"My awareness defines me and being aware of feelings like sadness gives me the control and power to allow it to flee." ~ Fellow meditator Christina

What could you do in just 10-minutes a day to improve your mood? Meditation will do the trick... and so will journaling about happiness. In this week's series, you're guided on a Happiness journey following along with the guidelines of Dr. Sandi Mann, a psychologist from Manchester UK who wrote a book called, "10-Minutes to Happiness, A Journal that Will Change Your Life."

In each episode, you'll discover a time-tested question to boost your happiness that you can Journal about and also reflect on as you meditate.

This is day 7 of a 7-day 10-Minutes of Happiness meditation series, episodes 2208-2214. THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: You're invited to take part in a 10-Minutes of Happiness Journaling Quest. You're encouraged to journal about happiness every day this week. No worries if you're not a big fan of journaling! You can simply sit in 10-minutes of stillness as you reflect on the day's happiness question. Each day's question will be released on each episode this week, so be sure to listen in for each question! The questions are designed and tested by a psychologist, Dr. Sandi Mann of the MindTraining Clinic in Manchester UK. THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES: Day 1: Happiness Awareness Visualization Day 2: Affirmation "Joy is all around me." Day 3: Inhale happiness, Exhale spreading happiness within Day 4: Apan Mudra technique Day 5: Second Chakra Focus Day 6: Layer the week's techniques together Day 7: Weekly Reflection Meditation SHARE YOUR MEDITATION JOURNEY WITH YOUR FELLOW MEDITATORS Let's connect and inspire each other! Please share a little about how meditation has helped you by reaching out to me at Mary@SipandOm.com or better yet -- direct message me on https://www.instagram.com/sip.and.om. We'd love to hear about your meditation ritual!

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