Why Am I Happy?

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Why am I happy?

Why are you happy? Why are any of us happy?

Of course with our critical mind and our critical nature a lot of us like to analyze things. A lot of the time we get caught up analyzing why things go wrong.

Of course psychology started with Mr. Freud and Freud was investigating these cases where these people have this disorder or they’re not entirely well adjusted to society.

It wasn’t until much later, many decades later like 60 or 70 years later a wonderful being by the name of Abraham Maslow decided to ask the question we spend so much time looking at cases where things go wrong, what about when things go right?

It’s a beautiful question which lead the way for positive psychology and humanist psychology and Maslow’s idea of self actualization.

What happens when someone decides to take control, take the reins, influence their own habits and character to be the kind of person they want to be. As Maslow wrote once “If a person is to be truly happy, what he can be he must be.”

This is something presented in the interview I did the other day with Sterlin Lujan where he had this revelation like “Hey you have so much hidden potential. You are smarter than anyone has ever told you, you can do amazing things. So go ahead, go ahead and do them.”

Lets ask this question on a more personal level. The other day, a few weeks back I got back from Chiapas.

I was just relaxing. I sent a message to my friend Scarlet who asked me how I was doing. I said “Good. I’m well, I’m actually really happy.”

And she said “Why are you really happy? What’s the condition?”

And that’s the question. Why am I happy?

Maybe in part because I prayed and fulfilled the request of my prayer. I received what I asked for this journey that was not just successful but enlightening as well. And maybe, I don’t know why I was happy that day.

That’s the thing, that’s why it’s an eternal question that will probably stay with me for the rest of my life.

I’ll still keep asking. Right now. I am feeling this enjoyment in my belly between my navel and solar plexus, this warm feeling. Not exactly fuzzy but this phrase comes to mind is all encompassing. Soft. Welcoming. Why?

Why am I happy?

Of course today I got up and went and took a yoga class and exercised my body in some form and breathed into different parts of me that perhaps had been kept dormant for so long. And in some moments I began to cry because I could tell there was something so beautiful about the experience, about knowing my own body and feeling who I am.

I invite you to ask when you do have those moments that are pleasurable when you do feel relaxed and content perhaps overjoyed, overwhelmed in a good way. Why do you feel like that? Where did it come from?

Like I said you do have to be…well you don’t have to be anything but you can be a little bit gentle with this because if we ask the question too harshly then we might find those positive feelings disappear like suddenly you switch gears.

Like I was in a feeling mode now I’m in a thinking mode abruptly. So we do it gently, softly, softly we ask ourselves. Softly softly we can maintain that wonderful warm feeling within us enjoying the moment and at once discovering ourselves and what makes us happy, what helps us to be happy, what allows us to be happy.

What is it?

I don’t really know. Maybe someone smarter than me can come up with more answers.

For now I leave you with that question. Why am I happy?

Thank you for listening, have a happy day!