“Happiness cannot be
limited to a person or a thing. Happiness is an internal feeling; and what you
need from an external situation - through a person you love, a thing you
desire, or a position you seek - is a means of satisfying that deep emotional
longing which connects you to your purpose of life and to your soul’s positive state
of being.”
There is a feeling which we seek to satisfy
through indulging in any action which we may think we do to attain an
externally desire. This feeling is called the intention behind an act.
Usually, a disparity exists between our
intention, action and its consequence which is the main cause of stress and
negativity in our lives.
This means that after the act is done, we
realize that the consequence was not that which we had desired/intended
initially. Hence even if we succeed, we continue to feel stressed and negative
after a temporary feeling of euphoria.
For example, a person may work very hard to
keep his family happy, but in the process may lose emotional contact with his
family members and eventually may get separated from the family itself. If he
had taken some time off and focused on his core desire, and whether or not his
actions were leading to the desired outcome, he may have chosen a more
congruent method to keep his family happy.
Whenever we feel helpless or victimized deep
within, while pursuing a path, even if we are okay with the compromise, it is
not the path for the soul.
Since the soul is a part of the Creator , we
should always feel like a Creator on the path of the soul, not as a victim of
circumstances.
A life is meant to help the soul evolve, but a
life focused on satisfying short-term goals, which spread more negative energy
than positive may lead to weakening of the soul.
For example, some people feel in control when
they hit others. Dev, the lead character
in the book, ‘In Search Of Happiness; the
soul’s perspective’, often did so. He often indulged in aggressive behavior
to release the tension in his mind. It gave him short-term relief. But during
therapy, when he looked deeper in his mind, he realized that this act was
causing him greater stress than relief. It was an act, which he was
compulsively drawn into like a drug and the more he indulged in it, the more he
craved for it, and the more his stress increased at the soul level.
He was surprised to find that, internally, he
was not getting the emotional satisfaction he was seeking by hitting other
people. His soul did not desire a path of violence but his conscious mind
thought that it did.
At the conscious level, the feeling he was
seeking to satisfy was a need to feel powerful because he had a deep inner urge
to feel powerful. But in his pursuit of power, he missed out on why the soul
craved power
The soul craved for a feeling of power because
that gave him the strength to fight against injustice. Fighting against
injustice was his core soul mission.
So a conflict arose when Dev chose a method of
pursuit of power by hitting others. He wanted to feel powerful like soldiers
do. Hitting other people and defeating them is a historically accepted
conventional method of seeking power.
But this conventional method which he came
upon by following mass Earth thought was not the method which satisfied his
soul needs. The soul’s very purpose of seeking power was defeated by the method
chosen by his conscious mind to gain power.
It created negative vibrations within him
which harmed his soul energies. The feeling of power that he got by defeating
weaker people was accompanied by a feeling of emptiness and desperation.
So, Dev was never able to achieve the
emotional satisfaction he was seeking whatever he did since all his actions
were based on the belief that hitting others makes one powerful. He never found
the kind of power the soul sought, because his whole thought pattern went
against the soul’s purpose.
There was constant disharmony between the
needs of the soul and the method his conscious mind chose to satisfy that need.
To find the feeling of inner satisfaction that he desired, he needed to reflect
on the method he was choosing to meet his innermost desires. At a conscious
level, what he thought was an appropriate means of fulfilling his desires was
not so at the soul level.
Like Dev, we do not focus on the fact that it
is the method of pursuit which is important and not the goal by itself. In our
pursuit of a goal, we choose to ignore the warning which our subconscious mind
often gives us that even after attaining this goal, we may not get the
emotional satisfaction we desired while pursuing this goal.
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