Pay Attention!
I cannot believe just how much attention it takes to be and remain happy.
Don't think that with yoga, Om Improvement and my current lifestyle, I am free from feeling down once in a while. I'm still in samsara afterall! The difference is now, I REALISE when I'm feeling down and I KNOW the process to get out of the rut AND I try and PRACTISE the process to do just that.
Living is such work!
Once you let your eyes defocus and mind get woolly, you lose awareness and POW! you begin to think that maybe you could be happier doing this or happier with that -- and FALL into the deepening pit of navel-gazing called depression.
Joy in each day is does not come and knock on your door begging admission please. You need to tend to it. Seek it out in all that you do and everything that you meet. This takes effort! Constantly. But this does not mean it's unpleasant. It just means that the moment you let your mind wander in laziness or neglect, your mind also wanders from all potentialities of happiness that can be experienced in the present moment. It is a game of perennial hide-and-seek.
So pay attention, joy at hand is waiting for you to discover it.
Don't think that with yoga, Om Improvement and my current lifestyle, I am free from feeling down once in a while. I'm still in samsara afterall! The difference is now, I REALISE when I'm feeling down and I KNOW the process to get out of the rut AND I try and PRACTISE the process to do just that.
Living is such work!
Once you let your eyes defocus and mind get woolly, you lose awareness and POW! you begin to think that maybe you could be happier doing this or happier with that -- and FALL into the deepening pit of navel-gazing called depression.
Joy in each day is does not come and knock on your door begging admission please. You need to tend to it. Seek it out in all that you do and everything that you meet. This takes effort! Constantly. But this does not mean it's unpleasant. It just means that the moment you let your mind wander in laziness or neglect, your mind also wanders from all potentialities of happiness that can be experienced in the present moment. It is a game of perennial hide-and-seek.
So pay attention, joy at hand is waiting for you to discover it.
