Daily Happiness: Setting your day to create a happier life

"Happiness is the spiritual experience of living
every minute with love grace and gratitude"            
                                                  Dennis Waitley

Life is meant to be fun, and we have the power within to make it that way every day.  According to Andy Baggot, who wrote a book, "Blissology - The Art and Science of Happiness", all it takes is five minutes at the beginning of each day to plan how you want to feel that day.  Source Energy only matches your dominant feelings, so if you start the day with good feelings, the events and encounters you attract will begin to match, and soon you will have that perfect day.  How you think and feel at the beginning of the day has a strong tendency to set the tone for the day.  If you wake up feeling worried, anxious or stressed, your day is more likely to be flavored with those feelings throughout - unless you do something to change the way you feel.

Here's a suggestion on how to do this.  No matter how we're feeling, the first thing we should do when we get up is spend five minutes setting our day.  This will be your cornerstone of your happiness practice.  Baggott suggests that you:

1.  Find a quiet place to sit and take three relaxing breaths
2.  Think about all the positive things in your life.  Sit in appreciation of your amazing body, your friends, your home and anything else in your life that makes you feel good.  Really get in touch with those feelings of gratitude.
3.  Imagine your day unfolding in the very best possible way.  Don't hold back - think big.  If you can imagine it, you have the power to make anything reality.  Whatever you have planned for that day, imagine everything unfolding perfectly.
4.  Smile to yourself as you visualize having a day filled with consistently improving feelings.
5.  Now go and enjoy your day.

Every time you set your day, you're practicing happiness, and with practice comes the realization of your dreams.  The more you work with this simple technique, the more your life will change for the better.  Soon you will marvel at your own power to create your life in a way that consistently expands your bliss.  So ask yourself, "how do I really want my day to be?"