Does Happiness = Good Health?
I saw a review of The Guru Next Door recently where the writer praised the book, but questioned why Bruce Di Marsico didn’t overcome bad health. What a wonderful question!!! While they left the door open for perhaps that wasn’t what was important to him, it brings up a key question about happiness. For those of you who have not read Guru, Bruce Di Marsico, creator of the Option Method, died in his early 50’s after losing the battle with heart disease, diabetes and other things. Having known him for 25 years and seen him through his illness and death, I have to say that I never asked the question. I’m not sure he gave it any serious consideration either. He was focussed on Perfect Happiness, not Perfect Health. He knew that he didn’t have to be unhappy because of his struggles (which, by the way, he did not see as struggles – he saw it as nature). And his struggles were truly difficult. He never deviated from his message of the possibility of happiness no matter what. Why? Because there is so much more power in that simple truth, than in possibly harnessing our happiness to overcoming everything we don’t want in our lives. Why limit what happiness can do? To say, if I am happy, I will be healthy, is a judgment that I don’t want to make. I would say, rather, that if I am happy, I am happy and I will want what I want. Perfect health might be part of that or it might not. Right now I have a cold. I thought, I wonder if I can get rid of my cold now instead of waiting. A funny thing happened. Nothing changed. But I got in touch with something. I didn’t really care. Perhaps if I really wanted the cold to heal instantly it would. I couldn’t really create that desire. It simply was not in me. So if I were truly happy, would I have wanted that? To say that I would, is to limit the power of happiness. I don’t say what happiness is, what it can do, can’t do. I don’t say what happiness creates. It is what it is. The teacher, if you will. Bruce was sick and died. Was he happy? What difference does it really make to my happiness? That is the real question for me. I wouldn’t want to judge him because he died and miss out on the powerful message he spent his life sharing: Nothing can make us unhappy. That is the message of the Option Method. Right now, I am truly happy – let’s see what happens next!!!!
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