Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
AVAILABLE HERE
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Happiness, a state of mind
Searching for happiness is like looking for the Holy Grail, a lifetime's pursuit and possibly without an end result. Most of us like to be happy, but to look outside of ourselves may not be the way. Acquiring possessions, buying the latest gadget are likely to produce lasting happiness as much as eating food that temporarily satisfies a hunger. We eventually need to be topped up.
Happiness isn't a quality that some of us can have and others not. It is my belief that happiness is a condition that we can all have....if we choose. It comes down to a state of mind. It comes down to making the choice to be happy.
I might say that I'm not very happy having to clean the bird droppings off my car as I did last weekend. Pigeons just eat far too much don't they? But rather than experiencing tedium and irritation, I could choose to be happy at my task and take pleasure in making my car nice and clean. It was a sunny day, the birds were singing (and dropping bombs) and it was a wonderful day. There is much to appreciate.
Happiness may not be what one might expect to experience when cleaning the car or doing any 'chore', but it can be....if we just choose. Happiness is a state of mind that we can summon at anytime, and it needs to be refreshed. But rather than trying to refresh it by seeking external stimuli, we may just find that it's there, just for the summoning. This can be tricky at first if we're not accustomed to doing so. But with practice it gets easier.
'There is no road to happiness. Happiness is the way.'
Buddha
