how to make everyday beautyful

[PerDev]

Any Ideas about How to make everyday beautiful, I am fed up with the boring life

[Jarrod]

One of my martial arts friends asked one of the seniors how to approach becoming good. The senior responded by saying to make everything you do beautiful, when you sit make it beautiful etc. etc. Not the sort of thing that most people would think of when they think of martial arts.

Stories aside.

What entails a beautiful day to you?

It's all in your mindset.

[Ponce]

Don't worry folks, in what is to come you wont have time to get "bored", trying to stay alive from day to day will keep you bussy all the time either looking for food or trying to find what you need to survive.

[pianoperformer]

Ponce, that is rather a morbid outlook. I find that things work better if I look at them more positively.

[dali]

Every day is beautiful. Its just that sometimes we dont look, listen, touch, taste or smell. Some days we are too stuck in our heads and cut off from our senses by busy mind. When I consciously allow my senses some of my time and stay away from think think thinking all the time I discover real beauty. Simple stuff not complex. Sometimes I wonder why I am having such a mizzz day. every time its because I have decided to and either I have to sleep it off and wake up next morning feeling better or I take better care of myself and do something I know will make me feel good about myself but it does take effort. Helping somebody out is always a good starting point. This forum is good for that because if I am down I can still take time to think how to word a reply to somebody who is finding it tough . usually later on my response to someone elses problem will come back and help me and I automatically start to turn my day around, Life is what we make of it but we have to use our wits to get out of the doldrums and discover the beauty. its always there waiting for us.your question is a good point for starting with but a boring old record if we do nothing to change our tune.

[Jarrod]

Stop thinking and let the information of the world just flow through your senses. Go for a walk.

[thorstenbonn]

I found that it is the mental approach you take to each day that makes it 'beautiful' to you. That's why the same experience can feel great to one person and not good at all to another, even though objectively they had the same experience.

[impaul99]

Start by getting clear on what you really want.

[You are Brahman]

studies suggest that smiling will improve your mood-- and you'll notice that it will make other people happy too.

if you live in a city, carry food and change around with you to give to people who need it more than you. as you buy that homeless guy a big mac, give him some dignity and ask him his name.

hold the door for people. a lot. smile as you do it, and wish people the best.

lay in the grass on a warm day. do it for at least 15 minutes.

Buddha compares kindness to a candle. A single candle can light a million more and the first candle is never dimished. Just the same, kindness can never be dimished by being shared. If you stive to light 2 more candles in one day, and each of them lights two more candles, by the end of the month over 10,000,000 candles are lit. imagine if you lit more than two. that glimmer in the dark has become a torch; a beacon. and you not only are part of it, but initiated it.

visit an old folks home-- if you can play an instrument-- perform for them. you don't have to be good.

work with children.

teach someone something. anything.

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn... "is to learn something."


i find it no coincidence that the world becomes more beautiful for me as i make it more beautiful for others.

[evelynlim]

It helps to be grateful for what we have. We live fully in every moment, in appreciation of all our blessings!

[dali]

thank you for that post. just being greatfull.