Keep Your Good Feelings Working

Poor Feelings Caretakers

In the struggle to live and be ok we have a tendency to forget the main function of being alive. And that is to keep us feeling the best that we can. I’m sure were all trying but it’s my observation that as humans were by and large doing a poor job at it. As a matter of fact I think including myself were poor examples in taking care of our feelings and making sure their helping us and not hurting us most of the time.

We Should Care More About What Our Feelings are Doing to Us

This morning I probably laid in bed two hours longer then I normally do. I was feeling good and just didn’t want to break that wellness working in my head. And through this process of feeling good I realized that even thought I am a great believer in personal wellness I too have been doing a lousy job of making sure my feelings are working for me and not against me.

Were Always Looking for Happiness Elsewhere

It’s so easy in life to just drift into thinking that we humans need and want things to help us keep are happy feelings working for us. In other words we want to control the outside world and create a climate and generate people that will produce the feelings we like that always make us feel good. But what happens when we slowly lose that control and our happy feelings fly out the window and leave us standing naked in the dark. Then rather then looking to ourselves for the happy feelings we once again try to create the climate that was previously working for us. But now the will to survive and be happy is not clear to us. Now we blame others for our unhappy feelings and retreat into ourselves and find only feelings that make us feel bad and then doom knocks on the door.

Let Your Good Feelings Rule Your Life

I know better and so should you. Our feelings belong to us and we have the power to make them work for us. I one time spent two solid days in bed and then woke up feeling wonderful for the first time in many moons. That feeling of wellness so impressed me I decided that’s the way I wanted to feel for the rest of my life. And most of the time that’s how I feel; but life sometimes consumes me and I lose my way and then I must refocus on my desire to be happy above all things and then I’m ok again. Like this morning when I stayed in bed longer. Take my advice and constantly like I do and reconnect with your happy feelings and let your happiness rule your life. And remember happiness created by you will always be with you. That’s how I feel and I’m sticking to it.


Don L. Terrill

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