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• What Is True Happiness?
By Marie C. Barrett
What is your idea of happiness? The big vibe today is how to use the Law of Attraction to manifest “Success” so that you can live happily ever after.
Everyone seems to strive for success, a nebulous, undefined success, but what is success? For that matter, what is failure?
According to the materialistic media hype and marketing connivances of the commercial world, success is measured by how much money we make and then by how large is our house, how smart our clothes, how super our car and the list goes on.
But is success really measured in this way?
Maybe, if that is what you call success, for all experience is subjective and personal.But why do you want this kind of success?
Why do you want this kind of wealth?
When you reach a certain level of financial income, when you own the mansion, travel the world, scoot around in your snazzy car, you will FEEL successful. Then what?
Now let's come to the core of why and how we measure our success in the form of material wealth and material success. It is easier to relate to some measure outside of our self than to turn inside and examine how we feel from moment to moment and day to day.
We are so easily conditioned to believe money is the measure not only of our success in the world, but of our validity as a person, whether we are valuable and significant or not.
And yet a tiny baby is considered valuable and significant; a small child, we treasure and protect, yet as we grow and develop, we become conditioned to seek approval from others to validate our personal worth. What others think of us becomes extremely important, often over-riding our own sense of self-worth. It is no wonder there are so many unhappy, insecure, desperate people in our cities, all seeking some measure of approval from others to validate who they are.
Is this what success really means for you, that you will attain a certain measure of material wealth and success and that will be the benchmark of how you value who you are?
Maybe you don’t rely completely on status and material wealth for your sense of personal validity and worth, but it’s my guess there is a certain amount of materialism in there somewhere.
Not that money and the wonderful comforts and experiences it brings are bad. Not necessarily. Money is neither good nor bad in itself. It is simply a tool for our use, something we use to exchange for what we want.
Material wealth brings great benefits, and these material objects and feelings are all energy patterns that we create with our thoughts, according to the Law of Attraction.
All these things, these accoutrements of “success”, still fall short of where, deep down, you want to be.
And herein lies the answer to the question, “What is Success?”
Success is another tool we use and experience to bring us to a state of Being, and this state is happiness. Happiness is a state more than a thing, more than simply a feeling or emotion. Happiness is being in touch with your own essence. Here is where you find your sense of self worth.
Being in touch with your divine essence gives you inner peace, complete conviction of your personal worth, regardless of what anyone external to you may say. Even amid the trials of daily life, you can enter this state of happiness, being satisfied with knowing that nothing and no-one can take your BE-ing away from you, ever.
This is true and lasting happiness.
So work on BE-ing the kind of person you know you already are, in your inner power. Recognize your amazing and splendid personal power and perfection. Love yourself for who you really are: magnificent, loving, powerful and in touch with the Divine.
All the material success in the world is as nothing if you do not allow yourself the supreme joy of living in a state of happiness and contentment. All the rest is just a dream that constantly changes. Happiness is eternal. Reach out, or maybe that should be, reach in and discover who you are, where you came from and where you are going.
Happiness, finding and dwelling in your state of infinite BEing, is your birthright. Choose happiness first, then every blessing and delight will flow to you pressed down and overflowing. Find your happiness factor within, and, by the Law of Attraction, you will attract more of this high vibration into your experience.
