What is my happiness about?  Have I made the right decisions for me?  Have I lived in gratitude and grace?  Or, have I always worried about the future vs. just living each day?  

I look back on my life and wonder, “why did I allow so many others to lead me into their thinking and not follow my own guidance for happiness?”  I realize that I grew up in a military family and we ALL followed orders as a matter of course.  But, as I got older, why did I allow others to tell me what to do and me, not question whether that was right for me?  Was it my fear of being wrong or not having enough self-confidence to act on my own?  Maybe some of both.  

As an example, as I sit and watch TV with my husband, I realize that almost every commercial is about health and getting the right drug to do the “right” healing.  But, I’m not ill.  Why are there so many TV ads for illness?  Is it subliminal programming to cause us to feel that we cannot take care of ourselves without Big Pharma?  Am I being duped into believing that I can’t make up my own mind about what my body needs or doesn’t need?

I know better!  I was in the TV sales and corporate sales promotion businesses, and I called on Big Pharma as a client.  I know that profits ring that door bell.  

So, what am I going to do about following my own lead when I am being pushed to believe what others are telling me?  I am going to go quiet inside and ask myself, ” is this right for me?”  What is my intuition whispering to me?  That my (and your) happiness depends on getting in touch with the extraordinary power of who we really are and what we were born with – the God-given power of Trust in ourselves.  

Namaste, Dear Friends – the Divine in me honors the Divine in you!