How do you meet your needs?

What happens to you when you anticipate something so much, and then it doesn't happen? Don't you tend to go after something else to meet a need to feel good? What did you do today? Let me be more specific, what did you do today that was moving you towards feeling good in some way? Think about something you did within the last week that was in some kind of attempt to make you feel good, as if you were compelled to take this action, because you were moving towards pleasure. 

Fundamentally, as human beings, if we break down all of our actions, we do things to feel good. Some of us were taught, or learned how to meet this need in resourceful and empowering ways. Some of us taught ourselves how to meet the need for pleasure in ways that benefit us. For example: Exercise, meditation, eating the right foods, learning, contributing, helping others, loving, caring, achieving, starting businesses, making a million dollars or more and so on. Others, meet the same needs, in very unresourceful ways. Some join gangs. Some people hurt other people, degrade and bring people down, never let another person talk in a conversation. Some eat until they are completely stuffed, and then eat some more. Some meet the need of feeling pleasure by eating sweets and fast food on a consistent basis, until it is life threatening, some people die because of the way that they eat.. in fact, a large percentage of Americans do that very thing. 

Some act like jealous boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands and wives. Some cut themselves, some rob, cheat, steal and fight. What is the difference here? Why does one person do something completely and totally empowering, resourceful and beneficial while another does something that harms them or other people, that is sure to bring chaos and pain and doesn't help anyone? The answer is conditioning. It is how you were trained, and chances are, if you're doing the things to meet your needs that make you feel great, and are good for everything else, then you've learned that you are not a product of your environment if you don't choose to be. You've learned that your life is and will always be a direct reflection of how you see yourself (self image) how you think, and how you communicate to yourself in your head, which govern the kinds of actions you take, which create the results you get in your life. 

Just think about this in your day. How are you meeting your need to feel good? Is it helping you? Is it hurting you? Is it helping others, or is it hurting others? If we go through life, winging it, never really taking the time to ask ourselves these questions, we'll experience life half way, and never really create the kind of experiences we truly want but if we take control of what's happening in our minds, and truly action-on shaping our destinies, life tends to shift in an extraordinary direction. How will you meet your needs for now on? This article can change your life. Thanks for reading, this is Ryan Critchett from Power of a Positive Mind