Happiness is an Energy

   

When I switch on my bedroom light I see everything in the room. The bed, the sheets, the air conditioner, the ceiling fan, the windows, the curtains, the TV & Music system.....everything within the four walls. When I press the various remotes, music flows out of the speaker to soothe me, the air conditioner blows cool air over my sweating body and images form on the TV screen.

Isn't it amazing that these are possible because of some invisible forces? We see because of the light but the light itself we never see.   We hear because of the sound that comes out of the speakers but the sound itself we never see. We feel cool and refreshed because of the cooled air that flows over us but the air itself or the heat/cool we never see.

Scientists call them Light Energy, Sound Energy & Heat energy.

All of them invisible to eye, and untouchable or feelable, so we can give no recognizable form for them. They travel at different speeds to reach our immediate environment and make changes in it so we are "comfortable". That is the Power of Energy. Invisible external forces that induce changes around us and transport our minds to different experiences.

Similarly our Thoughts are Energy too. An energy that is within our grasp and available to us to harness. It's an energy that helps us mould our lives provided we learn to control it, twist it and bend it in the way we want to achieve what we want.

That leaves us with Happiness. Happiness is a state of mind. If you choose to be happy, you will be. If you'd rather choose to be overwhelmed by your circumstances and wallow in self-depreciating pity it's your choice.

Get out of your hole and soak in the sunshine. Feel the warm glow seep into your your body, waking up each molecule as it goes deeper. Feel that energy that makes you want to jump in the air and sing.

That is Happiness. The energy that resides in your mind and is ready to take you beyond your dreams. It's not difficult to harness this energy. You only have to gain control over your thoughts and that is not difficult as I'm discovering now and I'll share it with you as we travel this road in search of Happiness.

Medicine for Happiness?

Is there a medicine to bring back Happiness? I know it's funny question but there are people in this world who think that way.

When I suddenly lost my Best Friend to circumstances beyond our control, I broke down. Suddenly the world was empty and cruel. Everything I saw with my myopic eyes were ranged against me. I went into a shell because I felt that a part of me had been hacked away with a butcher's knife.

I was down. Cursing Gods, pleading with them and crying out aloud. It was just that I had no one to turn to. My only friend was lost to me and another had her own problems to handle. This second friend made a comment that I was going into Depression and that jolted me.

I wasn't going into Depression. She was wrong. I was just suffering the pangs of being separated from a friend I truly loved (and still love). How can I be branded as a psycho case? If that was the case every person who suffers from the loss of a loved one through death or separation or otherwise should all be 'depressed'. How much farther from truth can you be?

If we lose someone we love, we'll feel it deep within us. It will hurt and unlike physical pain there is really no medicine. Unfortunately there is a group of individuals who prey on sufferers like this. They come in various shapes and sizes and call themselves fancy names, though I'd rather call them vultures.

These "mind-healers" diagnose you with 'depression', a word we are all familiar with. Instead of helping you identify and overcome the cause of your sadness they brand you depressed or psychotic, give the 'disease' a fancy name and pump you full of medicines that leave you drowsy, stuporous and muddle headed. 

The unfortunate thing about these medicines are that you become dependent on it. You feel the 'depression' taking you over if you don't take the medicines. What we don't realize is that it's a mind thing. 

The best medicine is our faith in ourselves. If we put our minds to it we can work around it. All it requires is a change in our mind sets.............and perhaps a good friend to help you along. Given time, any problem can be overcome.

Happiness is a state of mind. It cannot be purchased off the shelf like a medicine and most definitely anti-depressants or anti-psychotics are not the answer.

If we look within ourselves,  Happiness is there to be found. It's always a little difficult to get at, amidst all that clutter within ourselves, but it's definitely there.

We only need to be patient and keep searching. 

Recognizing the "I" within me

Pursuing happiness is tricky when you don't know why or for whom you want it. No doubt, you want happiness for yourself, your family and your friends.

But wait. Think for a moment. Do others matter right now? Perhaps. They are your world and keeping them happy is the primary goal in life. When you think a little beyond that you'll see something that was always there but we never saw it because our love for others blinded us. The "I"  within us.

I learnt to recognize that if I am not happy, I certainly cannot keep others happy. That is the undeniable truth.

In my Pursuit of Happiness my first goal will therefore be to keep 'Self' pampered and happy so that I overflow with good feelings that I can share.

I'm looking inward now. I need to list my needs. I need to gather each one of them so that Self will be happy.

Everything else can wait....

In Search of Happiness

On a rainy day sometime in July last year, I looked out of my window at the sombre grey sky and wondered, "Is there true happiness in this world?"

On that day I did not realize that true happiness lay, not outside my window, but within me. It took me a while to understand that the searching should start from the remote recesses of my mind, not among the many external distractions that life throws at us.

Life will try to mislead your mind & heart but that is part of the adventure. Happiness is a treasure and finding treasures aren't so easy. Besides, treasures are worth risking life & limb for.

My tale in search of happiness.......