Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
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A Special Day
As one day follows another and we get on with our lives, there is one day that comes round once a year to makes is feel older and that is our birthday. This day is just like any other; we get up, bathe, groom and dress ourselves; aware that our hair is getting less, our waist is getting more and that the scales seem to only go in one direction, up. We notice these things on a regular basis but when our birthday comes around we are confronted by the number attached to our years; it is one notch higher.
Naturally being one day older is no different from any other day but because we now say that we are of a certain age and that's a greater number than yesterday we can feel somehow different, yet just the same. Our birthday is also our special day that we probably share with untold millions of others around the world; all these hordes of people all born within seconds of one another but as we are not aware of them we consider this Day as our day.
Today I would like to wish everyone who was born on 7th April a Happy Birthday and invite them all to join with me in sharing this day as Our Special Day. Today is our day to make it as significant as we wish, to treat ourselves, spoil ourselves, congratulate ourselves on achievements past and give good luck for achievements and happiness to come.
For happiness to come.... why do I say that? It's right now we should choose to be happy. Forget tomorrow and get on with today and make this as nice a day as possible. For me, it's not what I do that makes me happy, or what I eat, drink or anything; being happy is just a frame of mind, an attitude and way of 'being'. In my experience we can just 'be happy', and that's all there is to it. If we are constantly seeking external stimuli to make us 'happy' then the hole in our proverbial bucket will just require us to replenish it constantly. So if our kick comes from shopping and acquiring new things, then as their novelty wears off we're left feeling empty again. But we can experience such happiness right now if we choose to. If our circumstances are such that we are suffering in some way or we feel disadvantaged, put down, over worked, under loved then these are attitudes we 'choose' to feel (no-one is forcing us). However we can choose to feel different if we want to let go of the 'victim' role. Our problems and how we perceive them are not other people's fault but how we perceive them ourselves. Let go of anger and let go of fear and we can start to feel love; love for ourselves first and love for others second. I say this because if we're not feeling a great deal of love for ourselves we do not have much to offer others. But as we give love out, we receive love back, many fold over.
Today is my birthday and I'm choosing to have great day. However if I can have my way, it won't be much different from any other day. They're all going to be great days! But today is the day I have right now, and if you'll excuse me, I'll finish here and get on with a few other things. As I said, it's not what I do that makes me happy, or what I eat, drink or anything, but having said that, I think I'll just have another little chocolate! Yum. As the Buddha says, "There is no road to happiness; happiness is the way." :-)
