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I guess nearly everyone will be familiar with that phrase, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It comes from the American Constitution and is an example of 3 inalienable rights that were supposed to be available to all. Or more specifically could not be taken away. It could be argued right now that we're seeing a multi pronged attack against all three. And this applies wherever you are in the world.
It's not just in the US, but it's something that in the west we never would have thought likely to occur. When I was quite young, I remember particularly that we had a discussion school about this pursuit of happiness. And I think one of our teachers was making comparisons with trying to catch butterflies with one of those little nets that children play with, the point being that happiness isn't something that you can catch. You can't chase it. It isn't something that you own or have.
It's rather something that you feel, and it's something to be. And then when I was older, I learned that this word pursuit has other meanings rather than just to chase. And to an extent it means to do, for example, you might pursue a career or a calling or a vocation Anne the pursuit of happiness therefore means having permission or having the right to just be happy. Not to have to work at it, to be constantly chasing it down.
Just to enjoy happiness, presumably without the fear of it being taken away, or indeed without any need to feel guilty about being happy, because strange to relate, but there are many who feel unworthy of happiness. Have you ever felt that sneaky feeling, I don't deserve this or similar. I think for many of us, it's connected to the guilt that so many religions drilled into us when we were growing up. It would be great if as we got older, We recognize that guilt is a total waste of time.
It's a redundant feeling. It pulls your vibrations down Anne that alone will stifle achievement. Regrettably for many, conditioning by society and relentless programming causes them to blame themselves all the time. For what has or hasn't happened to them Anne even, to other members of their family. Oh, and blame incidentally is not the same as taking responsibility.
Blame is negative Anne it's allied with very low vibrational states like regret, revenge, remorse, despair, depression, and also even doubt, which can be a real killer of positive thoughts and vibrations. Taking responsibility is quite different from blame. Anne having a choice and acting on that. You know that expression, he who excuses, accuses, listen to people beach patterns as they justify past actions. Some kind of choice is nearly always involved.
Did they make that choice willingly, or are they seeking to excuse what turned out to be just simply a bad decision. Do they have regrets? Are they looking to blame someone else? Here's a speech pattern you might notice in your own self talk. You know that little voice in your head because we're making excuses to ourselves all the time. I should have done such and such. That's Anne accusation. So change the language.
Change it to, I could have done whatever, and that's an acknowledgement that there was a choice Anne you made a con a conscious decision. And whilst on the subject of a negative self talk, stop it Notice the way you speak to yourself. Minor accidents or acts of forgetfulness does a tendency to berate ourselves much more heavily and harshly than we would dare to demonstrate with any other person. Do you call yourself a stupid fool or a bloody idiot or a lazy beggar?
You wouldn't speak to your friends family Anne especially not your work colleagues like that. So why no filters when it comes to these personal self conversations? And do you acknowledge the good things? Do you revel in your triumphs and congratulate yourself? Do you say, well done, clever me, and things like that? And do you celebrate Even small wins deserve celebration. It's good training for your psyche. You're getting in shape for big wins and the big rewards.
Promise yourself rewards for future achievements. And if the rewards are big and expensive, then instigate a saving plan because you'll even feel a sense of achievement as you watch your savings fund grow. So that brings me right back to happiness. And the question of what happiness means to different people as why is it so darn elusive? Various psychologists have drawn up lists and visuals and charts of how human needs can be categorized.
Abraham Maslow was the first to do so, I believe, and he was talking about human motivation in a paper that he published back in 1943. So Maslow's hierarchy is arguably the most famous Anne perhaps the simplest to explain. If you imagine a pyramid with 5 layers, that represent the different categories. The first two layers, in other words, the biggest part of the pyramid, represent what Maslow terms as basic needs.
The next two layers are the psychological needs, Anne only the top little section of the pyramid represents our so called self fulfillment needs. And the point that he makes is that until each layer has been dealt with in order, dealt with or satisfied, then the individual isn't going to be bothered about needs in the levels above. So as an extreme example, if you are cold and hungry, you aren't going to be bothered about whether or not other people in your community respect you.
You couldn't care less what kind of an opinion they hold about you. It doesn't enter your mind. Now, the physiological needs, these are the basic ones, the needs of the body, they occupy the lowest level of the pyramid. And meeting them is, well, it's more or less taken for granted. In the developed world, But in the so called 3rd world, the developing nations, or indeed, nations at war, then food Anne water and warmth and rest are not at all easily come by.
And the next level up, that's the 2nd level, deals with the need for safety and security, but it only comes into play when that first level has been satisfied. So much for the basic needs, the needs of the body. And only when those are satisfied do the psychological needs that is the needs of the mind become important? And of course, happiness is related to satisfaction.
And we in the West are often stunned by the happiness demonstrated by members of communities who appear to have little or nothing by way of possessions. They simply have a different concept of wealth. To many of us, wealth equals money, and the luxuries it can buy, our minds have been programmed in ways that are just unknown to simpler societies.
Their basic needs are met, and they have an inner peace, a happiness that comes from being satisfied with their lives, with what they have, and finding pleasure in simple occupations like dance and telling stories, companionship, and enjoyment of what we would probably call deprived existences. You see Maslow's hierarchy doesn't apply to mankind in general, but rather to our complex Western society.
Where it's become normal, always to be striving for something more Anne being unhappy when the struggle isn't paying off. Or when we compare ourselves with our neighbors and our peers or those friends on Facebook, who are showing off all their false successes. So what are the psychological needs? The needs of the mind? Well, level 3, that's the lower of the two levels on the pyramid. That's entitled love and belongingness. Anne this incorporates intimate relationships. That's friends and family.
Any or all of these Anne the next level up, the size of the layers are now becoming quite small as we go up the pyramid, level 4 is esteem. And this is where we're worrying about what others think of us. We're concerned about status and prestige. Oh, and here's the one I like. Feelings of accomplishment. In my very early days as a trainee accountant, computers were not to be found on every desk in the office. And the bulk of what we did involved calculators or preferably adding machines.
So it was all very manual and accuracy was key and careless mistakes resulted in accounts that were out of balance. You would then have to go back play detective and locate your careless mistake or mistakes. Anne this could be very tedious and very frustrating, so it paid to be methodical and focused as you worked.
And when your balance sheet actually balanced first time, well, I still remember The buzz, the feeling of satisfaction or accomplishment that I would get from each time I managed that. Anne then as time passed and computers took over Anne it the double entry side of things was automatic.
There wasn't a quick way of noticing mistakes like they used to be when things would either balance or not balance Anyway, someone senior to me once asked me to find his error, and I was touched to be asked, but sometimes asking for help is a sign of strength. And there are times when you just go snowblind and can't see what a fresh pair of eyes can find relatively easily. Wow. Did I feel a sense of triumph when I located that particular problem.
So I learned about Maslow's hierarchy when I was at college. Anne I recall our professor saying, most people don't ever worry about the 5th level. Well. That was then. I'd say things have changed as consciousness is expanding and The top level of the pyramid represents self actualization or self fulfillment needs. That is the needs of the spirit.
Self actualization means achieving your full potential pushing the boundaries of possibility, creating a vision, a mission in life, or a purpose and being of service to others. So I'm going to close now with another Mark Twain quote, I guess I just like the way he thought, he said the 2 most important days of your life are day you were born Anne the day that you find out why.
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