Sometimes you wonder what it is that makes you feel so good.
Believe it or not but one of the things that makes a person feeling good, is
making someone else happy – doing something that brings a smile or a shout of
pleasure to someone else’s lips.
There was the little girl who had been sitting listening to
the conversations of the mother’s bridge club and after they were gone, said to
her mother, “Mother let us now talk happy”!
Did you ever realize how much of your conversation – and
your thinking – is taken up with harrowing tales about your annoyances, your
relatives’ annoyances and tragedies, and all the annoyances that go with living
with an average husband or wife, or having in a
cleaning woman, or going to work, or doing your shopping, or what not?
Many persons get themselves more and more neurotic by
constantly indulging in what is often called “post –mortems”; long detailed
descriptions, many times retold, of unpleasantness, family rows, and sorrows. How much better it
would be for all of us if we would always “talk happy,” and so far as possible
avoid unpleasant topics. What good does it do to keep constantly going back
over the stories of unhappiness?
Drain your mind of the worries, the resentments,
irritations, guilt reactions, and annoyances that have collected during the day
just as thoroughly as you pull the stopper in the sink.
Then you can refill it with refreshing thoughts of emotional
maturity such as these:
- You are going to free yourself from fears, anxieties, and
tensions.
- You find greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving.
- You will contribute to the improvement of your home, your
community, your nation, and your world.
- You seek give-and-take relationships to form. You profit
from your mistakes and successes.
- You use your leisure time creatively.
Recognize hate for the destructive emotional force that it
is. Love is the constructive psychological force of a positive mind. Love
resurrects people who have lost life while they live. It is the force that
gives new hope, joy, vitality, and invincibility. Those of you who truly want a
powerful new lease on life will find it possible through love and a positive
mind.
