"See the perfection in the seeming imperfection that seems to be." ~ Lester Levinson
The 3-step magic formula for happiness is not some luxury experience for the elite few. Everyone deserves full access to everlasting joy. When every human being knows how to be happy and live life in a truly relaxed and empowered space, then we will have a truly liberated peaceful society.
I believe we all need some formula for happiness because the world we live in today can feel very busy, overwhelming, and complex. Every year we are dealing with ever-increasing technology and speed, and this has complicated the natural human experience of life. As a result, we experience anxiety and bodily tension every day, often without knowing it because we are simply used to it.
I find that anytime life becomes overly serious and complicated, the answers are extraordinarily simple. To find happiness in any intense situation, we need to balance out all of the complexity with a natural softer approach of absolute simplicity. By returning to our basic needs for emotional warmth, human connection, simple foods, pure clean water, and decent exercise and sleep, we'll find the deepest meaning of our lives and fully enjoy our human existence.
Take this little Indian boy (below) for example who was born in the lower class of India in a family of beggars. I’m guessing that he owns just his big baggy hand-me-down shirt and nothing else. Perhaps begging is all he will ever know his whole life. Yet, here he is authentically smiling, bowing to you not begging, and living in a state of reverence.
He has nothing yet he is deeply happy. You can see how his eyes are smiling and he’s looking directly into your soul. Maybe he is unaware of his life situation, or perhaps he was trained to believe that you’re more likely to give him some food or something if he smiles. Either way, for me he represents total reverence and joy for life amid dire poverty.
✨ The 1st Secret to Happiness ✨
Develop an unstoppable habit of appreciation.
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." ~ Melody Beattie
The #1 thing that causes a miserable life is a complaining irreverent negative mind. When you can stop the mind and feel some level of appreciation for everything and everyone around you, you suddenly become happy! When you’re grateful for the things you have and don't have, for what you're doing with your life and not doing with it, you discover a sense of awe and wonder for your existence.
When you can live in this awesome state all day long, you'll discover before you sleep that night a flame of pure untainted awareness inside you, that lights the way through any darkness. When you are simply aware of what’s right about this moment of your life, approving of who you are being, what you are thinking, and what you’re doing, life expands into a whole new dimension. You begin to see only the good things inside of everyone and develop this ever-present attitude of gratitude.
This constant reverence for life is the most empowering and inspiring space one could ever live their life. It completely relaxes the body and heals your mind on every level. You come home to your heart and realize that this feeling of appreciation is your most natural state.
"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melody Beattie
To find this sacred level of gratitude, you’ll have to let go of your daily complaint habit and help your ego to retire into this sweet deep acceptance of life exactly as it is. This doesn’t mean you're giving up on your dreams, but rather choosing to love this moment of life as it's showing up for you right now.
Appreciating yourself and your life situation exactly the way offers up a clarifying energy that allows you to understand and know the bigger picture of your soul's life plan. You begin seeing life as omnidirectional, knowing that any path you decide to take is going to be the right one. As long as you're in the attitude of accepting, appreciating, and allowing for life to be exactly what it is, you cannot make a wrong turn.
✨ The 2nd Secret to Happiness ✨
Let go of attachment to your desires having to manifest the way your ego believes they should and on your precise timing.
"When the ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful." - Yogi Bhajan
The ego is the identity of the mind. This means it becomes a time-bound, desire-based, perpetual thinking machine that believes happiness comes only from fulfilling our desires. The ego only sees cause and effect and thinks that happiness is an effect of manifesting each one of our egoic dreams and desires. It thinks that if you’re not manifesting your dreams, then you cannot and should not be happy.
The problem with this dynamic is that we end up getting trapped in this incessant burning yearning habit that constantly wants and needs something more. The perpetual appetite for more makes one forget to savor this moment and see the sacred perfection of life. We want what we want when we want it.
You know you’re living from ego whenever you feel impatient or rushing to get to the next thing. The ego believes its desires need to manifest at a certain time, or your happiness is at stake and may never arrive. It doesn’t like to wait for anything, especially for happiness. It has this hungry habit of chasing desires, like a mouse on a wheel running after the next slice of cheese. It thinks if only you could run faster, be smarter, richer, and in better shape then you’ll find your biggest cheese and ultimate happiness will abound.
Yes, the foolish ego cannot ever find happiness. This is because the moment it’s satisfied, it takes one breath of relief before the next desire comes rushing in. The ego is the creator of all our suffering because it cannot relax and be content with all that is. There is nothing wrong with this desiring habit, yet when you end up following it as your truth all day long, all life long, you end up feeling like you're living in lack or always missing something. You feel programmed into a state of tension, fear, and repetitive anxiety. Always striving and never arriving.
✨ The 3rd Secret to Happiness ✨
Develop heightened sensitivity and receptivity to the Universe
Sensitivity and receptivity play vital roles in our freedom. When we are in touch with our feelings, we can be exquisitely aware of any negativity attempting to creep in. We can stop identifying with it because we are aware of how we are feeling. This divine sensitivity to our feelings, thoughts, and overall life experience empowers us by enhancing our connection with conscious awareness.
Choosing to disconnect, ignore our truth, and feel separate from life causes our emotional body to become numb. We tend to hibernate in the mind and can spend our entire day ignoring our emotional needs, getting lost in things like food, substances, drama, and addictive thoughts, and leaving a sensitive reverence for life behind in the dust.
The best way we can interact with the Universe is by trusting in our sensitivity and trying to return to our original state as we were in the beginning. Return to how you were a hyper-sensitive baby who was deeply receptive to life. This is your most natural state. You are surrendered to each moment, open to whatever life wants to teach you.
Your mind-body is sooo super open because deep down, you know there is no possible way a negative thought can take over your mind or emotions. You are feeling such an immense state of openness and freedom, that you find the natural feeling of appreciation for life wherever you are. A life of sensitive, conscious, open receptivity is the most liberating experience of all.
"If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. It is your restlessness that causes chaos." ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
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