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Hi Friend

Every human being has the right to be happy. Every person
is born with that right. We can be - and are - as happy as
we will allow.

And yet when we look around us, we see so many people who
claim no happiness at all. Or if they do, it seems so
fleeting; so elusive. Being happy and content seems like
trying to catch a scared butterfly with your bare hands.

Every human being is born with the inherent right and the
ability to feel the full range of emotion. We have the
ability to feel anything we want. Or at least we did at
one time.

Unfortunately, we often end up in a hole; feeling nothing
but misery. Why is that? Why would we take the greatest
human gift of all - the ability to think and feel whatever
we want - and basically throw that gift away?

Well, it takes time to be miserable. It takes a lot of
effort. It takes a certain kind of giving up that often
started a long time ago. Circumstances beat us down, and
it almost always starts in childhood.

Usually, we give up due to the 'pounding' we get as children.
That's where it begins. We really do take a pounding - from
parents and teachers and so many others who endured their OWN
pounding when they were young.

It's because of the patterns we formed at an early age.
Patterns of thought and feeling; patterns of belief and
attitude. Patterns of 'the way life is'.

Beliefs were formed long before you even knew what the word
'belief' meant. Beliefs paved the road for your direction
in life. Beliefs set the stage. They defined the boundaries.

Choices, on the other hand, are like the steering wheel.
They come after those early beliefs. They *can be* the
escape from errant patterns. Unfortunately, they usually
end up reinforcing those painful patterns instead.

Many have chosen to not make any more choices or decisions
than absolutely necessary for survival. Even down to the
most mundane decisions of what to eat for supper.

We don't realize that practicing making choices and
decisions - even minor ones - will strengthen our ability
to choose and decide. So when it comes time to make major
choices and decisions we'll be better equipped. Then our
choices and decisions will have impact. Because we've
exercised the muscle of choice.

Then choices and decisions have a force of energy behind
them that work almost like magic to change things with less
effort on our part. A powerful choice provides the need for
less effort and much less struggle. One powerful choice can
change your life.

But what's the basic problem in all this? Because, sure, we
HAVE been led down the path of misery by the reasons already
mentioned: an errant world imposing its will on us when we
were a blank slate.

But it doesn't have to stay that way. We can still begin
to start exercising our power of choice. Right now. Today.

So what's the basic problem? Even beyond a lack of knowing
how to change things?

It's this: we have developed a certain level of comfort in
our misery. We're comfortable with our pain. And we'd rather
be in pain than to be uncomfortable.

That's often why we don't change. Because at least we know
our pain. It's familiar. And change is uncomfortable. And
being comfortable holds way more importance than anything
else.

Better to be in pain than to be uncomfortable. For a while,
anyway.

Usually it's only when pain becomes unbearable do we even
BEGIN looking for answers. Where are you?

What are you comfortable with right now? What are you
willing to endure? How great must the pain become?

We're usually motivated by our pain once it reaches a
certain level. Because pain unattended always grows.
Eventually it becomes too much, and then we're FORCED
to act.

The problem is, you can reach a point where it's too late
to change. The pain can become so strong that no matter
what you do, you can't end it. And you'll never know where
that point is, until you've passed it.

It's like falling through the ice. It's like breaking a
glass. You can't just make things right because now you're
motivated; now you 'really want to'.

Pain can break you.

The time to act is now. Risk being uncomfortable. Dare to
take a stand. Move in the direction of your discomfort.
There's an unstated law that says: the more uncomfortable
you're willing to be today, the less pain you'll have to
endure tomorrow.

Will you risk being uncomfortable? That's the real question.

Can you afford not to?


Here's one way to start:

http://www.release-emotions.com



all the best

Mark


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