William Michael Forbes
Bravery is a concept that knows not either race or religion wmf
A Well Known Fact: Attention is the wheel that steers our lives in different directions, while emotion is the power to make it whatsoever we imagine.
What if love was the only emotion that we had to live with? What if there was no fear at all? Is it possible that we might still grow and develop without the opposing states of fear and Love? What does it mean to be fearless and how would our lives be with only love? I’ve given this some deep consideration and have come to the conclusion that opposing emotional states are the legs that our soul needs to move forward through life just as the opposing movements of our legs creates the controlled fall forward that we call walking or running. Virtually every physical activity of our lives requires a force and a counterforce in order to maintain muscle strength and physical activity…so too does our body require opposing states of wellness in order for us to discover and understand the a process for our physical body to be healthy.
I love kayaking…I love canoeing I love driving my car, I like feeling good inside my mind, I love inspiring and empowering others to grow and learn and all of these activities require an ongoing perception of what I call the love and fear factors. Love being the factor that increases my awareness of life and fear being the factor that indicates where my life may cease to exist. These polarities of energy and consciousness were also considered to be the life and death instinct of the Freudian psychology yet in another sense of reality they are different aspects of emotional energy as they are utilized to create our experiences of life. When we learn to work with our emotions (energy in motion) causes and effects are set into motion first in our mind…then in our body and finally in our environment. The reverse of this is also true as energy is both the cause and effect of itself…an event occurs in the environment, influences our body and causes changes in our mental energy field. This process is always going both ways in either a positive way or a negative way…it cannot be neutral and produce change and experience for us to be aware of.
There is a point in our experience where we become aware of the relationship between our thoughts, our emotions and the environment and this awareness facilitates a development our ability to reason and choose in ways that improve and enhance our lives or we do not learn to develop an awareness of the relationship between our thoughts, emotions and events and therefore life appears to be a random series of sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes fun, sometimes sad experiences that we can only hope will turn out more good than bad. This brings us to today’s activity on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less and it is to promote a more conscious awareness of the relationship you have to what is going on around you at any given point of space and time…and that once a stronger awareness is cultivated consciously, our imagination and emotion will create more effectively and immediately the results that will sustain a healthy forward movement in our lives.
This activity will require as much as three minutes over a five hour period. Every hour for three minutes I want you to take about one minute to assess the mood of the environment you are in wherever you are. Then take as much as three minutes to imagine that the space you are in is filled with people smiling, laughing and feeling good…pretend you can hear people laughing, make eye contact with people that you feel comfortable doing so with and smile…recall feelings of happy times in your life and let those feeling radiate out from your body into the space around you. The purpose here is to give you an awareness of the fact that what we think and feel does affect us and the world. Remember to carefully notice any events that correspond to the feelings you emanate as you do the activity and…
Have a great day!
William
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