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<\/p>\nIt’s common to search for happiness. However, when you become aware that being happy depends on you, you free yourself from the slavery of looking for it elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Your incessant search to achieve happiness can lead you to become obsessed with obtaining it, even though you often don\u2019t really know what it is or how to achieve it. Nevertheless, as a human being, you tend to think that happiness is what everyone wants. However, do you know to what extent being happy depends on you?<\/p>\n
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\u201cPeople always forget that human happiness is a disposition of the conscience and not a condition of circumstances<\/em>\u201d \u2013 John Locke.<\/p>\n The definition of being happy<\/strong><\/p>\n In order to know what happiness really is, you need to answer the question of what it really means to you. As a matter of fact, the answer can be somewhat complex and is different for everyone. This indicates that happiness isn\u2019t something that\u2019s \u2018out there<\/em>\u2019 but in yourself and how you live your life.<\/p>\n If you go through life with the belief that being happy depends on your circumstances, on the situations you go through, on having more money, well-behaved children, a good job, a stable partner, you\u2019ll spend your life looking for what\u2019s missing without realizing that happiness actually has nothing to do with any of this.<\/p>\n In fact, happiness is always to be found within you. It\u2019s not something that\u2019s outside of yourself. Furthermore, it doesn\u2019t depend on what you have, but rather on what you are. This means learning to love, accept, and live with yourself. They\u2019re the real keys to happiness.<\/p>\n Your attitude towards life modifies when you become aware that personal satisfaction isn\u2019t as variable as you\u2019ve been led to believe. In other words, it\u2019s not constantly dependent upon what occurs around you. Indeed, you have the potential to choose how to live your life, achieve greater harmony, and take responsibility for your own happiness.<\/p>\n Happiness doesn\u2019t mean having more positive experiences than negative ones. It means integrating all your experiences as vital learning, since they\u2019re all useful and necessary.<\/p>\n How happiness is sold<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s common to view happiness as dependent upon what occurs around you. That\u2019s probably what you\u2019ve been taught throughout your life. However, this is why the tyranny of happiness exists.<\/p>\n Happiness is sold under certain formulas of how to live your life, how to behave, and what you should have. The media, advertising, and politics take advantage of this fact. Indeed, they tell you that the more things you have, the happier you\u2019ll be. Furthermore, they put forward the idea that it\u2019s necessary to constantly generate positive emotions and that you need to live in an ideal bubble. However, this doesn\u2019t represent reality at all. That\u2019s why you feel frustrated. Even worse, you disconnect with yourself. The incessant search for happiness in the external takes you further away from yourself and from the happiness inherent in your nature.<\/p>\n As a matter of fact, anyone who solely bases their happiness on what they have and what they achieve will end up losing themselves. That\u2019s because these needs aren\u2019t real. They\u2019re ephemeral. In fact, they\u2019re not genuine needs for satisfaction, they\u2019re needs that they\u2019ve created themselves.<\/p>\n The more you have, the more you need. Hence, as Saint Augustine claimed, \u201cThe richest man is not he who has the most but he who needs the least<\/em>\u201d. Therefore, dependence on the external means submitting to a continuous state of slavery.<\/p>\n Being happy depends on you<\/strong><\/p>\n Assimilate and integrate. This is a fundamental message. You need to understand that you\u2019re not going to be any happier for achieving more triumphs, more money, power, and recognition. That\u2019s because being happy has nothing to do with ambition. Nor will you be happier by obtaining greater sensations of pleasure, since the search for physical pleasure isn\u2019t what causes happiness either.<\/p>\n These types of issues make up your superficial life, without depth and hardly any quality. They represent the human being who\u2019s asleep and who lives in the world of quantity. Being happy depends on you. Therefore, it\u2019s essential to realize that happiness is more psychological than physiological. It supposes a higher state of consciousness, a reunion with yourself, an awakening toward what\u2019s truly important.<\/p>\n You can be happy if you learn to listen to yourself and attend to your true needs. However, is necessary that you move away from everything that enslaves you and places you in a permanent spiral of unsatisfied desire. Because being happy depends on you.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is pleasure and there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 Gautama Buddha.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n yogaesoteric \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s common to search for happiness. However, when you become aware that being happy depends on you, you free yourself from the slavery of looking for it elsewhere. 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\nJune 23, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n