HOW OUR EMOTIONS IMPACT OUR LIVES

We all have one very big thing in common - we ALL want to be happy. According to Roy Martina, author of EMOTIONAL BALANCE "When your inner self - how you feel about yourself matches your Outer self - the way you portray yourself to the world and when your two selves are aligned, in positive energy your success will increase and be consistent. If what you have is not what you want, then you have to do everything you can to change so you will attract more of what you want. " You keep changing your strategies until it happens.

There are three levels of happiness:

1) Competitive Happiness
(ie. sports, business, war, gambling, school). We feel happy when we win and are ahead of others. Happiness at this level comes and goes and may turn against us sooner or later. When you get stuck at this level you can become very unhappy and destructive when things don't go your way.

2) Conditional Happiness. When you're happy here it's because things are just as you want them to be - the job, your spouse, children, etc. But you've put conditions on how you want things to be. When they change in any way from what you demand they are, you become unhappy with what you have.You discover that things were not really what you thought they were.

3) Unconditional Happiness.

Once you've reached this level you don't need anything from the outside world to make you feel happy or at peace. Here you've accepted that you are human and that you make mistakes. You open yourself to accepting and welcoming changes in your life, death and suffering. We are not attached to the outcome of any situation, we are able to accept and live with both discomfort and pleasure. We enjoy life to its fullest, experiencing everything that comes our way. We show gratitude for each blessing and challenge that comes along. We are at peace with ourselves and others. We've let go of the need to judge others or to always be right. Forgiveness falls easily from our lips. We are one with the universe. In other words, we've place zero conditions on anything or anyone that crosses our path. We've accepted it all without any judgement.

When we are in a state of bliss we are in the ultimate high of life. This is perfection in all its glory. Here you'll find the inner peace harmony and love that you've longed for, even if what created this moment of bliss is not actually what you wanted.

Do you feel alone, abandoned, unloved, rejected and powerless? Any or all of these emotions is telling you that you are not connected to your natural state of being in harmony with yourself or what is all around you, You've become disconnected from your Higher Power ( which you may call God/dess, Allah, Creator, Source, Jehovah, Brahma), I will continue to use Higher Power.

When you've placed the self-inflicted isolation on yourself by removing your energy from the world around you, you feel alone and neglected. You blame others for being abandoned, yet you are the one who withdrew into yourself. You cannot blame other people, circumstances that have gone on around you, such as an argument with your best friend, nature or because you feel your Higher Power took someone you love from you or caused an illness.

When we focus with our five senses this is our reality, which is limited and we forget who we really are. Living in a world with people who are unaware of who they are, we believe that imitations, pain, disease and suffering are a standard way of life. When we are unaware of our potential we continue to create patterns in our life that show we are disconnected from our inner self and personal power.

As we grow from infant hood, what we are taught is passed on from generation to generation. Unfortunately, this is our greatest limitation. According to Martina, "To achieve the wisdom needed to find unconditional happiness, we need to liberate ourselves from the many limiting beliefs we have grown up with."

Why don't you take the next week to think about what some of those beliefs are that you grew up with. How have those beliefs limited you in doing something you really wanted to do or even thought about doing? Jot them down on a piece of paper and keep it close. We'll talk about them more later on.

Until tomorrow,

Namaste

Sue