What Is The Unconditional Path of Happiness?

I hope you're having a good day. Just wanted to talk a little bit about a concept called the unconditional path of happiness. I was reading some passages from one of my favorite books, which is the untethered soul by Michael Singer. And he talks about unconditional happiness being kind of a true path of spirituality and something that we can practice. And so I just want to go through that a little bit. So often we let external events shape our internal state of being. My girlfriend broke up with me, and so I am sad.

Or I had a work project where I was going to make a whole bunch of money and that fell through. Or, you know, the dog ran away, or it could be much smaller things, like the person cut me off in traffic. A co worker made a snide remark. One way to have this continue this unconditional path of happiness is just choosing in that moment not to close off, not to close off your heart or your mind to what is happening and try to change it, but just accepting it and making that decision that I'm going to be happy no matter what.

And that doesn't necessarily mean being really, you know, it doesn't mean we don't have to deal with the pain and the grief and the sadness of life as well. It's just about finding that balancing act, I think, within that. So if something comes up instead of closing, obviously I can't be happy right now. Just practice staying open. And maybe you can only stay open for a few seconds or a few minutes or a few hours or a few days. So it's one of these things where it's a constant practice. And I often wish that, you know, I could just kind of, when I learn about these different spiritual practices, just wish I could snap my finger.

And that's how it is now, you know. But in my experience, we need to keep. Keep on practicing, you know, almost like a sport. And if we can have fun with it, that's going to make it, you know, even better. And if we mess up, you know, there are no mistakes. And I think something that can help with all this, too, is just having gratitude for whatever happens, even for difficult situations. Because if we're living a spiritual life, when something comes up that is difficult, we can be grateful for that, too, because we know it's going to help us grow.

So those are a few thoughts for your Monday. Hope you're having a great start to the week, and I'll talk to you later. Okay, bye.