What is happiness? What makes you happy?

It’s Springtime and I am thinking about happiness. A happiness that is both personal and archetypal.

If you live in the Southern Hemisphere and Autumn has just arrived, happiness may not be in the air, but I am sure it is in your heart.

Nature seems happy. The air feels happy.  The world around me is bursting with life and in spite of my busyness and a few challenges, I feel full of good energy and smiles.  Do you?

Wondering about happiness inspired me to write a list poem about what makes me happy and I wanted to share with you.  Perhaps it will inspire you to write your own or maybe you will find yourself nodding yes as you read the causes of my happiness. My list shares what stimulates feelings of happiness in me, in the past, the present and the future. I could/should say “I feel happy when…”

I am not looking for the causes of pleasure like a great massage, a piece of dark chocolate, buying a beautiful pair of shoes, winning the lottery, my grandchild’s smiling eyes, etc.  I am looking at moral happiness, creative happiness, the kind of happiness that makes angels smile (how do angels smile?). Moral happiness elicits a connection with the divine and the best feeling of being alive.  It is so very personal and freeing.

Please, spend some time with happiness and write down your list/poem, then share what causes your moments of happiness here. And share this message through social media links at the bottom of the message. Let’s see how many causes of moral happiness we can share!

Yes, I am asking you to give your precious time and precious attention to thinking, real deep thinking, about what gives you moral happiness.  Give it a few minutes, you will find yourself experiencing the moral happiness that comes from knowing yourself. Make your soul smile and your angel smile!

Here is my list of some of the causes of my feelings of happiness:

It is truth understood.

It is beauty felt.

It is goodness done.

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It is an epiphany awakened.

It is a temptation vanquished.

It is a trial undertaken and overcome.

It is a new me that always knew.

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It is a question that enlivens forever.

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It is a swing that rises ever higher.

It is a floating on a magical sea.

It is wafting on a warm breeze after the hurricane.

It is the solid coolness of the earth.

It is the budding of my flowering heart.

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It is the pulsing presence of wonder.

It is the soft ringing tone of wisdom.

It is the deep feeling of “all is well” in my body.

It is the willingness to accept necessary discomfort.

It is thinking about what makes me morally happy.

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We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal nor immortal, so that with freedom of choice and with honor, as though the maker and molder of thyself, thou mayest fashion thyself in whatever shape thou shalt prefer. 

Pico della Mirandola Oration on the Dignity of Man 1486

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• do you face doubts about yourself being able to calmly manage and nurture your inner sense of self or confidently show up in the world with your gifts and goodness?
• do you wonder about how you go about expanding your self-awareness and developing your ability to remain centered and positive?
• do you struggle to have clear goals and make purposeful choices?
• do find it overwhelming, even paralyzing, to recognize and meet your practical needs, emotional needs, spiritual needs?
• do you find yourself distracted or sabotaging your intentions?
• do you neglect or abandon your inner life or your passions & life purpose?
• do you feel you have amazing potential, yet you fail to manifest it?

I respond YES!!! to each of these questions everyday. 

For years, these questions drove me nuts! Made me miserable! I was always running from them: I read so many books, took so many courses, prayed, meditated, got depressed, got manic, journaled, watched a lot of TV, cooked lots of good comfort food, and pretended to not have doubts, fears, confusion or questions.  

Then a few years ago, my relationship to these questions changed. I stopped being angry about them. They became inspirations.

First, I began to distinguish my inner life from my life in the world. It was this time of year, the parenting season between Mother's Day and Father's Day. I realized that my inner life questions needed me to self-mother and my life in the world needed me to self-father.

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