Joy of Life Discussion Group - Using Intuition to Enhance Our Lives

Joy of Life Discussion Group - Using Intuition to Enhance Our Lives

This week's meeting - “Using Intuition to Enhance Your Life” made us more familiar with what intuition really is, how it can help us be happy, protect us, lead us in the right direction and how it works.

Some of the things that came out from this week's meeting on Using Intuition were:  

Whether we should trust our inner voice - is it right or wrong?

We can ask our intuition and we will get answers.

The messages we get are not necessarily logical to the conscious mind.

We are all connected with each other, with animals, and with a Greater Intelligence and our subconscious draws from and through those connections.

Our “sixth sense” tells us things in many ways: inner feelings, nudges, hunches, visions, pictures and sounds and smells and feelings in our mind, random thoughts, emotions, unexplained urges to do something, dreams and messages. 

We can enhance our intuitive skills by: removing blocks and distractions, calming conscious thinking, journalizing and writing, dancing and music, being creative, being in nature, conscious breathing, meditation, mind drifting, prayer and practice. 

Mostly, we make ourselves receptiive to intuitive messages by being open to them and being willing to “listen”.

Intuition can help us to “read” other people for many beneficial reasons.

The biggest blocks are often fear, ego, skepticism and insecurities.

Intuition can tell us what to do, which choice to make, what our body needs in terms of nourishment and medicine, what person to connect with, what makes us happy and how to make a major decision. 

We can test the messages that come to us so we know if they are true and good. Often they come as disturbing feelings that something should be different and when we act as directed, it feels good. If it does not, we may not be on the right track. 

We have all had many intuitive experiences that we have recognized by accident. Who’s on the phone, someone we were just thinking about comes to us or calls or emails and many other outcomes that we just thought were conicidences turn out later to have been our “inner voice”.

If you ignore an important message, the feeling of unrest or of being unsettled will often persist. 

It doesn’t have to be serious and heavy, it can also be lighthearted. 

Following our intuition helps us to live our lives to the fullest. 

(C) 9-4-12 Fred Richter

Joy of LIfe Discussion Group- Every Human Contact is an Opportunity

This week's meeting on “Every Human Contact is an Opportunity” gave us all a really good insight into our human relations and how we can deeply touch the lives of others.

Some of the things that came out from this week's meeting on Human Contact being an opportunity were:

-Every contact we’ve had has shaped our lives to make us what we are today. We are an accumulation of all the good and bad interactions of our lives.

• Sometimes the shortest and seemingly insignificant contact with someone leaves a permanent and life-changing mark on them or on us. 
• A goal for a day, or for every day: to make everyone’s day better in some way. Sometimes just a smile or using their name can be enough. 
• Search your own memories of being really touched by someone during your life, especially in ways that were life-changing for you. 
• How can we connect with others on a deep, emotional level, feeling what they’re feeling and genuinely connecting with those feelings and emotions?
• Physical connection, touching and hugs can all have a huge impact. 
• Are you one of those people who lights up the room?
• How easy it is to touch someone’s soul with good or bad, to make their spirit soar or sink, with just a look, a word, a tone.
• When people are sometimes negative or hostile, we need to think about what’s going on inside of them. Are they feeling insecure or being defensive? Are they hurting inside or having tough times? We should not react to that or get pulled into the negativity. We need to find the softness inside of them, try to understand them, even tell them -”I know your’re a better person than that”- when they’re hostile toward us.
• Many of us never forget rudeness toward us or when we’re diminished in some way. Let’s not leave that mark on others. 
• Look for opportunities to value others by expressing admiration, gratitude and a sincere caring about them, expressed in giving our full attention and real interest in who they are and what they say. 
• Let’s remember that we can always learn something from every other person. Each person’s life is a wonderful, fascinating biography. 
• How much do I really know the people in my life, even those that I am close to? With true empathy and a sincere interest, we can begin to know the real depth of all those shallow acquaintances. 
• Real communication is a lot more that just talking or writing or texting. It’s truly listening, paying attention, understanding and feeling . 
• Every human contact carries with it an endless ripple effect. If I help people to feel better about themselves and spread joy and happiness, those feelings send waves throughout all existence. So the best goal we can have every day, with everyone we connect with is to try to make them feel better about themselves in some small way. 

(C) 8-21-12 Fred Richter

Joy of Life Discussion Group - The Law of Attraction- Summary

We talked about being able to attract what we want into our lives, whether it be people, events, circumstances, love, success, health, money, comfort, happiness, contentment or whatever else we choose. 

Each of us is capable of attracting unlimited goodness to ourselves and all that we desire, as long as we:

Believe that we can

Have sufficient self esteem to feel worthy and deserving of what we want

Express our intention to ourselves or others or in prayer

Focus on what we want

Use and keep positive images from other life experiences

Belief that it can’t or won’t happen or that we aren’t capable enough will create a block in us which will keep us from making it happen. Likewise, poor self esteem will do the same. We are all deserving and able to attract happiness in the form that we choose. We can change our self esteem - we can change anything about ourselves that we choose to change. Do you believe that you can? There is a balance in what comes to us vs. what we create. There will be good and bad - that’s life, but we can still draw the very best we can to ourselves. We need to believe that all things are possible. 

Our thoughts are things and send out energy and vibrations which do attract the good or bad things we focus on. The thoughts we carry in our souls and minds, conscious or subconscious, grow and become the force to make things materialize. Sometimes after we express, focus and believe, we can let it go and know that all goodness will come to us. What are our expectations? What do we believe about ourselves? Can we really have anything we want, do anything we want to do? We can, and we can do it without it being at the expense of others. We can actually get more of what we want by helping others get more. If you’d like more friends, help others to feel appreciated, important and loved, and all of that will come back to you. 

It’s good to reflect on the good and the bad that we have attracted to our lives so far. What did we do to get the good and the bad that has become who and what we are? We can learn from all of it. 

Now, to attract happiness, make a list of what makes you happy, what feels good to you, then ask yourself - “what will I do to get this?”

Finally, expect sychronicity. Most of the time what you expect and focus on and want and believe you can have will just come to you, sometimes very unexpectedly. 

(C)  10-2-12 Fred Richter