Some Wednesday Wit ~ October 28, 2009

Happy Wednesday everyone! I hope your week is going well and yes the half way point is here! Some of us call it over the hump day and this week we have only days to trick or treater day.

Ok so before we go too much further the only wit I leave you with kind of ties in .

Knock Knock

Who's there?

Love

Love who?

I love you too! : )

So....... LOL

How are you celebrating the holiday and what candy or treat or tricks are you passing out?

Today is Part 3 of on our Basic needs Today is a discussion of love and belonging.

As I promised you last Thursday I wanted to write some of my thoughts on our basic needs and how the power of a smile and the very essence of gratitude can not only sustain our basic needs but help in their development.

In 1943 Abraham Maslow’s paper ‘A Theory of Human Motivation’ was written and included his theory about the hierarchy of needs that we all have. The goal of this post is not dissect or go into much detail of what each need is about, but to rather highlight them and explain my mission to share the power of the smile and the importance of gratitude in ones life.

Love and belonging

So we covered thus far the basic survival needs and yesterday security. Today the next important need within Human nature is the need for love and the feeling of being part of a larger group, parenthood, community, friendships.

We have all gone through parts of our life when we felt alone and perhaps anxious.

The social networking craze on the Internet is proof that people want and even need a feeling of belonging. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Gather all have shown increasing growth that allows people to share the important and even frivolous but never the less important to social structure.

The need for love is so important and strong Robert Browning was quoted as saying:

~Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.

Mother Teresa put it this way:

~I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts,

there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Many for sure have felt the sting of love lost, love misplaced and even misguided but indeed the search goes on until you find that one true guide to tag along with you through life.

Love can be found in many places, in the flower garden in spring you can see love blooming all around you.

It can be found in the reflection of a babies eyes that look at you with awe and wonder.

Love can all be found in a written poem, streaming with the flow of gentle flowing words that touch our soul.

Love must always be aroused with a sense of your understanding of you however. Love can be hard to find if your lacking gratitude and joy with oneself.

The human challenge is to find love in ourselves, to love we must first find the will to love any situation that we fall into.

Not love in the sense of no matter how hard the road is I love it, but love in the sense that no matter how hard the road is I know that I can easily be loved even if only by me. That you are a kind and gentle spirit with a heart wide open not cut off because of hurt or worry.

The ability to smile at oneself is perhaps a gift but it can be learned and with practice will shape and mold our emotions.

The basic needs of survival and security are felt when they are not being met quickly with a sense of panic and fear. The need of love and belonging and love when not met are felt with loss and emptiness.

We all can over come this feeling with just a simple act of understanding our spirit our true direction and desires.

What is it that we want? What is it that we can acquire right now?

To reach out from ourselves and touch others with a phone call, a joke, or just a simple sincere smile!

No one can or should feel alone and empty the smile and the sense of gratitude can refuel and energize the soul. We just need to let it. With the smile we just need to give it.

Tomorrow is part 4 of 4 and we will look at the human need for self esteem, significance and becoming a great part of the whole.

Have a great day everyone!

The project and outreach of ‘Make ME Smile Online’ is simple.

Teach others the power of the sincere smile with education, practice, and entertainment. All we need now is you.

All we need is love! That was a song was it not?

Enjoy your day everyone! Enjoy your smile and pass one on! You will make a difference.

Till next time...... Smile!

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NOTE: A new edition to MMSO click on the link above and you will be taken to our new format for the daily blog on Make ME Smile online. With this we added a bit of music on our music player. We also added a new video player which shows some of the videos we have added over the last 7 months. I hope you enjoy it. I have enjoyed putting it all together.