The Harmony of Authentic Happiness
When you are in a state of authentic happiness, then you are in harmony with yourself and you are on purpose. You are filled with great peace and a love of everything and everyone, and your present moments feel perfect. There is no pain, doubt, or self-blame. There is simply amazement at all that you are: your body, your mind, your spirit. You recognize that your whole being is happiness.
In the present moment, you experience authentic happiness and therefore you exude happiness. All that you have been seeking outside of yourself, you already are. Like the light of the first star that shines every night, you realize that the same guiding light has always been inside of you. Your view of the present day as a time of darkness and deprivation in order to secure a future of lightness and joy changes. When in harmony, the meaning of time changes because you no longer see time as an obstacle to authentic happiness. You stop thinking that happiness will be achieved at some time in the future because you are happy right now. You totally accept the present moment and you know how to be happy. But, when you stop accepting the present moment and shift to thinking that happiness will come in the future, as a result of achieving X, Y, and Z then happiness quickly vanishes. It is as though clouds are obscuring your inner light; you can't see your own North Star in the dark night. Letting happiness break through the clouds is as simple as asking yourself, at any given moment, how you feel. Do you feel sad? Angry? Neutral? To get back to authentic happiness, be in the present moment and accept what is. Resistance is the cause of our negative feelings and takes us further away from bliss. This may feel like an internal battle as you go from feeling bad to good and then back to bad and then have to make a conscious decision to reconnect to feeling good. The more often you practice accepting what is and being lighthearted, the longer the good feelings will last. Eventually, it will become your natural and automatic feeling; negative feelings will become the exception.
Focus on doing more things that bring you joy. It is strange, but true, that a lot of people are not happy and wonder why they have so much unhappiness in thier lives, yet they do nothing to create it. They don't see that doing things that make them joyful is a sure fire way for how to be happy. Start by making choices that will set you on the right path to more authentic happiness. The choices themselves may not create happiness, but they will get you closer to it. Start small and take "baby steps". Will watching the nightly news bring more or less happiness into your life? Would going to bed 15 minutes earlier make you a more effective person? Does eating that piece of chocolate cake bring you momentary pleasure followed by hours of guilt? To have authentic happiness, you need to make better choices. When you are in a state of authentic happiness, your life is easier and it feels hopeful and somehow lighter. Day-to-day living is no longer a scramble to stay ahead of the next hassel. You are actually living in the present moment instead of living for the future. When your singular moments of happiness are strung together they weave into a new pattern for your life. This pattern becomes the new roadmap of your emotional well being. You will want to use it to navigate your life because a life of joy is easy to accept and therefore perpetuate. The happy feelings will lead to choices that create more happiness and so on and so on. Being in harmony obliterates all doubt and worries. You are no longer worrisome about making enough money, you no longer feel a need to protect yourself from imagined future dangers such as getting divorced or losing your job. Instead, you are a powerful being, alive and re-awakened with the knowledge that you can take care of yourself and have a meaningful life. The world becomes a lot less scary and all the people that caused you pain will fade next to your bright inner light. All the right people and circumstances will appear for you, effortlessly. Be in harmony and create the life of authentic happiness that you are entitled to live.
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