How have you measured your success so far in this life?

Has it been by the car you drive, the position you hold, the clothes you wear, the holidays you take or the house/suburb you live in?

Have you ever strived for something and when you’ve reached it, you’ve felt satisfied for like, a minute, only to be left with the same feeling as before?

Have you ever been on the road to striving for those goals and thought, “what the hell am I doing this for?”

Am I asking too many questions? 😉

Many of us are measuring our success by the material, by the external, by things.

And many of us, once we’re there, are not satisfied.

What we’re really searching for is a feeling.

Just a feeling. Whether it be peace, calm, happiness, desire, fulfilment, relaxation, rejuvenation, ecstasy, stillness, joy, giddiness, freedom, thrill, pleasure, delight, creativity, awakening, passion, ascension, contentment, gratitude, abundance, love.

You see, the thing isn’t going to make you happy. It’s the feeling you’re seeking that you think you’re going to get from the thing. (Did that make sense!?)

What we need to do is seek to explore, not the external, but the internal. We need to go within, search, dig and uncover our most desired feelings. Then we can fashion our existence around this.

We might find that we don’t need to exhaust ourselves in the striving nearly so much.

Don’t get me wrong. It’s nice to have nice things. But if we find the feeling, the journey becomes more important than the getting.

You can get the feeling right now if you want to. Want to?

Tell me there’s not a time you haven’t felt happiness, for example. Go to that time in your mind’s eye. Feel it. Listen to it. Look at it. Taste it. Bathe in it. (I bet it’s not a time when you acquired a thing. I bet it’s a time you were with family or friends, or when you were acknowledged or praised, or were in the throes of passionate sex or were in the process of creating something extraordinary.)

See, easy 😉

How do you discover your most desired feelings?

With love

Lynda

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