Love Yourself (2 of 26)
Fred Lowery
Do you know the surprise of searching and searching f'or something and then to find what you are seeking in a totally unexpected place@ For months in my personal quest for happiness, I had read ever-)r book I could get my hands on in a determined effort to find the common thread or master key that unwraps and unlocks the illusive happiness factor in life.
With my psychological and biblical training as a point of reference, I had expected to find that happiness is based, not on what happens to you but on how you respond to what happens to you. And, of course, there is a preponderance of evidence that happiness does indeed result from -inward reality and not external circumstances. Therefore, happiness is a choice since we are all free to respond appropriately to inappropriate circumstances and conditions. Subsequently it is possible to ''Be Happy'' in an unhappy environment. Anybody can! However, to my surprise, this popular view of happiness is prematurely step two in the process of happiness and erroneously presupposes a good self-image. It is virtually impossible for positive thinking and positive acting to stand alone. It is not a viable option to choose happiness when at the very core of your being you view vourself to be furidamenta'L'Ly ,@ro.-.g aandamp; a person an@l therefore tinworthy and undeserving, of happiness. This puts the ''cart before the horse''. Positive self-talk or action that merely masks a negative self-image leads only to further frustration and even a greater degree of discouragement and unhappiness. Likewise, positive affirmations and actions toward you that masks a poor self-image will be powerless to change how you feel about yourself. It is possible to be brilliant and feel dumb, to be admired by thousandandamp; ai-id 'iiate yourself-, to win beauty contests and feel ugly, and to achieve great success and feel total failure. Plastic surgeons will tell you that they can change a woman's face a ...
Fred Lowery
Do you know the surprise of searching and searching f'or something and then to find what you are seeking in a totally unexpected place@ For months in my personal quest for happiness, I had read ever-)r book I could get my hands on in a determined effort to find the common thread or master key that unwraps and unlocks the illusive happiness factor in life.
With my psychological and biblical training as a point of reference, I had expected to find that happiness is based, not on what happens to you but on how you respond to what happens to you. And, of course, there is a preponderance of evidence that happiness does indeed result from -inward reality and not external circumstances. Therefore, happiness is a choice since we are all free to respond appropriately to inappropriate circumstances and conditions. Subsequently it is possible to ''Be Happy'' in an unhappy environment. Anybody can! However, to my surprise, this popular view of happiness is prematurely step two in the process of happiness and erroneously presupposes a good self-image. It is virtually impossible for positive thinking and positive acting to stand alone. It is not a viable option to choose happiness when at the very core of your being you view vourself to be furidamenta'L'Ly ,@ro.-.g aandamp; a person an@l therefore tinworthy and undeserving, of happiness. This puts the ''cart before the horse''. Positive self-talk or action that merely masks a negative self-image leads only to further frustration and even a greater degree of discouragement and unhappiness. Likewise, positive affirmations and actions toward you that masks a poor self-image will be powerless to change how you feel about yourself. It is possible to be brilliant and feel dumb, to be admired by thousandandamp; ai-id 'iiate yourself-, to win beauty contests and feel ugly, and to achieve great success and feel total failure. Plastic surgeons will tell you that they can change a woman's face a ...
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