Traveling Light: How Your Thoughts Can Ease Your Life’S Journey

By Leonie van Hest

The baggage we have created for ourselves in our life weighs us down. In Traveling Light, author Leonie van Hest explains how we can teach ourselves to travel light on our lifes journey by shaking off negative thoughts and emotions like worry, fear, anger, revenge and lack of self-love.

Traveling Light communicates we all have the ability and power within us to turn our lives into a more joyous journey. It discusses how to:

think positive thoughts, especially about yourself;
understand you are responsible for your own happiness;
disallow others or outer circumstances to affect your good mood;
ignore the well-meaning advice of others;
know the difference between power over and power within;
let your motive be love in everything you do;
be grateful and content for what life offers you;
get into a habit of making a positive difference in someone elses life;
lead your life by faith instead of fear; and
let go of control.

Author van Hest shares how our lifes purpose is to be the best we can be and spread our talents of kindness, love, encouragement, understanding, and wisdom.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: Jan 20, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504300919

Leonie van Hest

Leonie van Hest was born and raised in Holland and worked with children and disadvantaged girls. She completed a holistic counseling course and started a practice called Heart of the Matter. She lives in New Zealand and has four daughters.

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Balboa Press rev. date: 01/11/2016

CONTENTS

Profile

Introduction

Life lesson One

Think positive thoughts, especially about yourself

Life lesson Two

Understand that you are responsible for your own happiness

Life lesson Three

Don’t allow other people or outer circumstances to affect your good mood or joyful day

Life lesson Four

Don’t listen to the well meant advice of other people telling you how to live your life or which choices to make

Life lesson Five

Know the difference between power over and power within

Life lesson Six

Let your motive be love in everything you do

Life lesson Seven

Be grateful and content for what life is offering you instead of focusing on what’s missing

Life lesson Eight

Get into a habit of making a positive difference in someone else’s life by believing in them

Life lesson Nine

Let your life be led by faith instead of fear

Life lesson Ten

Let go of control

Life lesson Eleven

All the above is within your grasp

Acknowledgements

In her book Traveling light, Leonie explains how we can teach ourselves to travel light