20. CHASING THE HAPPINESS HIGH
Many people on Earth have lost their connection to their Higher Self and the knowledge of their original mission - and have increasingly felt unfulfilled and empty inside by focusing on the needs of the Lower Self. This feeling of emptiness has affected the "mass consciousness" of humanity - to the point where society is completely focused on ways to "fill up" this emptiness and unfulfilled state of being.
Society has invented many "myths" that you are entitled to "fill ups" that include the perfect love partner, the perfect happy-ever-after life, the perfect rewarding career, the perfect house and family - the perfect everything.
What happens though is when you get the "perfect" partner, or house, or job, etc, your mind goes into a "high" elated state in the beginning - yet after the "high" feeling has worn off - which always happens - YOU STILL FEEL EMPTY INSIDE.
Many people on Earth have lost their connection to their Higher Self and the knowledge of their original mission - and have increasingly felt unfulfilled and empty inside by focusing on the needs of the Lower Self. This feeling of emptiness has affected the "mass consciousness" of humanity - to the point where society is completely focused on ways to "fill up" this emptiness and unfulfilled state of being.
Society has invented many "myths" that you are entitled to "fill ups" that include the perfect love partner, the perfect happy-ever-after life, the perfect rewarding career, the perfect house and family - the perfect everything.
What happens though is when you get the "perfect" partner, or house, or job, etc, your mind goes into a "high" elated state in the beginning - yet after the "high" feeling has worn off - which always happens - YOU STILL FEEL EMPTY INSIDE.
Society has conditioned itself to chase after and "expect" an elusive permanent "happiness" that can never be. And 99% of people on Earth have fallen for this lie that happiness is an achievable state that will permanently fulfill them.
This is why people who chase after the perfect love, the perfect job, the perfect this and that, "temporarily" get a "happiness high" fix, yet have to continually keep looking and searching for and "expecting" more and more happiness high's to come into their life. This creates a greater hunger and you soon realize that its appetite can never be satisfied.
What is worse is the more you fall into this trap of "chasing the happiness high" - the more you focus your attention away from your Higher Self and its Love and Light - and the more empty you feel inside. You also feel angry and disappointed and miserable that your life is not the happy-ever-after you were TOLD BY SOCIETY IT WOULD BE.
Instead you blame God and others around you that your life is miserable and unhappy, when it is YOU who has been chasing your tail and taking yourself further away from your centre of fulfillment and peace.
EXERCISE: Make a list of things you were told by society would make you happy.
EXERCISE: Make a list of things you "expected" would make you happy when you got them, but they didn't.
21. CHASING THE PRAISE-RECOGNITION HIGH
Human society is largely focused on the Carrot and Stick mentality. If you are "good" and do what is "expected" of you, you will be praised and rewarded with the Carrot. If you are "bad" and don't do what is "expected" of you, then you will be punished or criticized or ostracized and get the Stick.
This fear-based Carrot and Stick culture is practiced and supported in our schooling system, in our politics, in our workplaces, our media and in our own homes. You are conditioned by society to "expect" either praise or criticism in anything you do.
This creates an inner anxiety within your very Being because praise and criticism are BOTH "judgments" of you. If you were to ask 100 people if they liked to be judged, very few if any would say they do. Yet when you seek out praise from others - because you have been conditioned by society to do so - you are then asking for these people to pass judgment on YOU!
This very act of seeking out praise and recognition from others - is a declaration that you do not know your own worth and value. You are asking others to let "you" know if you are OK or not OK. When you gear your mind to "expecting" others around you to continually feed back to you whether you are OK or not OK, two things happen. The first thing that happens is you give away your power to the people judging you. You feel vulnerable and frightened awaiting their continued good or bad verdict.
The second thing that happens is: you send out an invisible cord of expectation to every person you seek praise from - in anticipation of their judgment. You are like a puppy dog waiting to be praised or scolded by its owner. This cord of expectation means that you are at the mercy of whether the person you are attached to gives you a good or bad verdict. If they give you a good verdict - praise - then you feel a "high". And this is the high you are chasing. If the person you are attached to gives you a bad verdict - criticism - then you feel a "low". And this is what you hope to avoid.
Praise and criticism are two sides of the one coin. If you hand over your power to others to "judge you", then you will inevitably experience both the praise and the criticism - the highs and the lows. You will keep yourself in a place of expectation and anxiety - never knowing from one moment to the next whether you will be told that you are OK or the next told that you are NOT OK.
This invisible cord of expectation to each person around you keeps you a prisoner of their thoughts they have of you. If you do not want to remain a prisoner any longer - you must cut these cords of expectation and free yourself.
The questions you need to ask are: Do I want to keep giving away my power to others? Do I want others to continually keep judging me and letting "me" know whether I'm OK or not OK. Do I want to live my life in fear of what other people think of me?
If you have children or work with children: If they ask you: "Is this good? Have I done a good job? Look what I did!" Don't praise them. Ask them instead: "How do YOU think you did? Are YOU happy with what you've done?" Teach them to only ever evaluate themselves.
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1. THE ILLUSION OF SEPARATION IS PART OF OUR SPIRITUAL PURPOSE 2. BELIEVING IN THE ILLUSION OF SEPARATION 3. THE BIRTH OF THE EGO HAPPENED GRADUALLY 4. THE CREATION OF THE 12 PARTS OF THE LOWER SELF EGO 5. TWIN PARTS OF THE LOWER SELF EGO 6. YOUR HIGHER SELF, THE MATERIAL UNIVERSE AND YOU 7. THE CREATION OF YOUR SOUL, YOUR IDENTITY AND THE FOUR LEVELS OF YOUR MIND 8. THE EXPERIENCE OF SEPARATION: GUILT, MISTAKES AND SELF-FORGIVENESS 9. MASTERING FORGIVENESS: A TWO-STEP PROCESS 10. GIVING YOUR LOWER SELF EGO PARTS A VOICE 11. GIVING YOUR LOWER SELF EGO PARTS NEW INFORMATION 12. CHALLENGING INACCURATE LOWER SELF EGO BELIEFS 13. THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE HIGHER SELF AND LOWER SELF EGO 14. TRANSFORMING THE LOWER SELF EGO USING HIGHER SELF MEDITATION 15. EXPECTATION IS THE CAUSE OF ALL FEAR - ALL WORRY 16. EXPECTATION = SUFFERING 17. EXPECTATION AND THE LOWER SELF EGO PARTS 18. PLAYING THE VICTIM: "EXPECTING" LIFE OWES YOU 19. THE "NEEDY" ADDICTIVE PERSONALITY 20. CHASING THE HAPPINESS HIGH 21. CHASING THE PRAISE-RECOGNITION HIGH 22. CHASING THE LOVE HIGH 23. THE CURSE OF PERFECTION 24. OVERCOMING FEAR: A HOUSE OF CARDS 25. THE BUDDHA CONSCIOUSNESS: AN OVERVIEW 26. HOW DOES BUDDHA CONSCIOUSNESS DIFFER TO CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS? 27. USING MEDITATION TO ACHIEVE COMPLETE NON-ATTACHMENT: BUDDHAHOOD 28. REMOVING THE "UNREALITY ZONE" IN YOUR MIND BY REMOVING "ALL" EXPECTATIONS 29. TUNING YOURSELF TO THE TRUE REALITY OF YOUR LIFE 30. A BELIEF IN SEPARATION IS THE CAUSE OF ALL SUPERIORITY AND INFERIORITY 31. "NOT" BELIEVING IN SEPARATION IS A TEST EVERY SOUL MUST FACE 32. MAIN REASONS SOULS BELIEVE IN ILLUSION OF SEPARATION 33. A BELIEF IN SEPARATION AND THE IDENTITY MIND 34. SEPARATION = HATE 35. BELIEF IN SEPARATION AND THE LOWER SELF EGO PARTS 36. THE ANTI-CHRIST USES 8 TOOLS TO KEEP YOU TRAPPED IN THE "ILLUSION OF SEPARATION" 37. ANTI-CHRIST TOOL TO KEEP YOU TRAPPED: YOU ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH 38. ANTI-CHRIST TOOL TO KEEP YOU TRAPPED: CRITICIZING AND COMPLAINING 39. ANTI-CHRIST TOOL TO KEEP YOU TRAPPED: KEEPING HATE BOTTLED UP 40. ANTI-CHRIST TOOL TO KEEP YOU TRAPPED: UNFORGIVENESS 41. ANTI-CHRIST TOOL TO KEEP YOU TRAPPED: JUDGING OTHER SOULS AS "NOT LIKEABLE" 42. ANTI-CHRIST TOOL TO KEEP YOU TRAPPED: JUDGING OTHER SOULS AS "LIKEABLE" 43. ANTI-CHRIST TOOL TO KEEP YOU TRAPPED: COMPETITION 44. ANTI-CHRIST TOOL TO KEEP YOU TRAPPED: FINDING FAULT IN OTHER SOULS 45. THE CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS: AN OVERVIEW 46. THE CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE LAWS OF CAUSE & EFFECT AND KARMA 47. THE CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE COSMIC MIRROR 48. THE CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE OMEGA CONTRACTING FORCE 49. COMING INTO ONENESS WITH YOUR ENEMIES 50. FORGIVE YOUR ENEMIES 51. COMING INTO ONENESS WITH YOUR HIGHER BEING 52. THE LADDER OF CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS 53. THE IMPORTANCE OF DISCOVERING YOUR LIFE LESSONS AND KARMA 54. RE-FRAGMENTING YOUR SOUL AND REMOVING NEGATIVE ENTITIES 55. ADVANCED TEACHINGS AND STUDY 56. DOWNLOADABLE PDF VERSION OF THE EGO COURSE