Willing to Be Pleased

Wow, this one has been a pivotal insight for many of the people I have shared it with.We can actually cultivate a willingness to be pleased.Viktor E. Frankl famously said:“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lie our growth and our freedom.”For many of us that space is taken up by negativity, fear, suspicion, disappointment, etc.  Even if we have done our healing and cleaned up our pain and emotional issues from the past, there may be a fossil of negativity lodged in this space.Through conscious cultivation, we can replace what lodges in this register with a “willingness to be pleased,” and this makes all the difference.  It takes only intent and repetition to be effective.Having a willingness to be pleased means that if things are not going as we feel they should, we trust that this is not the right course. We look for reasons and indications of why this is not the right thing, and then we explore what might be the right thing.It implies a deep trust of life, and that what is happening is right.  From this position, we are no longer judging life but looking for the meaning and learning from what is happening.  We find what we are looking for.Try walking through your day with a willingness to be pleased, and see what impact it has on your perspective, your insight, your learning, joy, and connection with others.  Spread this concept with others you come in contact with. I hope it is catching.