Honest Happiness

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/unified-theory-happiness/201209/the-how-honest-happiness Please go to Psychology Today and check out my newest BLOG. I find it so important to be grounded in reality when it comes to happiness. Isn't reality the way it is, with all its good and bad, enough? Do we really need fantasy? Empty promises? When we are aware, we see life as it is. That will suffice.

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Can You Afford Compassion?

I invite you to visit psychologytoday.com and search for Andrea Polard to read my first BLOG about happiness and compassion there. I have to say I understand now more than ever how it is most rewarding to talk about love, compassion, or lovingkindness. It feels as though it is the most relevant issue of our lives. The tranquil mind is the soil in which lies the seed of compassion. Our attention is the water. Our practice is watering so that the seed can grow. It is never the wrong time to practice compassion as long as we understand it encompasses ourselves. Too many women believe in abdicating self-interest. We are all part of the ONE. No one left out. Let's keep watering our garden. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/unified-theory-happiness/201208/can-you-afford-compassion With heart, Andrea