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Can You Choose Happiness? Here's How You Can..

freedom happiness meditation somatic awareness wellbeing Sep 24, 2020

Hey,

Would you like to be happy for the rest of your life?

Would you like to release all of your pain, trauma, suffering, and even be able to insure yourself against it for the rest of your life?

Well, if you do, then read this because it outlines how you can do this.

It's a full-proof system 15,000 years old. 

Before I begin, for some context, this message came into my awareness today in the midst of conducting some market research for my upcoming program.

Millennial Momentum Mastery (more to come on that soon.)

What arose, after looking at the stats available online is that all people desire happiness. Truly. Obviously... 

Yet, most people who suffer a lack of it in their life are often experiencing the symptoms of countless other issues, like anxiety, stress, fear, physical pain, anger, or worry.

What's crazy is in today's world there is still debate on what the solutions are to help people overcome these problems, in general terms.

With the aim of these solutions being to manage them, remove them, or live with them in the hopes to achieve a state of happiness, most of the time. 

That is to be physically, mentally, and emotionally pain-free.

So without pigeoning holing myself into a box to say this 'solution will take away your physical pain', it does go a long way in reducing the subtle causes of it that exist in your life experience.

More on that later. 

For now, if we can see happiness as a point on a spectrum we can see that to know happiness means to know sadness. 

Happiness is the peak of the trough.

Why does it exist on a spectrum?

Because all life, and indeed the hue-man experience is a spectrum of oscillating frequencies and vibrations.  

So, is it even possible to secure a stable foundation of happiness in the shifting vibes of life?

Yes.

Even in the midst of this quantum polarity reality, we live in?

Yes.

Well, I'm pretty sure I've found it, for me anyway, and its a bit of a paradox.

By "I've found it" I mean the Yogi's found it and I just applied it to my life.

So here goes....

Being happy, mean's getting comfortable with growth, which can be uncomfortable.

Growth is the way of nature.

It's constant change, expansion, and the shifting and re-shifting of experiences.

It's here one moment and gone the next.

Even the most painful or pleasurable experiences are impermanent. 

That is life.

That's your life. An innumerable collection of moment to moment experiences that continue on for eternity. Always changing. 

So how do we remain happy in change, even when the crap hit's the fan?

It's only human to get down when our mental health takes a few knocks and when we get caught up in a negative loop. Not least when we get sick or take a financial or personal loss.

What's not normal is how we as humans are hardwired to attach to something that happens to us that is only ever a passing experience. Even when it feels like it lasts forever and cuts deep.

Maintaining happiness in the onslaught of life is a priority. It's your priority. 

To be happy is to be nourished in all the areas of your life, in health, wealth, love, and in mind, body, spirit, and in your vocation and relationships. The list goes on, but all are an important part of you.

Yet, all of them are passing experiences in your life.

One more time, for the people up the back - by the atomic nature of reality, everything is impermanent. Got it?

So what's the answer to being happy?

It's a feeling experience!

It's a sensitivity to the somatic awareness of your internal subconscious landscape.

One that you can maintain and can clean up.

So in short it's about weeding your subconsciousness rather than a mental construct or perspective shift.

Even though, adopting a more beneficial perspective can definitely help.

For example, a perspective shift into an 'opportunity mindset' is one great way to move the needle towards happiness.

This resourcefulness of seeing everything as an opportunity for growth is one way to hardwire yourself to see the positive in every situation. 

Even if it's a horrific situation, deep down you can sigh and go "well I guess this is what my soul (life) is going to have to deal with to evolve."

This objectivity to look for the ladder out of suffering and despair isn't a bypassing of trauma or the feelings associated with it. It's just a step in the right direction.

The real work comes in tuning into the language and sensations of the body.

All of these are received and stimulated, day in and day out. Regardless of the events or activities you do, you are taking on the information you experience. 

As a feeling sensing being you are hardwired to absorb and react to life.

The challenge is to get into that small space that exists just before the reaction. 

For most people, life is filled with average experiences that overtime accumulates to really impact their happiness. 

More and more information is being stored in your psyche and it's put into the containers of what you like and dislike. All at a subconscious level.

It's as if people collect more and more emotional energy throughout their life and fill up the 'vibe buckets' inside themselves.

However, most people are actually in debt with their emotional energy.

Meaning they are experiencing more unpleasantness and negativity than positivity and 'happiness'.

We know thanks to the National Science Foundation, a person on average has about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts each day. From this, 80% are negative and 95% are repetitive thoughts.

It's not just thoughts, it's the emotional stimuli the body experiences as a result of these thoughts.

Sensations that can be so subtle people don't even realize they are experiencing them. Let alone feeling them.

Overtime for most people, these compound, and the state you are in starts to become more and more compressed and depressed.

It's as if you are being deflated over time and it gets it harder and harder to get back up to the 'peak' when you are in the trough. 

Un-happiness can feel like a heaviness, or a dimness, that can come in, make itself at home and be very hard to shake off.

The longer it stays the harder it is to climb out of into a stable place of harmony.

A little dopamine hit or some instant gratification may improve you a little bit, but sure enough, you drop back down.

So how do we pierce through this fog of unhappiness? 

What contributes to this fog?

In my life, I saw first hand that you really 'are what you eat'.

Considering we eat through all of our senses, our eyes, ears, presence, mouth, and brain what we do, watch, and who we spend time with makes us who we are.

If we are not careful the things we consume contribute to this fostering a healthy climate inside of us, of festering an unhealthy one.

It either adds to the fog, or it removes the fog.

Doing more of the things that help to clear the fog, like walking in nature, exercising, and doing the things you love all help.

What really helps?

Well, the big, ugly, warty, hairy beast of a thing, that has made the most difference in my life is coming to work with the unconquerable energy of CHANGE.

Specifically, working with the changing nature of the energies in my body.

By that, I mean actively sitting with the somatic emotional debt that has built up throughout my lifetime. 

This debt is stored within our subconscious, and as you know we are controlled 95-98% by our subconscious. 

What's more incredible is this energetic debt isn't just hiding in a synapse of the brain, it's actually stored in the body.

Through all of the nerves, tissues, fascia, organs, bones, joints, and spine. Everywhere. 

Your body is the bank of your trauma.

That means we are holding onto our emotional charges, with 'the body keeping the score'.

We are either debiting or crediting to our happiness bank.

In other words, we are an ecosystem of emotions, childhood trauma, and past pain. No, need to go into detail, every human being has it. 

The thing is, each of us can release it. We are able to go into the bucket of our emotional debt and start to empty it. 

Bit by bit we can dissolve the fog, the pain, and the patterns.

Not only does the body change, with illnesses and aliments disappearing but our thoughts change, our emotions and our life changes.

This is what yoga truly is.

It is a system to make the unconscious conscious so it can be released so you live from a place free of suffering.

Most people, treat the symptoms of their emotional, physical, and mental pain in so many ways. Many work and many don't.

The truth is, there is a fast track way to resolve these once and for all, and anyone can do it. But few do....

The secret is to use your innate somatic awareness. That is, to use the sensing and feeling ability of your body to observe the sensations and to let them go.

Meaning, to feel it viscerally or cognitively and not react.

Just observe it, and eventually, the energies and thoughtforms dissipate.

It's as if the charge is neutralized and no longer triggers you.

This debt, or coloring of your life's uncomfortable experiences are stored and locked into your subconsciousness. A subconsciousness that is your physical body.

By primming your body, so you can be in a place of stillness and comfort, you are able to get yourself to a point of focus.

It's in this single-pointed focus that takes you into a place within yourself that stores these energies.

As you can imagine, this is a challenge, because you have to sit in the fire of yourself and melt your discomfort with pure presence and awareness. 

The yogic sciences are a pathway to doing this and it's what I was taught to do. 

So every morning, and now evening, for 30 minutes I sit in the fire.

As the years have passed I have gone into the debt of my emotional bank and taken out what has been in there.

Not only I am reducing my debt, but I am not adding to it. In time, I will be debt-free and it's in knowing this that brings me happiness beyond any fleeting moment to moment pleasure.

It's a happiness for the long-haul, and it only takes 30 minutes a day.

There's a bit of a technique to getting into the zen space where this becomes possible but anyone can do it.

As you can imagine at times, it can be like sitting on a kettle as it boils as something uncomfortable arises.

It could be a sensation, a feeling, or a thought. Once you experience it, by nature you instantly want to react.

But doing so it doesn't release it, and only adds to it... 

So the task becomes to observe it, to watch, to acknowledge it, and to remain reaction free.

This focus of presence is the art and process of non-attachment, of pure observation. No matter how unpleasant the feeling is, it will pass.

It might come in waves, or in spurts, or shocks, or breaths, or sweats, or tears, but slowly you can dissipate these emotional and energetic knots. 

Once you do they are gone forever, that is to the level you felt them at.

So with more experience, you go deeper and deeper, releasing more and more of your debt and discomfort.

This takes practice and is why it's called a 'practice'.

Any real path of self-realization has a 'practice' because it instills a commitment to the process and a sense of discipline.

That said, it can be a beautiful path to walk. One that builds increasing happiness momentum and reduces suffering.

It's not for everyone, some don't feel the need to dive deeper into themselves. While many that do would rather medicate, avoid, or blame when they find what's in there.

For those that do go within and sit within the fire of themselves, they are able to liberate themselves from the slings and arrows of life.

They become a pillar within their homes, communities, and workplaces because there is a sense of transparency about them, a sense of strength.

A stillness and a sense of innocence.

This stems from galvanizing their sensitivity and doing the time, with dedication and focus to observe what lies within.

My teacher tells me the way to describe this, is to 'never give up and keep letting go'. 

With that mantra alone I am confident the process works and so it's just a matter of showing up.

It's that simple. For me, this path of self-awareness is my staple. It keeps me grounded and opens possibilities I could have never of dreamed off.

It does this because you are stilling the mind, to then go beyond the mind.

It's in this place that you meet your genius and tap into your superpowers, this is what I have found.

It's incredible to have such a practice, that is different every day. Some days it's like a workout, or a therapy session, or a gateway into awe and transcendence.

Other days it's quiet in there...

While I have no control over all of the events and experiences that can unfold in my life I know I can control the way I experience them.

Having this sacred and personal time and place at the dawning of the day and in the evenings is like going into a temple.

A temple of myself where it's quiet and is a place of reverence and appreciation.

Even in the chaotic days when my mind is racing and my body sore, I know with the breath and posture, bit by bit I can get into that special place.

A place where time stands still and the hours can melt on by in the blink of an eye.

Every day is different and I'm not attached to what was or what can be. 

I just show up, sit up and breathe, and it's free. 

All it asks of is my time.

Which lasts for eternity.

What I don't get done this time around I'll be back to finish, so there's no better time than now to go into the bank and start building debt free credit.

The kind you can cash but can never buy. 

This type of happiness is durable and supports all those around me.

If this is something you would like to learn, either one-on-one or in a group please email me. Or invite anyone you know could benefit from this to connect with me.

Applying this Kriya Tantric meditation within a high-performance program is now my primary focus. 2021 is going to be incredible!

If you want to build your happiness momentum it takes 30 minutes a day.

Ready?

 

In Greatness and Responsibility,

Alistair Hart 

 

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