Happiness - Find Authentic Happiness By Aligning With What You Love

Happiness is a feeling that comes from within when you are in alignment with what you love. It is by aligning with what you love that you will feel an authentic inner sense of happiness.

In today's world there are a lot of distractions that are competing for our attention. For example there are the TV shows, advertisements, traffic, noise and the list goes on.

It is these external influences that take us away from our center and our core where we feel a sense of inner peace and calm and feeling of being happy within.

Happiness - align with what you love to feel happy

It is these outer distractions that take you away from the inner joy that is our natural birthrite.

So how do we tap into the inner sense of authentic happiness?

Well the first place is to go within. Personally I find a lot of people who are looking for a sense of happiness try to find it on the outside. In the things the world can give them.

However, authentic happiness comes from within to discover the things that you love. Then it is a matter of aligning with what you love in order to bring a sense of this joy into your life.

Happiness - the inner sense of aligning with what you love

The deeper question then becomes 'How do I find what I love?'

Well, the first step is to go within. It is your inner world that will show you the path to true and lasting happiness.

The way to go in is to firstly silence your mind and enter into a state the Buddhists call no-mind. This state of no-mind opens the doorway to accessing your inner world through your feelings.

So once in a state of no-mind, simply scan through your body and notice where there is any tension within your body. Then just like letting go of a stone, allow the tension within your body to drop to the ground. This will bring you into a space of both no-mind and inner sense of relaxation.

Once you are in this state, you can then place your attention and awareness on your heart center. This is located in the middle of your breast bone and is about the size of a golf ball. The reason why we place our attention and awareness on our heart center is because our heart always leads us towards what we love.

When your full awareness is on your heart center then you will most likely feel a small pull. To me this feels like the small tug of a spider's web on my heart center. I find it is best practised in nature because you will be away from the distractions of daily life and allows you the time and space to focus within.

However, when you feel the pull on your heart center then just allow it to guide you. For example if you are beside a stream then just allow the pull within your heart to guide you to where you feel drawn, such as to sit on a rock and watch the water flow or perhaps to stand beside a tree overlooking the stream.

Doing this in nature is largely symbolic of following the pull of your heart in your daily life. For it is this pull within your heart that brings you towards the things you love, which in turn brings an inner sense of authentic happiness.

For example, if you are in a supermarket and you don't know what to cook for dinner then you can check in with the pull within your heart center and allow it to take you towards different things within the supermarket. It will always lead you toward the foods that you love, sometimes even if you don't know that you love them.

When you are drawn to the things that you love, it is then a matter of aligning with these things in order to bring a sense of inner joy into your life.

For example, I love being in the bush and this brings me an inner sense of happiness and joy. However I used to live in a busy city and wasn't in contact with nature as much as I'd like. It did take me a few years to make the transition, however now I live in a place that is surrounded by nature and this alignement with nature brings me an inner sense of being authentically happy andcontent.

So when you start to go with the pull within your heart and put energy into what you love by aligning with it, you will naturally start to feel an inner sense of happiness. It is not like you are pretending to be happy, it is more an inner feeling of contentment and joy that you are in alignment with what you love.

Gaia | Happiness | Rite Of Passage

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