I wanted to share something with all of
you that is very hard to describe. Some of you already have this "magic" and some of you won't understand, but I am hoping
that it will assist just one person.
I don't know if this is due to my age (46)
or something else - who knows. I had heard for many years the statement that happiness is within. I heard it, it registered
in my brain. However I didn't have a clue what it meant. How can you be happy without a man/woman in your life? Or without
that house that I want or the garden? To me for most of my life, happiness could only be found outside of myself.
Now you DO have to be on the right medication
for your disorder(s) obviously and for many of us that is a big thing. So many of us have taken years for that to happen.
I include myself. It took years for MH professionals to figure out I have bipolar disorder and that's why all the other meds
weren't working for unipolar depression.
Gosh here I am trying to find the words….all
I can say is somehow along the way I have gotten to the point where "I feel comfortable in my own skin." Those are my words
and I don't know how else to describe it.
I fully accept and love myself and here
is another part of this happiness within stuff I've found. There is very little in life of importance to me. VERY little.
I would say that maybe 4 or 5 things really matter. The rest is just fluff.
Imagine if you are in an airplane and you
are sitting next to the window and you are looking down at the ground. The plane is low enough where you can see cars and
houses. When you think about your life and your problems, etc., as you are looking down from that plane, don't those problems
seem rather insignificant?
Or when is the last time you have gazed
at the stars? If you haven't I highly encourage you to do that. Lay down flat if you can and really examine the universe above.
Again, your problems seem rather small and insignificant.
When you can come to the place where you
can see yourself and your problems from that angle most of the time, you will feel much less stress in your life.
Put things in perspective.
