Surrendering to Happiness as a Spiritual Practice
March 10, 2011
How often has someone asked you if you were happy, really happy? Were you able to answer them right away or did you have to take some time to think about it, and then found yourself reflecting on their words as if they were some kind of puzzle to sort through or riddle to solve? Happiness is a feeling that we think we know and recognize and might even assume to be our natural state. Maybe we think that we should be happy simply by virtue of being alive. Lately however I have come to the realization that being happy is not so natural a state of affairs. It is not something that I can assume simply because I am alive and find my eyes open and awake some morning. Being happy I know now is usually a choice, and a choice that has to be opted for daily, hourly, and sometimes when things are particularly challenging, moment by every moment. Being happy means that we have made a choice to surrender to happiness as a spiritual practice. By doing so we are then fortunate to be in the position to help others, and support their choice to be happy too.
Short but Sweet. Thank you for your very good write-up. Some of my thoughts I am sharing here. I agree that “Being Happy” is a individual choice. It is to be exercised always. It helps us to take us correct decision in challenging circumstances. Generally our tendency is to forget happy moments in our life early and we remember unhappy things in our life for undue longer period. So we have to find out happy moments in our life and try to live the happy moments again and again by remembering the cow chewing the grass. We have to keep us in Happy state of mind always; is really a good advice from you.
I have written some more but wanted to get the writing and other pages sorted out again and so posted this first part right away. Thanks so much for your encouragement and comments.
I am very much looking forward to part 2 , 3 etc