Seasons Greetings!

Seasons Greetings!

 

Wishing you all good things in 2017

So 2017 is here. It represents the year 1 in numeric astrology.  Suffice it to say it is going to be a year that will bring about major changes, new directions and increased energy across the board. So the question is, are we ready for the ride?

2016 was an amazing year for me; fun-filled and a year embedded with a lot of meaning and purpose. I managed to keep my cool most of the time despite a busy schedule and I feel that the tolerance and patience levels have moved up a notch or two as a result. It was a time of walking more of my talk, and living more in the NOW.

On 25th December 2016, I completed my first year of being dairy free.  I had wanted to be dairy free for many years as being vegetarian somehow was not enough, especially seeing more and more how animals are being treated these days. Finally the day came and I just took the decision and have managed to keep it since!  I can’t call myself a vegan yet, as I still have leather items to shed, but at least this is the first step, and I continue making conscious choices in my purchases.

2016 brought with it a lot of travel to Europe and India mainly conducting or managing various retreats.  For those who have not been to one of our retreats, I highly recommend it.  It’s just such an amazing time and major shifts continue to happen to the guests as well as the hosts.  We see the faces of participants when they arrive and when they leave, and they could almost be two different people.  Mostly ‘Veni, Vidi, Vici’ is in essence their experience. For me, this simply instills even more faith in the work that we do, that is, helping to create and maintain a higher vibration and purer atmosphere in which souls are able to get in touch with their better and more virtuous selves.

My key word for 2017 will be HAPPINESS. It’s something I believe that I am 98% of the time, and it’s a theme that I believe needs spreading and propagating all around.  It’s so easy to give our happiness away to the smallest of senseless things. The event was perhaps not so big, the words were not that bad, yet with our thoughts and feelings we create unhappiness and sorrow for ourselves. Thereafter a great deal of energy goes into repair and reparation. It’s so much easier just to decide to be happy in the first place and let go of all of these trivial things!

We forget that happiness is our inner treasure, it’s the most valuable treasure, much more than the all the money sitting in our account! No amount of money can buy our happiness. Happiness brings power with it. When we are sad we are weak. Only in happiness can the heart widen and become generous. When we are angry and sad, we are stunted. Only in happiness can we make any headway in our personal progress. This coming year, choose, The Happiness Project!

It’s Time continues to grow in popularity – thanks to all of you readers. And thanks for your constant comments and feedback, I really look forward to reading them. The new book: It’s time… to Meditate, will be launched soon, so look out for that in the new year.

A big thank you to my spiritual friends Carol, Viannie, Pavitra and Mike Saunders, who continue to be a big part of the success of It’s Time.

It’s Time… to stay happy!

 

Some News in Pictures

IPIP Retreat, Mt Abu, India 2016
IPIP Retreat, 2016 Nature Walk Exercise: When we walk in a circle, we, are all moving in the same direction, yet it seems the other is going in the opposite direction. How true this is for life… we, humanity, are all moving in one direction and yet, it seems we are ‘against’ each other
IPIP Retreat 2016
Mt Abu, India
Grand Mosque, Kuwait
Rome, Italy
Lemans, France
Kuwait
Paris, France
Ramghar Retreat, India
Shanghai, China
Shanghai, China
Zurich
Sardinia, Italy
Shanghai, China
Mt Abu, India
Mt Abu, India
Lake Geneva, Switz
Lake Geneva, Switz
With my Sweet Dadi
Mt Abu Picnic!!
Retreat in Switz
Sunrise in Switz
Uttrakhand, India
The Ganges, Haridwar, India

 

 

DID YOU REMEMBER… TO STAY HAPPY! 🙂

 

 

 

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RAKESH ANAND
RAKESH ANAND
9 years ago

VERY HAPPY ARTICLE ON HAPPINESS PROJECT.
I TOO TOLD LAST WEEK PAVITRA DIDI MY KEY WORD FOR 2017- BE HAPPY N MAKE OTHERS HAPPY. THANKS FOR WRITING SO USEFUL ISSUES IN 2016. WISH YOU A GREAT 2017.

Corinne
Corinne
9 years ago

Dear Anura good morning and I am happy to sit with you reading what you wish to comment anx share with us all. You are of great inspiration in my life and the photos of your 2016 journeys are wonderful and fulfilling. I remember with a smile on my face your trip to Rome when I and Mary entered Fao to meet Radha. Your presence and calm and wise words continue to be with me at all times when I connect ! Corinne. Rome

Usha Kanan (malaysia)
Usha Kanan (malaysia)
9 years ago

“It’s so much easier just to decide to be happy in the first place and let go of all of these trivial things!” .. SO DEEP MEANING sister Aruna .. TQ

BLESSED HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017 .. dear sister Aruna & Team
Om shanti .. Usha, hubby Ravi & daughter Nivashinie 🙂