From Lucy’s album.
If you have not attempted to experience it for yourself in a conscious and deliberate way, such as through meditation practice, you will not have personally experienced this simple yet profound truth:
Happiness (or Joy) is your natural state of being.
If you were able to return your mind and body to ‘ground zero’, to the most fundamental level of reality, which is what meditation practice helps you to do, you will experience spontaneously and effortlessly, the natural qualities of your mind – harmonious, happy/joyous, limitless, free, unconditional and powerful.
These qualities are who or what you naturally are!
Consequently, everything and I do mean everything, that we attempt to do to find happiness is, at best, allowing these natural qualities to be expressed and at worst, preventing these natural qualities from being expressed!
Unfortunately, most of what we attempt results in the latter.
Because of the free, limitless and powerful nature of the mind, it is capable of bringing into fruition anything that is planted in it – ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Your mind sets into creative motion anything and everything that you seed it with.
So, what are you seeding your mind with? Is it fear? Anxiety? Guilt? Envy? Frustration? Doubt? Criticism? If so, are you experiencing circumstances and situations that seem to be tainted with these qualities, thus creating more of the same?
On the other hand, what would you like to experience? How about happiness? Freedom? Power? Peace? Creative expression? If so, there is nothing as such that you need to do or add or create in order for you to enter this state of consciousness wherein your ability to create the world of your choice is limitless.
Well, I suppose there is one thing that you do need to do and that is to ALLOW the natural qualities of your mind to be expressed. How?
By simply focusing on them. That’s right. Focus on the feelings of peace, joy, freedom, power and limitlessness. Draw on past experiences or imagine possible ones to help you. That’s right. Use the amazing ability of your mind to imagine what you desire.
It may seem ironic that to find happiness we really need only look within our own mind which is, by nature, an infinite ocean of peace and happiness. There are no ‘happiness’ or ‘peace’ seeds to plant. No ‘creative’ seeds either. And certainly no freedom or power to fight for.
It is simply impossible to acquire what you already are!
So, go on. Spend some time today, rediscovering and experiencing that profoundly joyous, peaceful, powerful, limitless, free YOU!
Blessings, Lucy
Awakening to Happiness!
