To be
happy we must believe the future will get better-2
By learning
and applying the secrets of life, you will indeed achieve any desired goal. But
more importantly, you will be joyful about your life. And you will live your
life more intelligently. However this is not a complete manual for
happiness. Without a relationship with God, you will always find emptiness
within yourself. It seems that while there might be great variations as to what
the term intelligence actually denotes, there is some common agreement
on what the term does mean.
The experts
agree then that intelligent behaviour reflects a capacity to adapt, by learning
from experience, solving problems, and reasoning clearly. Those behaving
intelligently meet challenges and achieve their goals.
If
intelligence is measured by your ability to solve problems and to meet your
goals than we are all intelligent. The reason people don’t solve
problems easily or achieve their goals is not because they don’t have the
potential to do so. In fact, we have unlimited potential, which
means we are all equally intelligent.
The real
question is how we as individuals utilize this potential. The difference
between the various ways in which people tap into their potential has nothing
to do with IQ, but instead is related to the motivation to excel.
Motivation as we are learning can be controlled through independent-will;
therefore by choice alone we can all literally be “super-humans” achieving any
desired goal we set for ourselves. Only God knows why some individuals want to
be better, while others seem to settle for less than they can be. It will
always be a mystery why people don’t change for the better.
Each arena
of life has either a downward spiral or an upward spiral. We can experience
this in each of the key areas of our lives. Our spiritual well-being, health,
relationships, personality, life events, businesses careers and finances are
always experiencing highs and lows.
When we
make the wrong choices over and over and over again, a karmic momentum is
created. A negative accumulation of this momentum is the result of making unwholesome
choices consistently over a long period of time. This is a problem. When we
spiral downward that negative momentum begins working against us. This momentum
eventually becomes self-destructive.
The
complete state of happiness is when we achieve love in each area of our
lives. However this doesn’t easily happen. Most of us are not aware that
this is the only way to achieve true happiness.
In spite of
the apparent contradiction, a person can sometimes experience both happiness
and sadness concurrently (e.g. someone important could die yet you believe he
has gone to a better place). You therefore are sad that he/she is gone but
joyful because you believe that the person is in heaven. Eventually though one emotion
will overpower the other. Either joy will overtake sadness or sadness will
overtake joy. You cannot experience equal amounts of sadness and joy. By nature
that is impossible. You are left with only two choices:
(1) Choose
to empower your positive emotions.
(2) Choose
to leave your emotions to chance.
Again, you
need to understand that in every situation there is a choice to be made.
The
Downward Spiral
Discomfort:
In our sincere quest
for happiness, some of us experience great amounts of discomfort trying to achieve
financial growth. For example, you might have worked long hours at a job you
don’t really enjoy.
But when
you finally achieve the financial growth you are after you might find that this
does not make you as happy as you had anticipated. When this happens you begin
to fear that you will experience more pain. As a result you become more
uncomfortable.
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