Exploring Happiness #22- Internal Signals Poem by June Stepansky

Internal signals
help us
understand our needs.

External signals
bombard us continuously,
pushing us to question
the competency of our choices.

Internal signals are more reliable,
growing out of perceptions
we have learned
over time
to trust.


William Wordsworth wisely observed. “The world is too much with us.”
The outside world impinges on our consciousness constantly through television, family or the people we know. We get subliminal messages from all these sources of which we are often not even aware.
These messages can create in us desires beyond our actual needs and can sometimes leave us with a vague sense of anxiety which is difficult to identify or understand, and which can undermine our pleasure in the things that we already enjoy.


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“Men are created different: they lose their social freedom
and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.”
David Riesman

If your desires are endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
Thomas Fuller