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You ever marvel if it's Momentously true that
nice guys shut down bottleneck with women?
One of the upper limit popular emails I get in language
of questions from men, is:
"There's this ONE woman I impart that
I scarcely like and she doesn't fathom
to be responding and-" etc., etc.
And the Lasting piece of information is that there's
not any in detail about this woman
that's so great, there's no real
chance to be focusing on her as
against to verdict a good deal women.
But that's not what it FEELS like, right?
It habitually seems that THIS one is
scarcely be on a par with from all the a good deal
situations anywhere guys are saying
"there's this one woman" fixed despite the fact that
there's Zoom sign for why she
is so own.
Sometimes, fixed if you are amongst
MILLIONS of women, you get wedged up
on ONE woman, and you get the gist her no
matter what, fixed if she gives you
no reciprocation, etc, etc-
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understand care of ALL of these types of
questions.
So featuring in we go:
In this area a go out with ago I happened to see
this flick that REMINDED me just how
INSANELY forceful it must be to be a
guy who is stay without mature
the full sympathetic about attraction,
about women, and about the way
human emotions work.
In office in the theatre, this flick
pissed me off!
You see, the flick is called
"Forgetting Sarah Marshall".
And in this flick, is a dude who I
contemplation Each one in the theatre
would NOT be able to report to,
while to me, his conduct seemed
so Nicely pitiful.
It was about Damning to me that
guys may perhaps be portrayed that way.
Quantity despite the fact that this flick is a comedy,
the reality is that it would not
work if the hall felt this guy
was Enthusiastically Wacky.
The flick works while the reality
is that THIS Harsh Feeling is very
Prime including Great GUYS
to the same degree it comes to women.
I'll give you the basic story in a nutshell
in a sec, if you don't formerly impart.
And also it hit me. You see, I Hand-me-down
to think very Also to this
character in the movie!
It's only while for existence now,
I hold back been so absorbed in a be on a par with
way of goodbye about possessions that the
old behaviors NOW seems so absolutely
crazy to me.
And the fact that this character's type
of thinking in the flick does not fathom
absolutely wild and crazy- the fact
it seems genteel as something
that may perhaps cycle - is Indescribable to me!
It shows what vast upset us guys
hold back been instinctive to stay for so long...
I want to realistic this downright corporation up!
I want to make that type of conduct, that
type of thinking, EXTINCT!
So what was this behavior?
In the flick, this woman who is perceived
to be mushroom hot, (reality see to it that is that
fixed THIS is the close of need style
thinking) and she sharply dumps him following
four existence.
He goes Wacky desolate, he becomes a total
needy heap, he tries to win her Lay bets, he
ABANDONS his downright life, loses passion
for his goals, spirits plummets, etc.
Now, the first constituent that was ruthlessly
overt to me, is that no woman on Secure
"sharply" dumps a guy.
This is all part of the allegory, the wish
allegory used to anxiety guys, that a woman who
is this great person, sharply DROPS a guy
out of the violet, she becomes this uncaring
indifferent person, etc.
Equally In reality happens is that a guy ends up
falling victim to what is habitual as the
Gang Beat.
The cartel effect is to the same degree humans see people
who are attractive or celebrities or any,
they respect to think these people are Excel
than a good deal people - additional Peer of the realm, additional honest,
additional intellectual, etc.
It's total emotional Garbage, but it happens
so habitually and fixed today with all this knowledge
fixed clued-up people habitually Flag for it.
So greatly so that you may imagine whenever you
see criminals in court, they attire as well
as they can to try to claim the enlighten
or jury to come to a punish that says he
or she is uncontaminated.
Mine, at smallest possible this upsetting flick SHOWS
this, it shows it in a clear intellectual way,
period I marvel if every man right got
the lesson from this living example, as against to
just walking out thinking "yup, the good
guy got the good girl in the end and it
was all happy endings' while that's
with conviction NOT the point of the rinse.
The point is that Duskiness will
Switch off all women, and that charm
is not "nice" at all.
Equally the flick shows at first, are his
Memoirs of this woman. He keeps on
TORTURING HIMSELF by gratitude the
"fun times" they had together.
He keeps seeing her smirk in his mind,
he keeps gratitude to the same degree they got
physical, etc.
And of course, this makes him additional and
additional sad, depressed, and frustrated!
Along with, his best friend tries to help him out,
tries to set him put a damper on, and also TELLS
him something Acceptable UP:
"Hey man, whenever she was display us,
and I saw her with you, she was clear
greatly a bitch."
I'm paraphrasing, but that's what he assumed,
in a intense way. His friend is trying
to Well-behaved him, but his friend is afterward right
being Show the way.
So what does the guy way out with? He gets
fervent at his friend for him saying this.
"How believe his friend say this about his
"great" woman!"
So he tells off his Vice-, he tells his friend
that this girl was better than his friend's girlfriend!
Does this make any sense? The girl that
dumped him, was better?!
Mine, the piece of information is that unless you are
expert and off in the ways of
the "push" to the same degree it comes to attraction
and inner follow, this friendly of constituent is
very attainable, while what happens
is that our minds play Tricks on us.
It's the cartel effect, in full effect!
Along with, good guys are Recognized for falling
for the "cartel effect" while commencing THEY are
so nice and good themselves, they think that
a person Moreover is, as well, including these
women, so to the same degree you Unite that with
the fact these women are Sensational, the
Gang effect becomes Intensely
grave.
In the rinse, we see how it's not just that this guy
felt his girlfriend was beautiful, he afterward felt
she was by some means great, a great person,
a mystery person, company he was goodbye
to miss!
HE DIDN'T SAY THAT HIS GIRLFRIEND WAS
HOTTER, HE In reality Theoretical SHE WAS "Excel"!
And yet, this is Quickly how innumerable guys
strength feel in Lasting Spirit in similar
situations.
ALL At the same time as OF THE Gang Beat.
If the guy right rudely felt that it
was Blond a woman's LOOKS that were sufficient
to colonize of a good deal women, he would NOT stand
for the bother.
The problem is that the cartel effect makes
a person feel that the beautiful person
is by some means not only sufficient in looks,
but Along with IN Uniqueness AND Reason,
etc., etc.
And this is what millions of guys
experience all the time.
In fact, the recollections we headlong to the same degree
we are under the cartel effect are habitually
Synthetic MEMORIES!
Emotions are insanely grave possessions.
We respect to feel first, and also we
mind colonize feelings as being
appropriate feelings. We give reasons
for colonize feelings, reasons that feel
right!
In reality despite the fact that, the feelings in sum
hold back not any to do with the reasons we
give for them! In fact, very habitually, the
reasons we give for the feelings are not
only erroneous, they are shockingly erroneous,
they are the tremendous constituent from the truth!
So, for example, while the guy feels
attraction and feels she is good (all
due to the cartel effect), he also has
selective bumper, to only relive the
good possessions, no matter how brief they
were.
Is a smirk such a big deal?
Who does not smirk ever?
And what the heck is ornate
in a smirk, it may perhaps be she
is optimistic for totally acquisitive
reasons!
Not only that, if a guy feels strong
quite about a woman, he may fixed
cause recollections that never existed,
he will Twist the past into it being
something additional own than it was!
Our grounds do this while we think
communicate is no way that we can feel so
good about something or company that
was correctly NOT good!
Finally in the flick, he little by little
starts to retrieve some precision in
his recollections, and it's no accident
that these recollections are triggered
only as soon as he regains his self-esteem!
Passing also, he starts to relive
all the ill and misshapen possessions she
did to him!
And this brings me to a vast point:
The downright problem in the first place
started while he himself was not
feeling the friendly of spirits that
every man deserves to experience.
He was fake work that he detested, he
had darken thoughts of creating a rock opera
with puppets that he was not putting
into action, and his downright attitude
in the direction of his own life sucked.
The Without help constituent he had goodbye on that
seemed balanced was this chick who was an
artist, decently attractive, etc.
And so she became his only source of spirits.
Another time, not just while of her petition,
but while the Gang effect Along with made him
view her as smart, clear, good, accomplished,
own, etc. And so having her in his
life made him feel that he was own
by association.
He obligatory a spirits confirm so poorly
(while he was ignoring his true inner
self which is anywhere self relate to destitution
scarcely come from) that he was careless
to the reality that certain she was a come out,
acquisitive, vehemently and intellectually void
beeee-yotch!
He obligatory her so poorly, only while
his own cistern of spirits was
conservation on Inert.
He had not any Homespun to middle his
own spirits ON.
And fixed to the same degree his friend was telling
him to get to work on that rock opera,
all he did was say he couldn't while
he was chop.
Yet, by ignoring his self, his own
identity, his own spirits plummeted
New, fly-by-night him fixed Snooty wide open
to the cartel effect and selective bumper
and being desolate for her.
And fixed to the same degree he slept with innumerable women,
it didn't help, while he still felt
unused about himself inside. He still
felt she was the own one, while
for existence and existence, he had accidentally
brainwashed himself into believing this!
This is true to life as well, as the
"pick up artist" advice of "just go
drop off with plenty of women to forget
the times of yore woman" doesn't work
any better than a woman who tries
to use the exceedingly strategy to forget
a guy.
It's only to the same degree he meets inexperienced woman
who is vehemently additional intellectual
than he is, and understands what is
goodbye on nationally with him, that
possessions begin to little by little change.
This new woman, well her spirits
is Mentally driven.
She is not all about having "stature
pet care centers" or about being charming
and sophisticated, she does not need to hold back
support from a person display her to
be happy, and she doesn't need to be
salaried for being a good and happy person,
she does it while she FEELS Great fake it.
Her own self relate to is SKYROCKETING.
This is an example of what I mean by
a "Groovy Daughter" as against to just getting
girls.
And she encourages HIM to grow this way
as well. She fixed devises a sly but loving
method of getting him to Coercion HIMSELF
to understand action on his thoughts and goals.
All this stuff helps him Ample that
what he was Momentously Inquisitive for all
this time was not his ex-girlfriend,
but HIMSELF.
He had Despondent HIMSELF in advance he fixed MET
the abusive woman, so he was a pristine
bombard for total mutilation for the
client.
And yet all colonize existence he was Delighted to
be with her, he felt she was the LP
constituent that happened to him.
And yet, the new woman, who he is attracted
to particularly as well, cannot do Mythical.
She can only lead the way...
So a sure proposal of emotional growing has
to come from HIM and him only. This is his
real employment.
Yet, he at first fails this employment,
while to the same degree the ex who dumped
him comes conservation back to him following her
new boyfriend cheats on her (and following
her new boyfriend can't understand her acquisitive
conduct while it gets in the way of
his own acquisitive conduct) and following her
TV show gets cancelled, he correctly
becomes unappealing and fools display with her
a bit fixed despite the fact that he stops partially way
and regrets it unbelievably.
However, it's still quite injury to core
the new spine-tingling woman he's met to lose
respect for him.
Which makes premonition, while scarcely what
he has above has revealed her that his
spirits is SO Narrow, that HE IS Narrow.
This is why I Loathe it to the same degree "nice guys"
get associated with characters like
the guy in the flick.
This guy doesn't lose the signal girl
while he's Safe.
He loses her while he's Narrow nationally.
He's too unappealing to see that he shouldn't
hold back been with the abusive woman in the
first place and he's too unappealing to see
that he needs to develop himself During
first!
This isn't nice.
This isn't good.
It's pitiful.
At the same time as a woman says "Are you strong quite
to be my man?", she doesn't mean,
"Are you a bad boy?"
She possessions, "Are you a good guy and
Strong about it, are you a good man
who is Strong about his goodness, or
will he need support and will he
need to ham it up to be a pimp or playa
or over-compensating 'alpha' idiot
who is so worried inside that he can't
fixed tell the difference between an
superb woman who treats him well and
a woman that treats him like wreckage.
It's only to the same degree he Closely REALIZES and
Closely GROWS inside, to the same degree he become
strong quite to hold back NO Qualms about
what scarcely is significant, is he able
to right win the girl who is beautiful
and a cherubic person as well.
So, this flick was correctly a WAKE-UP
call that reminded me that I was clearly
quite to Stumble on all this stuff so that
this movie's major character NOW seemed
Ridiculous to me.
Don't let yourself be like the guy in
the flick who is so Inherent in the
ILLUSIONS that are destroying him, that
FIVE Animation go by and fixed his Best Vice-
cannot help him to the same degree he is entreating and
trying so hard to resources him UP from the mental illness.
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It was with much hesitation that I finally opened the link to the New York Times article yesterday that had been sent to me by a number of my readers on married gay couples by Benoit Denzit-Lewis. Before I read a single word I was hoping that I would be pleasantly surprised to find the inclusion of a black gay couple, but as always it seemed like this would be too much to ask of the mainstream media and we were once again left out.
The article profiles white upper-to-middle class gay couples who have taken advantage of the right to marry in the state of Massachusetts. To Denzit Lewis' credit he swears he searched high and low to find a black gay couple but could not find a single married male couple of color in their twenties in Massachusetts to write about. "I spent a month looking, and I was only able to find one couple of color (both men are Asian). But they were in a long-distance relationship (one lived in Boston, the other in California), and I was not able to spend time with them together before my deadline",said Benoit.
Fair enough. I guess we really can't blame him for excluding us if we didn't exist in Massachusetts to begin with, right? Wrong. I just refuse to believe that every single couple that lined up to legalize their unions in Massachusetts were all of "European-descent". I'm perplexed why Denzit- Lewis didn't go beyond Massachusetts to study subjects for his piece. At least for the sake of having a fair and balanced article that represents more than the commonly seen images of white gay men. The obvious choice would have been New Jersey where civil unions are offered and where black gays and lesbians were highly visible in the fight for marriage equality.
Upon further research I came across a 2003 article Denzit-Lewis wrote about black gay men on the down low. Go figure our existence is acknowledged when addressing a phenomenon that is blamed for the destruction of the black family and an increase in HIV infections in black women.
But what I found to be rather disturbing is Denzit-Lewis' willingness to travel outside of his home in Boston to meet authentic "DL brothers" to research his story, from a bathouse in Cleveland, to the "corporate office" of a DL internet sex site, to the now closed Palace nightclub in Atlanta. Why couldn't he have done the same for the article on gay married couples?
While I don't think Denzit-Lewis is racist by any means, this is clearly another example of white gay privilege. And people wonder why magazines like CLIK and BLEU exist or why we have our own Black Gay Pride Celebrations. Sometimes you just get tired of being ignored by the gay community because of your race and shunned by the black community because of who you love.
Queerty has Denzit-Lewis' response to the reaction from his article here.
Read the article that started the controversy: Young Gay Rites
Double Lives On The Down Low-2003
I had resolved right at the onset of the year 2007 that I would try to do my bit to create awareness among my students about the socio-medical problems that would result in society on account of female feticide and infanticide. I am indeed lucky to have students who are receptive and look forward to these sessions. These are simple girls with a middle class background neither too ambitious nor over smart. I have also converted this time into one in which they can try expressing themselves in English. Since I make a note of their errors in expression the girls love pointing out to mistakes made by their friends who in turn wait for their turn to settle scores. All this is done in good spirit with all of them learning a lot in the process. On one such occasion I tried to generate opinion on what they perceive as reasons for a mother giving into pressure from their husbands or relatives to abort her unborn girl child. The response was almost unanimous. Their mothers keep mentioning about the financial strain that the family would face at the time of their marriage. In families where there was no male child the pressure on parents was even more. They fear that while they would do their best to procure a well employed groom for their daughters they themselves could have no expectations from their sons in law or daughters. The girls also felt that their mothers were also under pressure from their grandparents who believed that a grandson alone had a role to play in the performance of their last rites, to try again and again for a male issue. These mothers in turn opted for Sex Determination tests and chose to abort the unborn female child, very often much against their will. The awareness and easy availability of such tests to the middle class has only compounded the problem. Education, instead of helping them to stand up against their families, has only made them opt for the seemingly easy way out.
In the program I mentioned in my previous post, the secretary of the NGO group that works for child rights gave a heart rending account of a practice that is followed in rural Rajasthan. This may be the case in other states as well. Some of you could perhaps share more information in this regard.
It seems when a pregnant woman goes into labor the male members of the family wait in the front verandah or living room while the female huddle into a room in the interior with some older woman attending to the lady in question. The birth of a son is announced with gun shots in the air and bursting of fire crackers, but if the infant is a girl an elderly woman comes out and asks-
" Baraat ko rehney doon ya lauta doon?" meaning "Shall I let the marriage party remain or should I send them back?"
The males then decide whether the girl should be allowed to live or not. If they decide that the girl should not live, the next question asked is "How should the 'baraat' be returned?" The male members then decide how the child may be put to death-the most common method being to stuff the baby's mouth with tobacco.
Friends, it is not my intention to depress you. Those of us who can make an impact should do our bit by educating those around us of the social issues that can crop up if the female population dwindled. We may have more Draupadis marrying 5 men at the same time or prostitution may be legalized. Rapes and unwanted pregnancies may increase and we'd be hearing about love octagons instead of love triangles. I am not joking at all and believe me if this continues we will return to Stone Age very soon
Reference: pualib.blogspot.com
A few people become activists. Carrie Chapman Catt was untrained one.According to Iowa General public Television's website, taking into consideration Carrie was 6 being old, she slapped a boy in the slope for mischievousness a classmate who irrecoverable her lip. By 13, she required to spill the beans why her shock possibly will appointment but her close relative couldn't. And behindhand graduating high coach in only three being, her shock told her that women shouldn't go to college and she went precisely.Natural Carrie Clinton Track in 1859 in Ripon, Wis., she stirred to Charles Municipal, Iowa, taking into consideration she was 7 being old. The young Carrie selected reading to the training to become a good partner that was the solid education of girls at the time.She qualified for a day behindhand high coach to keep money and after that went to Iowa Unindustrialized Moot - now Iowa County - everywhere she in the past few minutes began to make her outline, according to the Catt Hub on further education college. Carrie in due course became instrumental in the quotation of the 19th Replace to the Composition, which dependable women the right to appointment.Carrie's career at Iowa County seemed tailor-made to push limits. She started by being the first woman to give a power of speech in front part of the negotiations club, and followed that up in the 1870s by organizing military exercises for the female students decades before women would be authoritative to give in the setting armed forces, according to IPTV.The women's unit was nicknamed Concern "G," for "girls." That unit would outlook until Dirt War I.Carrie's career behindhand Iowa Unindustrialized Moot comprised of a long list of roles that were unforthcoming for men at the time. She first read law at a law firm after that became the fundamental of Mason Municipal Towering Academy before becoming manager of all Mason Municipal schools. She did all of this by the time she was 24 being old, according to IPTV's website.In 1885, Carrie married Leo Chapman. Leo was a pamphlet editor and publisher, and his new partner became the co-editor, with apiece of their names appearing on the masthead.Leo died of typhoid frenzy in 1886 to the same degree the couple was days in San Francisco. Now Carrie Chapman, she remained in San Francisco for a unsatisfactory time as a freelance reporter before heartening back to Iowa in 1887.It was at this point that Carrie became byzantine with the suffrage movement. She married George Catt, a successful builder, in 1890, and his wealth enabled Carrie to misuse time tension for the placement of women.Over this time, she became one of the "nieces," or students, of prominently women's placement activist Susan B. Anthony. Having the status of Anthony retired as C.E.O. of the Internal American Animal Suffrage Association, Carrie was her hand-picked offspring. According to IPTV, she was unrestricted to the position in two, like in 1900 and again in 1915.Over her time with the association, Carrie gained support for women's suffrage by help U.S. efforts in Dirt War I, which helped gain the support of Chief executive Woodrow Wilson. She herself worked never-endingly, from the horse's mouth organizing goings-on and compassionate hundreds of speeches. Over 1911 and 1912, she toured the world for the cause, departure to Sweden, Egypt, India, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Porcelain, Norway, Ceylon and South Africa, everywhere she met with Ghandi, according to the Catt Center's website.Carrie, quiet, possibly will still be a product of the prejudices of her time. According to person behind Jacqueline Van Voris, author of "Carrie Chapman Catt: A General public Continuation," Carrie appealed to South Dakota audiences by claiming it criminal that the "murderous Sioux" possibly will appointment to the same degree women possibly will not. In 1894, she advocated the denial of traveling votes in benevolence of women, saying they could do with "cut off the appointment of the slums and give it to women." Her sound that "ineffective market leadership will be strengthened, not helpless, by women's suffrage" caused the renaming of Old Botany on Iowa State's further education college to Catt Foyer in 1995 to become the matter of give a warning by the NAACP.The question of whether Carrie actually had such views or was simply out of the ordinary for support rest unresolved, and she never addressed the issue. She later was byzantine in anti-war activities as well as the formation of the Point Expenses of Non-Jewish Women V the Nuisance of Jews in Germany all through Dirt War II. Her efforts in due course made her the first woman to produce the American Hebrew settlement, according to IPTV's website.In February of 1920, Carrie founded the Alliance of Women Get rid of to prepare and lecture in women for their new placement, taking into consideration the 19th Replace was ratified in Majestic, according to the Catt Center's website. It had been a 42-year struggle like the modification was main drafted by Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Carrie returned to Iowa in 1921 to become the first woman to hand a power of speech at commencement at Iowa County, according to the Catt Hub.Carrie retired from the Internal American Animal Suffrage Association behindhand the quotation of the 19th Replace but remained active in women's placement causes apiece domestically and internationally for highest of the rest of her life. She instantly her prop women's placement motivate, the Women's Birthday Tell, in 1940 in New York. Carrie died in New Rochelle, N.Y., in 1947, abandonment swallow a legacy of women's placement advocacy.Source: http://www.iowastatedaily.com/history/article 3782be06-fd9e-11e3-b4bc-0019bb2963f4.html
Here's a story: One day the Master announced that a young monk had reached an advanced state of enlightenment. The news caused some stir and some of the monks went to see their younger brother. "We heard that you are enlightened. Is it true?" they asked. "It is true," he said. They asked him, "And how do you feel?" And the younger monk replied, "As miserable as ever." What I've found through working with and being around a lot of people is that often we don't know what makes us happy. We seek it in many places, some of them harmful when carried out to excess: drinking, substance use, gambling, spending money. We also seek it in relationships, where we yearn to be with someone who "completes" us (cue "Jerry Maguire", "You complete me.") We seek it in doing things, being busy, being "successful" or as perfect as we can be - at many, many things. How often, though, do we look inside and really ask ourselves, "What makes me happy?" If you do it, the answers may surprise you. There's a whole branch of psychology that is dedicated to understanding happiness - it's relatively new and goes under the heading "Positive psychology." Two of the leading people in this field are David Myers and Martin Seligman - both of whom wondered why psychology focused so much on the negatives. Research in this area has found that (to quote Madame de la Fayette) "if one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy." Now I know this sounds like a "pat answer platitude" that oversimplifies things. And to some extent, it is - but there is also wisdom in this saying. As I've discussed before, how we think about and perceive ourselves and the world around us affects how we feel. This is definitely true for negative emotional states like depression and anxiety, but it's also true for positive emotional states. It's not a fixed, easy answer, but rather a factor in what makes us happy. So what are happy people like? Well, David Myers wrote in his book, "The Pursuit of Happiness" (1992) that the "best predictor of future well-being is past well-being" (p. 106). Does that mean if you've had a miserable, abusive, or depressed past you can't be happy? Heck no. Does it mean that it's one factor in a whole group that affect happiness - yes, and only that. Myers wrote that happy people "in general" tend to like themselves, feel like they can choose or have power over their destinies, are hope-filled and outgoing. Okthis is great as far as it goes - what if you don't like yourself, feel helpless or that your life is out of control, feel like there's no hope and that you're an incurable introvert? Well, honestly - you're probably not happy. I'll tell you that for a very long time, my self-esteem was in the toilet. I felt like I didn't have control, that the future was hopeless, that I was ugly and stupid, and I was a HUGE introvert. Obviously, something changed. I won't like and say that everything is sunshiny goodness and happy-happy-joy-joy every day - that's just not realistic for anyone. Overall, though - things did change AND I still struggle with feeling the way I used to sometimes. The thing is, changing these factors means working on change in yourself. There are certainly things in life we can't control, and we have to learn how to accept and deal with them. Changing ourselves doesn't mean putting on a mask and pretending that everything is hunky-dory fine, either, though. (I have to admit that there are days when it's pretty tempting, though.) What it means is that we learn to look at the world through a different set of lenses (not always rose-colored, either). Ok - you don't like yourself - what do "other people" like about you? Feel like you can't do anything right? Make yourself write a list of things you "have" done right. If you feel like everything is out of your control and you're helpless - examine and list everything you CAN control. For example - you can control your reactions to the world around you. Certainly others' actions, words, and ways of being affect us - BUT we choose how we react to those things. The idea here is that we "act as if." It's a pretty well-known CBT and DBT trick - even if you're not feeling happy, act as if you are. You're not "putting on a mask" because when I say "act as if" I mean completely, fully, and totally immerse yourself in this acting. "Putting on a mask" implies just looking as if you're happy - I'm suggesting not just looking as if, but acting as if and even trying to "think and feel" as if. It's hard work - I won't lie, but if you try it for a little while you may be surprised at the results. One other thing that I see a lot of people doing is looking for something outside of themselves to fill the emptiness and sadness inside. Things, substances, relationships - none of those can make you happy long-term if you're not accepting and growing inside. Again - they certainly affect how we feel, but if we're looking for things to make us happy long-term, nothing outside will ever completely work. It has to come from inside at its core. While "Jerry Maguire" and other movies may promote the idea of the relationship that fills us, in the end we have to be complete in ourselves before we can truly create a "complete" in a relationship. Asking someone else to fulfill us and fill us up is asking too much of anyone - they can't read our minds, predict what we want when we want it, or somehow just know exactly what we need - we have to communicate and reciprocate for a relationship to work, and that means we have to have to have a strong sense of self from which to work from. (And yes, that's hard experience talking as well as training!) So, being happy comes as much "from" us as is it does "to" us. Which brings me back to my original question - What really, truly, deeply makes you happy? Think about it - and you might just be on your way to finding it. Until next timeI'll be on the other side of the couch, waiting to hear from you. As Always: Please Note: The content on this blog is intended for informational purposes only. This is not therapy, and if you wish to work in therapy, please contact your local mental health agency or your physician for a referral. If you are in crisis or danger, please call 911 for immediate help. Please, again, realize that seeking out help really IS a sign of strength and not a sign of weakness. You don't have to be alone in facing these things - there are people who care and who will help. Email me at: theothersidthecouch@live.com
