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i>Happiness is satisfaction in the face of negativity and push.</li><li>Happiness is being grateful for what I have got.</li><li>Happiness is accepting my good fortunes.</li><li>Happiness is accepting my challenges.</li><li>Happiness is not overly worrying about the future, present or past.</li><li>Happiness is knowing or feeling that I am worthy (of what I want, as long as of course it is not harmful or destructive to the “other”)</li></ul>Happiness is tapping into the field of bountiful possibilities and potentials, and feeling comforted by the thought that Life is fluid and malleable, and I am in control of steering my own Life in the direction that I want.Joy is not on my list of descriptions of Happiness, and this is because I believe that true deep happiness is joy, or that joy is true deep happiness. Joy is Happiness, and Happiness is Joy, they are interchangeable.It is hard to describe but after a while, after the “hard knocks” of 3-D Life, if you engage in self-examination or how you interact with others, and if you question how you manage yourself and your relationships, and accept your responsibilities for your choices and mark out healthy boundaries, and if you step away or move away from what intrudes upon your boundaries, or you can alter or influence the boundary stepper to stop stepping, then you will achieve at least a mild level of constant happiness.At some point you may reach a certain level of happiness that will catapult you into the happiness stratosphere, which is if you like, a “band-with” or a frequency or a spectrum of rainbows and brightness, of joyful possibilities, where you will STAY or reside, and there will be no turning back.Life is hard for each and every one of us.“When the going gets tough, the tough gets going”, is a quote that I like. I also like “The teacher and the taught together create the teaching.”My observation is that there are signs or markers that will tell you that are heading into the happiness stratosphere.<ul><li>When you no longer feel obliged or itching to post back or comm

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ent a counter-active or ego-based response to a text on the internet.</li><li>When you no longer engage in “tit for tat” by email, when someone disappoints you or doesn’t understand you — and you don’t give back what you think you got, meaning you don’t reply telling them that, No THEY are the idiot.</li><li>When you no longer pin your happiness upon winning the Lottery because what if you don’t win the Lotto?</li><li>When you realise that you have a Higher Self or a Soul which has a way of guiding you to what you need.</li><li>When you feel glad, calm, cheerful, confident, excited, comfortable, pleased, relaxed or satisfied 90 percent of the time.</li><li>When you stop fighting yourself — when you dis-engage from the “push-pull” encounters between individuals and groups, realising you can just observe and respectfully accept a person’s good intentions, while asserting your personal boundaries (through perhaps just stating your opinion and not adding to it or trying to galvanise support for your opinion; or through avoiding a person, or not speaking much to a person, without storing up resentment or feelings of revenge; and if you really can’t get away from them, as the Dalai Lama says, stand up for yourself and tell the person what you think and / or feel, or take other forward moving and legal and ethical action to keep your boundaries intact, like looking out for another job or contacting the Human Resources / Personnel section or another authority).</li></ul>And this also:When you accept that you are enough.You no longer need to fill the hole that you have experienced, because the hole was never there. It was just a bucket of longing for approval, of feeling not loved enough, of self-expectations and of “push versus pull”. You realise that YOU created this “bucket” and that you have allowed yourself to grow spiritually so that you no longer have a bucket to try to fill and you are not even a glass half full, but you are a diamond in the rough.You are complete and full, you have spun happiness from the raw fabric of living, and it is enough.Soak up the Happiness Stratosphere.</article></body>

Joy

To look at JOY, first I will look at “What is Happiness?”

Some attributes are below.

Glad
Calm
Cheerful
Confident
Excited
Comfortable
Pleased
Relaxed
Satisfied

So, right now if you are feeling the C’s — calm, confident and cheerful, then chances are you are happy!

Even a wise person (can’t remember who) once stated that HAPPY does not necessarily mean feeling-

Elated
On top of the World
Deliriously happy
Couldn’t be happier
[ add your own term for extreme happiness here ]

I got to thinking, no really what is Happiness? Wouldn’t I know it if I was happy? What if lurking behind the mild happiness of calmness, confidence and cheerfulness, there’s a tinge or a hue of sadness? Surely that is not being Happy?

This of course led to other questions of myself, like “Why is there a sadness?” and “What are you going to do about this hue?”

I answered myself “Life is full of ups and downs, a lot can happen in a minute, feelings range from worry or anxiousness or sadness to feeling elated, there’s nothing wrong with that.”

It’s normal or healthy as a human being to be in touch with one’s feelings, and perhaps the key for me is not to expect elation or perfect happiness in any moment!

I am very analytical. Attribute this to my having 4 Planets in Virgo, and anyone who knows a little about the Virgo “types” in Western Astrology, will be aware that Virgos like information and can like to be organised, planned and detailed. I could add “fussy, too ordered, have high expectations, like perfection …. “ but I have been down those paths and consider that with age, I have learned that other path-ways are better.

So, more about what Happiness is, for me.

Happiness is satisfaction in the face of negativity and push.
Happiness is being grateful for what I have got.
Happiness is accepting my good fortunes.
Happiness is accepting my challenges.
Happiness is not overly worrying about the future, present or past.
Happiness is knowing or feeling that I am worthy (of what I want, as long as of course it is not harmful or destructive to the “other”)

Happiness is tapping into the field of bountiful possibilities and potentials, and feeling comforted by the thought that Life is fluid and malleable, and I am in control of steering my own Life in the direction that I want.

Joy is not on my list of descriptions of Happiness, and this is because I believe that true deep happiness is joy, or that joy is true deep happiness. Joy is Happiness, and Happiness is Joy, they are interchangeable.

It is hard to describe but after a while, after the “hard knocks” of 3-D Life, if you engage in self-examination or how you interact with others, and if you question how you manage yourself and your relationships, and accept your responsibilities for your choices and mark out healthy boundaries, and if you step away or move away from what intrudes upon your boundaries, or you can alter or influence the boundary stepper to stop stepping, then you will achieve at least a mild level of constant happiness.

At some point you may reach a certain level of happiness that will catapult you into the happiness stratosphere, which is if you like, a “band-with” or a frequency or a spectrum of rainbows and brightness, of joyful possibilities, where you will STAY or reside, and there will be no turning back.

Life is hard for each and every one of us.

“When the going gets tough, the tough gets going”, is a quote that I like. I also like “The teacher and the taught together create the teaching.”

My observation is that there are signs or markers that will tell you that are heading into the happiness stratosphere.

When you no longer feel obliged or itching to post back or comment a counter-active or ego-based response to a text on the internet.
When you no longer engage in “tit for tat” by email, when someone disappoints you or doesn’t understand you — and you don’t give back what you think you got, meaning you don’t reply telling them that, No THEY are the idiot.
When you no longer pin your happiness upon winning the Lottery because what if you don’t win the Lotto?
When you realise that you have a Higher Self or a Soul which has a way of guiding you to what you need.
When you feel glad, calm, cheerful, confident, excited, comfortable, pleased, relaxed or satisfied 90 percent of the time.
When you stop fighting yourself — when you dis-engage from the “push-pull” encounters between individuals and groups, realising you can just observe and respectfully accept a person’s good intentions, while asserting your personal boundaries (through perhaps just stating your opinion and not adding to it or trying to galvanise support for your opinion; or through avoiding a person, or not speaking much to a person, without storing up resentment or feelings of revenge; and if you really can’t get away from them, as the Dalai Lama says, stand up for yourself and tell the person what you think and / or feel, or take other forward moving and legal and ethical action to keep your boundaries intact, like looking out for another job or contacting the Human Resources / Personnel section or another authority).

And this also:

When you accept that you are enough.

You no longer need to fill the hole that you have experienced, because the hole was never there. It was just a bucket of longing for approval, of feeling not loved enough, of self-expectations and of “push versus pull”. You realise that YOU created this “bucket” and that you have allowed yourself to grow spiritually so that you no longer have a bucket to try to fill and you are not even a glass half full, but you are a diamond in the rough.

You are complete and full, you have spun happiness from the raw fabric of living, and it is enough.

Soak up the Happiness Stratosphere.