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Dedicated to
all those who seek to know
themselves and walk the
path with heart.
Introduction
Happiness! Its the most sought-after commodity in the world. Everyone is looking for itfrom a princess trying to find a second chance at real love, to a celebrity on drugs to trying a to escape personal pain. to a celebrity on drugs trying to escape personal pain. People try to find it through their families and significant relationships, their careers, their religious or spiritual affiliations, sex, vacations, hobbies, cars, money and addictions. The list goes on and on.
What seems to get in the way of consistently experiencing happiness is our dramas in life. Relationship dramas. Work dramas. Health dramas. Money dramas. Family dramas. Spiritual dramas. We all have them... from the president of the United States to the abuse victim to the single mom on welfare sitting home watching TV. The dramas are all around us. Theyre all we see in the news, on the talk shows, in the newspapers and magazines, in the movies, in our lives, in our friends lives, etc. Yet, everyone from the president to the single mom on welfare is trying to figure out the same thing how to let go and move past their dramas and how to find true happiness.
How do we achieve REAL happiness? How do we break free of our dramas successfully? How can we let go of the emotions and pain from the past, the fear of the future, and the anxieties of daily life that are always a part of our dramas?
Recall a time in your own life when you felt worried about money, anxious about success, depressed, overwhelmed by a relationship or family problem, or by not having enough time or feeling out of control. How did that make you feel? Did it negatively affect you? How about negative feelings associated with experiences from your past? Are they hurting you in the present?
We are constantly pulled in two directions at the same time. Our desire for success and happiness inspires us to move forward, and at the same time the feelings that control our negative emotions and nonproductive behaviors hold us back. Its like driving a car with one foot on the gas and the other on the brake, wondering why were not getting anywhere! Sound familiar?
In an attempt to avoid these feelings or push them away, we have programmed our minds, made lists, learned while we slept, followed a guru, thought positively, attended recovery support groups, pulled our own strings, walked on fire, and more, looking for the answers. But the startling truth is, after all this, most are still searching. Why? It is the lack of a clear understanding of the part these feelings play in our lives: they literally have total control over us.
Self-improvement is not what we need. Weve all had enough self-improvement to last a lifetime. What we need is waking up! Waking up to the fact that the feelings, the underlying blocks locked away in our subconscious programs, are what restrict us from living at our full potential.
It is a well-known fact that our thoughts determine our direction in life, while it is a little-known fact that the feelings we hold inside attract our circumstances. Feelings become like a magnet pulling back to us what we project from inside. The fact is our feelings run our lives. They literally block our chances at success, happiness and self-love. Weve become so accustomed to our feelings that we dont even see that we are hanging on to them. Instead we feel that they are hanging on to us!
We create an exciting new vision of something we want. Then, like a thief in the night, these deeply buried feelings hidden away in our subconscious programming sneak in and take over. They push us around, offering confusing, conflicting messages, dictating what we can and cannot do. People are wandering around on automatic pilot, and their plane isnt going where they want it to go! This book will show you how to turn off the autopilot, let go, break free of your dramas and go in the direction you want to go.
The key to having all we want in life is to learn to let go of the negative feelings held inside: not only those associated with old hurts, past mistakes and failures hidden away in our subconscious, but those we encounter as part of our daily life as well.
When you learn to let go of the emotional waste, youll begin to enjoy abundance in every area of your life. Your financial status, health, relationships, family and personal happiness will become more than you ever thought they could be.
Youll discover in the following pages how to use your authentic power of love to attract what you want in life. Youll learn how to let go of the fears and emotions that cause your unhappiness. Youll find methods to deactivate your internal failure mechanism before its engaged. Youll learn to forgive the past and yourself and break free from the chain of pain and leave in its place the chain of love. Youll truly know how to let go and move past your dramas, and live a life filled with joy.
Theres no need for us to seek to acquire power. We already have it. Authentic power is intimately a part of us. We were born with it! We use it every day. The real problem is that we dont fully understand it and therefore dont fully utilize it.
Day by day as you begin to understand and use the processes presented herein, you will gain momentum. Your life plans will crystallize. You will gain a greater understanding of that which you truly are, the power you possess and how life really works. Youll suddenly see that the world you live in can become much more than a pile of dirt with some rocks and trees. It can become a beautiful, living thing. Once you reclaim your authentic power, youll discover that the world is made up of the beating hearts of all humanity. The world youll see is a thing of life, beauty and love.
Unhappiness Is a Learned Behavior
Happiness
only exists when
we see that
unhappiness
is not connected
to the event itself
but rather to how
we perceive
the event
I magine walking into a room where groups of people are seated at a table where a delicious-looking meal is set before them. The table is filled with every sort of food you can imagine. Its a mouthwatering display of food, all perfectly prepared. Its all right in front of their noses and easily within their reach.
You notice that none of the people are eating. They havent even taken a single bite. Their plates are empty. It appears they have been seated there for a very long timeso long that they appear to be starving to death.
They are starving not because they cannot eat the wonderful food before them, nor because eating it is forbidden or harmful. They arent eating because they dont realize that food is what they need. They dont know that those very sharp pains in their stomachs are caused by hunger. They dont see that all they need to do to stop their suffering is eat the food thats right in front of them.
This is an example of our basic human suffering. Most of us sense that there is something wrong, that something is inherently missing in our lives, but we havent a clue what the problem is or what we should do about it. We may see faintly that what we need is somehow very close to us, but we dont connect it to the sharp pain inside us. Even with time, as the pain becomes more severe, we cant see what we need.
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