I believe that every single person in the world is driven by an inner urge to experience and produce more happiness in his or her life. That's why we all do what we do and while each one of us may term it differently, the underlying desire is to feel good - to be happy. We all want to be happy and rightfully so, life is goodness and the whole purpose of living is to enjoy life. So there's nothing wrong with seeking newer, better ways of manifesting happiness in your life, but it's about time you started gaining a better understanding about how to find happiness in your life because many times, we go about it the unlawful way chasing after things that we think will bring us the happiness we seek only to discover that it isn't so.
Social conditioning has painted a somewhat distorted picture of what happiness is. All ideas of happiness carry an emphasis on the external part of life. It seems to be attached to doing certain things or having certain things and while the doing and having isn't wrong in any way, making happiness dependent on effects is a sure way of missing it for a bigger portion of your daily living. If you want to find happiness in your life on a daily basis, there are certain things you must know now and begin adapting in your daily routine. To begin with, let's reframe what happiness means to you.
Happiness doesn't mean that everything is absolutely perfect each moment of the day, it means that you are content and grateful for where you are, that you can see some good in your current situation and that at your core, you feel stable, whole, and enough - just as you are. Happiness is being in your alignment. It is being in a state of appreciation, love and feeling good not because of what's happening in that moment but because of who you are. It is allowing life to freely be, as it will, trusting that only good can come to and through you because goodness is the fundamental essence of your life.
This doesn't mean that you won't have challenging days or things to overcome. It doesn't mean that you will always have everything perfectly laid up each day. The clouds are just as necessary to this beautiful world as the clear blue sky. The storms are just as normal as the gorgeous summer days. But the sun and the clear blue skies don't go into depression or doubt their own goodness simply because dark skies cover them for they know the truth about life. I want you to start recognizing the same in your life. So here is something new that I wish to introduce to you:
Happiness is the outward expression of Joy, which is an overfill, a saturation and a state of being from a mind that is highly developed, strengthened and deeply connected to its source. At the core or source of any individual existence is Spirit and at this inner most central life-giving place there is only bliss. So in my opinion, what I have found to be the truth about happiness is that: It is bliss from that spiritual center that gives life to you and I, seeking to express itself. That expression at its most concentrated and individual level is what we consciously refer to as happiness.
Is it thus normal to want happiness in life? Absolutely! That is who we are in essence. The inner pull we feel toward seeking more happiness is simply that life- giving spirit within us wanting to express more of the bliss that it is. So how can you find happiness in your life?
First of all, slow down, stop pursuing it or chasing after it as though it is something external to you that you must get. It cannot and will not be found in the doing, getting or having of some external thing because it is in itself an expression of something fundamentally higher - bliss.
Secondly, know that there is no way to finding happiness. Happiness is the way. It is the way to eternal joy, to effortless manifestations and to a thriving lifestyle that is based on freedom. You can't put happiness on hold to a future time because you either cultivate it here and now or it remains elusive.
Third thing that you must know is that if you choose to view happiness as an outward expression of Joy, which is a state of being that's generated from the experience of bliss coming about through that higher connection with the living spirit within you, then you can relax more and be easy with this idea of having more happiness in your life. You can start working on the current beliefs you have regarding happiness, how to have it and where to seek it so that they can reflect more of this new understanding that is dawning upon you.
Knowing that the starting point is the living spirit within you, the only work then is for you to discipline yourself enough and retrain your mind into a stronger connection with the source of your happiness so that you can make it manifest in your outer physical world effortlessly and in ways that you are sure will never be threatened by any facts that arise as you continue with your human journey.
When your happiness is coming from its true source, the cars, homes, money or anything else you play with in the physical world will be enjoyable but they won't enslave you or dictate how much happiness and joy you can experience. Even during stormy or cloudy days, your central sun will still stand strong and stable until the temporary changes have passed on. This for me is what the modern individual needs to know about happiness. All the common little ideas and practices that personality teachers emphasize are well and good as far as they go but given the constant changes of the material world, cultivating happiness must be at a level that surpasses the personality or even the dual world. A mind that seeks to cultivate happiness physically, mentally and emotionally alone will still not strike the level where the source of happiness is to be found. We need to create mindsets that cultivate happiness from the true source and then naturally balance the two extremes of our existence such that at the highest level we can then be able to connect with bliss and from the lower levels of our every day living we are confident enough to go about daily work and dream building with a confidence that happiness is in us not in the thing we are attempting to produce.
Written by Janette Getui
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