What is Happiness?

If you ask the average person about happiness, they may describe excitement or thrills. Perhaps they know satisfaction from accomplishment. But this is only a glimmer of happiness. Short, passing experiences.

Often, we have a deep sense that we deserve happiness. When it’s not lasting or forthcoming, we can develop addictive behaviours, seeking the next hit of fleeting joy. Or we may experience a quiet dissatisfaction with life.

Yet genuine happiness flows from within. It is the very flow of life itself. In fact, one of our subtle bodies is a body made of bliss. This is also called the causal or celestial level.

Why isn’t this a more common experience? There are 2 big reasons.

One:
We’ve forgotten who we are, under the noise of the mind and emotions. As a result, we’ve become identified with our personal sense of self, locking our gaze outward onto the world. We’re looking out when what we seek is within.

Two:
Because of that identification, the ego-self creates narratives about who ‘I am’ and resists experiences that don’t conform. We grasp and what we want and reject what we don’t want, creating difficulties for ourselves. We can become slaves to our survival responses.

This rejection includes ideas, emotions, and sensations. They’re suppressed and held in the energy bodies, fogging the experience and making them unsettled. This makes recognizing who we are even harder.

Love is not dissimilar. Love is a deep flow in the fabric of consciousness. Love holds creation itself within its field.

But those same issues above block our awareness of this flow.

When we’re very young, we’re like a ball of emotion and naturally love our parents and family. But if they’re not in touch with who they are, they teach us to repress and control, too.

In the early part of a new relationship, we can open up to that again. But if we’re not able to connect with our roots, the karma that drew us together and/or the reality of being with another person can dry up that source.

Again, we seek what was lost. Some go from relationship to relationship, like an addiction. Others give up.

But love isn’t found in another. Its source is within, in our own open heart. When we find that, we can share it.

This is why I talk so much of healing. Yes, it can sometimes be nasty to see what we’ve been carrying around. But this is clearing the shadows over happiness and love.

“Love is all you need.”
– John Lennon

Davidya