 Let your inner light be your guide. Connect with the fire inside your heart through quiet reflection, meditation or prayer. Consult the wisdom of your heart-center when you are faced with important choices and decisions.
Stress and Anxiety
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Put Watching the News on a Diet
Avoid news overdose. The news is an important way to stay connected to what’s happening in the world. It can be educational, entertaining and even uplifting. Unfortunately, the news is too frequently bombarded with stories of suffering. These stories can skew your view of the world and cause you to focus on your worst fears, instead of recognizing the good that surrounds you. You can’t avoid these stories altogether, but try to minimize your exposure when you can, especially during trying times.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Crying is Okay
Cry if you need to—for a while.
Some people are more emotional than others. But repressing your emotions doesn’t always help. If you do repress them, it’s like holding a beach ball under the water. You can do it for a while, but it will eventually come back to the surface—and sometimes in an explosive manner. So have a good cry once in a while. Let the emotions out in order to help yourself think more clearly afterwards.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Be Kind to Yourself
Treating ourselves with kindness
When we fail to meet our own standards, we are often much harsher and more cruel to ourselves than we ever would be to a friend, or even someone we don’t like very much. Self-compassion reverses that pattern. In moments of difficulty or when making mistakes (especially when making mistakes), you treat yourself as you would treat a good friend in the same situation – with encouragement, sympathy, patience, and gentleness.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ The Cheap Date
A Cheap Date and Long Conversations – A winning combo
Getting out with someone you trust and sharing thoughts is a great way to feel good. “Knowing you are valued by others is important for helping you think more positively. Plus, being more trusting can increase your emotional well-being because as you get better at finding the positive aspects in other people, you become better at recognizing your own.”Â
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Happiness Surrounds You
Does what you see make you happy? It might be an extraordinary landscape or your child playing. It might even be the sight of lovers embracing. Whatever it is that captures your attention, make note of how it warms your heart.
🍎 Health Tip ~ This May Sound Fishy, But . . .
The biggest benefit of eating fish may be this: many people that eat it outlive their fish-phobic friends. The consumption of fish lowers the risk of death by heart disease by 36 percent. More astounding, older people who have higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids, largely due to their consumption of fatty fish, lived an average of 2.2 years longer than those with lower levels. Diets heavy in fatty fishes are also proven to elevate mood and prevent certain types of cancer and inflammation.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Finding Happiness
Finding Happiness
We can find happiness when we turn not just to nature but to one another: to our friends, our families—children, husbands, and wives—to those mundane and sustaining relationships. And we remember surely, not just to count our blessings but to recall also our griefs: those loved ones we have lost but have continued to cherish. Joy then becomes an act of courage, a leap of faith, and we remember that the world is worth loving, that happiness is there for us to grasp.Â
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Time to de-Stress
To reduce stress, try to simplify your life — exercise, take nature walks, practice deep-breathing techniques and maybe even meditation. If you absolutely cannot handle the burdens of your daily life without becoming overly stressed, consider seeing a psychologist.  Not only will overcoming your stress make you healthier, it will also improve your life in other ways. Going through life worried, anxious and never being able to relax and enjoy yourself is a big waste.
I like to ask myself, “What’s REALLY important here? I find that completing a checklist is not as important as learning to accept and flow with my day.
🍎 Health Tip ~ Let It Go
Take Time Off
It’s a time when you can bond with family and friends, which is good for your mental and physical health. People who take more vacations live longer and are less likely to have heart disease and other health problems.
