January 20, 2025 LIVE HAPPY!
"You were given this life because you were strong enough to live it"
⁃ Unknown
Listen to this meditation on audio:
Living Happy requires strength. The forces in life that seek to belittle or demean us are ever present. We must be aware, but not too sensitive to slights imagined or real that come our way. It is our inner strength, guts, fortitude, whatever name you give it, that enables us to keep a firm grip on who we are at our core no matter what comes at us. Knowing who you are; that your life has meaning and that you are a worthwhile person is all the shielding you need to power through snide remarks from friends or family or Facebook and Twitter lies. If we have thought about it enough and come to our own conclusions, then we are powerfully shielded from the attempts of others to define us. We should never relinquish the power to anyone else to define who we are! Do you know who you are? Here's how you can tell. The next time someone calls you something that you're not, your reaction to whatever is said will answer that question. If you are bothered or perhaps angered by someone else's name-calling or defining who you are, then you don't clearly know who you are. If any of us find ourselves in that position, we've got work to do on building our own self-esteem. Absolutely no one should be able to understand or say who you are better than you can. Our inner strength and the level of comfort we have within our own skin, speak volumes when we are verbally accosted unfairly. There is a quiet inner strength that comes from knowing who you are and whose you are. If you know whose you are, you ought to
LIVE HAPPY!
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