After counseling people for 25 years, I’ve seen that many people have a habit of being unhappy and they are more comfortable in their unhappiness than they would be in doing something new.

Some people are afraid of being happy because they don’t trust it and I understand that.  In order to be happy and stay happy (most of the time) we must give up being a victim, and that means giving up complaining and criticizing and taking offense.

Sometimes it’s our anger and upset that gives us a feeling aliveness and power.  It’s all false, of course it is, but if all we know is what’s false, then we’re going to cling to it.  And that’s where a strong spiritual practice helps to break through the habit of playing small, self-attack and attachment to negative habits.

Sometimes negative pleasure is all we’ve got, so how can we give it up?  Negative pleasure is the thing that seems pleasurable, but actually it puts us on the pain train with a one-way ticket.

Spiritual practice is the thing that releases us from all of this.  Making a commitment to an EFFECTIVE spiritual practice is where many people fall short.  Their belief that they’ll fail  is so strong that they don’t even try.

Only the ego fails.

Spirit cannot fail – it’s not even possible.

When we put our faith in Spirit we’re strong and we cannot go wrong.

We’re always putting our faith in something.

We can choose ego or Spirit.

Placing my faith in Spirit is the thing that brought me Peace.

At first, it did seem like a period of undoing, and it was.  It was a period of undoing all the attachments I had to doing things the ego way.

I wasn’t sure I would happier trusting Spirit, but I was willing to try.  That willingness got me through the difficulties.  It raised me up and kept me headed in a higher direction.

I am so grateful for realizing I’d been placing my faith in my own opinion and that I could change my mind.  This realization was a great blessing and a gift!  I finally quit making myself unhappy!  Phew!

Do you see where you’re placing your faith and trust in your own beliefs and perceptions rather than in Love, in Spirit, in truth?  Being aware of this is a great opportunity to go the other way and make a new choice.

Let’s allow the Higher Holy Spirit Self to undo all attachments we have to the habits of unhappiness and discover our true identity and live from that place!  ENOUGH already with the repeating pain patterns!  Now is the time of our liberation!

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