************* The following message is relayed to you by [email protected] ************ Unhappiness is deciding that you lack something. Deciding that you lack something is the first step in acquiring what you want. This is a function that we all do all the time as the first step in playing games. It is important that you recognize that you do this all the time and that you can take control of "deciding that you lack something" so you do not go around miserable all the time and fail to recognize that you are causing your unhappiness to motivate yourself to play games which allow you to acquire the sensations or stuff you feel you lack.
Hubbard recognized this with the CDEI scale. First you are curious then you desire it. After a time you must force yourself to continue doing it then you decide you don't want it anymore and inhibit yourself from getting it. By the way, Hubbards scale is incomplete. The full scale is circular and goes like this Curious Desire Enforce Inhibit Substitute With the addition of "substitute" you have the postulate failure cycle of Dennis's games Must be known Must not be known Must know Must not know Substitute a new game With the understanding that we play games to generate sensations that at first we desire (Curious, Desire) then we do not desire (Enforce, Inhibit) and finally we must substitute a new game as the no game condition is boring. Well here is Muriel Chen's views on what to do about unhappiness. As always you can download here complete book Psychic First Aid in Kindle and PDF formats at www.tromhelp.com/books Keep on TROMing Pete McLaughlin UNHAPPY Happiness is not necessarily dependent upon outside happenings. You can make it dependent upon outside happenings if you choose to do so. Some people choose to do so without being aware that they are making that choice. 1. Think of something that you choose to like or look at something that you could choose to like. It may be a colour, a shape, an object, an emptiness or a fullness of something; anything that pleases you. 2. Now, with your attention on what you have chosen, feel what it would feel like to be happy. When you are focusing on the things that you do not want or when you are focusing on what you do not have you find it difficult to create the feeling of happiness. So your unhappiness can be changed by changing that upon which you are focusing and by creating the feeling that you know is happiness. Your problem is not unhappiness it is the problem of making your life as you choose it to be. Your life can be as you consciously choose when you remove the limiting beliefs which are affecting your choices from the subconscious. Sent from my iPad _______________________________________________ TROM mailing list [email protected] http://lists.newciv.org/mailman/listinfo/trom
