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-is not so much about of what you have.Happiness is about how you interpret what’s in front of you. How proud you are of the way you live your life. How willing you are to enjoy simple pleasures, even if things aren’t perfect. ( :
Just as Pavlov trained dogs to associate the sound of a bell with food, which consequentially caused them to salivate although no food was present, yoga wisdom reveals that we have been trained to accept a certain type of experience as happiness, although the substance is missing.
That experience is the contact between our senses - eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin - and what those senses perceive as favourable objects - attractive forms, pleasing sounds, sweet smells, delicious tastes and soft touches.
This is called “conditional happiness,” not just because it’s learned, but also because it depends on certain conditions, which are largely or completely out of our control.
Some of those conditions are our age, family and place of birth, the weather, how much money and health we have, the people around us, and the time and place we live in.
Therefore what we call “life” is the attempt to control our circumstances - our conditions - so that our senses connect with sense objects that they find agreeable because, we believe, this equals “happiness.”
But even if we can arrange favourable conditions for this version of happiness, they quickly change into unfavourable; pleasing sense objects are replaced by the repulsive, and our happiness transforms into distress.
This is the world of conditioned or external happiness.
Fortunately, although unknown to most, there is another world - the internal world - where happiness exists beyond conditions.
And just as there have been great explorers of the external world and its presentation of happiness, there have also been “internal explorers” who dedicated just as much effort to pursuing the pleasures of the inner.
Such rare beings want unconditional happiness, that which is not affected by time and change.
They want to actually arrive at happiness and stay there, rather than simply struggle toward it.
That path of pure happiness, Bhakti yoga, is for the genuine pleasure lover, that rare soul who wont settle for anything less than the best.
- Inspired by Bhagavad Gita 6.20-23
"In the stage of perfection called trance, or samādhi, one’s mind is completely restrained from material mental activities by practice of yoga. This perfection is characterized by one’s ability to see the Self by the pure mind and to relish and rejoice in the Self. In that joyous state, one is situated in boundless transcendental happiness, realized through transcendental senses. Established thus, one never departs from the truth, and upon gaining this he thinks there is no greater gain. Being situated in such a position, one is never shaken, even in the midst of greatest difficulty. This indeed is actual freedom from all miseries arising from material contact."
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Enjoy the great taste of Happiness - It is very simple, It is your decision!
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Self is realizing that I am more than my emotions. When I thought about what makes me “me,” I realized that my perception (especially visual) is mostly based on other people so the first thing that came to mind is my smile. Everyone I meet tells me that I am “a very smiley person” and my friend Rachel even calls my smile where my tongue is sticking out a bit “the Laura smile.” This is also a reflection of my self-perception as “stubbornly optimistic;” a description of myself that I use to describe how I cling to hope, gratitude, and positivity despite the immensely tough cards I’ve been dealt. Since I equated “me” with my smile, I wanted to figure out what made my smile so notable to people. So, I investigated how I smiled and laughed with different people in my life. I also captured just my mouth & then just my eyes/nose while smiling, laughing, and being goofy in order to try to see what part of my smile made me “me.” Along the way, though, I realized that capturing just my happy/optimistic side is a one-dimensional view of me.
It can be so easy to define ourselves based on our emotions, but I am constantly realizing more and more how true it is that our emotions are fleeting, so they are not a solid foundation on which to build our identity. When you build your identity on your emotions, it becomes easy to get caught up in BEING your depression or PTSD (reflected in photo #9), rather than allowing those emotions to be temporary visitors in your life. My life completely changed a few years ago when I realized that my identity is staked in one thing and one thing alone: I am loved and saved by Jesus. I am a child of the one true King, the Creator, the Lord and Savior of all the universe. My identity is rooted in his immense love for me, not for what I can do or how I act/feel, but for who I am as His daughter…and the most beautiful part is that this love that my God has for me can never and will NEVER change…so my identity is stable. This is represented in the last photo, which I titled Joy. While happiness and joy are often confused, they are quite different. Happiness is a reaction to good things going on in your life, or even positive feelings that you can get from finding a positive outlook on life. Joy, on the other hand, is an unshakeable gut feeling; it is the knowledge with everything in your soul that there is hope, that you are loved and safe in the arms of Jesus, no matter what is happening in your life. In this last photo, I was feeling joy and peace because I had just read a bible verse that is very personally important to me: Zephaniah 3:17: “The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love He will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”
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