?After getting into this new me stuff, I started wondering why me? After all I’m no religious person by any stretch of the imagination. So I went back to God and asked another question why me?
Because I Worked With HappinessThe following answer in time entered my thinking and here’s the response I received. Starting in my early thirties I got actively involved in trying experiments to improve the emotional quality of my life. It was kind of like it became a crusade for me and I’m still working on it today.
Used My Happy FeelingsMy first experiments involved my feelings and how I could use my happy feelings to change my unhappy feelings. I reasoned it out like this. Someone once said that’s it doesn’t matter what happens to you, what matters is how you feel about it. So I took this statement and focused all my thinking on my feelings. First I created a list of my favorite people who were mostly actors, singers and persons like that. Then I thought I could use these happy feelings I felt for these people to change unhappy feelings I felt about certain happenings in my life and in part it really helped. Here’s one experiment that produced good results for me.
I Started With No ParentsI had numerous child situations that really bothered me in my younger years. Primarily because I lacked the comfort of having a Mother & Father to raise me. My Mother ran off and created another family and my father went to war and never bothered to claim ownership of me. I used to walk the streets at night and envied those who had parents. Sometimes I created imaginary parents and found some comfort in that thinking. But in time reality prevailed and I was alone again.
I Invited My Happiness into My ChildhoodI chose this subject matter as my first experiment. I imagined myself back to my childhood and walking the streets again and missing not having parents. While doing this I imagined all my favorite people stopping by and shaking my hand and saying how much they liked me.
People That Gave Me HappinessHere are some of the people that stopped by to greet me and extend friendship to me. Elvis Presley, John Wayne, Bob Hope and whole list of other people.
My Happy Feelings Changed My Unhappy FeelingsHere’s what I hoped would happen the good feelings I felt for these actors etc. would change the unhappy feelings I felt about my childhood and guess what? The happy feelings over whelmed my unhappy feelings and my childhood didn’t bother me any more.
All Feelings are ChangeableSo I learned my first valuable lesson large quantities of happy feelings can change harmful unhappy feelings just by hanging around them.
I Moved Closer to the Stove of HappinessSo the higher powers of the universe didn’t pick me, but they did create the happiness that I taped into as I move closer to bringing happiness in my own life. So like moving closer to a potbelly stove and enjoying its warmth I moved closer to the universal happiness and it made me feel better.
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