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Do you remember earlier times when life had passion and enthusiasm And you wonder what happened to it?
Do you feel slightly depressed? No matter how much work you have done on yourself, your life lacks meaning?
Do you worry? Are you afraid when standing in line at the supermarket, driving your car down the road, sitting at your desk at work that something bad is going to happen?
Do you feel desperate over relationships, money, career? Where a heightened feeling of neediness is hinged to these aspects?
Does fear prevent you from fully living your life? Do you avoid trips, situations, people out of dread? Do you limit your lifestyle through dietary restrictions and exercise from the terror of dying?
Do you feel like a failure, like you are unaccomplished, unsuccessful in life? Like what you hoped to achieve in your future slipped away? And the vision you had no longer has meaning?
Do you feel there is something more you have to offer, that burns inside you, but can't quite name?
Does it make you feel bad when you think about yourself? Do you become ashamed, embarrassed or sickened with old memories saying to yourself, "You are so stupid." "Why did you do that?" "What made you ever think you were that great?"
Do you look at your life and see how you've accomplished all your goals, living the rewards of those goals, and yet... there is still a sense of incompleteness, a sense of something missing?
Do you feel nobody understands you, creating a sense of distance between you and them? Creating a sense of isolation and loneliness?
Do you compare your life to famous people? Feeling a sense of loss at the success of others?
Do you feel like there is a void in your life where you long for something you can't quite name?
Do you have a great love in your life that matches everything you ever dreamed of, and yet... there is still an emptiness, a longing melancholy that surrounds that love... and all loves? Or in that love, do you find yourself wishing for more?
Do you rely on substances to make you feel better such as food or alcohol? Is a sense of happiness and fulfillment attached to people, animals, achievements, events?
Do you find it hard to speak up for yourself? Letting others know what you need? Letting others know when they are stepping on your toes? Holding onto relationships that you have long outgrown, that are misuseful?
Do you endlessly read self help books, go to workshops in quests of answers to questions still unanswered?
Do you find you are often angry with no real cause? Agitated at your co- workers, your friends, your job?
Do you blame others for your unhappiness saying, "If you'd treat me better I wouldn't be angry?" "I'm only sad because you didn't do what you said you would."
Do you assume you know what's best for everyone else? Using statements like, "You should do this." "He should do that." "I don't know why she didn't do what I told her to do."
Do you feel special because you belong to a specific group, organization or believe a certain way, so when you are with someone who isn't a part of your club or beliefs, you feel validated that you are better?
Do you feel that everybody else is wrong saying, "Only an idiot would have done that." "I'd never do that."
Do you find yourself querying everything you do, not able to trust the decisions you make unless advised? Not able to enact unless a lover, friend, family member, religious counselor, therapist, channeler or healer has been consulted?
Do you question your ability to be loved? Feeling that you are insignificant because there is not a significant other in your life? Feeling that when there is someone finally to love, who loves you then life will be complete? Seeking love, but never quite finding love?
Do you find it difficult to be acknowledging of the other? When in the intimacy of being fully aware of them, you feel a sense of your own loss? You talk too much, you don't carefully listen, you don't speak enough or when the other is speaking you are always thinking of what next to say, feeling anxious that you're not talking, or anxious that you are expected to talk so that all interactions are self-consciously focused on you?
Do you believe everyone else is wrong and what you believe is right? Dismissing the other because their belief system doesn't agree with yours?
Do you obsess about your health? Where each ache or pain you think might be life threatening?
Do you feel you have no value? Thinking, "What's the point?" as you imagine ways of making yourself go away? Thinking: "If I'm gone, so will be the pain." Thinking: "If I'm gone, it will be better for everybody." "If I'm gone then they'll really miss me."
Do you control situations and people in order to get your needs met, to feel safe? Working to exclude people? Working a situation so everyone does what you want them to do?
Do you constantly feel threatened? Needing to compete whether it's with your children, your lover, husband, friend or new acquaintance?
Do you often think about other times, of people with a longing ache? Thinking of them as better people? Thinking of other times as better times?
When reading this questionnaire do you get protective or defensive? Do you find yourself getting angry, discounting everything that is written? Are you saying, "Well of course, everybody does this." Or are you saying, "This is stupid."
When reading this questionnaire are you saying, "Nope, none of this is me."
Who wouldn't benefit from a stronger sense of feeling connected, safe and whole? Where not only is it easy to love, but easy to feel loved. Ooh la la...Living practice does just that. It reaffirms to each individual their glorious heritage and wondrous nature that expects all the good that life has to offer, as it knows its Good.
Ooh la la...Living has the potential to free you of the beliefs and behaviors that have created blocks. Not only do these blocks restrict the ability for a person to reach their true vibrant potential that is life informing, life giving, life celebrating---but it is these same blocks that create disease. Through conscious daily practice of living the principals in Ooh la la...Living, it will re-connect you to the true source of your power, letting you know without a doubt you are the essence of all that is Good.
Imagine...not being anxious about life.
Imagine...not feeling hollow or empty, restless and longing.
Imagine...not being constantly sad or lonely.
Imagine...not being perpetually agitated or angry.
Imagine...not being in emotional or physical pain.
Imagine...feeling comfortable in your own skin, loving that skin.
Imagine...knowing for certain what you need to do for yourself in order to be happy and successful in life.
Imagine...knowing exactly who you are and why you have been born.
Imagine...knowing you deserve love in its highest order.
Imagine...having a joyous giddiness about life that feels exactly like being in love.
Imagine...having that same joyous giddiness when you feel or think of yourself.
Imagine...being in love with everyone and everything.
This is the true nature of your divine beingness, to love, and in that love, to live and live well. Fearlessly being who you are and meant to be. | 
