How to Be Happy?
By: Koma Live
Tags: Life, Happiness, Love, Yoga, Self Improvement

How to Be Happy?

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What is happiness? How much does it take to experience this condition? How to choose a key for it and what does it depend on? How to be happy, despite all the vicissitudes of life?

“Happiness is a person’s state that corresponds to the greatest inner satisfaction with the conditions of the being, the fullness, and meaningfulness of life, the realization of the human purpose”.

According to the axiomatics of Yoga, happiness is a natural state of any living creature!

Many people think that everything is relative, and to experience happiness, one must first experience pain and suffering: “There would be no happiness, but unhappiness would help.” Is it so?

Yoga says that unhappiness and pain do not exist. There is only the energy of enjoyment. Pain is a pleasure divided in half and collided with each other. That is, we suffer when we want to get exactly the opposite things at the same time.

Suppose we enjoy eating a cake and our slender body. But when we eat cake, our body gets better. There is pain. Faced with our two pleasures, there was an internal contradiction.

As a result of our own ignorance, we turn our natural pleasure into suffering and pain. However, there is a positive role for suffering. Acting like a “whip”, it makes us evolve, move, hone our minds, reconcile opposing trends, take some steps towards our happiness. Yoga claims that starting from the moment we receive the human body, we can get rid of any suffering and return to the natural state of happiness.

Where the direct Consciousness, Energy flows there

The process of reconciling our opposing trends is quite lengthy but fascinating. While we are on the path to unlimited happiness, Yoga offers us not to despair with failures, but to look at everything in a positive light.

In Yoga, there is the principle of Santoshi — contentment. He encourages us to rejoice in what we have, to see the positive in every moment of our life. Despair, discontent, complaints about fate — not the most attractive way of life, it creates additional suffering and problems.

There is a wonderful parable about the sage and his disciple. The sage said to the disciple: “Look around the room and remember all the brown objects.” The student did so. Then the sage asked him to close his eyes and name all the blue objects that he saw in the room. The student was indignant: “How so ?! You said to remember brown objects, I didn’t notice anything besides them. ” When he opened his eyes, to his surprise, he discovered quite a few things in the room in blue. The sage said: “In the same way in your life, if you are looking for a negative, then you will see one negative without noticing anything good.”

Yoga offers us practice for every day: celebrate for yourself at least three positive points. It can be a trifle, or something significant. Even in difficult situations, this practice helps to switch our consciousness to a positive wave.

“When you wake up in the morning, think what a precious privilege to be alive — to breathe, enjoy, think, love.” Marcus Aurelius

Any negative experience can be overcome

A person in his life periodically experiences feelings such as jealousy, envy, greed, resentment, anger, fear. It is not always possible to restrain their manifestation, remaining satisfied at every moment in time.

Yoga says: “Do not be so afraid of negative influences from the outside as your inadequate reaction to it. There are no bad or good emotions, there is an appropriate or inappropriate manifestation of them. ”

You need to understand that the manifestation of negative emotions interferes with our happiness. An excellent tool to help you get away from any “acute life moments” is Kriya Yoga. This is dynamic Yoga, focusing on internal sensations. During the practice, a person observes his thoughts, experiences, and is detached from them. As a result, it easily switches to positive and joy.

What hinders our happiness?

Sometimes it seems that happiness depends on external factors. We catch ourselves thinking: “Now if I had a huge house, an expensive car, a summer house on the island, I would definitely be happy!” We make our happiness dependent on others: people, circumstances, objects, etc. This situation makes happiness fragile and unstable.

To find the strength in ourselves and realize that the source of our happiness is ourselves, the practice of Yoga will help.

During yoga classes, our well-being and emotional background improve. This is due to an increase in the amount of our Prana or vitality. But often out of habit we spend this potential on things that do not lead us to our goals: empty conversations, negative thoughts, useless activities.

Inappropriate expenditure of forces and energy, like water flowing through holes in a barrel, our positive attitude leaks along with it. Therefore, it is worth analyzing your life and “patching holes” — that is, abandoning those habits that do not make us happier, healthier, and divert us from our goals.

Yoga will help to get rid of negative habits more easily and develop positive ones more quickly

Happiness is in every one of us and is our natural state. Applying the principle of contentment, we can see life in a joyful light. And the practice of Yoga will gradually help get rid of your inappropriate manifestations and habits that interfere with your happiness. Remember, our “Happiness is in our hands” and if “you want to be happy, just let it be”!

Good practice and be happy!