This article shares a quick and easy technique that I frequently I use for creating happiness, peace, and relaxation. With the holiday season rapidly approaching, and the stress and chaos that it often brings, this might be just the thing some of you need to achieve greater joy, peace, and relaxation throughout the holidays (and beyond). The process I use is a simple two step process:

(1) Create a series of “reflective” playlists, of songs from your younger days, which promote happiness, peace, and relaxation. The songs may not necessarily be songs that you particularly enjoyed back then, but songs that others in your life may have listened to. The time frames that work best for me are the playlist of songs between my ages of 6 and 9 and another playlist of songs between my ages of 10 and 12, but also try creating playlists of songs of your teenage years and perhaps even your college years or other timeframes so long as they promote feelings of peace, happiness, and relaxation while perhaps avoiding those timeframes which do not. Prioritize each of your playlists such that the songs that promote the greatest joy, peace, and relaxation for you are at the top of each playlist. This ensures that when you are time constrained that you will at least get a chance to listen to those songs which sooth you most.

(2) Play one of your playlists at extremely low volume. It should sound almost like a pale, distant echo from another room. I find the best relaxation effect is created by disconnecting the speakers from my computer and using the internal speaker at low volume to create this effect. I’ve also used my Ipad for this purpose (again using the internal speaker only at extremely low volume). There’s something about the slight distant hint of these songs playing that promotes the joy, peace, and relaxation effect. So try this.

You can do this when doing things around the home, when driving, or at other times. Notice the joy, peace, and relaxation you experience whenever you do this. Try out each of your “reflective” playlists and use those that work best for you more frequently than the others and rearrange the songs such that those that are the most soothing to you remain at the top of these lists. What I often like to do is to play one of these playlists in this fashion while soaking in a warm bath. I then towel off, restart the playlist, and lie down in bed to relax while listening to the pale, faint, distant echoes of the music. Sometimes I’ll rest for about 30 minutes or so and at other times I’ll simply go to sleep for what always amounts to a deep, peaceful, restful sleep. Either way, when I get out of bed I am filled with joy and peace. And it lasts for hours. So do this for yourself if you can.

This and other happiness and self-improvement related tips are provided throughout my self-help oriented books: https://brighterdayslifecoaching.com/published-books-and-life-coaching-services/ 

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This article describes one way in which to rapidly experience greater happiness, peace, and relaxation in your life. I encourage you to give this a try. It works wonders for me. I hope it works well for you as well. Other articles that I’ve written related to creating and living a happier life include:
(1) Creating Healthy Boundaries in Relationship Situations
(2) Living Mindfully and Intentionally, Being Clear Headed and Open-Minded, and Releasing the Need to be Right or Defensive
(3) Keeping Life Enjoyable, Interesting, and Fun By Breaking Out of the Routine of Things
(4) Achieving Greater Peace and Happiness By Evaluating, Prioritizing, and Adjusting Life Activities
(5) A Wonderful Way to Gain a Greater Appreciation of Others

Feel free to read some of these other articles if you think they might be helpful in helping you to experience greater warmth, peace, and happiness in your life.

For those that do not know, I generally perform life coaching and training services in two primary areas: 1) Personal and Professional Improvement, Development, and Growth, and 2) Financial Planning, Management, and Investing. As such, I generally alternate the articles that I write via my blogs between these two topic areas. This particular article is associated with the first area that I life coach in. So if you don’t have much interest in personal and professional improvement, development, and growth, rest assured that the next article that I write will be in the area that you might have greater interest in; the financial planning, management, and investing area. You can also follow me on Twitter if you like at: Joseph M Brennan Jr @ BrighterDaysLC

Please contact me if you, or someone else in your life, could use some assistance with personal improvement, development, or growth as this is one of the areas that I actively perform life coaching in. Also feel free to click on “Personal Improvement, Development, and Growth Related Posts” on the sidebar to the right or below (depending upon which device you are using) for helpful tips on how to create greater peace, happiness, and progress in your life.

Joseph M. Brennan Jr.
CEO/Life Coach – Brighter Days Life Coaching
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