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.