Let me be frank, Loved Ones. This Yang Water Tiger year has felt like one of the most comfortable, best years of my life. I am sharing this with you because I am having this experience SOLELY due to the happiness concepts and life-skills I've been taught and mastered over the last twenty years, which I teach in the My Bliss Path™ program. Embracing this year as one of the best you've ever had is a skill....a skill I want you have and master, too.

To that end, let's spend a few moments reflecting on how much POWER you have to choose the narrative of your experience. To give an example of how YOU could use the power of narrative in your OWN LIFE to make it one of joy, let's consider my own life experiences so far this Yang Water Tiger year.

Here is the MODERN CULUTRE version of my life story for 2022, so far:

1) After six years of not going on one date, I met a man of my dreams, and we fell in love. A few weeks later he changed his mind, left, and never spoke to me again.

2) After losing my home and beloved landlords of 17 years last year, I moved to my dream place of Florida, found my dream landlords, and perfect, dream home. This year, due to health and financial challenges I lost it and am now homeless.

3) After being a successful mediator-attorney for twenty years, I had to move out of my practice state and try to maintain a viable business from 3,500 miles away. This led to a decrease in my law business so suddenly and precipitously that I experienced the worst financial stress of my life. Earlier this year I cried a few times as I dealt with debt worries.

4) After working for six years on a second business teaching people how to be happy, I launched Bliss Revealed in Florida, to crickets.

5) After that business didn't become financially viable in enough time to address my mounting debt, my only professional option is to become a member of the Florida Bar, which is made almost impossible for long-practicing out-of-state attorneys, and continue being a mediator-attorney in Florida.

OMG, did you read all that? From a modern culture narrative, I'm homeless, penniless, and a professional and personal failure. If I was still brainwashed to experience reality from that modern culture perspective (reductionist materialism), I'd be ready to just wander off into the desert and call it a day, right?

Let's pause to think about this for a moment. Maybe you've felt down at some point in your life; maybe you've felt hopeless about your life or about what's going on in the world; maybe you've told yourself over and over a narrative of your life that has you thinking that your life has no value or no point.

Let me reassure you: If you've felt, or are feeling right now, any of those harsh, cold feelings, it's natural to have them once in a while, but they should dissipate like clouds. If they hang around for long.....you've been brainwashed.

All of our lives have INCALCULABLE value. All of our lives has the potential to be a moment to moment expression of the virtues of community, of love, of courage, of fearlessness, of compassion, of GRATITUDE, of love. We DREAM our lives into existence with our every breath, thought, and narrative.

So, thinking about that list of WHOA-tough events I've experience so far in 2022, how could I be experiencing this as one of the best years of my life in the midst of ALL THAT????

Because here's the narrative of what I actually experienced in my life over this year, so far:

1) After six years of being full of joy and replete within myself I met someone I had romantic love for, such a rare gift in my life. I now have memories to treasure for the rest of my life of one of my best friends charging into my life like a hurricane (so fun!!), opening my eyes to new ways of seeing a man and being seen by him in return, and of him leaving to embark on his own hero's journey of personal development. The length of a relationship does NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH ITS POWER TO CREATE MORE LOVE IN YOUR LIFE.

2) When I realized that I needed to adjust things in Florida to meet the health and financial challenges which arose for me this year, it GAVE ME THE OPPORUTNITY TO DREAMS NEW DREAMS OF HAPPINESS, HOME, AND COMFORT COMING INTO MY LIFE IN WHATEVER FORM THE UNIVERSE WANTS TO GIVE IT TO ME. Exciting!! While I miss the Beach House and my Florida landlords, I can't wait to see my next fabulous home. And my "homelessness" never really happened because a group of my best friends said, "Homeless? Don't be ridiculous!! Come stay with us!" So, really, after living alone for 20 years, I'm now more "home-full" than I've ever been.

3) When I thought I'd have to close Mediation Offices, stop being a mediator-attorney, and only do Bliss Revealed, I repeatedly cried. Now the world has maneuvered me through hardship to realize I HAD COMPLETELY MADE UP THE IDEA THAT I HAD TO ONLY DO ONE THING FOR WORK AND THAT IN FACT DOING BOTH GIVES PEOPLE THE EXAMPLE THAT WE'RE ALL ON A SPIRITUAL PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT JOURNEY TOGETHER NO MATTER OUR JOB, LIVES, OR ACTIVITES. I'm so excited to open a branch of Mediation Offices in St. Petersburg. I've been dreaming about it with so much satisfaction and joy. I continue to treasure working with my San Francisco Bay Area clients, as they are living and coming from a perspective I lived and loved for thirty years. The beloved new, blending with the beloved old. How more perfect can you get?

4) I've worked on Bliss Revealed for six years, with joy, gratitude, and laughs. I've always known that I'm not the kind of person who will meet Blissverse Loved Ones on Facebook. One of the elemental truths of life is: The students come when the teacher is ready. Therefore, how blessed am I to have more time to meditate, more time to cry in gratitude for my one, precious, beloved life before Bliss Revealed is bursting at the seams with Loved Ones? How blessed am I to have more time to keep learning more happiness concepts and life-skills to pass onto my students, when they do come? How blessed am I to be given the opportunity to DREAM NEW DREAMS OF BRINGING BLISS REVEALED TO PEOPLE IN JOY?

5) Embracing my professional destiny of having two careers, I am so excited to rock the Florida Bar. CRUSHING THE BAR AT 50 YEARS OLD IS A LEGEND ACCOMPLISHMENT. OH, YEAH BABY! WATCH ME DO THE IMPOSSIBLE! HAHAHA! And I just love school. My friends are sort of appalled that I'm actually enjoying re-learning all this law stuff again and being is school for the first time since I got my LLM in taxation law back in 2011. Haha!

I offer these two completely different narratives so you can contrast them as say to yourself, "How much am I using my freedom to choose a crappy story about how my life is unfolding? Could there be ways in which I'm making a narrative that the universe is closing doors in my face (not giving me exactly what I want, when I want it, the way I want it), when actually the universe is loving me so much it's giving me EXACTLY what I need to be completely in love with my life and blissful?"

If you're not having one of the best years of your life, so far this Yang Water Tiger year, maybe spending some time in self-reflection about these questions could help you develop a new narrative of the events in your life this year, one of joy. Please, choose forgiveness and softness and embrace YOU and everyone and everything that is your one precious life.

I mean, look at the smiles in the pictures, below. During all this upheaval and uncertainty, the universe unexpectedly plopped me down at one of my dearest friend's son's weddings. Never saw that coming. I was in heaven chatting, dancing, listening, playing football (i.e. "soccer" ), dancing some more, and praying for the couple to have a long and happy life together; and then dancing, sharing a meal, having a glass of champagne (!), and dancing some more. And HUGGING!!! Loving and being loved.

At one point late in the day, I teared up in gratitude and joy looking around, "How in heaven's name did I end up in New York State in June at one of my dearest friend's son's wedding? How did I get so lucky that I ended up sitting right here, right now?" It made every challenge I've gone through so far this year worth it, to get me right there, right then. In service, and in love.

May you, too, develop the view, the life-skill, of effectively using your free will to realize YOU ARE IN LOVE, YOU ARE LOVE in every moment, though every challenge and every victory.

Thank you for reading all of this. May the light of love shine in your heart and mind through your realization of your own Divine Light and gift of love.

Love, Unmani 🥰

P.S. What is the main meditation practice I've done for years to be able to maintain my view of all of my life as an unfolding "love story"? Yoga Nidra! It's the easiest, most effective meditation around. https://blissrevealed.com/course/light-it-up-the-practice-of-yoga-nidra-digital-album/ Try it today...and make a habit of it. Find your Self, through your Self.