New Age Doesn't Ensure Happiness
25/06/08 21:10
I received an email today about a new
type of treatment which struck me as just another cleverly
disguised way of removing personal power and deflecting change from
the place that needs it most - the mind. Happiness is not outside
of you. I contend that our one core motivation (beyond survival) is
happiness. Everything we do is to gain some happiness - the car,
the job, power, money are all ways of trying to get happiness. That includes laser
reflexology, yoga poses and massage therapy. There is no happiness
in beauty or an aligned yoga pose or being pain free; happiness is
possible under all circumstances including difficult ones. There is
no external person or circumstnace or treatment that will give you
the happiness you seek. All external seeking fails - external
solutions are snakeoil. I agree that there is temporary happiness,
however it is always followed by some form of disappointment; that
is not the kind of happiness we are looking for. We are looking for
the kind of happiness that lasts, that doesn’t tarnish - and that
you will never find in the external world. If you look to externals
you will look but never find. We want to be finders! To find true
abiding happiness and personal power you must look within and be
willing to change your mind about what and how you think of
yourself.