It’s not enough to be physically healthy on the outside. To be truly happy, we all need a little spring-cleaning on the inside, to clear away mental cobwebs. Here are some interesting life philosophies that may affect your attitude to things and people.

Random Acts of Kindness

If you want to feel better about yourself and the world, practise random acts of kindness. Try doing something nice for someone else, without expecting payback – just because it’s the right thing to do. Because you believe in kindness.

The Australian Kindness Movement, a foundation member of the World Kindness Movement, has an excellent list of Kind Things to Do. Visit them at Australian Kindness and read the list – you’ll find yourself feeling happier and more childlike as you read it.

Simple things like smiling at strangers, saying please and thank you, sending an anonymous instant scratchie, helping others, mowing your neighbours lawn, welcoming a new person.

Find out places you can volunteer your efforts at www.worldvolunteerweb.org, www.govolunteer.com.au.

Mastery of Life

Joe Vitale (of Spiritual Marketing) refers to the guidance he has received from Bill Ferguson, of Mastery of Life. The site description says this is about creating a life of love, to have peace of mind, and to have life work, to become happy, alive and free, confident, creative and effective. Joe Vitale is a high profile internet marketer with an interest in the power of the mind. One of his most well known books is Hypnotic Marketing.

The Helpdesk

Whilst visiting The Science of Getting Rich, which is more about a wealthy attitude, a reader sent in this anecdote that has been floating around the internet for a while:

Tech Support: Yes, .. How can I help you?

Customer: Well, after much consideration, I’ve decided to install Love. Can you guide me though the process?

Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?

Customer: Well, I’m not very technical, but I think I’m ready. What do I do first?

Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you located your Heart?

Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now. Is it okay to install Love while they are running?

Tech Support: What programs are running?

Customer: Let’s see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge and Resentment, running right now.

Tech Support: No problem, Love will gradually erase Past Hurt from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory but it will no longer disrupt other programs. Love will eventually override Low Self-Esteem with a module of its own called High Self-Esteem. However, you have to completely turn off Grudge and Resentment. Those programs prevent Love from being properly installed. Can you turn those off?

Customer: I don’t know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?

Tech Support: With pleasure. Go to your start menu and invoke Forgiveness. Do this as many times as necessary until Grudge and Resentment have been completely erased.

Customer: Okay, done! Love has started installing itself. Is that normal?

Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other Hearts in order to get the upgrades.

Customer: Oops! I have an error message already. It says, “Error – Program not run on external components”. What should I do?

Tech Support: Don’t worry. It means that the Love program is set up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your Heart. In non-technical terms, it simply means you have to Love yourself before you can Love others.

Customer: So, what should I do?

Tech Support: Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the following files: Forgive-Self; Realize your Worth; and Acknowledge your Limitations.

Customer: Okay, done.

Tech Support: Now, copy them to the “My Heart” directory. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching faulty programming. Also, you need to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all directories and empty your Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.

Customer: Got it. Hey! My heart is filling up with new files. Smile is playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are copying themselves all over My Heart. Is this normal?

Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes awhile, but eventually everything gets it at the proper time. So Love is installed and running. One more thing before we hang up. Love is Freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everyone you meet. They will in turn share it with others and return some cool modules back to you.

Customer: Thank you, God.