Dear Integral Meditators,
What if happiness were easier than we think, and the only thing getting in the way was that we often find being happy profoundly uncomfortable?
This weeks integral meditations article is in the form of a series of questions that invites us to look a bit deeper into the real causes of our lack of happiness.
I’m in the process of setting up the rest of the meditation program for the rest of 2013, you can see the dates below, full details will be out by next week.
Yours in the spirit of uncomplicated happiness,
Toby
Upcoming Courses at Integral Meditation Asia:
Starting Sunday October 7th – Qi Gong for Improving your Health and Energy Levels and Removing Your Inner Stress – A Four Class Series
19th & 24th November – An Introduction to Meditation from the Perspective of Zen Levels 1&2 (full details next week)
October 27th, Dec 1st – Shadow Meditation Levels 1&2 (full details next week)
How Much Happiness Are You Prepared to Tolerate?
What if happiness was easy?
What if the obstacle to happiness was not the fact that it was not available to you each day, but rather the experience of being unconditionally happy was something that you had a very low tolerance level to?
What if being happy actually caused you anxiety on a subtle and unconscious level, life surely could not be this good?
What if you are actually avoiding being happy because a large part of you actually prefers being unhappy, struggling with life?
What if the idea of working towards happiness as a future goal seems attractive to you, but accepting happiness as it exists in the present moment is something that makes you genuinely uncomfortable to the extent of avoidance?
The word meditation and its applied practice really means to ‘ponder deeply upon’, or ‘to look deeply into’. This week your meditation practice is to ask yourself the above questions and the one question below, to ‘penetrate the question’ so to speak.
What if real genuine happiness was available to you right now and the only thing standing in the way of it was your acceptance of it?
© Toby Ouvry 2013, you are welcome to use or share this article, but please cite Toby as the source and include reference to his website www.tobyouvry.com