April 30, 2018

There is so much being written about feeling good, happiness, the happiest countries in the world (really?), 100 ways to feel good and on and on.

If I didn’t know better I’d kind of flip it off thinking, well I’ve lived most of my life sometimes up, sometimes down, and I’ve gotten rather used to feeling somewhere in between and that seems to work for me. So what’s the hype? There’s even a psychology of happiness that is gaining recognition.

I think most people, and I was one, felt that life is supposed to be hard, or just that’s the way it is, period. I hear people complaining, even on cruise ships, about what doesn’t feel good as if that is the leveling field for small talk on elevators or conversations in general.

Quantum physics is gaining importance to explain why being happy is a really good thing. I’m not a scientist but I do know that quantum physics explains how the smallest particle of matter is thought. String theory is closely related, and

Let’s just go back to quantum physics and take thought as the smallest particle of matter coupled with the law of attraction. There was a movie made called “What the bleep do we know” which was taken from a book of the same title. In it it explains how our thoughts coupled with the law of attraction actually create our reality. While this idea is not new, science moves VERY slowly because somehow it seems as if in our world EVERYONE has to agree on something before it can become fact. Remember how difficult it was to convince folks the world was not flat? Now try to convince them that they are creating their experience through the thoughts they are choosing to think. OMG! And that word “choosing” can be a hard one to swallow because most of us don’t think we choose our thoughts but that they are somehow just there because of what we observe or are reminders of what we have observed or experienced. But we actually choose what we pay attention to.

Case in point: A few years ago I chose not to watch television news anymore. I remember Bette Midler in an interview around that time saying she didn’t watch the news either because it just made her want to lie down! Bingo. I decided I would feel better if I didn’t watch the news. Why put myself in a downer on purpose? I CHOSE to feel better by not watching.

We make hundreds of decisions every day about what we want to pay attention to and what we pay attention to attracts other similar thoughts and thoughts being basically matter attracts similar people and experiences. Isn’t that mind blowing?!

So, if you are having a grumpy day and are running into disgusting people and fell down the steps and got flipped off in traffic I’m saying that you created that day with the thoughts you were thinking. This is not woo woo stuff, people, this is science.

And that’s the big deal about being happy. Being happy creates the life you would like. Complaining only brings more stuff to complain about. Really.

I guarantee there is more nitty gritty to come!

Wishing you all to pay attention you what makes you feel good so that you can be happy and have the life you want. Deep? Really deep!

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