To Be Happy

We all have felt disappointment. With disappointment often comes unhappiness, regret, fear, anger and a host of emotions. Yoga teaches us that we should not be disappointed when that which we wish for does not come into our lives. We should be content with what we have and not desire that which we have not earned. It is the essence of contentment and the basis of happiness. The key word is what we have not "earned." To be happy and content independent of events is not something that just happens -- it is something we must work at every day.

At present in my own life I have encountered a situation that makes me unhappy. The events are such that I am not able to have that which I so dearly wanted in my life. I found myself miserable. Feeling unhappy my mind began to scatter about like a monkey leaping from tree to tree. I could not settle into a place where my body and my mind were quiet and still. I lost my balance. I lost my grace. I lost the beauty of life.  Then I read a prescription for happiness:

Prescription For Total Happiness

Nine requisites for contended living; Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patients enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
-Johann von Goethe

Doctor Lynn
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