One of the topics in our Spiritual Badass blog challenge today is:
‘What you would tell your younger self?’
I let this roll around in my mind for a bit and some current events inspired me with this answer:
‘The key to life is liking being alive.’
If I like being alive then I can be happy most days. I have taken a long time – oh, about 51 years – to learn how to like being alive, mainly because I didn’t really know that I was alive. I mean I didn’t feel alive, pay attention to the experience of being alive.
These days I do it more and more. I sit quietly and ask myself, ‘where is that alive feeling?’ Then it becomes more noticeable. A mysterious energy deep inside, a buzzing which, when I pay attention to it, spreads right to my fingers and toes. Then I notice what it is like to breathe. Wow, breathing! What a miracle! How does that happen?
The more I do this, the happier I am. I just look for the feeling of being alive and I find that it is the energy of happiness.
It works for me. How do you find your way to your happy, alive centre?
The older I get, the happier I seem to be as well. I don’t think I truly appreciated life until I was in my 40’s.
It does seem that the older we get the more we appreciate being here, doesn’t it? I realise this not only from remembering what I was like but also from watching my 18 year old son and his girlfriend. It takes me back! Thanks for your comment.