Back in my Sunday school days, in 8th grade I
believe, I had a teacher who was a little cooky, sorta wacky and dressed like
you would assume a clown would on their day off. All weirdness aside, she was a
really good person. Not going to lie, I don’t remember a whole lot about Sunday
school, except I really didn’t have a choice but to go. However, I do remember
one lesson in her class.
I’m sure we can all agree that the news and people in this
world today are just depressing. Social networks either have people flaunting
their happiness so much that it appears to be nothing but fake, or crying “poor
me”. I’m not sure what happened to appreciating what we have and enjoying life,
but it seems like the world today just wants more and more.
Anyways, back to Sunday school, we had a lesson that I refer
to as “Rainbow Moments”. It’s so easy to focus on the bad in life and let the
good things slip through our mind. The point of Rainbow Moments is to find
gratefulness in every day and document it to see how much good fills up your
life, and eventually you’ll become focused on happiness instead of whatever
brings you down.
One of my best friends and I decided to make a Rainbow
Moments notebook. We took it to school and would pass it throughout the day,
adding in whatever made us smile or what we were grateful for. Before we knew
it our little spiral notebook was running out of pages. But the biggest thing
was our view of life. The laws of attraction show whatever you put into the
universe is what you’ll get out of it, and what will come back to you. So by
focusing our energy on good, more and more good was coming into our lives.
This follows the teachings of “The Secret”, which became
popular years ago, especially when Oprah Winfrey exposed it on her hit talk
show. Which: I highly recommend EVERYONE watch this, it’s available on Netflix,
purchase it on their website, or in book form. It’s all about changing your mindset and putting good out into
the universe so you can get good back into your life.
So today, start your own Rainbow Moments, whether it be
online with a blog or forum, emailing them to me, a journal, thought jar,
whatever you want. But the sooner you start focusing on putting good out there,
the sooner you get good back.
