Reactions to Carola's story

I've gotten quite a few emails from people reacting to Carola's amazing story (on my blog yesterday)... Her story really seems to strike home. And it's fascinating isn't it. Here's a woman who has been worried her whole life about finding a man, losing weight, getting a better house and all the other things we mortals worry about. And then one day the doctor tells her it's game over... she's going to die... and what happens. She stops worrying! She stops thinking about the future. She stops thinking about all the things she thinks she 'should' do to live a happy life and then she discovers BINGO... the happiness she was looking for all the time was right here all along. And she says she felt so peaceful... isn't this amazing. It seems to me that Carola made the most incredible discovery a human being can make. She got it. She was enlightened - at least for a while! And then the doctor said she wasn't going to die and all her worries came back....

Well if you want to read more about this, you will probably enjoy my new book Are You Happy Now? 10 Ways to Live a Happy Life... I tried to write about all this in my new book - about all the 'shoulds' we have and all the things we think we must do that prevent from discovering the happiness that is right here, right now. Wouldn't it be nice if we could learn to be as present as Carola was without having a doctor tell us we're going to die!

Comments

[Mihkel]

I think pain is universal and personal teacher for everybody. Even if its caused by ones own thinking. Even if somebody is telling: "Stop worrying!". There first has to be pain and through that the enlightening realisation can take place personally. After that an action or no action will take place. The realisation may not happen on "the first time of pain/suffering". But one day theres going to be a day when one has just enough of the same old pain! :D So if there is no pain there can be no teaching/learning. Cause how do You make a child understand that the soup is too hot to eat when he/she hasnt a clue what too hot means. So he/she has to have a clue first, a personal clue. What Im saying is that there is no need to teach it to child at all, because sooner or later he/she will know all about "too hot to eat" just fine by his/her own clues. Iam not saying pain is good or bad, Iam just saying it has a natural part in continueing of our lives obviously! So one should always worry about the car before crossing the road. Infact its natural.