant. I decided to keep working on a pesky administrative task instead. Luckily for me, a gift from the universe arrived. There was a massive power outage in my neighborhood, one that is still in effect as I write this newsletter. Power outages have a way of interrupting “life as usual” and opening us to new possibilities. There was no phone, no Internet, and a limited charge on my computer and on my cell phone. After waiting some many minutes for the power to return (it did not), it seemed the only reasonable thing to do was to head to the ocean. One does not need electricity to enjoy an exhilarating ride on a wave. When I am at one with the ocean, I connect with the rhythm and patterns of nature. Riding a perfect wave, I play with joy. I exercise and tone my body, barely giving it all a thought. An hour or so later I shower at the public rinse station, feeling the joy of being alive. What now? The power is still off. I wander down to a local restaurant over-looking the ocean. Their power is out as well, but the bar is open, and I sit down with a delicious margarita to enjoy a glorious sunset. Time seems to stretch out forever. I watch children enjoying the last of the day at the beach, a father paddling his son on a surfboard, a sailboat slowly working its way home, and seemingly endless numbers of people walking on the beach - simply because there isn’t anything else to do. The power is out, and we have been impelled to shift the focus of our lives. I like to think that for many of us, that shift was in the direction of something that felt good, or at the very least, toward slowing down and doing something out of the usual pattern of things. For me it was a perfect happy moment in time. I could have focused on what wasn’t possible with the power out – but for today at least – I didn’t. And that made all the difference. I invite you to try this experiment: For the next month, practice deliberately focusing only on what makes you happy.
We don’t have to wait until the power goes out, but on this day, I’m glad that it did. It showed me what I almost missed by focusing on all the things that had the potential to disappoint me rather than those that might delight me. The choices that we make away from joy may be very subtle. Start noticing. Do you choose happiness, or do you choose something else? © Copyright 2008 Mollie Malone, Soul Power Coaching |
 About Mollie:
Mollie Malone is a life coach and transpersonal counselor. She received her Bachelor of Science in experimental psychology and a Master of Arts in counseling psychology. Over the years she has augmented her education with in-depth trainings within the human potential arena and the study of metaphysics. She has extensive training in the Hoffman Quadrinity Process methodology and is trained in the Hakomi method of psychotherapy. Mollie is a licensed Now What? facilitator and is a certified professional co-active coach trained by the Coaches Training Institute. She is a member of the International Coach Federation, the San Diego Professional Coaches Association, Coachville, and the American Counselors Association. |
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