How To Feel Good Instantly!
If you had a choice of how to feel, how would you feel? Perfect, I’ll bet. Why not? If perfect were an option, wouldn’t you pick it? No reason to pick anything else.
Pretend you have that option. Then perfect is the perfect way to feel. And since you are the picker, why wouldn’t you pick it all the time? Your heart would agree, but perhaps your head would have some hesitation, some hang-ups, something that has to done or has to happen before you allow yourself to feel perfect. I say, knock yourself in the head and tell your rational mind to take a hike. Tell it to come back when it has a better attitude. Go for the gold! Go for perfection right now.
I don’t know where I learned the importance of this or how to do this. But, I’ve felt this way for quite a long time. Of course, I have forgotten here and there along the way, but then life comes along and knocks some sense into me and back I go feeling perfect again.
I remember knowing this truth long ago when I was in my twenties. I was happy-go-lucky living with little and loving life to its fullest. I had been invited to play in a pro-celebrity tennis tournament in Carmel, hosted by Clint Eastwood. It was held at the famous Pebble Beach Country Club. The grounds were lovely; the sky was blue; the play was fun.
Between matches I wandered over to a woman who was sitting by herself watching some warm up tennis. She had a cast on her leg. As we chatted she revealed how depressed and unhappy she was with her broken leg. It prevented her from going and doing as she usually did. It limited her. She felt sad and miserable. I told her that all she had to do to heal herself was to feel joy. It made perfect sense to me. What difference did it make if she were in a cast or not? She could still feel wonderful. She could still feel perfect. I left her with that thought.
Today I sat with a Nigerian man at a luncheon. It was a charity event to benefit the children of Nigeria - a special school for girls. My table mate said that no matter how little the Nigerian people had and the suffering they endured, they still remained happy. Yet, he pointed out, that Americans in general had plenty, but were still not happy. Proving once again, that happiness or the state of perfection does not depend on things, but on people.
Whether you have or have not, perfect is the perfect way to feel!
I pick perfect all the time.