On Sunday, February 23, 2020, I won these orange Kalanchoe flowers from playing bingo at an event hosted by the Jodo Shu Hawaii Fujinkai, a women's organization within Jodo Shu Hawaii. It's a beautiful succulent plant for your home or garden. When you care for other living things such as flowers, you get a good feeling and a sense of accomplishment. A dopamine rush lifts your spirit. Orange can be an uplifting color with its attention-grabbing brightness, which is perhaps why it is often used in marketing. Orange can make you feel happy and energized! What are your favorite flowers? What are you favorite colors? Use flower therapy and color therapy to alleviate your stress, worries, depression and/or anger. Enjoy the +positive...
Simplicity is in our core. If we lose our appreciation for this, we lose our being.- +positive masters+, Jon Riki Karamatsu, 3/19/2018 -
Cherish every little thing that brings value into your life. Be present with your loved ones and savor your time with them.
Pictured with me from left to right are my friends: Master 7, the Master of positive mindset; Monkey Mind, who has uh, well, a monkey mind - you know, anxiety and stuff; and Angry Explosion who gets angry over little things, driving everyone nuts. These designs are on various apparel and merchandise, available for you to purchase here within the +positive masters+ universe at www.positivemasters.com !
To counter your anxiety or depression, take one small action at a time, and reward yourself for taking these actions. When you're anxious or depressed, you may freeze-up and find it difficult to do your work or even your basic tasks. Instead, you think about your worries or painful memories. When you're unable to do anything to help yourself progress, your worries or sadness increases because now you have added stress for all the things you haven't been able to keep up with. As a result, your anxiety or depression compounds, pulling you deeper and deeper into darkness. People expecting your work, may take it out on you, not knowing the struggles you're dealing with: death of a loved one,...
The highest calling for a human is to live a virtuous life. One can reach this way of life through mindset practices, psychology, philosophy, and/or religion. There is no single right way to reach a virtuous life. All that matters is that one is able to reach it. To be virtuous or morally excellent, one is compassionate, empathic, patient, and loving, among many other great qualities. Virtuous people handle adversity in a calm and collected way because of their heightened awareness of their every thought and every action. We can attain this by holding ourselves accountable, not because of fear of any repercussion, but because it is the right way to live. By working on ourselves daily, we can maintain...
Happiness comes to those who want it. - +positive masters+, Jon Riki Karamatsu, 2/26/2020 - How badly do you want to be happy? If you want it badly, you'll work at it every single day until your last day alive in this realm. You are your own hero. You can save yourself from yourself to get out of the depths of darkness, which we fall into from time to time. Scroll through our social media posts and our blog here at www.positivemasters.com to see practices, quotes, poems, and writings that may be helpful for you to be happy a great majority of your life. You got this! Pictured is our Dream Cloud Mantra Dark Unisex Hoodie to motivate you to...
