The Bluebird of Happiness as Point of View
Another thing for which organized religion needs to answer.
The image is of humanity standing in a circle, one of us holding a ball that symbolizes Happiness. The context is that we have all been taught that all, or any, of the Others is more important than are We, and therefore more deserving of Happiness. So we pass it out of our hands and into theirs, for if we were to keep the ball of Happiness what would we be? SELFISH!
But, aren’t we, each of us, one of the Others to all the other Others, and therefore, by definition, deserving of Happiness?
What if we just made a whole bunch more balls of Happiness, enough for at least one each? Then, would we allow ourselves to keep our own or would the low self-esteem that we, most of us, seem to have taken in with our mother’s milk, compel us to keep trying to give it out of our own hands?
In Transformation Counseling, one of the precepts is that the greatest gift any of us can give is our own elevated sense of self-esteem. This constitutes the gift of permission to all others to also inhabit their own high self-esteem, and thereby pay forward our intrinsic gifts, those that are ours alone to Be and to deliver.
Here in a nutshell is the whole story of Scarcity vs. Abundance. ‘I’ don’t deserve (for some made-up reason/set of made-up reasons that mostly escape our conscious attention). ‘They’, by reason of being ‘not me’ automatically deserve. And so we hand over not only our personal Happiness and joy in Being, but our personal power, our power of discrimination, our ability/willingness to choose Life and Love for our own lives.
Another precept of Transformation Counseling is all experience of Life is the result of Point of View (see Glossary). As we easily move through physical space, thereby automatically changing our physical point of view, we can equally easily change our inner point of view. As with everything, Desire/Intention is the key.
All experience lies within you. Your job is to choose from this treasure trove of possibilities. After all, it IS your life. You don’t need anyone’s permission other than your own, which is, of course, the hardest permission to get.