happiness is your natural state- a mantra

Happiness is your natural state". - GuruMeher, in his book Senses of the Soul.

​I define happiness as a baseline of inner peace. A space where you have total equanimity no matter what the tides bring in. Happiness is not all flowery and giddy smiles and like everything is a party. Sometimes there could be anger and sadness, and still there is happiness.  

This might be easier to understand in the opposite state: Sometimes on the outside you appear happy-- and might actually be feeling happy in a moment, for instance during a celebration or having met a goal --but inside, you don't actually feel peaceful, you might feel as if you are only projecting a fake happy.  How's that?

"Happiness is your natural state". Why is this a good mantra?  We don't always pay attention to our emotions when they alert us, and emotions are our friends.  They are there specifically to guide us, just like our sense of touch guides us away from the hot stove. Repeat the mantra to help you remember: whenever you find yourself in a state of feeling Not Happy, or that state of inner peace is disturbed or not to be found, ask yourself:  "What am I feeling?" Knowing that happiness is your natural state, then “not happy” means you have something to check in on.

Respect the senses, identify your emotions. They will always lead you toward the right path.  

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A kriya for releasing your emotional patterns and programming:
Working on your frontal lobe helps you release stuck negative emotional memory-- or the patterns and programming from your childhood and into adulthood that harden and form your personality. Negative emotions get lodged in the body creating physical pains while the patterns and programming harden in the frontal lobe.  Try this kriya below to help relax and loosen that stuck emotional memory. 

Here’s a great article relating to this:  Kundalini Yoga and the Frontal Lobe : Navigating Overwhelming Emotions.  ​