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Mindfully Happy: Seven Steps To Creating Your Inner Sanctuary

With Maria Baltazzi

Universally, everyone wants to be happy. However, most do not have a clue about how to achieve it. Many think it is when you find the right person, get the right job, move into the right home, and it is none of these. Everything I mentioned is an exterior, conditional circumstance when, in truth, happiness is what happens on the inside, which you then project outwardly. In this 10-day course, I will lead you through a seven-step process that will enable you to create your Inner Sanctuary. By the end of this course, you will have the essential tools to build a life that is mindfully lived on purpose. This course content is inspired by the NY Times bestselling book, “Happy For No Reason.” Maria Baltazzi is a PhD and certified Art + Science Happiness Teacher.

Discover a seven-step process that will enable you to create your inner sanctuary and build a life that is mindfully lived on purpose.

10 Days

533 students

4.0 stars

15 min / day

English

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Maria Baltazzi

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Los Angeles, CA, USA

Maria Baltazzi, PhD, Conscious-Centered Living, has been studying the Art and Science of Happiness and Mindfulness for over a decade. She writes and teaches the habits and qualities of successful happy people.

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10 Days

533 students

4.0 stars

15 min / day

English

Lesson 1

Myths About Happiness, The Myth Of More & The Myth Of “I Will Be Happy When”

The path to creating your Inner Sanctuary begins with understanding a few myths about happiness, like the myth of more and the myth of “I will be happy when”. You will also learn about something we all have, which is a Happiness Set Point. The takeaway being, just because you have a set point that influences your outlook, does not mean you are stuck with it. There are intentional things you can do to change it. The guided meditation will open you to identifying your state of happiness now and where you would like it to be in the future.

Lesson 2

Happiness Set Point: Exploring The Happiness Continuum

We build on the previous conversation about one’s Happiness Set Point by exploring the Happiness Continuum we are all on. How your emotional state of contraction or expansion determines where you reside on this continuum. You can shift your current place by consciously creating an Inner Sanctuary. A guided body scan will enable you to explore where you are feeling contracted or expansive. This mindful awareness of felt senses in your body is where you begin to increase your level and awareness of happiness.

Lesson 3

Step One: Your Foundation - Be 100% Accountable For Your Happiness

Taking responsibility for your life, your happiness, is the first of seven steps to creating your Inner Sanctuary. Today, we focus on whether you are a victim or a victor. If you feel like you are a victim anywhere in your life, it is time to let that go. The guided meditation will take you through a loving-kindness, self-compassion journey.

Lesson 4

Step Two: Your Mind - Do Not Believe Everything You Think

Of the 60,000 thoughts you have on an average day, 80% of them are robbing you of your happiness. Why? Because we all have an evolutionary predisposition toward the negative. Though just because our earliest ancestors had a negative bias, it does not mean that we have to as well. Discover how to turn a negative thought into a positive one. Today’s meditation guides you toward nourishing positive thoughts.

Lesson 5

Step Three: Your Heart - Lead with Love

The truth is that love heals. Two critical components of love are gratitude and forgiveness. Forgiveness being the more challenging of the two for most people. The guided meditation is based on a powerful Hawaiian healing prayer.

Lesson 6

Step Four: Your Body - Make Your Cells Happy

Happy people live on average nine years longer. Three essential components of a healthy body are sleep, nutrition, and exercise. Though stress can rob you of your health, meditation can help restore it. Today’s meditation is a nourishing body scan.

Lesson 7

Step Five: Your Soul - Connecting To Spirit

Prayer is you talking to your higher power. Meditation is your listening. Today, we will discuss and meditate on the soul questions that will open your awareness to greater clarity around what is uniquely you in the sea of humanity.

Lesson 8

Step Six: Your True North - Live Life On Purpose

Happy people tend to make over a million dollars more versus unhappy ones during their lifetime. Why? Because happy people have a purpose, a reason to get up every day, and be productive doing something they love. We spend time identifying your soul’s passions, what makes you come alive. Our guided meditation is a visualization of your future self.

Lesson 9

Step Seven: Your Community - Cultivate Nourishing Relationships

We are wired for connection. It is the number one human need. In fact, you are emotionally the average sum of the five people you spend the most time with daily. Today, you will be guided in a meditative reflection around these five people in your life.

Lesson 10

Your Happiness Plan

Your happiness depends on your intentions and following through with them to create your Inner Sanctuary. On this final day, you will be led to identify one thing that genuinely makes you happy and commit toward achieving it. The guided meditation will be a felt sense body scan.