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    Little Gifts of Sustainable Contentment: One-minute daily reflections for cultivating mental, emotional, physical and financial well-being.
    Little Gifts of Sustainable Contentment: One-minute daily reflections for cultivating mental, emotional, physical and financial well-being.
    Little Gifts of Sustainable Contentment: One-minute daily reflections for cultivating mental, emotional, physical and financial well-being.
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    Little Gifts of Sustainable Contentment: One-minute daily reflections for cultivating mental, emotional, physical and financial well-being.

    By C. J. Good

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    We are all searching for contentment. The contentment we desire exists on many levels: emotional, financial, intellectual, physical, social, spiritual and occupational. Sustainable contentment is an array of attitudes, behaviors and wisdom, which when put into practice, creates a state of serenity. This book is an invitation to help you find contentment, by changing your thoughts and beliefs.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherC. J. Good
    Release dateJul 8, 2010
    ISBN9781452371429
    Little Gifts of Sustainable Contentment: One-minute daily reflections for cultivating mental, emotional, physical and financial well-being.
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    C. J. Good

    "Little Gifts of Sustainable Contentment," By: C. J. Good. One minute daily reflections for cultivating mental, emotional, physical and financial well-being.A simple, valuable book that provides a fresh perspective. Whether we are going through major life transitions, are struggling with illness or addictions, or wrestling with upheaval in our personal relationships, this indispensable little guidebook is the companion that will bring contentment to any given situation.

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      Little Gifts of Sustainable Contentment - C. J. Good

      Little Gifts of Sustainable Contentment

      One minute daily reflections for cultivating mental, emotional, physical and financial well-being.

      by

      C.J. Good

      Smashwords Edition

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      Little Gifts of Sustainable Contentment

      Copyright © 2010 by C.J. Good

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      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to Natalie, Max and Andrew.

      None of these words would have been written down without your loving encouragement and support. You are such a gift to me. Thank you.

      Contents

      Introduction

      CHAPTER 1 Emotional Contentment

      CHAPTER 2 Financial Contentment

      CHAPTER 3 Intellectual Contentment

      CHAPTER 4 Social Contentment

      CHAPTER 5 Occupational Contentment

      CHAPTER 6 Physical Contentment

      CHAPTER 7 Spiritual Contentment

      About the Author

      Introduction

      We are all searching for contentment. The contentment we desire exists on many levels: emotional, financial, intellectual, physical, social, spiritual and occupational. Sustainable contentment is an array of attitudes, behaviors and wisdom, which when put into practice, creates a state of serenity. This book is an invitation to help you find contentment, by changing your thoughts and beliefs. Everyone wants to live a fulfilling life. We all have objectives, goals and dreams whether business or personal. No matter who you are, you can enhance your capacity for contentment by incorporating the simple ideas in this book.

      You can read it from cover to cover or after going through the book once, you may find yourself returning to various parts for study, reflection or practice.

      To break through the confines of self-imposed limitations to personal freedom, to be more focused, productive and content in every aspect of life, is the purpose of this book.

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      Little Gifts of Sustainable Contentment

      chapter 1: Emotional Contentment

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      January 1

      Like an immovable tree, real love does not interfere or demand. It delights in both worship and sympathy. To have that sweet weakness aiding me, to touch providence with my hand, able to take it into my arms, as the soul is present, is to be caressed. There is no necessity for selfish human perceiving. Every part of the object is delightful and wonderful. Soul gropes for soul, and finds it. Love is looking with care, intense and fascinated. Beholding an object in thought in its absence, to hear it come, go, enjoy all its attributes, without judgments, totally accepting it, is love.

      January 2

      I use creativity like surfing a wave to capture the forward motion of consciousness. Ideas rise out of the immense void that is responsible for creating form. Creative chanting enlivens me and can be used to neutralize negativity. I make up songs, dance, write and imagine directing an orchestra to generate creative projects.

      January 3

      Contemplation is similar to sitting beside a mountain stream, becoming the moving water. I read poetry, which resonates in my heart as a complete, delicate, quite perfect thing of beauty.

      January 4

      Emotions have electron charges, attracting similar atoms that snap and crackle. I experienced this strange sensation while on a pilgrimage to Spain and Turkey. As I traveled across these lands, I went back in time. It was as though I was wearing an invisible freedom cloak, rendered sacred by the warmth of the sun. Stopping to investigate a display at an archeological site, I felt an exalted state of awareness, as if history were connecting me to different realities. I joined the world of impossibility, infinity and immortality. I went beyond thinking, to a place of tranquility.

      January 5

      My beliefs are like a portal, passionately pouring through the funnel of inspiration and fortune. I focus on strengths. I feel naturally confident and optimistic. I have happy, fulfilling relationships and have the impression that I have all that I need.

      January 6

      Filled up with the joys of a contemplative life, I have the capacity for peace. Consequently, I know that everything is going to be okay. Peace links to my heart, to myself and to a creator greater than myself. I’m in the genuineness of a moment. Someone out there is a mirror to me. The world is the reflection of my mood, inclined to shift dramatically, depending on moments of joy or despair. When I was broken down by afflictions, I selected the appropriate adjustments. In this process of rejuvenation, I meet the intellect through the heart, through love and grace.

      January 7

      Today, I close my eyes and go to a meadow on the border of a lake, nestled against a mountain. I walk in a field laced with swaying yellow flowers. The dazzle of color, the soft call of loons and the crashing waterfalls harmonize with my heart, lifting my spirits. I stop to smell the flowers, merging with the lights and shadows around me. I am attuned to the sounds of the universe and enjoy the vibration. I become physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually relaxed.

      January 8

      I am encased by a swarm of intrinsic, intelligent qualities that carpet my nature like a wheat field. I’ve been passed over with a translucent layer of good and loving truth. Difficulties, despair and disappointments melt from me like a blanket of snow. I persevere. Life is just beginning.

      January 9

      I am plagued today with incessant worry. Save for this one weakness, this exceedingly repetitive idea about fear of loss, regret or abandonment is nothing but my clumsy, fearful mind. Everybody has it. It demands the expression of patience, prayer and meditation. This is the outlet that will assuage my mind, and in time, inner clarity will return.

      January 10

      I am relieved from tragic states, from wretched feelings of hopelessness, failure, despair, confrontation with guilt and collapse of defenses. My senses open to the truth of life. Like a pressure release, a power greater than myself grants me all the courage and strength I need.

      January 11

      I do not fear the whirlwind of chaos. Solar systems are born from chaos.

      January 12

      Chaos is the raw substance for my

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