Monday Musings ~ The Secret To Happiness And Peace

Life is actually rather simple.

What I mean is, feeling happiness and feeling peace in your life is rather simple.

Which is really what we all want at the end of the day, isn't it?

There are a million books, seminars, lectures, retreats, programs and videos that you can attend/consume to learn the secrets for a fulfilling, happy, peaceful life.

All the good ones say the same things.

The secret to happiness is simple - find all the places within yourself where you put conditions on allowing yourself to feel loved, and remove those conditions.

The secret to peace is simple - find all the places in your life where you judge something as being wrong, and realize it is actually just as it is meant to be.

Happiness and feeling love are synonymous.

To feel eternally happy, is to feel that you are eternally loved. To feel that no matter what happens, no matter what you do, no matter how life unfolds that you are seen for who you are, and validated in that. Accepted in that. Approved of in that.

The truth about love is, it is like oxygen. It is like the sun. It is always there. You can build up blocks to it. You can make rules that say when I do this or when I am like that I am not loveable - and thus cut YOURSELF off from love. This makes you unhappy.

But love never went anywhere.

And if you choose to allow yourself to feel loveable all the time, you will find that happiness is a chronic condition for you.

Happiness is as simple as saying "I am always worthy of love" and then allowing yourself to feel that love all the time.

Peace is similar.

Peace is available at all times as well. It is a choice that says no matter what the circumstances are, you believe they are 100% correct.

That what is happening is supposed to be happening.

That what is not happening is not supposed to be happening.

When you choose to believe that absolutly everything that does and does not occur is exactly what is supposed to go down for your highest good - peace is.

When you stop fighting with life, all the unrest goes.

Happiness and peace are.

You get to choose to participate in them or not.

Now, with this - if you can't do the previous two things there is nothing wrong with you.

This life seems to be all about the journey. We resist love and we resist life. This is how we are learning right now.

And it's OK.

This is not a new measuring stick by which to measure yourself lacking. Which I know all my over achiever friends out there are starting to assess where they are failing at being happy and peaceful.

That is so not the point.

But it is ok if you do it.

Because you will learn through that.

So, perhaps the real secret is to say you will experience times where you don't feel happy, and where you don't feel peace, and that is OK. Because peace and happiness are, you can't make them go away. You did not lose them. You have not made it impossible for you to ever feel these things again. The block is not strong enough that you are hooped now.

All you can do is allow yourself to experience happiness and peace or you can resist the experience.

Both are right. Both serve learning.

You already know the secret.

So you can relax now.

Xoxo