How To Reach Blissfulness And Freedom Of Thought
The power of staying joyful and Optimistic
Happiness and optimism are two feelings that are generally seen as a reward from doing the activities that will bring those emotions in the first place — In short, you do something that makes you happy first, and then you enjoy the feeling, hence:
Outside joy, to become happy. But it is counterproductive.
Have you ever thought that it could be the opposite? Because I noticed that, by consciously and with intention, if you maintain a state and feeling of joy and optimism in your heart, everything that happened to you externally will have that feeling of happiness and optimism in it, hence:
Inside joy first, then outside become. And you live in constant bliss.
This is what I called blissfulness or enlightenment. The first time I was introduced to the diagram below, my life changed, and it was the beginning of my spiritual journey. By understanding at which stage I was in the spectrum of emotion, I set a course to reach the top.
Have you heard about the analogy about success that says that the top is sometimes lonely? But boy, it feels good to be there. It is so peaceful, feelings are amplified, and you see life from a bird's-eye view.
To describe it accurately, I will say that you understand more about what’s happens inside and outside yourself, your vision about life expand, your feeling hold messages for you to decipher, and you know without knowing why you know.
If you are not prepared for this shift, it can be frightening yet, rewarding. Imagine the feeling you get when you go for a long hike, on a stiff path, climbing a mountain to see the view of everything around you. How does it feel? Amazing right. That is how that blissfulness feels.
When you were climbing that mountain, you had no idea how long it will take you to get to the top, right? There are so many challenges on the way, but you feel so excited after each new challenge passed. After overcoming the next challenge, you know that another will come, but as you keep on climbing, you feel more confident about the path. You know you can do it. There is no turning back because you really want to feel and enjoy that view.
Climbing is not about finding that treasure chest at the top or having a reward handed to you. It is about building yourself to that feeling of peace and joy. It is like endlessly pushing up a boulder up a mountain, only to have to roll back down again. Looks like insanity, right? But what change in you, is your inner strength and peace.
The more you keep that state of mind, the closer to get to enlightenment — Go back and check the top of the diagram, and you will see that everybody knows how to get there. It’s that simple — Find internal joy and happiness in you first. Then the road will come to you.
There is a way to get there faster, and it is by feeling the joy of being at the top while going through the way to the top. Don’t mind the challenge in front of you or the next one that will come. Just feel the joy and luck to be climbing that mountain.
Don’t mind anyone not understanding why you are so happy while climbing the mountain. Know deep inside you that it is the path with confidence. You might notice that there are fewer and fewer people on the road, and that’s because they haven’t realized what they already have in them, or they fell comfortable staying with the crowd — Conformity.
It is OK to feel lower emotions at times — Shame, guilt, apathy, grief, fear, desires, anger, and pride — but you have to get the courage to go back up there. Always remember that you cannot stay below for too long, you will get lost in the crowd and start to want to be like everyone else but yourself. You will be missing out on a view about life that only you can see and talk about to others.
Everyone who goes through the path will see and understand it differently, and that is a wonderful thing. We all have something unique to share with the world. But you only discover it while climbing that mountain. And your personal view of the world is what you express as your gift to the world.
They are all waiting for you to get there. So that they can dream for themselves and take the first step to reach that mountain top. So please do not stop climbing, but do it with joy and happiness on your path. Because you will not find it there when you reach it. You will only realize that it was already in you.
And trust me, you will laugh at YOURSELF for not knowing it first.
In the African community, you can sometimes hear the expression: When you Go black, there is no return.
But I also believe that: When you meet the universe/ God, there is no return.
And God, in my opinion, is happiness and joy in a form of emotion. The more you stay in that state, the more it reveals itself more and more to you every day. Your inner peace becomes your most precious Jewel. You want to polish it, you want to keep guarded, and you want to share the fruit of it with the world. DO IT!!!
I leave you in peace and Joy, may happiness and joy be, the one, state of mind that governs your being. As it will reflect on your everyday affairs.
Bonaventure Barry
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