After reflecting on an exchange of emails I had this morning, I had a profound realization.
At the end of my first email I wrote: “P.S. Have an incredible week.”
The person I sent that email to answered me: “You are most welcome…….you be sure and have a good one too!”
There was no need to respond, but I found my fingers typing: “All my days are incredible. I create them that way! I wouldn’t have them any other way.”
We create all our feelings—good and bad
I’ve written many times that nothing could possibly happen that could make you experience negative emotions, along with the stress and emotional suffering those emotions cause. Our negative emotions, our stress, and our emotional suffering are caused by the meaning we give what happens to us.
What I realized this morning in way I hadn’t seen it before was that, because events can’t make us happy either, we create our own happiness by attributing positive meanings to events.
Your happiness is not a function of what happens to you. Your happiness is a function of the meaning you give what happens to you.
I’m getting to the point where anytime I am not happy (which is rare), I immediately stop and tell myself: “Stop blaming this person (or situation). What meaning am I giving what’s happening to me right now that’s making me unhappy?” When I find the meaning, I dissolve it and the unhappiness disappears.
How to create constant happiness
Actually I rarely give meaning to events any more so I rarely have negative emotions. The way I create my positive emotions—my happiness—on a daily basis is to experience my life as a game.
My goal is to win, which makes the playing worthwhile, but I am not attached to winning. My focus is on playing the game full out, which fills my life with passion, excitement, and happiness.
Because I am not attached to the outcome, I get excited for the moment when I win and feel disappointed for the moment (and only a moment) when I lose. But I am happy almost all the time I am playing the “life is a game” game vytorin medication. (See an earlier post for details about how to play this game.)
How I create daily passion, excitement, and happiness
For example my life is about empowering people to free themselves from their stress and suffering, and create unimagined new possibilities for their lives. That vision underlies everything I do. So on any given day I write a blog post designed to further my vision. I write it to make an impact on as many people as possible. If a lot of people read it and comment, I feel good about that because I achieved my purpose. If relatively few people read it and comment, I feel disappointed about that result.
But here’s the point. Winning the game for me comes from manifesting my vision, so that makes me feel good. No readers, no comments, no one sharing my post—I feel badly. But my greatest enjoyment comes from writing it as clearly and impactfully as I possibly could, not from how many people read it, comment on it, and share it with others.
By being unattached to the outcome, the happiness from winning and the sadness from not winning last only momentarily and then fade away. Those emotions have virtually no impact on me. Playing the game full out every day—writing blog posts, creating new courses, leading courses, etc.—is what makes me happy almost all the time, regardless of how any given project turns out.
And to those people who respond: But you need to be unhappy to appreciate happiness—I say: I’ve experienced enough unhappiness already to know what it feels like. I don’t need to experience any more unhappiness to be able to appreciate feeling happiness almost all the time.
Would you like to be happy almost all the time?
Use the videos and blog posts I’ve written to learn how to dissolve meaning. Then create life as a game. Human beings do not need to be unhappy.
As John Denver said in “Farewell Andromeda”:
Welcome to my morning
Welcome to my day
Yes, I’m the one responsible
I made it just this way
Create your own happiness … every day. You really can do it.
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Canadian researchers find a simple cure for cancer, but major pharmaceutical companies are not interested.
Researchers at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada have cured cancer last week, yet there is a little ripple in the news or in TV. It is a simple technique using very basic drug. The method employs dichloroacetate, which is currently used to treat metabolic disorders. So, there is no concern of side effects or about their long term effects.
This drug doesn’t require a patent, so anyone can employ it widely and cheaply compared to the costly cancer drugs produced by major pharmaceutical companies.
Canadian scientists tested this dichloroacetate (DCA) on human’s cells; it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells and left the healthy cells alone. It was tested on Rats inflicted with severe tumors; their cells shrank when they were fed with water supplemented with DCA. The drug is widely available and the technique is easy to use, why the major drug companies are not involved? Or the Media interested in this find?
In human bodies there is a natural cancer fighting human cell, the mitochondria, but they need to be triggered to be effective. Scientists used to think that these mitochondria cells were damaged and thus ineffective against cancer. So they used to focus on glycolysis, which is less effective in curing cancer and more wasteful. The drug manufacturers focused on this glycolysis method to fight cancer. This DCA on the other hand doesn’t rely on glycolysis instead on mitochondria; it triggers the mitochondria which in turn fights the cancer cells.
The side effect of this is it also reactivates a process called apoptosis. You see, mitochondria contain an all-too-important self-destruct button that can’t be pressed in cancer cells. Without it, tumors grow larger as cells refuse to be extinguished. Fully functioning mitochondria, thanks to DCA, can once again die.
I have been living similar to this for the past 19 years. I have created my own happiness by changing the beliefs I developed from he past. I still read your blogs all the time because it is good to brush up. In this article I especially liked the reminder that we don’t have to experience more unhappiness to remember what happiness is. I have been there done that!
Awesome post… agreed wholeheartedly. This kinda ran through my mind a few weeks ago. An additional thanks for sharing your journey so openly with us. It mimics certain aspects of my own journey with which your techniques have helped immensely! I go on so many tangents unraveling issues that it’s taking forever to get through natural confidence, but the process is thorough, and effective. It has given a whole new depth to being made in the image of the Creator. Much profound truth in your words my friend. Thanks for your work. Looking forward to doing LMT next time around!