‘A Recipe for Happiness’ is a concept, my
personal brand, which I have been developing and manifesting in myself over the
last five years. Using the idea that there are specific spiritual elements
(ingredients) required – including love, self awareness, honesty, connecting with
the bigger part of me Source/God/my True Self - that create happiness in
anyone’s life experience, I have gathered tools that have changed my life.
This is not the Recipe for Happiness, it is mine. We are all individuals; our
lives have taken us in so many different directions, there is no
one-size-fits-all recipe for happiness. I am here to share the delicious adventures
I have had, and the tools and processes I have found along the way. The “ingredients”
that have helped transform the chronic negative thought patterns that plagued
my life, into happiness.
I was a cliché, trying to find happiness in
all the wrong places. Thinking that a beautiful pair of shoes or next romantic
relationship, external things, would bring me the happiness and fulfilment my
heart yearned. Over the years, I realised that the hole in my soul couldn’t be
filled with these things, instead it increased with every failed relationship;
the fleeting relief I found in a new outfit quickly turned into disappointment.
Where could I find this seemingly elusive state of being: happiness? Sadness
and desperation tainted everything. Nothing was enough to sustain anything remotely
happiness-like.
Introduced to the Law of Attraction via the
Secret and Abraham Hicks in December 2007, I was led through a series of
synchronicities to discover that my inability to understand my emotions and
compulsive catastrophe thinking were symptoms of the process addiction or
spiritual disease of Codependency. Practicing the processes offered by Abraham,
The Secret, 12 Step recovery, and studying A Course in Miracles, I began
finding the happiness I sought. I quickly realised just how profoundly wrong the
places were that I had been looking. The source of happiness had been inside me
the whole time. The hole in my soul had been my practiced disconnection with
the Source of Love, joy, peace, and happiness residing within. What I had been
searching for was the bigger part of me. It was God, my True Self, Source
Energy.
When I started on this journey, I felt
nothing. Dead inside. Worn out and used up, disassociated from my emotions;
unable to engage with the inner world that is now so important to me. I hated
myself and everyone else.
Today, I am one of the happiest people I
know. Not because of the material manifestations that bless my life experience,
but because I feel my connection to my True Self, and that makes me happy.
I have an amazing relationship with my
precious inner child, who is an important aspect of my emotional being, a part
of me that when triggered can feel overwhelmed and out of control.
Nurturing and soothing my Inner child,
understanding my Codependency, the processes and tools offered by Abraham via Esther
Hicks, and studying A Course in Miracles are the major contributors to my
happiness. They take centre stage here.
Welcome, I am so glad you found me. I hope
that in reading about my experiences and journey, you too will be inspired to find
your own ‘Recipe for Happiness’ and become your True Self too.
