Happiness & Hurdles

I happened to watch a highly inspirational talk show on Happiness & Hurdles on the television yesterday and liked it a lot. So feel like sharing the main points.

Success means feeling good, light and beautiful. Success means being stable in all circumstances, giving positive energy to everyone we meet. Success/happiness is not contingent on anything or anyone.  Worldly achievements and relations do not make us complete. We are complete the way we are.

Start looking within.

Connect with your higher self.

How to get this feeling of completeness?

Remember that:

Nothing happens to me, everything happens for me, for my growth.

Obstacles are not meant to lower our spirit or give a feeling of failure; they are meant to help us find a way out-a newer, more innovative way; they come to show us the real path.

Hurdles are meant to make us stronger, since they require greater amount of energy

Thoughts of pain, failure, comparison, criticism drain out our energy; let them not creep in.

False notions with which we live throughout our lives:

When something happens against my expectations, I  feel like a loser.

If I become so and so I’ll be happy; if I get this, I’ll be happy.

I’ll be complete when------ happens.

So fallacious. The truth is that we are meant to be happy and complete irrespective of our worldly achievements, relationships etc. We must remember that a tortoise is strongest when it goes within; it cannot be inflicted with any pain. Similarly, when we start looking inwards, we become strong; external defeats of any kind cannot harm us then. If we can love ourselves the way we are, everyone else will do the same.

So let’s stay focussed on our own journey, the paths will start opening up to take us to the destination.

Do share your ideas.