Posts Tagged ‘positive psychology’

Redefining Desire and Murphy’s Law

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Ed Osworth Here.

Redefining Desire and Murphys Law.

As hard as this may be to believe, all of your life youve been getting exactly what you desire.

I am not kidding.

So how come your life is so rough? How come you dont have the things you really feel that you wanted

Why is it that life seems such a struggle? I mean that if you are really getting what you desire how could life seem like it is full of things you dont want?

Believe it or not it is because you have been deliberately taught that you are not very powerful.

To put it more simply, you have been taught to desire things that are not in your best interest. And the way you were taught to do this was by teaching you that you are not really very powerful.

When people ask Ed, what do you think is the biggest problem in the world today? here is what I tell them.

I tell them the biggest problem is that people simply have no comprehension of how powerful they are. Because they have no idea how powerful they are, they constantly shoot themselves in the foot with their powerful minds.

By thinking self destructive thoughts that keep them from their desires.

The problem has never been that anything that the universe creates is difficult to obtain. All you have to do is ask for it.

But youre asking must be consistent. You cant be sending conflicting messages and expect to produce anything. And 99.9% of the people I encounter in America dont have a clue what theyre asking for. And their lives are miserable, because they receive it.

Let me give you an obvious, but pervasive example. There are many people I run into that believe in an absurd piece of logic, known as Murphys Law. Murphy was obviously a very unhappy and miserable human being, if in fact he ever existed.

He decided that the way the universe ran with the everything that can go wrong will go wrong. The problem is, because he believed it he was absolutely right for his world.

Since his own personal experience after formulating this law reflected that the law was true. He cited to tell everybody else about this new way of looking at things. At first, Im sure people laughed like it was a total joke, but eventually it seems like people started taking it seriously. How many times in your life do you hear one person or another quoting one version or another of Murphys Law?

So the law travels through society, one person spreading it to others. Until millions and millions of people know about this insane piece of logic. Murphys Law. It become so ingrained in the human consciousness that virtually every single person in America knows what it is.

Here is the part that I find absolutely hilarious. Murphys law could not be further from the truth of how things run in this galaxy. Even if you have no belief in God or higher beings or spirits or anything, all you have to do is simply look around the world to see the Murphys Law could not possibly apply to anything.

If Murphys Law is true, and everything that could go wrong will go wrong, even the Big Bang couldnt have created anything, because everything wouldve gone wrong. Its one of those ideas that when you look at it from a different perspective is completely absurd.

Now I know most of you reading this dont really believe in Murphys Law. But Im just using it as an easy example. Theres many more interesting belief systems out there that we pick out and try believing they are true.

Think of all the people in the world such as Oprah Winfrey raise themselves up from virtually nothing and accomplish what ever it is they wanted. How did they do this? Was it a miracle? They accomplished them because they believe these things were possible so they were able to manifest exactly the life they want it.

They certainly didnt base any of their plans on things such as Murphys Law.

The world is ready for Joy. Are you?

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Joy, Abundance, Peace and Healing

Ed Osworth
Author Unstoppable Joy! A Happier You in 12 Simple Steps

Unstoppable Joy! A Happier You in 12 Simple Steps a positive psychology “how to” book is available instantly at Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.com or order at your local bookstore or at http://UnstoppableJoy.com

“If you are not in a state of Joy today, you are simply not paying attention to what is really important in your life” Ed

A Lobbyist Tale and the Judgment Toy

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Ed Osworth, the Joy Professor  Here.
 
On this summer like Friday I have a story that makes a point about our ease in slipping into judgement at the drop of a hat.

A huge obstacle to Joy is our fascination with “playing” a mental process we develop. This process is like a fascinating toy we play with that becomes a permanent distraction to the beauty and happiness that surrounds us.

That mental “toy” is our ability to judge the actions, motivations and judgement of others.

Judgement of others and Joy don’t do together. Never did, never will!

And most of the conclusions we reach while playing with that toy are flat out wrong! Many times they are based on pre conceptions and old memories that have nothing to do with today’s reality.

Let’s fire up that toy for a moment.

I’m gonna tell you a story about a professional paid political lobbyist in Washington DC.

What just went through your mind? Any pre conceptions there based on the first label I used to describe him?

OK.

His name is Dave Wenhold, partner at the firm Miller/Wenhold Capitol Strategies and president of the American League of Lobbyists.

More labels… having fun with the judgement toy yet?

Guess what this lobbyist Washington fat cat guy just did?  hee hee

Tuesday in the foyer of the Rayburn House Office Building he had what he called the “Capitol PurSuit Drive”

The drive collected more than 50,000 items of business attire valued at over $2.1 million. The items will be given to local nonprofits that assist people in getting back on their feet and into the workforce.

 
“This is not giving a hand out, but a hand up,” says Wenhold.

What a great dude. No matter what, that is an excellent idea and a wonderful act of kindness.

You can put away the “toy” now.

But do it before the toy starts talking to you and saying… “he is just the exception…”

The world is ready for Joy. Are you?

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World Congress on Positive Psychology Draws Over 1500 !

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Ed Osworth Here.

My book “Unstoppable Joy!” is based on the concept that a state of
Joy is “normal” for humans.

Up until recently, the reaction when I would say that would be
disbelief.

How a short year changes things!

The whole idea of Joy being our “normal state of mind” has caught on
like wildfire in the scientific community this year.

In just it’s first year of existence, the International Positive
Psychology Association (IPPA) has grown to over 4,000 members from
80 countries!

And on July 18-21, Philadelphia will host some of best minds and
most positive thinkers in the world at the 1st World Congress on
Positive Psychology.

1500+ researchers, clinicians, educators, students, business
owners, coaches, consultants, and medical experts will
attend. Details here: http://www.ippanetwork.org/

I would be there but I will be in the middle of giving an 8 week
advanced class in “Unstoppable Joy!” in Eugene -
info at http://SchoolOfJoy.com

This is really wonderful folks that those who create our educational
systems and health systems have become so interested in Joy
Creation.

Something huge s going on here folks. All over the world, Positive
Psychology is redefining the way we think about mental health,
psychotherapy, education and business, to name a few.
It’s about time. We were all getting pretty exhausted grabbing
“stuff” and losing our Joy, peace and happiness.

The world is ready for Joy. Are you?