Happiness Comes From Playing by Micheleine Liew

9-4-2010(Friday)

Another thought of the day post.Happiness Comes From Playing by Micheleine Liew...to know more about her...add her up in Facebook-Micheleine


The ladder is like a piano in that mastering it takes practice. But once you have gotten some skill in climbing it, your life will become happier because you can make and keep relationship commitments with the absolute certainty that you are in control of your own emotions. You can put the "thrill" back into a marriage or friendship any time you want to make that effort. You can put that "excited, optimistic, new" feeling back into your like at will.

And, that's the key word - "Will"

The power of internal will is what will drive you up the ladder. When you lose that power,your will begins to leak and you will notice yourself sliding down the ladder. Don't ever feel bad about it, because at least you are now noticing it, and noticing is 75% of the journey to controlling the will. Most people slide down their ladders many times a day because they don't even know it's there.

The existence of this internal, psychological, neurological ladder is a secret to most of our society and culture. Most of us still believe that someone or something can "make us" happy, that it all starts on the outside.

This misunderstanding is just like the mistake of thinking the world was flat. People concluded that the world was flat because it seemed pretty obvious. Just as it seems pretty obvious that other people can make us happy or sad. Just because it seems obvious, but it doesn't mean it's true.

The world is NOT flat. And thinking that it was flat kept people from venturing out. It kept people at home. Thinking that other people make us happy is the same kind of damaging superstition. It keeps us at home. Afraid that if we reach out for someone, we might roll of the edge.

You can now see that this fear was a superstition based on a negative set of overwhelming feelings. You don't have to relate to people in that cautious, restricted way. Your world can become round, too. NOT flat.


But, am I really happy? Do I live up like I am on a ladder?....................