The happiness
What is happiness? Does it really exist?
It is an ambiguous concept since it is very difficult to define.
Happiness is, in my view, an option given that I can decide, despite the circumstances surrounding my life, despite the difficulties and graces Be happy or not.
The hardness of life is directly proportional to the learning that each of us must perform throughout it, so the reality that surrounds us is very different for all of us.
How can I decide, then, to be happy if my life is immersed in absolute chaos, I do not understand what is happening to me, my mind does not stop thinking, the thoughts are piled up, my heart Does it hurt and I can't breathe? It is really difficult and complicated to even think about happiness in these circumstances but, even so, I can decide to be happy.
How? The key is in the acceptance of my reality and myself.
The events are triggered so vertiginously that I am not able to stop, the days and weeks pass at such a rapid pace that I am not even able to appreciate that, in reality, I am alive but I am not living but I'm simply going through life.
Let's take a moment, a few moments and try to stop, close our eyes, breathe deeply, feeling how the air enters through the nose through the nostrils and slowly descends into the lungs. Let us become aware of the breath and try to enjoy that moment, being aware that the breath unites us to life and, if we stop breathing, everything ends.
Let us, therefore, decide momentarily not to follow the fast pace in which we are immersed, not to continue with that brake that surrounds us but that we do not enjoy and give ourselves a moment to become aware of our breathing n. We feel as the lungs widen, the ribs rise and the diaphragm lowers, we inhale that burst of fresh air that descends through our throat and hold it for a few seconds before proceeding to its expiration.
We also accompany this brief moment with a visualization, imagining how that air we inhale is white, fresh and bright, how it illuminates our nostrils, our throat, our lungs and our whole being, giving it that light that we need to shine again. And at the time of exhalation, let's take the opportunity to send, along with the air we expel, all our sorrows, pains, rages, anguishes, hatreds, attachments, fears ... to the universe so that it can be transmuted into love.
For a few seconds we will feel the liberation of our being and, possibly, we will contact that inner peace that we so eagerly seek but that seems to be beyond our reach.
This can be a moment of happiness in our day to day. Let's start by looking for it once, even if it is, and little by little it will become so necessary that we will need to feel it more and more often and, without realizing it, we will fill our day to day with small “stolen” moments of happiness.
I know it's complicated, maybe difficult but not impossible. This brief contact from consciousness with our "inner self" will gradually lead us to a transformation of our own energy. Without realizing it, our essence, our soul will feel more and more free because the consciousness that we will be integrating will lead our being to a liberation, although momentary, of the chains to which it can be tied in day to day.
We are not aware many times that every day is plagued with moments of happiness: the smile of a neighbor, a kind word, a stolen kiss, our favorite song on the radio, a steaming morning coffee, a relaxing shower ... Hundreds of minutes, of seconds they provide us with moments of happiness that we don't remember because we are so immersed in our daily routine that we go through them without appreciating them.
How can we become aware of them? Let's take note of the ones we remember in our “smile book”. From now on, let's decide to take hold of that notebook that we have in a forgotten drawer and, as if it were a newspaper, and before we go to sleep, let's take a few seconds to breathe deeply and try to relive our day from the precise moment in which we woke up and write down one by one all those moments that made us smile. Let's offer our being those moments and giving thanks for them let's give ourselves a tender smile and a warm hug while we say good night.
All the generosity that we lavish towards ourselves in an attempt to love each other a little more will help us put on a balance everything we live and assess whether our day to day can be defined as “ HAPPINESS ” even though our reality Sometimes be tough and unjustifiable.
Montse Macanás
Holistic and soul educator
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