Restore factory settings

Our default setting is actually “OK and happy.”

ali campbell

Wow. Great reminder, from an NLP book I’m reading. (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)

It’s interesting that we humans tend to search for wellbeing, when doing so actually covers it up. We don’t have to find what it is that we wish to feel, we already are it.

What is it that you wish to feel, today? Peace? Connection? Contentment?

Here’s a fascinating thought: Happiness covers all of that. Because happiness is inherently harmonized with absolutely any other quality. If I have ______ I am happy — and I will not actually have happiness without also having that desired ______. (For example, try plugging in the examples of peace, connection, contentment.)

Let’s go back to the question of what you wish to feel today. (Don’t search too hard, remember that’ll only cover it up!) If you’re not sure, always go with Happiness.

So what have I layered on in my life that covers up my happiness? An even better question is, how can I go directly to my default setting of OK and Happy in this moment?

Maybe I pause and look out the window at nature. What if I send a text to a loved one just to say hi. Could be I give deep appreciation for something right in front of me that I see, hear, feel, or find interesting.

I notice that all of these bring me into the present. What a gift.