You are inherently stress-free and unconditionally |
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happy. It's always there. You don't have to have |
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pleasure of the senses to find it. It's the TRUE YOU. If |
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you're like most people, you're always just beyond reach |
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of true happiness. Always looking for answers. Always |
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seeking ways of how to be happy. Then, when you think |
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you found the answer, and you're happy for a while, it |
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fades away. That's what conditional happiness is. |
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Your searching is the very reason you're not finding it. |
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That's because you're going out from the current moment, |
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the here and now. In the here and now, it's pure |
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blissful stress-free happiness. As soon as you look |
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toward the future or think about the past, you enter the |
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world of stress, anger, sadness and fear. I call this |
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the FALSE YOU. It's where most people are stuck. How |
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about you? |
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It's not your fault. We grow up, being taught that |
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“Life's full of ups and downs,” “You can't be |
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happy all of the time,” “Life's like a roller |
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coaster.” But we get a lot of good advice like, |
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“Don't worry, be happy,” “Accept it and move |
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on.” The truth is, you can be happy all of the time. |
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Sure, there's times when you are sad or angry. But you |
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can control how long you want to feel that way. |
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Did you ever notice how happy you are, doing your |
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favorite activities? It's not so much the activity |
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itself, but the mere fact that you're doing it in the |
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here and now. Stress is always the complete opposite of |
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happiness so when you're in that awesome state, your |
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stress is non-existent. That's what true happiness is. |
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After you stop your favorite activity, your happiness |
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decreases. As happiness decreases, stress increases, |
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maintaining it's position as it's opposite. |
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There's four human emotions which are happy, mad, sad |
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and fearful. Since “happy” is constant (the TRUE |
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YOU) the other three are standing in your way of always |
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being happy. Mad, sad and fearful (the FALSE YOU) is |
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what we call stress. All stress is outside of the here |
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and now. |
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You may feel stress in the current moment, but it's the |
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result of thinking of the past or future. For example: |
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You're angry about what Joe said behind your back. The |
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anger wouldn't exist anymore (in the current moment) if |
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you stopped thinking about the past and what was already |
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said. |
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When you get those kind of thoughts that take you away |
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from the present moment, you simply let them go. When |
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you let them go, stress drops and when stress is at it's |
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lowest, happiness maintains it's complete opposite, at |
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it's peak. At first, people think they won't have their |
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pleasant memories from the past, or they won't be able |
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to dream or have goals about the future, if they let go |
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of thoughts. That's the FALSE YOU who thinks that. The |
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truth is, your memory improves and your joy of living is |
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multiplied a thousand times! You start enjoying even |
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simple little things, without effort. |
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