Blooming Your Life: The Shift Series

By Beca Lewis

Seven Proven Ways To Thrive In Your Life
 

Pursuing happiness doesn't bring happiness. Choosing it can. Accept that it is not only your right to be happy, but it's a benefit to everyone in your life when you are.
 

But how to choose happiness? How to stay in the habit of happiness? That is the tricky part, and what this book will do for you is provide answers and systems for you to follow.
 

You will discover what a shift of perception can do for you and how to do it. Not theory. Practical steps that work.
 

A tiny shift of perception can change your entire life.
 

Using the metaphor of gardening, Beca Lewis once more guides us through practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to thrive in your life.
 

Discover your true self and desires, and learn what to do to provide what you need. This book will guide you towards good habits and tiny thought changes that lead to amazing results.
 

If finding out who you are and then living it has been difficult in the past, the problem is not who you are. The problem is the conscious and unconscious perceptions that have guided your life.
 

If you are not thriving, filling out the garden of your life with happiness and joy, or you find yourself constantly doing the same thing with the same results, and they are not the ones you want, this is a book that will help you do things differently, and get the results that you desire.
 

In this book, you will find a proven system with practical to-do tips that will shift your life towards what you want it to be.
 

Beca is known for her ability to shift complex ideas about perceptions into simple tools that can easily be applied to daily life. She draws from deep spiritual roots while bringing in ideas from quantum physics to neuroscience to build an easy-to-understand guide for growing a life filled with happiness and purpose.

Learn how to:
 

*Discover your true purpose in life
*Claim and live happiness no matter what else is going on
*Give yourself what you need to thrive
*Overcome doubt, despair, discouragement
*Set a pattern of behavior that works for you
… and much more
 

Blooming Your Life will shift how you think about your life and yourself. It will give you the proven tools to transform your thinking so that your life, and the lives of those you love, can be consistently filled with happiness. And it is happiness that can shift the world away from greed and despair into what we all want to experience—heaven on earth.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Beca Lewis
• Release date: Oct 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201884727

Beca Lewis

BECA LEWIS always wanted to be a writer, but there were a few pit stops along the way. She has been a dancer, teacher, stockbroker, financial planner, club dancer (read this any way you wish), waitress, web designer, headhunter (the civilized kind), and a diamond broker to just name a few. All this while trying to be a decent mother to three kids, a step-mother to five more, and a grandmother to the five, almost grown, best-looking grandchildren in the world. All these experiences are the perfect fodder for book writing! Beca’s non-fiction Shift Series covers the system she developed and has coached for over twenty-five years. At this point, she is going to claim there is no time, so she doesn’t have to think about age. She’ll show you why you don’t have to either in this practical and inspirational series. Beca’s fiction explores stories around the concepts of other dimensions, love that transcends time and space, and where good always triumphs over evil. The best part of writing? Being an introvert on purpose, living in imagination, and then sharing it all with readers and friends.

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Blooming Your Life

How To Experience Consistent Happiness

Beca Lewis

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Perception Publishing

First Copyright©2022 by Beca Lewis and Perception Publishing. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher or author, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

Contents

Happiness Is ...

Preface

Section One: Preparation

1. Bloom Where

2. Why Happy

3. Leading Happiness

4. Happiness: A Shift Of Perception

5. Practical Blooming: Preparation

6. Renee: Preparation

Section Two: Seven Happiness Steps

Step One: Prepare To Grow

7. Decide To Be Happy

8. Perception Shifts

9. The Two Modes Of Perception

10. Let Go

11. Gift Your Future Self

12. The Good That We Need

13. Practical Blooming: Step One

14. Renee: Step One

Step Two: Put Yourself Where You Grow Best

15. Designing Your Excellent Life

16. Create Your Habitat To Thrive

17. Joy Is Waiting For You

18. Perception Rules

19. Practical Blooming: Step Two

20. Renee: Step Two

Step Three: Move Yourself If Necessary

21. Moving To Thrive

22. Recognizing Abuse

23. You Can Rewrite The Past

24. Habits and Happiness

25. Think Like A Sunflower

26. Practical Blooming: Step Three

27. Renee: Step Three

Step Four: Feed Yourself The Best Food Possible

28. We Are What We Eat

29. Consciously Choose Happiness

30. Happy To Want Less

31. Choose Consciously

32. Practical Blooming: Step Four

33. Renee: Step Four

Step Five: Grow In Your Own Timing

34. Your Timing Is Perfect

35. What The Past Reveals

36. Live Your Why

37. Practical Blooming: Step Five

38. Renee: Step Five

Step Six: Expect To Bloom

39. Yes, It Will Come Up

40. Designed To Be Filled

41. Let Go And Rise

42. The Qualities Of What We Desire

43. Quality Word Details

44. Practical Blooming: Step Six

45. Renee: Step Six

Step Seven: Celebrate The Unique Bloom That You Are

46. Stop Resisting

47. Go For The Goodness

48. Be Unreasonably Happy

49. Practical Blooming: Step Seven

50. Go Forth And Bloom

51. Renee: Step Seven

Author Note

Resources

Acknowledgments

Other Places To Find Beca

Also By Beca

About Beca

Happiness Is ...

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. — William Makepeace Thackeray

In order to be utterly happy, the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future. — Andre Gide

Preface

To be a Flower, is profound Responsibility. — Emily Dickinson

This book began as a blog post in 2008. Then it became a 7-Day Shift email course. And then, like a tree, it grew into a talk that I gave at various functions. After that, it branched out into an online video course, then a class, and now a book.

As with the blog, course, and classes, I have an intention. I want to help you design your days and life to match who you are, discover what you need to thrive, explore the possibilities of happiness, and apply what you learn.

In our classes, we agree to fully take part in a community garden of like-minded souls so that every member feels the support and encouragement of walking with a group of people on the same path with everyone’s best interests in mind.

I know that reading a book may not feel the same to you. But if you wish to, you can imagine that you are in this community and feel its support as you read through this book. Think of all the people doing the same thing as you. Each of you is making life better for the next person, even if you never meet them.

However, perhaps you can find a friend or two to study this book with together, and you will make the same agreement to support each other.

Or maybe I’ll see you in class one day, or on one of my online courses, or perhaps you’ll join our Perception Circle at perceptionu.com

However, even if you feel you are doing this by yourself, let me assure you that you aren’t. I know that all the support you need will be present for you in a multitude of ways if you expect to see it.

In addition, there are communities of life-gardeners that you may not know now, but as you do this work for yourself, you will become one of them.

My desire for you is that your life blooms with happiness now and into your future.

But to bloom happiness, we must have the desire to be happy. We have to decide to cultivate the intent and passion for our life to bloom.

Even if you don’t feel that way now, stick with me for a bit, and let’s see if we can’t unearth that desire. It’s there, I promise.

And if you already feel it, let’s expand that intent and desire together. Let’s be willing to bloom profusely as ourselves—each of us as an individual bloom, but always connected and needing each other in this garden of life.

Darwin called it an abominable mystery — he wrote: Look into a flower, and what do you see? Into the very heart of nature’s double nature — that is, the contending energies of creation and dissolution, the spiraling toward complex form and the tidal pull away from it. Apollo and Dionysus were names the Greeks gave to these two faces of nature, and nowhere in nature is their contest as plain or as poignant as it is in the beauty of a flower and its rapid passing. There, the achievement of order against all odds and its blithe abandonment. There, the perfection of art and the blind flux of nature. There, somehow, both transcendence and necessity. Could that be it — right there, in a flower — the meaning of life?

Welcome to the garden! — Beca

PS:

Please be sure to do the Practical Blooming section at the end of each chapter. Otherwise, this book is only partially valuable to you. It would be like looking at a catalog of seeds and plants but never planting the garden.

If, as you read this, you discover you would like to pursue more of the ideas in this book, try another book in The Shift Series. Each one has a different focus, but the same premise. The mother tree book is Living In Grace. The rest of the series are the branches.

Section One: Preparation

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Bloom Where

Our mind is a garden, our thoughts are the seeds, you can grow flowers or you can grow weeds . — Rita Ghatourey

We’ve all heard the saying, bloom where you’re planted. There’s truth in this. Because sometimes, maybe often, we find ourselves somewhere we would rather not be. And if the choice is between being miserable or happy, then for heaven’s sake, let’s be happy. Let’s choose not to droop or languish and instead do our best to bloom.

However, wouldn’t it be better to plant ourselves where we would bloom best?

I love the process of gardening. And over the years, I have learned that some plants don’t grow well where I put them. Sometimes—don’t tell anyone—I swear I hear them begging me to move them somewhere else.

So even though when I first plant them, I pay attention to what the plants’ needs are, sun or shade, for example, sometimes I need to move them anyway because they aren’t thriving. There are other factors at work. Perhaps, like people, they don’t like the area, or the neighbor is too noisy, or they want a different view.

I moved a plant once that looked so bedraggled I was afraid to move it, thinking that the transfer might kill it. But I did it anyway because it kept asking me to. I moved it from the backyard, a nice shady spot, to the front yard, also a nice shady spot, and within hours it perked up and, by the end of the day, looked better than it had ever looked. It thrived there. And every time I check on it, I swear it says thank you.

So yes, if I can see plants in this way, I can certainly see us humans as plants. But as human plants, we have many more abilities than a plant does.

Well, perhaps plants have more abilities than we think, but that’s for another day. If you are interested in the intelligence of the plant kingdom, I have listed a few books on it at the end of this book in the Resources section.

But I know you are here for you, so let’s find out where you will thrive the most. It doesn’t mean you will pick up and move yourself, although you might. It just means you will give yourself more choices that enable you to thrive as intended by the Master Gardener.

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Why Happy

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. — William James

This book is about taking steps to experience happiness, and who doesn’t want to be happy?

I really should warn you that this is a trick question because although you are likely to answer, everybody wants to be happy, but you may be consciously or unconsciously thinking that you don’t have the right to be happy.

Even if you believe that you have the right to be happy, and it would be a good idea to be happy, do you know what happiness is for you?

Many of us have been trained not to be happy. I remember my friends and I being careful not to be laughing when we came home because we might get the evil eye for being too happy.

Perhaps