| Hello! | | | | feeling angry or frustrated in an instant. When we are |
| I've finally given in to my urge to blog! I am glad you | | | | happy our being - our motivations, perceptions, |
| have joined me. This will be a wonderful and fun | | | | emotions....our awareness - achieves a condition of |
| experience. We will learn new things about what's | | | | balance. We may not feel happy in every instant, but |
| most important: love, family, friendship, happiness, | | | | as long as our outlook is positive and our aspirations |
| peace (both inner and outer), God, hope and much | | | | motivate us to be consistently honest, caring, and |
| more. Our blueprint will be The Middle Theory, my first | | | | compassionate, we will be happy. |
| published work. Writing this book changed my life; | | | | Feeling happy is not the same as being happy, as I just |
| indeed, it may be truer that I wrote The Middle Theory | | | | illustrated; however, when we are happy, we usually |
| because I was changed in an instant 10 years ago | | | | feel happy happy as well. |
| when I had an incredible spiritual experience - the kind | | | | If you don't feel happy at this moment - perhaps you |
| of experience that you read about, but never imagine | | | | haven't felt truly happy in a while - ask yourself, how |
| will happen to you. | | | | am I being at this very moment? Am I utilizing the force |
| And so we are here together....thank you. Thank you | | | | of my being (my thoughts and actions) to nurture |
| too to those who have read The Middle Theory or are | | | | peace within myself and around me? Are my thoughts |
| reading it now. No doubt your awareness has | | | | positive and uplifting? What about my actions? Are |
| expanded and your vision of reality - a reality that | | | | they loving, gentle, and sincere? In answering these |
| always holds the potential for balance - is clearer. The | | | | questions, we can increase our awareness of our |
| e-mails I am receiving from around the world never fail | | | | state of being and thereby gain insight into the cause |
| to buoy my spirits. | | | | of our feeling of unhappiness. Remember, you are |
| So let us begin..... | | | | never unhappy because of what you are doing, but |
| What is happiness? | | | | because of who you are being. When we understand |
| How do we achieve this sought-after condition? | | | | this universal truth, we can advance towards deeper |
| Once achieved, how do we make it last? | | | | states of balanced awareness; in the process we |
| These are arguably the three most important | | | | "receive" the reward of happiness. |
| questions we can ever ask. Some would argue that | | | | A quick note about the use of the word reward in the |
| they are also the three most difficult questions to | | | | earlier quote from The Middle Theory. Generally |
| answer. What if we really knew the answers to these | | | | speaking, a reward is something given or received in |
| questions? How might our lives change? The Middle | | | | return for a service rendered. This definition has |
| Theory provides a simple answer to the first question: | | | | application here. From now on, think of happiness as |
| Happiness is the reward for utilizing the force of love | | | | the gift life freely gives us when we consistently use |
| to create peace; there can be no greater reward. | | | | the energy of our beings to manifest the attributes of |
| It is possible that you have never thought of happiness | | | | love - patience, humility, inner balance, harmony, |
| as a reward. It is also very likely that you have never | | | | fairness, and so on- within ourselves and within the |
| before connected happiness with the utilization of the | | | | world around us. There can truly be no more precious |
| force of love. Love, a force? OK, let's take a closer | | | | gift than this. |
| look at this piece of wisdom. What is really being said? | | | | I will continue in my next blog to answer the second |
| Happiness, as we all know, is a condition of being. | | | | question posed earlier. My third blog will be an answer |
| When we are truly happy, we not only feel happy, but | | | | to the third question. |
| we are happy. Feelings are as fickle as the wind. One | | | | Again, thank you for joining me on this journey of |
| stubbed toe can cause us to go from feeling swell to | | | | awakening..... |