Holding onto Happiness - 7

7 – Finding firm ground

The delicate positioning of our mind that we experience during our most subtle and gentle meditations can be fleeting and somewhat elusive.

The sole reason for this is our lack of familiarity with inner peace and stillness.

We have, throughout our lives, developed a default point in our minds, that state of mind when we think to ourselves 'this is me, the real me, and there is nothing I can do about it' - almost as if this is a genetic coding status that is unalterable... but...

This is not the case when it comes to who we think we are, as we can change the way we think about ourselves, and in effect create a new default point.

Gradually at first, but as we gain familiarity with our new happier, peaceful self, a new sense of identity will develop and we will identify ourselves anew.

From one single thought, that gradually firms and strengthens, the self knowledge of our new identity will improve and grow.

Visualise an enormous oil tanker, surging through the ocean, and the captain receives notification that she needs to turn around and head back to port. She knows that it will take miles of travel before the tanker can turn around and change direction, as the momentum carries the vessel onward and onward.

In the same way we have to change the momentum, shift the force of habit within our minds, and this takes time, but it can and will happen.

And, once started, the initially delicate sense of peace and contentment that we have found will develop and grow, into a deep and profound reservoir, an inner resource of continually developing depth… Yes, as good as it sounds…

So, take the time to familiarise yourself with the potential that resides within your beautiful new self, the happy and contented you.

All beginning with a meditation... Click here... BREATHING & RELAXATION MEDITATION