World Happiness and America
Hello Everyone,
Yesterday I came across a wonderful news item. It's a study that has been conducted for several years now testing how happy people are all over the world. If you click on the title to this blog it will take you right to the site. [http://www.livescience.com/health/080630-world-happiness.html
The interesting thing about this study is that Denmark seems to be the happiest "western" country right now, and America has dropped to 16th. Hmmm.
Not like we didn't know that already, right? Seems we've gotten to be quite the doomsayers over the last few years. I've noticed it all over the place.
Americans are worried and concerned about everything. We're worried about the war in Iraq, terrorism, the economy, gas prices, cancer, heart disease, toxins in everything: food, water and air. It seems to be a bloody mess. And like traffic passing a car wreck, we can't seem to not look.
Let's first talk about the usefulness of noticing our discomfort when we think about these awful things. That unease or fear that you feel when you're dwelling on a distasteful subject is powerfully useful for one thing: in that instant you are absolutely clear about what it is you desire. So, when you're noticing that Congress just voted another $162 billion for the war and you feel that rage pop up, ask yourself: what would I prefer? The answer comes easily. I wish we were at peace. Or perhaps I wish that $162 billion would be spent on supporting organic food production, or cleaning up the water supply or creating a car that emits zero emissions. You have just launched your new creation.
Now what usually happens is we get up from the news cast and call a friend and rant and rave about the state of things. By doing this we are creating more energy for continued manifestation of the "problem" but worse, the new creation is being left alone, with no new energy being focused there. So what could you do? You could go on the Internet and Google "hydrogen cars." You could sit for a few minutes and imagine dollars flowing into research for a really cool car that goes the distance with zero emissions. You could imagine in Iowa, the flood waters receding and the farmers choosing to replant with non-gmo seed great vast fields of organic crops with success and taking them to market to nourish the consumers with healthy, whole food. You get to choose. Your Internal Guidance, your Godchip, is always telling you via your emotions your relationship to any subject.
In the study the report says that the Baby Boomers are a really unhappy lot. Ya think? These are the folks who in the 1960's followed their Internal Guidance and rallied for peace and love. Now 40 years later, they have forgotten who they are and have pursued lives and careers disconnected from Who They Really Are. Their Inner Guidance is telling them to refocus, create again. Change course. Follow your heart.
In a second interview on the same topic a researcher explains why American Women are unhappy. http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=6462902&ch=4227541&src
=news
In this interview, which I hope you will go and listen to, the research explains that it is not that American Women love their children less than other mothers across the globe, but rather they are so split in their FOCUS. They try to do to much. He explains it like this. I'll paraphrase: if someone loves the opera and they go to the opera and devote their full focus to that presentation, they are loving it and thoroughly enjoying it. If they love playing scrabble with their children, and sit down and have a fully focused game of scrabble with their kids, they love it. Each experience is a 10 for them. But when they try to combine listening to the opera and playing scrabble with the kids (to save time), the result is not a 20 but noise.
This further explains the concept of focus and fully support my claims that multi-tasking is miserably inefficient and ineffective. You as a focuser of Source Energy, dilute and split your energies, getting neither satisfaction (joy, pleasure, fulfillment) from this strategy, and your creations aren't happening, either.
My dear Dad says, "You eat an elephant one bite at a time." He's such a wise being. You focus on one thing at a time, fully absorbed in it. Then, refocus on the next subject. The Internal Guidance of your Godchip via your emotions tells you when enough is enough. When it stops feeling good. Time's up.
So, chew slowly and savor each bite of that elephant, American. Take your time, choose the delightful focus, and watch time expand and contract to accommodate all that "needs to get done". The most important thing is that you feel good.
Thanks for reading!
Kath
Yesterday I came across a wonderful news item. It's a study that has been conducted for several years now testing how happy people are all over the world. If you click on the title to this blog it will take you right to the site. [http://www.livescience.com/health/080630-world-happiness.html
The interesting thing about this study is that Denmark seems to be the happiest "western" country right now, and America has dropped to 16th. Hmmm.
Not like we didn't know that already, right? Seems we've gotten to be quite the doomsayers over the last few years. I've noticed it all over the place.
Americans are worried and concerned about everything. We're worried about the war in Iraq, terrorism, the economy, gas prices, cancer, heart disease, toxins in everything: food, water and air. It seems to be a bloody mess. And like traffic passing a car wreck, we can't seem to not look.
Let's first talk about the usefulness of noticing our discomfort when we think about these awful things. That unease or fear that you feel when you're dwelling on a distasteful subject is powerfully useful for one thing: in that instant you are absolutely clear about what it is you desire. So, when you're noticing that Congress just voted another $162 billion for the war and you feel that rage pop up, ask yourself: what would I prefer? The answer comes easily. I wish we were at peace. Or perhaps I wish that $162 billion would be spent on supporting organic food production, or cleaning up the water supply or creating a car that emits zero emissions. You have just launched your new creation.
Now what usually happens is we get up from the news cast and call a friend and rant and rave about the state of things. By doing this we are creating more energy for continued manifestation of the "problem" but worse, the new creation is being left alone, with no new energy being focused there. So what could you do? You could go on the Internet and Google "hydrogen cars." You could sit for a few minutes and imagine dollars flowing into research for a really cool car that goes the distance with zero emissions. You could imagine in Iowa, the flood waters receding and the farmers choosing to replant with non-gmo seed great vast fields of organic crops with success and taking them to market to nourish the consumers with healthy, whole food. You get to choose. Your Internal Guidance, your Godchip, is always telling you via your emotions your relationship to any subject.
In the study the report says that the Baby Boomers are a really unhappy lot. Ya think? These are the folks who in the 1960's followed their Internal Guidance and rallied for peace and love. Now 40 years later, they have forgotten who they are and have pursued lives and careers disconnected from Who They Really Are. Their Inner Guidance is telling them to refocus, create again. Change course. Follow your heart.
In a second interview on the same topic a researcher explains why American Women are unhappy. http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=6462902&ch=4227541&src
=news
In this interview, which I hope you will go and listen to, the research explains that it is not that American Women love their children less than other mothers across the globe, but rather they are so split in their FOCUS. They try to do to much. He explains it like this. I'll paraphrase: if someone loves the opera and they go to the opera and devote their full focus to that presentation, they are loving it and thoroughly enjoying it. If they love playing scrabble with their children, and sit down and have a fully focused game of scrabble with their kids, they love it. Each experience is a 10 for them. But when they try to combine listening to the opera and playing scrabble with the kids (to save time), the result is not a 20 but noise.
This further explains the concept of focus and fully support my claims that multi-tasking is miserably inefficient and ineffective. You as a focuser of Source Energy, dilute and split your energies, getting neither satisfaction (joy, pleasure, fulfillment) from this strategy, and your creations aren't happening, either.
My dear Dad says, "You eat an elephant one bite at a time." He's such a wise being. You focus on one thing at a time, fully absorbed in it. Then, refocus on the next subject. The Internal Guidance of your Godchip via your emotions tells you when enough is enough. When it stops feeling good. Time's up.
So, chew slowly and savor each bite of that elephant, American. Take your time, choose the delightful focus, and watch time expand and contract to accommodate all that "needs to get done". The most important thing is that you feel good.
Thanks for reading!
Kath
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