1. While Waiting Around - Nobody likes standing in line.  Here's a full-body exercise routine to help pass the time. Squeeze your behind 10 times.  Tighten your stomach muscles 10 times.  Stretch your arms downward behind you and squeeze your triceps 10 times.  Rise up on your toes and squeeze your calves 10 times.
2. While Sitting Around - Improve your grip strength by keeping a tennis ball at your desk at work, and another by your favorite chair at home.  At least twice a day, grab a ball and sque...

Simple pleasures are just that: simple! Forget fancy and think basic, everyday things that brighten your mood when you take time to notice them. 

1) Being outside: Fresh air boosts your mood and your vitamin D levels.

2) Seeing someone you love: It doesn't matter if the last time you saw them was 5 weeks or 5 minutes ago. It rocks every time.

3) Being home alone: You hear that? Nope, we didn't either. And it's glorious. 

4) Dancing: Nothing makes dinner taste as delicious as a kitchen dance party...

1. Happier-ness isn’t something you feel, but something you do. It’s a skill every one of us has and can improve by regularly practicing the scientifically-proven habits of gratitude, kindness, and mindfulness.
   
2. It’s OK to be not OK. True emotional well-being is not the absence of negative emotions. It’s the practice of strengthening your emotional immune system so that you learn how to be OK even when not everything is OK.
   
3. “I’ll be happy when…” is the surest way to never feel happy...

Written by Jafree Ozwald
www.EnlightenedBeings.com

Your true nature is love itself. This is the only kind of love that is real and everlasting. This love cannot be damaged, altered, threatened or changed in any way. It pours out of you naturally when your mind is calm and at ease, and it opens your heart to the God Source, flooding your body with absolute elation.  Every day that you choose to do those gentle and kind things to yourself, those things that bring deep peace into your heart (such ...

The Top 10 Causes of Enlightenment 

(and how to transcend ANY experience of suffering)

Written by Jafree Ozwald
www.EnlightenedBeings.com

"Enlightenment is the moment when the wave realizes that it is water." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Enlightenment is not something that can be given to you. Whatever that has been given to you, can also be taken away from you. You must find this great spiritual liberation within yourself, and learn how to cultivate it's presence in your life, as you are the master of it all...

Written by Jafree Ozwald 
www.EnlightenedBeings.com 

"To the mind that is still, the whole Universe surrenders."  ~Lao Tzu

 Quieting the mind chatter is not always something we want to do.  Especially when life can be so entertaining, with so many activities, task lists to accomplish, and people to meet and greet along the way.  The frantic desperate non-meditative mind has become the norm of our society, and the cause of all social injustice and corruption.  Once everyone learns the art and sci...

Written by Jafree Ozwald
www.EnlightenedBeings.com

“The law of detachment means that in order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn’t mean you give up your intention to create your desire. You don’t give up the intention, and you don’t give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.” ~Deepak Chopra

The wise Buddha once said, “Attachment Leads to Suffering”. What he meant by this was that whenever we bec...