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Five Steps to Happiness

Reverend Barbara Leger, a recent guest on "New Dimensions," spoke about the wisdom of a 92 year old man. Many listeners asked for us to repeat the five simple, but profound steps he discovered that will lead to living a more happy life. (Program 3255)

 

They are: free your heart from hatred, free your mind from worry, live simple, give more, expect less.

 

I felt it was interesting that he talks about the emotion of hatred as emanating from the heart, but worry as coming from the mind.  I find that deeply held emotions like love and hate are physically felt in the heart.  I also experience worry as something that is exclusively beamed out from my thought processor (some call the mind). 

 
Published Jul 25 2008, 04:33 PM by Justine Willis Toms

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Lawrence said:

Just a few thoughts that have come to me lately----How to live successfully-----Be awake, be grateful and breath deeply. Be awake shows the path on which to walk.  Be grateful takes care of the self, the neighbor and all creation.  In order to be awake and grateful in this world we need to take care of the body which means breathing deeply.  The consequences flowing from these three is ones life.  The most important is gratefulness---some call it love and other names.       Lawrence

September 7, 2008 11:34 PM

About Justine Willis Toms

Justine Willis Toms is Co-founder and Managing Producer of New Dimensions Media/World Broadcasting Network and New Dimensions Radio, a nonprofit educational organization. She has hosted many radio series including "In Her Company: Deep Dialogues with Women of Wisdom," and produced many award-winning radio series including "Deep Ecology for the 21st Century," and "Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature." She also serves as guest host of "New Dimensions" which is distributed worldwide. Besides her radio work she leads workshops on, "Living Life On Purpose." She is co-author with Michael Toms of True Work: Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do and author of the upcoming book Small Pleasures: Finding Grace in a Chaotic World. She is a founding convener of the Millionth Circle Initiative and has been actively involved in circle work since 1980 including being a founding member of a mixed circle of men and women who have been meeting regularly since 1980. This circle has been witness to all the life cycles including birth and death and everything in-between. She also participates in other circles including several women's circles.