Winner – Best Picture I-48 2010 Open Category

Happiness is great. Fun is even better!

Enjoying what you do contributes to your happiness and well being. Making this video was pretty danged amazing with lots of LOL! Enjoy and share it with all your Facebook friends!

Hey Guys, that’s me in teh turquise top with the horsey!

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“myface,” submitted by Reel Women of the West (aka Splice Girls) for this year’s i48 competition, won Best film in the Open Category. This year, we drew the “silent film” genre, and were required to include a character named Cassy Marshall (attorney), a porcelain angel, and the phrase “It’s not like they’re going to arrest you.”

Concept/script by Jody Lee (Sherry Cann helped with script), co-produced/directed by Alex McNish and Jody Lee, original score by Linda D. Yordy, edited by Jody Lee and Jenessa Carson, starring Joleen Allen as Cassy – and an incredible cast/crew.

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Happiness: What Does It Mean To Live In Happiness?

Once you live in the truth that you are, at all times, one with the God Force, The All-Is-One, you recognize the big truth that every individual (every animal and plant, the earth – absolutely everything that exists) is also part of that single All-Is-One.

Ah! You see we are all connected. To see yourself as separate from others that feeling of being separate contributes to your aloneness, your sadness – your anger and frustration. All negative feelings come from buying into the illusion that we are all separate beings rather than all connected as One energy.

Instead choose to see everyone as a Divine Spirit and guess what – that is how they will show up in your world. Even the people you don’t really like – look past their human presentation, their human suit (as it is). Look beyond appearances and see their Spirit, Their Divine Spirit. See their True Self as you see your own True Self.

I started that practice the last time I was in NYC in the summer time. When riding the buses and subways instead of passing judgment (sorry that is a habit I continue to clear) about their being overweight or dirty or smelly I actually looked past those human appearances (figuring all of this is an illusion anyway) and found myself smiling.

Hey I grew up outside NYC and I never ever saw people this way before. It was quite miraculous. I actually enjoyed my rides instead of feeling miserable.

Good thing too, as humans we live in community. Whatever each of us thinks goes out to the Universe impacting everyone in some way. Eventually the energy vibration we send out comes right back at us—usual magnified.

So stay mindful of your thoughts. Realize your thoughts and moreover your mood, influences the mood and well being of those around you – at work and at home, when you’re out shopping, in the park, at the concert – every where.

When you live in happiness and love yourself first (which just happens when you know your True Self rather than the Illusion, your ego self) you exude love to everyone and everything. People will wonder what you’re up to. They will either ask you what you are doing differently that has you looking and feeling so great OR they will consciously or unconsciously imitate you.

There is another possibility – those who do not want to change will drop out of your life. Everyone remaining in your circle will feed each other with positive high vibration energy keeping all of you in that state of happiness and well being.

The vibration of people impacts the Earth’s vibration. Witness the violent behavior of people as it gets reflected in violent weather and earth changes. Nuf said.

Habits: How To Replace Bad Habits With Good Habits

If all you do is stop a bad habit you leave yourself open to start a new bad habit. The default process replaces bad with bad which also means it replaces good with good.

When you stop a bad habit you must consciously replace it with a good new habit. Make the effort to replace bad with good. Use correctly formed and worded affirmations – all very complex not simply as you often see most gurus teach. They leave out most of the essential parts. Then people wonder why they fail to manifest what they speak in the affirmations every morning and every night and paste up on their vision boards.

Affirmations, as taught by most gurus, leave out key pieces – it’s one of my soapboxes. You can find details in many other articles and programs I created because there is so very much to know. Affirmations do work—100% of the time. You are living all your affirmations, made unconsciously, right now!

Back to forming habits…

Be Persistent and consistent using your new affirmations and behaviors for 28 days. And make sure your affirmations have a Personal Meaning Quotient (PMQ is a method I created to evaluate your affirmations and goals) at 100. With a Personal Meaning Quotient of 100 there is NO WAY you do not manifest them. Anything less than 100 may or may not happen.

Now I realize that most of the people who read this information will not use it. You see, people pay lots of lip service to making life changes but few take any action to make it happen.

Why?

Most people are lazy – physically and emotionally lazy. They want instant gratification. They want change NOW and they do not want to make the effort, to expend the energy, or to experience their emotions.

Look at all the people in unhappy relationships.  Yet they stay in that deep hurt rather than take the steps to end it. They do not want to go through the pain and the action it takes to create a new life by ending the known life.

The other reason few people actually change is because it takes lots of energy to think accurately: to think and live in the reality of things rather than living with the appearances of the world and things. The fact is that 2% of people actually think. 3% think they think and 95% of people would rather die than think!

Stop a moment. Notice when most people want to make a decision they go to their neighbors, their family, their friends – for advice. Are those people experts in the field? NO! It would take work to seek out expert advice from many sources, to educate oneself and make a wise choice.

You gotta invest time, energy and effort to reap desired results.

People are afraid of change. They’d rather stay stuck in the misnomer comfort zone—really your know zone.

I think it is way more scary to look forward to a lifetime that looks as it does now–seeing as how you are here looking to make changes I assume you are not living your dreams – yet.

Make the effort to create the habits that put living your desired life on automatic. You have the next 28 days to make it happen.

The question is, will you DO it?

Your True Self: Who You Really Are Is Not Who You Think You Are (Because Others Told You So)

Many people talk about loving yourself. There is a difference between the self you know and who you really are.

When I refer to the Self I am not talking about the self you treat to bubble baths and walks along the beach. I am talking about your Higher Self, Your Spirit, Your Soul, the immortal part of you that is connected to the Universal Oversoul, the All-is-One, the God Force, Creator – whatever term you use.

When you were first born you were your True Self. But you were unable to filter out incoming messages so your parents, caretakers, siblings and. society put all these descriptions—and limitations – into your subconscious mind telling you who you can and cannot be, what you can and cannot do and what you can and cannot have.

You had no way to stop those messages. They went directly into your subconscious mind (you had not developed the ability to screen those messages with your conscious mind) So file folders were created that define your self image – your self that you call and know as you.

That self is really your ego. Lest we contribute to the bad reputation that term, ego, already has, let me put this into perspective for you.  The ego conforms to the definition you and others already call you. Working with the brain and mind it serves to keep you safe – and very stuck.

So long as you do not attempt any behaviors for which you have no programs in your subconscious mind, the ego reigns powerfully over your life. And so you have no chance to grow and, more importantly, no chance to change who you are.

The cold hard facts tell you that you are not who other people told you that you could be. That is just their opinion. Their opinions really do not define you at all.

Who you are is pure energy. Who you are is a Divine Being. All of you is God, Source, Creator. AND God is more than just you.

You are your Spirit. You are your subconscious mind, the connection to God, to All-That-Is. Live in that truth and acknowledge that all you need is readily and always available to you simply by asking – and listening for the response from your True Self, Your Spirit

Plug into the master Source for solutions and answers to your every question. No matter how big or how small your request, your Spirit honors and supplies you. After all, in truth, you and your Spirit are one and the same.

Loving Yourself First: It Is Not Selfish (It Is Mandatory)

Loving yourself first is not selfish. It is mandatory. You cannot give what you do not have. Without self love you lack self respect and self-honoring.  Again, what you do not feel for yourself cannot be given to others – including honoring or respect.

When you love yourself first you will only allow others to treat you with honor and respect at all times. Knowing, very clearly, which behaviors you will accept and which do not fit into your life style allows you to choose only relationships that fulfill your desires.

I am talking about both personal and professional behaviors. Remember that how you do anything is how you do everything.

Feeding your need to love yourself causes you to feel endless love for everyone and everything in the world. Love pours from your every pore with no conscious effort on our part.

You become one with love – and one with God, Creator, the Universe, whatever term you prefer. After all, God is pure love energy.

Remember that you teach others how to treat you by example – you model acceptable behaviors toward you. When you take time to eat well, get rest and also recreation you show others they must feed you well, let you get your sleep and allow you to just plain have fun – as opposed to taking care of them all the time while ignoring you and your own needs. (Know anyone like that?)

You will only live in happiness when your Self love raises your vibrational frequency so high that you attract all and only people and circumstances that feel good.

Feeling good clues you in to the fact that you live in the present moment. All of your energy, taken to support you in the present moment, empowers you to stay healthy which in turn supports optimal functioning of the Life Force that is you.

Life only happens right now…and now…and now. If you recall past memories you steal energy from your present moment, energy that your physical and emotional bodies need to get you through the day. Same holds true if you find yourself “living” in the future.

You need your energy now. You want to stay focused on now.

If your body or emotions come up short on energy right now they go into your organs to pull what they need. Then if you fail to get adequate sleep to replace all that borrowed energy your health slowly, without your awareness, begins to deteriorate.

Loving yourself means knowing the past is gone forever. Loving yourself means the future is not here yet and just needs planning but not dwelling there.

Loving yourself is all about doing what feels good for you.