“True Happiness is to experience all manner of wordly sorrow, pain and loss and still be Joyful in your heart.” ~ Valerie Sheppard

Joyful

“Vibrant living starts with having a deep relationship with the Self.  It’s the only relationship we need to give loving energy to.  How you treat yourself gets reflected back to you in all aspects of your life.  Do whatever it takes to know, love, and honor your True Self.”  ~ Valerie Sheppard

Vibrant Living

“Our model for creation is out of whack.  We need to shift from old Do-Have-Be living to a Be-Do-Have experience to really feel fulfilled and happy.”  ~ Valerie Sheppard

Be Do Have

“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.” ~ Hafiz

Love Tree

“Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field.  I will meet you there.” ~ Rumi

Love Field

“Silence brings peacefulness through which I hear my wisest voice.  It helps me remember I am more than the analytical left brain and doingness of the conscious mind.  I don’t have to DO anything at all to experience Peace, Love, Joy and Freedom.  I remember to simply be still and know.” ~ Valerie Sheppard

Silence is Peace

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”  ~ Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption

Get Busy Living

“We must make ourselves the stars in the movie of our own lives.  It can’t be all about ‘them’ or ‘that’.  Everything in life is choice.  If you’re not choosing you, who are you choosing and why?” ~Valerie Sheppard

Be the Star

“We must transcend image, personality, pain body, and identity to tune into our inner wisdom, and do what we came here to do.  My ultimate goal is to quiet my mind, and connect to and align with my heart – the seat of the Soul.  That’s how to experience Heaven on Earth.” ~ Valerie Sheppard

Transcendance

“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”  ~ Seneca

Keep Learning

Welcome From Sherpa of Happiness,

Valerie Sheppard

*Video:the heart of living vibrantly

 

Happy Chinese New Year!

Learn a little about this auspicious Year of the Water Dragon, and get some tips to achieving your own personal breakthroughs this year from my latest blog. Click the dancing dragon!


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The Power Behind Power Handbook

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This collection of insightful nuggets will help you easily access and activate the power that resides within you.  Pulled from favorite practices that support her ongoing success, Valerie shares ways to live creatively, purposefully, insightfully, and with ease and grace, to help strengthen the way you use your personal power to create a life you love living.  The “Power Behind Power” is perfect for you, and also a great gift for another mover-and-shaker in your world!

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In Search of Inner Peace

I started teaching my “Be Still and Mindful” meditation tele-series last week, so peacefulness has been on my mind more than usual. I’m loving helping the students connect to inner peace. This week, we’ll be discussing mayhem and how it shows up outside as part of our Soul calling us to recognize the distress inside. Seeking inner peace is the way to experience a more peaceful environment outside of ourselves. It’s important personally, and because we are all part of the global web of “collective consciousness,” it’s important to the world and every being in it.

I love Saskia Davis’ poem on the topic, and thought I’d share it with you. I appreciate the simplicity and concrete nature of her words. Here’s your chance to check-in with where you stand relative whether you’re creating mayhem or peace. Please share how it resonates by posting a comment. What areas of your life are signalling that your inner beingness is anything but peaceful? What are you prepared to do about it? One thing you can do is share this with others who may need help diagnosing their own situations!

Blessings!


Symptoms of Inner Peace
By Saskia Davis

Be on the lookout for symptoms of inner peace. The hearts of a great many have already een exposed to innnerpeace, and it is possible that people everywhere could come down with it in epidemic proportions. This could pose a serious threat to what has, up to now, been a fairly stable condition in the world.

Some signs and symptoms of inner peace:

  • A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experiences.
  • An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.
  • A loss of interest in judging other people.
  • A loss of interest in judging self.
  • A loss of interest in conflict.
  • A loss of ability to worry. (This is a very serious symptom)
  • Frequent overwhelming episodes of appreciation.
  • Contented feelings of connectedness with others and nature.
  • Frequent attacks of smiling.
  • An increasing tendency to let things happen rather than making them happen.
  • An increased susceptibility to the love extended by others, as well as he uncontrollable urge to extend it.

Warning:

If you have one or all of the above symptoms, please be advised that your condition of inner peace may be so far advanced as to not be curable. If you are exposed to anyoe exhibiting any of these symptoms, remain exposed only at your own risk.

 

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