Where is your Bluebird?
On a recent walk, my mind wrestled for a subject to submit for Women’s Networking Group program, a bluebird literally flew in front of me Then perched on a near by branch looking at me as if it had a message for me.
A smile crossed my face. Of course. That is it. That is the message I need to communicate.
What is the massage? What message could a small bluebird have to converse?
Have you ever heard the old saying the bluebird of happiness. Do you remember Disney’s movie the Song of the South? In the song Zip-a dee-doo-dah’ they sing ‘Mr. bluebird’s on my shoulder, and everything is Satisfact-ch’ll’.
The message is simple yet many times gets lost in the shuffle of our everyday task. Happiness. Do you allow yourself to feel happy?
It is true sometimes happiness gets misplaced or shoved aside in our hectic lives. We forget that happiness is a choice. We overlook that we can choose to feel uptight, empty, or stressed or we can choose joy, gratitude, and delight in our daily lives.
There are some of us that also put off happiness. I often hear clients state that they can’t be happy until the major project at work is off their desk, or until they lose weight, or when the children are older, or when until they retire. The list goes on and on. There is a belief that happiness is conditional. I hear, ‘When I do this or when I have that, then I will be happy.’
Life is put on hold even as many doors to happiness are opened. Yet the open doors are not seen because joy is deferred to another place and time. Feeling happy and fulfilled is not a destination. It is a side-effect to be experienced through the voyage of everyday life. Happiness is found through laughing, loving, playing, and enjoying the simplest luxuries of life.
Happiness is similar to using a muscle, if you don’t use it you lose it. It becomes weak. Find joy by taking a moment to reflect on what makes you feel happy. Reinforce the sensation of feeling enjoyment, cheerfulness, and amusement in each day. Locate something that conveys delight in your surroundings. What ever that may be. Watching children at play, take in the wonder of flowers, or simply enjoy the paint color on the wall.
Pick up that small treasure you placed on your desk that has meaning to only you. Remember the feeling it gives you and the reason why you wanted it so near to you. Absorb that feeling into every cell of your being. This is happiness. It is yours to take with you every moment of every day. Awaken the child within that has been set aside for to long and learn to feel happy again.
Soon with practice, you to will feel ‘Mr. bluebird’s on you shoulder, and everything will be Satisfact-ch’ll’
“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.” - LEO BUSCAGLIA
by | June 5, 2006
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