Tuesday, July 13, 2010

circuitry of happiness

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I never thought I'd say this, but....

With the power of my retrained brain, the one whose routing I've been chaperoning for a few years now, I entertained a new thought today.

And the conjuring of it went further along on its neuropathway than it ever has before.

I sent out a message in a bottle that the thought should think about what it would be like to be totally in the moment. Unguarded. Certain of a smooth, flowing, ease-full existence.

And it did.

It went beyond mere suggestion and imagery.

It actually embraced the circuitry of happiness.

Even living as a blissmonger such as I do, I've not been there before. Not like this.

Not able to soar up the emotional scale so high that the glass ceiling I'd built above it melted such that I didn't notice.

As with any shift in perspective, this will take some integrating, some getting used to, some pondering.

For a few days.

And then the newness will wear off, the novelty will fade, and the state will just be normal.

This I can handle.

Jul 13, 2010 3:46:10 PM | Abraham-Hicks, emotional scale, energy, Thought Chaperone

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