When you hear of someone that has found a
form of happiness, the reactions are typical...
Many people are jealous and act like asses
toward you, trying to take the happiness away.
People think you are full of shit and faking it, or
they believe it's only temporary.
Either way the term happiness, seems like a myth.
I'm a down to earth person. I admit when I
started reading and learning about how to
achieve real happiness, it was like learning
meditation. Too complicated; too many words I
had too look up in the dictionary and too many
methods to understand just to get through the
introduction. I would usually quit by chapter one.
But just like meditation I figured a way a
dumbass like me, when it comes to this shit,
could understand and make it work for the
typical Joe, not just those who study for years
and still haven't figured it out yet. You see you
don't have to understand meditation for it to
work. You just have to do it properly. The more
you do it, the understanding comes later.
Happiness on the other hand takes work. But
when I explain to you why it takes work, you
will begin to see how society has conditioned us
not to be happy. Because happy people don't
need and buy as much.
Let's begin with the feeling we are all
programmed with since birth. It's a need. We
really don't know what the need is, so we feed
it. We feed it with money. But when we reach
our goal, that feeling still lingers. We think it's
more....so we make more money. And yet we
are still not satisfied.
So we feed ourselves with stuff. We buy, nice
clothes, a nice house, the best car, the biggest
TV, the fastest gaming systems.......yet, we still
want more! So we buy more things. We stuff our
old stuff in storage to collect dust to make room
for more stuff. And yet, we are not satisfied.
What is this need that seems to go unfulfilled no
matter how we try to fill it?
What is it we are searching for that we can't find?
Believe it or not, it's happiness!
Yes that simple little thing is all what want. Our
minds, bodies and souls crave it.
We get little glimpses into it as we grow up, but
as adults the glimpses are more few and far between.
The secret to happiness is simple. Just be it.
Yeah I know what your thinking. Just be it?!
Happiness is an emotion of many. The emotion
that comes out in each circumstance depends on
the events that take place right? What if instead
of just reacting to everything, we took the time
to choose how we want to react?
Yes choose.
You see when someone pisses us off, we
subconsciously choose to be pissed off. Why?
Because we are conditioned to react that way
since childhood. We watched our grandparents
do it, our parents, family and friends. We take
no thought to react, we just react how that
person or event made us feel.
Now what if you were to be like the terminator,
with the list of reactions to choose from in front
of you? What if you took the time to think about
how you choose to feel, instead of react and
bring out an unwanted reaction? The dynamics
of the entire event would change, as will the outcome.
It's as simple as taking ten seconds to think
about what will happen next.
When you choose the emotion of happiness
regardless of the situation you begin to realize
that you stay happy..YES! All the time. It's a
choice you make for "your" life. Choose to be happy.
Now you know the key; so go do it!
I wish it was that simple.
The good news is it can be achieved. You will get as much out of the course as you put into it!
