Who said THAT!?!

William Michael Forbes


Happiness comes as we leave our worries behind. wmf

A Well Known Fact:

Even with the possibility of repeated failure, successful people keep going.

When I was a little boy, this wonderful toy appeared in toy stores called “Etch a Sketch.” To this day it is still manufactured by The Ohio Art Company and sold all over the world. The basic purpose of Etch a Sketch is to be able to create drawings on the same medium over and over again...merely by shaking the toy which then erases what we just had on the screen, in order to create something new. Life is like that for real too. We move into one experience after another, erasing what was by creating and doing something new. Now this isn’t always the case, sometimes as we all have this mechanism in our brains called Memory. Memory is an automatic function of the Subconscious mind, that is triggered by events that stimulate it and if the memory event that is stimulated has a lot of emotion attached to it we can find ourselves acting and behaving in ways that have us asking ourselves;

“Why did I say or do THAT?!?” or “Why did they say or do THAT?!?”

Memory is useful as a knowledge resource, but not always a good tool for communication. Learning to release ourselves from the emotional directives of memory impulses by keeping ourselves in the present moment, can be an opportunity for tremendous growth, change and happiness....which brings us to today’s activity on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less which will require a little diligence on the part of your awareness;
I want you to pay attention to any strong negative emotions that are triggered by the people or events during your day and tell the negative emotions like you mean it...that’s right, tell the negative emotions like you mean it, that you love them, even if you don’t understand them. ...then notice how those emotions respond to you. Then tell the emotions to show you a better way to handle what is going on then listen and feel for what comes up from your subconscious. You may find that you get an inclination to change the voice tone you are speaking in to yourself or others and you may even find ideas about something you could do differently with your body posture, or other actions you could do differently. The key here is that your subconscious will always respond to you provided that you interact with it consciously and give it suggestions that will direct it to provide your conscious mind with good ideas, thoughts and actions.

Have a great day!
William