Three Ways To Be Happy
In Your Daily Life
In the chart on the
previous page we saw that there are two 'Realms' in which there are ways to be happy: the realm of stillness of mind, and the realm of activity (thought, speech and action).
The silent realm
In the first realm, we simply take time every day to allow the mind to settle down towards stillness and tap into the source of happiness within. It's simple and effortless (or at least it can be if one uses the right approach)
Some people use a meditation technique for this. I did too, for about 30 years, until I changed over to what I call Conscious Mental Rest©.
The active realm
The second realm of ways to be happy is simply our day-day-day practical living. It is here that our active consciousness determines what kind of life we experience - one of happiness, health and vitality, or one of dissatisfaction, non-happiness and increasing stress.
This is the realm of the second doable key to happiness; the area of thought, attention, speaking and behaving.
How to not sabotage the benefits of meditation
We can obtain all the benefits that effective 'meditation' is said to provide, but we can just as easily mess up and sabotage those benefits by what we think, say and do in daily life.
An effective meditation method that enables the mind to consciously enliven the creative consciousness within us will, over time, dissolve all the deep stresses that prevent us from living our full potential. And this will result in the removal of blockages to the flow of joy from within.
So, if we are patient, that is all we need - effective meditation. But, we can speed up the process even further.
The skill in allowing happiness to flow is to 'do what is right' in all aspects of our day-to-day and moment-to-moment living. Effective daily mental quietening is a fundamental tool in culturing this skill so that it becomes spontaneous. But that is just one side of the coin.
The other side is to listen to our feelings and to think, speak and act in a way that causes us to feel good. If we have a feeling that is not good, then we are moving away from happiness and from Self-Alignment© instead of moving towards it.
Our three core relationships
In addition to following our inner conscience-feelings and doing what causes us to feel good, there are three specific areas in which we can easily culture the habit of doing what feels good, and thereby invite our inner happiness to flow more consistently. These three habits are - besides daily mental quietness - the most fundamental and crucial of the ways to be happy.
One could say that each of these three areas addresses our relationship with our inner self and our source, and also with some aspect of our environment:
- Our relationship with our inner consciousness or 'higher self' (the 'soul')
- Our relationship with our inner consciousness as well as with others
- Our relationship with our inner consciousness, others and all else in our physical environment
The three relationship habits to acquire
For each of these three relationships there is one simple habit we can develop in ourselves that will enhance our experience of happiness.
Each habit brings us more in alignment with, and to a deeper connection with, our inner Self and 'the thinking stuff' by means of which we emerge into this physical life.
These concepts are depicted graphically in the section of the Happiness Blueprint chart shown below.
Blueprint for Happiness
Section 2: The Three Habits
The next chart takes this blueprint further and gives examples of habits we can strengthen in the three relationships shown above:
Truthfulness,
Kindness and
Appreciation.
Other pages in this theme go into more detail about each one of those desired human qualities too.
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