Insights on Freedom & Happiness
w/Daniel Schmachtenberger

Thursday, January 14th

6:30 – 10:00pm

Donations: $35

Stillpoint Bodylounge
965 Second Street, Encinitas, CA 92024

Insights on Freedom and Happiness
Living a self-directed life

No one has ever made you feel anything. All feelings are internally generated.
The event you find so upsetting, someone else might not be bothered by at all. The situation you are
so excited about might be completely undesirable to another. It is the meaning your mind gives to events in the world that causes your emotional responses, not the events themselves. Think about this. No one has ever made you happy. They have simply acted in ways that match what your programming says is desirable, and thus you are allowed to feel momentarily happy. The same action from the same person might be experienced through the filters of someone else’s programming as offensive or scary. Every time you feel happy or sad, angry or peaceful, in love or lonely…it is because of you (or rather your programming)…nothing else. Happiness and peace come from being connected to life. Negative emotions come from the mental agitation of unfulfilled programs causing a disconnect from life.

Can you be at peace no matter what is happening around you? Yes.
Can you feel joyful for no particular reason? Yes.
Can you notice and undo your programming and be free from agitation? Yes.

When you ask “why” enough times regarding the reasons you do anything you will find it is all motivated by feelings. Doing what you think will cause pleasurable feelings and avoid painful ones. Working so hard to arrange the world around you—house, job, things, position, other people—in the manner your programming says will cause the feelings you want….but it is the programming and not the condition of the world around you that is really dictating your feelings. This is the point. What if you could feel joyful, peaceful, loving, secure, empowered, at ease…all the time, unconditionally? And were freed from being a slave to your programming and thus a puppet of your environment?
From that state of fullness, with your security coming from self-trust, appreciating everyone and everything without mistakenly thinking you need them…then how would you live?

Offering insights and tools to support you in the attainment of such freedom is the goal of this talk. We look forward to sharing with you.