BOOK ONE Becoming Blissful Neville Berkowitz PersonalEmpowerment.co Mauritius August 2018 Contents: Introduction and Continuation 4 Why blissful? 4 Ability 6 Abundance 7 Acceptance 7 Action 9 Adversity 9 Allowing 11 Anger 13 Answer 14 Appreciation 15 Approval 16 Attention 16 Attitude 17 Authenticity 18 Awareness 18 Balance 18 Be and Being 19 Beauty 19 Behaviour 20 Belief 21 Bravery 22 Breathing 22 Caring 23 Cause and Effect 23 Change 24 Character 24 Charity 25 Children 26 Choice 26 Coincidence 27 Commitment 27 Compassion 27 Confidence 28 Conscience 28 Consciousness 29 Considerate 29 Contentment 30 Courage 31 Creativity 31 Criticism 32 Curiosity 33 Cycles 33 Death 34 Decisions 35 Desire 36 Destiny 37 Determination 37 Difficulties 38 Dignity 39 Diligence 40 Education 40 Egoless 42 Emotions 42 Emotional Intelligence 43 Empathy 43 Energy 44 Enlightenment 44 Enthusiasm 45 Expectations 45 Empowerment 45 Encouragement 46 Failure 46 Fairness 47 Faith 48 Fame 48 Family 49 Fear 50 Feelings 50 Flow 51 Focus 51 Forgiveness 51 Freedom 52 Free Will 53 Friend 53 Friendship 54 Fun 55 Gain 55 Generosity 55 Genuineness 56 Giving 57 Goal 57 Godlike 59 Grace 59 Gratification 60 Gratitude 60 Growth 61 Happiness 62 Harmony 62 Healing 62 Health 63 Higher Self 64 Higher Power 65 Hope 65 Honesty 66 Humility 67 Humour 68 Imagination 69 Important 70 Inner Peace 70 Integrity 71 Intelligence 71 Intention 72 Intuition 73 Journey 73 Joy 74 Judgement 74 Justice 75 Karma (see also Cause and Effect) 76 Kindness 76 Knowledge 77 Laughter 78 Leadership 79 Learning 80 Life 81 Listening 81 Loss 82 Love 83 Manifestation 84 Meaning 85 Meditation 86 Mindfulness 86 Miracles 87 Nature 87 Noble 88 Non - Judgement 89 Non - Resistance 90 Now 91 Oneness 91 Opportunistic 92 Optimism 92 Pain 92 Passion 94 Patience 94 Peace 95 Perceptions 95 Perseverance 97 Perspective 97 POWER 98 Praise 99 Prayer 100 Present Moment 100 Priorities 101 Proactive 101 Principles 102 Prosperity 102 Problems 103 Purpose 105 Reality 106 Recognition 107 Rejection 108 Relationships 108 Religion 110 Resistance 112 Respect 112 Responsibility 113 Sabbath 114 Security 114 Self 115 Self - Belief 116 Self - Discipline 117 Self - Esteem 118 Self - Knowledge 119 Self - Love 120 Sensuality 120 Service 121 Sharing 121 Silence 122 Simplicity 122 Smile 123 Social Intelligence 124 Solitude 124 Solutions 125 Soul 125 Spirituality 126 Stillness 126 Strength 127 Success 127 Suffering 128 Support 129 Surrender 129 Synchronicity 130 Teacher 131 Thoughts 131 Tolerance 132 Transcendence 133 Transparent 134 Trust 134 Truth 135 Understanding 136 Unconditional Love 137 Universe 137 Vibrations 137 Victor 138 Victim 138 Virtue 139 Vision 140 Vulnerability 140 Wealth 141 Wisdom 142 Work 142 Yes 144 Conclusion 145 Introduction and Continuation When I finished my previous free book, Achieving Your Goals and Dreams, found on personalempowerment.co, I stated that there are many more ways to find your bliss but that I wanted the reader to focus on the main theme of the Spiritual Section of that book. That focus was on aligning your soul, Higher Self and Higher Power in harmony with the maxim “what would God / Love do now?” This was the recipe for finding a feeling of bliss, which feeling is far better than even achieving your goals and dreams no matter how lofty they may be. The Practical Section of Achieving Your Goals and Dreams was based on a non-spiritual, practical programme for those who simply wanted to become successful in achieving their personal goals and dreams. I now want to return to my spiritual roots and show you over 200 ways of becoming blissful. Hopefully you will experience a moment of knowing such bliss and then find your own formula to reconnecting to this utopian space on a more regular and frequent basis. I hope and trust that with over 200 ways in this book to guide you, that one or more will resonate with you and be the key to unlocking the door to this nirvana of knowing bliss and experiencing a life that some would call miraculous in every moment of Now. Why blissful? That’s a fair question to ask as you enter this book. Bliss is best described as joy on steroids! Bliss is the utopian space where feelings are the language of your soul. Bliss is the top of the “food chain” of spirituality. It is the feeling you experience when you are in what I call God’s Space, which can only be accessed in the present moment of Now. Please refer to my free book How to Live in the Now found on personalempowerment.co for a fuller explanation of God’s Space. The feeling of bliss is unique for every person. I don’t want to state that it is this or it’s that and then build up your expectations. You may experience bliss completely differently and think that you have somehow failed and that this can’t be bliss. Bliss is best described as the best or utopian feeling that you have ever experienced anywhere and at anytime. Some people look back at their lives and attempt to find when they were happiest and joyful and even something beyond that feeling of happiness and joy. For many it may be when they met their true love. For others it may be the miracle of childbirth and holding their child in their arms or suckling their breast. For some it may be entering their first home with their beloved and knowing you are where you belong. For some it may be on the steps of the Divorce Court feeling a freedom from the tyranny of a damaging marriage. As you can see this is a personal experience and bliss is definable by you alone. 4 For me I have experienced moments of bliss at unique times in my life’s journey and I manage to recapture it sometimes when I meditate and reach the place of no-mind or no thoughts. I feel lighter than a feather and like a helium balloon soaring into the sky towards my perception of Source/Oneness/God/Higher Power. I also feel it often when I help people in a one-on-one manner; when I am writing these free books and when I meditate, then I feel the touch and heat on my forehead and a feeling like a light spiderweb touching my face. I also feel my “third eye” (the space between my eyebrows), throbbing. I feel an inner smile which automatically becomes a physical smile turning my lips upwards in absolute bliss. At that moment of Now I am connecting and aligning in harmony with my soul to my Guides, Higher Self and Higher Power. For me it is an uplifting momentary feeling as if I could soar to the heavens instantaneously. I feel bliss or at least what I think bliss feels like. If only I could capture that feeling and bottle it to use as and when I needed to. Unfortunately that seems impossible but daily meditations and helping people one-on-one and by writing these free books keeps me near to that blissful state of utopian nirvana. I use my best endeavours to bring that blissfulness into my life daily as I run my businesses, communicate with family and friends, meditate, read, exercise and do the many other things that constitute my life. I have found that the one way bliss is found virtually every time is when I use the maxim “what would God/Love do now?” and do only that with my thoughts, words and actions whilst aligning my soul in harmony to my Guides, my Higher Self and my Higher Power. For that reason that maxim features in every free book that I have written and occurs throughout each book - “what would God/Love do now?” and act on that. Another way to achieve this blissful feeling is to see myself as Oneness and everything and everyone including my perception of my Higher Power, as that Oneness. These are my formulae to bottle that feeling of bliss momentarily and, hopefully, with continued thoughts of Love and Oneness to keep the bliss ever present in my life. From time to time it works for me from one moment of Now to the next Now. Let’s see what will work for you from the over 200 identified spiritual attributes below? I am going to focus on each attribute with the understanding that I am looking to unlock the possibility of a feeling of bliss for you that can be triggered by one or more of these attributes. I am treating each attribute as a stand-alone subject and therefore there may be repetition of words directly or indirectly in one or many attributes listed alphabetically below. Besides for the attribute headings, I haven’t started out with any preconceived words and prefer to let the words flow through me as much as from me. So, I too, am looking forward to what I have to say under each attribute! 5 Ability Ability is usually a learnt skill and if one has the strong desire to learn then education can be blissful. There are students in Africa who are taught with two teaching aids, the sand on the ground and a stick held by a teacher, to show them how to read the alphabet and to recognise numbers. Some of these students walk for miles to and from this makeshift school in the sand; such is their desire for education. Imagine the excitement of these children when given a book to read in order to learn.