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The 88 rungs of happy people
In this chapter of “The 88 Steps of Happy People” I teach you to take advantage of every golden opportunity that life offers us at different times throughout the day.
Would you like to know the magic formula to transform inner shadow into light? Well here it goes: taking advantage of each golden opportunity (from climbing Belts) that life offers us at different times throughout the day. How do you do it? Detecting whenever your ego is hungry and deliberately changing the shadow that you get when you perform the action that your ego asks of you for the light that you acquire when you conscientiously perform the opposite action.
Find yourself in class dying of boredom? You have the golden opportunity to work your patience. Ask yourself: how does my body feel when faced with this boredom? (Taking time to focus on the answer, by itself, without doing anything else, increases your capacity to be — don’t believe me, check it out.). Are you invited to dinner and are dying to comment on how terrible the food was? You have the golden opportunity to work your desire to destructive criticism. Ask yourself: what part of me is taking control, the one that asks me to complain or the one he asks me for thanks? Did you just spot serious misspellings in an email from your employee to your best customer? You have the golden opportunity to work your desire to to blame. Ask yourself: what hidden pleasure do I get if I unleash my fury?
Bring your mind to this situation. Imagine that you are at a wedding, and the niece of the bride, a girl of about thirteen, who is reading in front of all the guests, cannot pronounce three words in a row correctly. He hesitates, stops, repeatedly makes mistakes. What does your ego ask of you? If you had a medium Inner Success Belt, I would ask you to prosecute her and ask yourself with some disturbance, “How can a girl who is almost a teenager read so badly?” If your Belt is low, it directly asks you to express it out loud, not hold back and tell the person next to you, of course from the ego (and not from the essence), and to obtain the hidden pleasure of the complaint, the criticism and disapproval.
You have before you a golden opportunity: to decide to take advantage of this opportunity that life gives you to enlarge your White Bag and shrink your Black Bag, practicing love.
—Anxo, love… is it practiced?
-Of course. And that is the goal of this book. It is trained just like any other habit.
—But practicing love sounds like catechisms and preachers. That doesn’t work for me.
“Those are labels that you put on it, not me.” Just answer this question: what do you prefer for your life? More shade or less? More suffering or less? Less light or more? Less inner peace before every opportunity of disturbance or more?
-The second.
“So remove your labels and practice love.”
—Whether a girl reads a text better or worse at a wedding is something that does not matter.
“True, but not feeling love for her, he does.” And feeling love requires practicing it.
– […]. OKAY. Voucher. I buy it to you. But how do you do that?
—Through two channels… The first is choosing to feel compassion for others rather than judgment: “Perhaps this child has had some developmental problem. Maybe she’s nervous. The second is directing your feelings / emotions / thoughts towards the light instead of towards the shadow, through desires that only yearn for the good of others: “Hopefully I will get over it before I reach adolescence. Who knows how much trouble not being able to read well has caused him. “
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