It is
November 23rd 1963 in a
town in the Deep South.You are invited to a public meeting of the
Concord NC USA city council.City council chairman, Milo Buckworth, has
called a special meeting to address the city council and all interested
citizens.Now, at this time, I’d like to introduce
ConcordCity
councilman and Mayoral candidate Milo Buckworth.
I bet you have heard this one a thousand times: 'You must love
yourself first in order to be able to really love another'. Cliché?Certainty? True? Absolutely.
So why didn't I call this first Secret 'Love yourself'? Simply
because the concept of loving yourself often tends to be misconstrued, or at the least not
fully understood. In an attempt to be more encompassing and whole in our approach of self-relating, I
felt that the term
Embrace
reflected the experience of truly loving yourself.
How would it be to live a life filled with joy, optimism, courage and
hope? What do you need to let go of for these aspects of love to manifest in
your life?
Most of us have patterns or strategies that we use,
consciously or unconsciously, to stay the same, to resist the very change and
growth that we most want to embody. Having an awareness of how we block
ourselves is a wondrous first step. Once something comes into our conscious
awareness, we can choose and actualize the new.
An interesting phenomenon, which was documented after the Second World
War seen in ex-Prisoners of War (POWs), was the ability of some of the POWs to
come through the experience and maintain a state of emotional stability, love
and peace internally.
Where many were permanently scarred, whether
emotionally, physically or psychologically, some individuals were found to have
coped surprisingly well.
Those who survived the ordeal and went on to be
successful in their personal and work relationships maintained an attitude of
positivity.
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Wikipedia states that “Laughter
is an audible expression or appearance of happiness, an inward feeling
of joy or humor (laughing on the inside). It may ensue (as a
physiological reaction) from jokes, tickling, and other stimuli. Strong
laughter can sometimes bring an onset of tears or even moderate muscular
pain. Laughter is a mechanism everyone has; laughter is part of the
universal human vocabulary. There are thousands of languages, hundreds
of thousands of dialects, but everyone speaks laughter in pretty much
the same way.”
