Many paths, follow your bliss.

Everyone has their own personal path to happiness, no one can tell you what this path is or which way it twists and turns. The only one that knows the right path is you and you alone. Others will point you in their directions or tell you what path you “should” be taking. The problem is many people think that their path is the only way to happiness, they do not realize everyone’s path is very different. The key to finding your path is to follow your feelings. Your feelings are so accurate when it comes to telling you where you should go in your life. If you are reading this and it is making you feel annoyed, or if your gut feeling is saying, this is not right, then by all means stop reading! You will always encounter situations where what you are hearing doesn’t “sit well” or you may question if what you are hearing is the truth. This is a great opportunity to learn about your many feelings and listen to them and not your thoughts. Many times thoughts will lead you astray, thoughts can be manipulated and controlled. Feelings are much harder to control. Your feelings tell you what you should believe and what you shouldn’t, they guide you in creating the perfect reality for yourself. We are all creating our own realities. It doesn’t matter what your reality is as long as it makes you happy. The only truth is our own truth. Always keep an open mind and listen with your heart. Many paths can potentially lead you to greater and greater happiness and sometimes your current beliefs can stop you from becoming happier.

Try asking yourself,  Am I truly as happy as I can be right now? or are your current beliefs holding you back from potential happiness?  Are you current beliefs even making you happy at all? Is it true happiness?  What is your heart saying? The right time is now to find out what it is that will bring true happiness in your life.  Stop listening to what other people say about their happiness or what will bring you happiness, go with what your heart is telling you, that is the only way you will ever find it.

Don’t try to force your beliefs on others, remember all paths to happiness are unique as people on this earth. Instead concentrate on what brings you happiness, and if others ask “Hey! Why are you so happy all the time?” Then, let them know, and then they can follow their heart to decide if that is the right path for them.

Let’s get happy.

Happiness.

I write about it, I dream about it, everyone lives their lives to obtain it. Our existence revolves around it. It drives us, It inspires us.

What does it really take to be happy? So you got that new car/house/TV/stereo you have always wanted but where is that happiness that was supposed to come along with it? Do you ever notice how you get slivers of happiness but it never seems to be a constant feeling? This is normal, this is how many of us live our lives. Fighting for simple happiness. We all want to be happy.

The problem has been everyone is trying to obtain this happiness in the wrong way. It’s like when you were a kid and you wanted something you would yell and scream and you probably ended up upsetting your parents so much they took you home and you never got that which you wanted. But if you asked nicely and bargained with some chores, you would have gotten it much easier and with a lot less effort.

Obtaining happiness works in the same way. Right now it is ingrained in our brains deep down that the way to get happiness is to get that backyard pool, house, dream boyfriend/girlfriend, vacation whatever it is we have created for ourselves. The media doesn’t help much either it tells us everyday of new things we can buy to make our lives easier and happier. You have created these things for you that create happiness. They don’t just “happen” to cause you happiness, you created this.

Never forget you are the creator of your illusion.

So instead of creating these things that give you slivers of happiness, lets try another route. Instead look at happiness like something you always have had. At this moment in time you are blissful, you are completely enveloped in pure joy and love…at this very moment, no guru needed. The reason why you don’t feel completely content and full of bliss is because you created layers and layers of wants and needs that covered this bliss. The thing about these layers is, when you put another one on, you feel the bliss the pure happiness of the whole, if only for a moment.

Picture it like this, A stack of paper. The table the paper is sitting on is the pure bliss and the paper is the actions, objects and people you have created to bring you happiness. So it all starts when you mature and people around you tell you to stack papers because this is what they have done and they get their glimpses of happiness this way, they don’t understand that as a young infant you are enjoying this bliss all the time. So you start stacking these papers layer after layer, every time you put another piece on imagine the stacks of paper glow if only for a few moments. Then they dull again until the next piece goes on top. This few moments of “glowing” is the few moments of happiness you get before you work so hard again to get the next piece of paper. Most people have stacks of paper hundreds of pieces tall.

So are you going to keep stacking on layer after layer to feel those brief moments but in the long run you are just putting yourself farther and farther away from what it is your truly want which is the feeling of happiness? Or, instead peel off the layers, it may do the opposite at first, make you question if this is really the way to get to happiness. But as you truly peel off those layers of wants and needs and get closer and closer to the bottom layer, the base layer, the table, which is the pure bliss and happiness, you understand that this is the way it really works.

Constant happiness and joy, a clear table.