The truth is healing.

William Michael Forbes




In a single moment I realized I could just choose to be happy. wmf

A Well Known Fact: Most conflicts have a starting point that almost everyone forgets or didn’t notice and when the start is recognized, then understood, it makes us happy to be together.


Needs…every living organism has them…from the single celled amoeba to the complex mega celled human body which is comprised of as many as fifty billion cells!!

Living organism, at their most basic level, need food, oxygen, water and the ability to reproduce. Humans, because of our ability to think and reason, have a set of needs that goes beyond the basics of food shelter and clothing…although it can be argued that someone might need a thirtieth pair of shoes in the closet. Our unique ability to think, thereby generating different emotional charges creates a psychological need that need neither food nor water can satisfy…it is a need to feel GOOD about oneself and without a psychological sense of feeling good…humans can behave in not good ways…strangely enough to try feel good!

Today’s blog is about truth being healing…because when we feel NATURALLY good - and by naturally we mean that both physical and psychological needs and wants are met in healthy, positive and constructive ways - we tend to do good things, think good thoughts and live in ways that well…are good. Truth is a conception of right and wrong a way of thinking, feeling and acting that makes life better for all people concerned…Truth is able to dispel deception, denial, ignorance, neglect and greed as long as the truth is a focus of any human endeavour. When truth is ignored…war, greed, pain, suffering, starvation and deprivation assume temporary authority over our lives until the deception consumes itself usually in its own destructiveness…then truth rises from the ashes…fully undamaged and recreates a healthy expression of itself in a new awareness and social order…which brings us to today’s lesson of How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less…Take no more than 3 minutes each hour for nine hours to do this activity.

Consider three areas of your life where you feel that you are suffering…it could have something to do with a relationship, it could have to do with money, it might be a job that you are doing that is unsatisfying…it could be a drug or alcohol problem you are having, it might even be that you think you aren’t beautiful or smart enough, it may be a physical challenge you are currently facing…just pick three areas and write them down on a piece of paper in clear, legible words. Now beside or below what you’ve written, write the following question:

If this area of my life were the way I really wanted it to be what would I be thinking, feeling and doing right now?

Now write four answers for each area you’ve identified and spend thirty seconds thinking, feeling…and if possible acting as if your solution had already occurred and notice what you feel afterwards and…

Have a great day!

William

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