We all want to be happy but few know how to answer the question: what is happiness?
I once heard a story that the place where happiness was hidden was in ourselves.
We go looking for happiness outside, without realizing that it is within us.
I invite you to breathe and identify the thoughts that distance you from feeling the happiness that is already in you.
Realize how by placing yourself in the present and allowing yourself to feel, then you are bombarded by negative thoughts of fear. And that's when fear of pain or suffering arises, that's when you leave the present moment (where happiness is). So you go to the past, immersing yourself in thoughts of nostalgia or pain (which trigger fears). Those fears reinforce that you better not give in to happiness because it hurts, so you prefer to distract yourself and get busy or get depressed.
On other occasions, instead of going to the past, you go to the future, which generates the anxiety that arises from thinking about what if? And better not, and again I get busy and get distracted, but the thirst to feel happy is still there, and the thoughts that distance me from experiencing happiness are also there, and so I continue to pursue happiness in actions such as shopping, eating a dessert, changing cars or other actions that make me feel temporarily good, but that feeling is temporary. Then I have to return to seek to feel happiness with another external action, which successively leads you to generate debts or you gain weight -among other consequences-. But I tell myself that I am not responsible; someone outside is: the government, the economy, etc. And so, I also put on the outside what will make me feel good and if it doesn't happen, then it's on the outside where the culprits are that I don't feel good.
It all started by not locating myself in the present moment, and understanding that I already have happiness, that it is already there, and that I sabotage myself by feeling it for many reasons -that if I made them aware- then I would face them. Life invites you, opens opportunities for you, and knocks on your door many times; He does it first in a loving way and then he can give you experiences that leave you no choice but to face what you have tried so hard to avoid.
I can voluntarily accept the invitations of life to feel the moment as it is presented, with total acceptance of what it is -as it is-..
In order to see what the present moment gives me, I have to live it as it is presented, not get distracted, breathe and identify negative and fearful thoughts in order to become aware of what I saw as a child, what I heard or was told, of generational patterns of lack that have marked the fact that today they have something to lose or that they have nothing to lose. I can become aware of unconscious loyalties to my family system. I can work on everything that comes up and start a process that brings me closer to living my own life as I decide to do it while enjoying the journey -as it unfolds-.