Are You Waiting to Be Happy?

Who Chooses for You?

We are stars wrapped in skin. The light you are seeking has always been within. ~Rumi

Does success require a toll in your life? Have you given up a lot of what makes you happy to fit in, or for security?

A lot of people have, because it was the old way. An example might be a young couple in the early or mid 1900’s who gave up their dreams to work long hours in a business or factory, and to raise their children for a better life than they could have. There are many virtues in that decision, including a strong worth ethic and a desire to contribute to the greater good. It was the best choice at the time — but they had less access and fewer options than you do.

A new world calls for a new way.

The old strategy of conformity and sacrifice isn’t working anymore. It does not provide prosperity, happiness, and security. There are too many powerful people, groups and corporations who will take advantage of the good will of intelligent, creative, and hard working people.

Some of our best, most talented people see themselves as locked into unhappy circumstances, or disconnected from life and from what they really can do.

Our compliance to a broken system only hurts us.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not into fighting the old, but in building the new. ~Socrates

The way out is a paradigm shift. It’s not up to our leaders, or our celebrities, or our family to do it. It is up to each one of us, individually.

On a personal level, this means learning self-acceptance and self-love. It means awakening empathy, or bringing empathy into balance. It means an ongoing journey into Love. It means getting comfortable with authentic emotion, and mental and emotional clearing. It means a stronger and stronger intuition.

My purpose with Love in the New World is to create a community with tools to uncover authenticity, awaken creativity, and to hold space for astonishing transformation and healing.

Being true to yourself is not normal, but will be.

Identity cannot be fabricated or found, but emerges from within when one has the courage to let go. -Doug Cooper

When Founder and Facilitator of Love in the New World, Joan Weisman, was nine years old, her family began attending a local meditation ashram. She had always been interested in church and, at first, this was a surprising approach.

Spending holidays with both Catholic and Jewish cousins combined with regular trips to the meditation ashram, ignited important questions. Her lifelong search for deeper truth was born. Find out more about her story here.

Be Your Own Authority.

Freedom doesn’t mean ignoring the preferences of others; it means not compulsively imposing someone else’s preferences on yourself. ~Don Sanchez

Isn’t it strange how we’ve been waiting to be happy? What has to be different before you can be happy? What exactly has to be different before you can be happy now? Do you need to be married, loved, successful, pretty, famous, rich, or something else?

It’s a hard habit to break, but this putting off happiness until is a surrender of authority to the outside. Literally giving power away. That’s our power!

In early 2001, on one of my first trips to study NLP with Dr. Richard Bandler, I (Joan Weisman) was encouraged by a friend to “go up and ask him for a specific result you want from the workshop.”

After some time reflecting an idea popped in. I approached Dr. Bandler during a break. I was nervous. He looked at me, sideways. “What do you want,” he said.

“I want to be my own authority!” I responded.

His face immediately changed as he turned to face me. “Good one.” He said, and began.

He started talking. To be honest, I do not remember a word he said. We were facing each other in front of the large conference room with people wandering around on break, but all of that disappeared.

What I do remember, is a vivid mental image of myself in a small, white room with the walls covered in photographs. Each picture was a person or position that my subconscious believed had authority over who I could or should be. For me, the photos were stacked floor to ceiling and the oppression was overwhelming.

I remember describing to him what I was seeing.

Then, I heard Dr. Bandler’s voice and in a fierce instant a bright orange-red flame rose up and engulfed all the photographs. It was a pure, cleansing fire. The imaginary room burned into ash and dropped away. As it did I felt relief sweep through me – from my mind down into my cells.

Love, joy, and happiness are internal states of being – an inside job.

When we search for love and happiness through experiences, achievement, or specific relationships, we eventually experience loss and pain.

When our consciousness is on the surface, there are countless ways to be manipulated, deceived and controlled.

As we reconnect to our authentic perceptions, we attune more to people’s motivations and can have amazing insight into relationships and situations.

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Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are. ~Brene Brown