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Destination of HappinessPosted November 12th, 2009 at 12:34pm
I believe the whole purpose of this incarnation is to find out to love ourselves first, and then to expand that love to others. Until we really find out how to fully love ourselves, we manifest a protective shield because we do not feel protected in the world. We create self-imposed limitations to love. We can free ourselves from our self-limitations. We can change our mind about how we see the world by getting in touch with our inner spirit. At the core of our being we are love, so there is no need to search for it, just acknowledging it.
It is our inner critic, bombarding us with negative messages, which block our reception to love. Most of these messages we heard and accepted about ourselves date back to our early childhood. Our negative thought patterns may have come from parents, siblings, friends, comrades, peers, relatives, authority figures or others who played a major role in our lives. Young and vulnerable, we made the decision to accept their restrictive messages as truth.
We seem to adopt personas or masks to "fit" in the world, gaining recognition or trying to satisfy others at our own expense. As we develop, we become aware of "spoken or unspoken" expectations that others have become obligatory on us. Failing to meet these expectations, we take on the feelings of lowliness and unworthiness. To fault others for our unhappiness only takes away from our own power, viewing ourselves as victims. To liberated ourselves from these restraints, we can learn to love and accept all parts of ourselves, claiming responsibility for what we think, feel and do. We may even begin to look at our experiences as gifts. We might ask ourselves how our experiences helped us to evolve. We then become masters rather than victims.
I believe that once we are willing to take accountability for our own lives, getting in touch with our joy and our passion, our life is transcended. The expedition begins by getting in touch with the Divine part of us, our inner connection. We just need a little motivation to get in touch with our feelings and to love ourselves without judgment for what we are experiencing. We don't need to change ourselves to love ourselves. We can love ourselves with all of our feelings of shortage and perceived limitations. I don't believe we can love ourselves with our mind, the rational part, but rather with our heart.
Happiness does not lie outside of ourselves. It is getting in contact with who and what we are at the core of our being. We see our life as a voyage with many choices. To experience freedom and happiness, we need to allow ourselves to have all of our feelings and to be okay with them. Surrendering to our feelings, allowing them to wash over us without judgment, brings acceptance to our experiences. If we deny or disregard our feelings, they will come back to us in another form until we have dealt with them. Learning to love all parts of ourselves expands our capacity to love others with their problems and limitations. Loving ourselves fully cancels out the fear to love others.
"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." - Denis Waitley
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