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The Path to Happiness - Achieving and Maintaining Happiness and Ending Depression and Anxiety
By Michael E. Goldberg
Most of us were born happy, full of wonder and positive energy. Then life hit. The traumas in life, especially childhood traumas often change our beliefs from positive to negative, from the world is a wonderful place to the world is a scary place. We often hold onto anger, fear, guilt and shame. These traumas cause us to hold onto painful memories and the related negative emotions and beliefs at the unconscious and conscious minds. As a result, we develop a negative inner voice and negative thought patterns. We tend to live in our thoughts for protection - and not the moment. As a result of trauma, we often feel anxious and powerless and cultivate a feeling of victim-hood.
Happiness is achieved and maintained when you feel ongoing peace in your heart, sustain a peaceful mind and feel ongoing joy (high vibrations). This ongoing feeling of peace is referred to as the flow of universal, unconditional love that we can feel in our hearts and torso To achieve and maintain happiness and heal depression and anxiety, we need to sustain our connection in our hearts (or heart chakras) with the free flow of chi energy (life force energy).
Depression and anxiety are caused by negative energy blockages and attachments. These negative energy blockages and attachments negatively impact brain chemistry and brain wave activity.. Negative energy is poison to living organisms. It causes mental and physical illness. Generally speaking negative energy comes for the negative thoughts, acts and speech of us and others. It comes from stress and our reaction to stress. It comes from conflict and drama and our ongoing exposure to negative and toxic people, situations and environments. It comes from traumas. It comes from holding onto the painful past and worrying about the future. It comes from unbalanced and obsessive attachments to people, things, substances, ideas and beliefs.
Negative energy lowers our vibrations. It compels negative thoughts. Negative thoughts then lead to negative acts and speech. All this lowers our vibrations. Happiness requires us to raise our vibrations and cultivate a peaceful spirit and mind. Traumas (especially childhood traumas) often change our conscious and unconscious beliefs from positive to negative. These negative beliefs lead to negative thoughts. Negative thoughts lead to negative emotions (anger, fear, anxiety, jealousy, guilt and shame). It is normal to feel the emotions once in awhile and have negative thoughts. But, it is important to let go of them, not hold onto them and to not generate more negative energy through negative reactions, acts or speech..
. While, rigid and negative beliefs lead to negative thoughts, attached and embedded negative energy cause negative beliefs and thoughts. Negativity is held as negative energy within our cells. Negativity (held in us as low vibration energy) must be flushed out with positive energy (high vibration energy) to achieve and maintain happiness. So long as we consciously or unconsciously hold onto painful memories, this will compel negative beliefs and thoughts.
Positive energy/life force is the antidote to negative energy. As high vibration energy, positive energy/life force energy counters negative, low vibration energy. It cleans out energy blockages and attachments.
The flow of chi energy feels peaceful in our hearts. Chi energy is positive energy. It is universal, unconditional love. It is the most powerful form of medicine. It will come to you over time with energy cleansing and healing (Reiki and Shamanic work is especially good) along with meditation and visualization techniques. The Reiki and Shamanic techniques will cleanse and heal your energy body (aura, chakras, meridians and soul connection). When your energy body is cleansed and healed and intact, it becomes a machine that effectively draws in, processes and distributes chi energy/life force energy throughout your body.
You need to play a role in the cleansing and healing of your energy body. Your role is through daily meditation in the heart, prayer from the heart, visualization exercises and positive affirmations. With these daily exercises, coupled with Reiki and Shamanic work, you will repair your energy body and this will lead to improvements in your brain chemistry and brain wave activity. All of these exercises are designed to flush out painful conscious and unconscious memories (letting go of the past), keeping you focused in the moment and substantially reducing thoughts, acts and speech that generate negative energy.
When you are filled with negative energy, you feel low and lack energy. When you are filled with positive energy, you feel happy, healthy and full of vitality. The only way to get rid of the low vibration negative energy is with high vibration positive energy or chi. Positive energy will come with energy body cleansing and healing and as you focus your heart and mind on drawing it in and sending it out.
Live your life in a way that maximizes positive energy and minimizes negative energy. Build up positive energy within yourself through daily meditation and prayer exercises. Substantially reduce stress in your life. Be kind, positive and patient. Do not intentionally hurt or deceive others. Live in the moment in your heart and senses (and not in your thoughts). Fully experiencing the moment by being fully present in the moment (and not thinking about the future or the past when in the moment). Enjoy life. Get into nature. Focus your thoughts, time and attention on positive and productive activities and positive, happy and loving people in your life...
The path to happiness is self love, high self esteem and high self confidence. It is being filled with energy and power and a kind inner voice. It is good mental and physical health. The path to happiness requires us to end the grip of fear, anger, anxiety, guilt, shame and blame and to focus solely only on achieving and maintaining an ongoing feeling of peace and joy. The path to happiness requires us to accept and let go of control and to realize we cannot control anyone but ourselves..
Happiness can only be achieved through inner work. Nothing on the outside can bring sustained happiness - not even money, possessions or relationships. They can help lift our spirits momentarily, but the feeling will not be sustainable without inner work. Happiness requires us to cultivate a peaceful spirit and mind, to achieve and maintain a happy, peaceful and serene feeling inside, to feel whole, to feel empowered and to feel loved. This is accomplished through energy body cleansing and healing through Reiki and Shamanic healing, meditation, prayer, visualization and positive affirmations.
To achieve and maintain inner peace and happiness, we need to substantially reduce stress in our lives. To reduce stress in our lives (stress is the primary cause of mental and physical illness), we must avoid conflict and drama, negative and toxic people and negative and toxic situations and environments. We must build and maintain boundaries and protect our personal and intimate space. We must focus on people, environments and situations that cultivate inner peace and joy.
Accept, forgive, detach and let go. We can't control or change others and efforts to control or change others, leads to conflict and stress. Conflict and stress drains our energy and brings us negative energy. Who we think about become the most important people in our lives - so focus your attention on the few loving, happy and positive people that are in your life and not on those who hurt you.
Here are some meditation/visualization exercises to achieve and maintain happiness and to heal depression and anxiety:
White light meditation
Sit comfortably or lie down. Close your eyes and focus on your breath. Get relaxed. Visualize a bright white sun where your heart is. Visualize that this bright white sun radiates bright white light in your entire body and head. Visualize that the white light fills up your entire body and head and creates an intact white aura all around you. The goal is to achieve and maintain peace of mind and peace of spirit and to raise your vibrations. Clasp your hands together and visualize this white light goes out three to six inches to a foot from you. Now hold the visualized white light there with the intention of raising your vibrations. Visualized white light cleanses and heals the energy body and raises one's vibrations.
Green and blue light meditation
Sit comfortably close your eyes and focus on your breath. Get relaxed. Visualize a bright green and then light blue sun where your heart is. Visualize that this inner sun radiates bright green and then bright light blue light in your entire body and head. Visualize that these colors - green and light blue- fill up your entire body and head and create an intact color aura around you. Green is for healing depression. Light blue is for healing anxiety. If you have trouble visualizing the colors green and light blue, then look at the colors and then close your eyes and imagine them. Look at grass and trees for green and the sky and water for light blue.
Deep breathing exercises
Sit comfortably or lie down. Get relaxed. Breathe deeply through your nose into your heart. Hold your breath there for five seconds then breathe out through your mouth. Focus only on your breaths as any thoughts that come in drift away. Visualize that you are breathing in bright white light as pure unconditional love on the in breaths and exhaling all negativity as black smoke on the out breaths. Let go of all negativity. Fill yourself with inner peace.
Centering
Center yourself in the middle of your heart and the middle of your forehead and stand or sit straight. Shift your energy and consciousness with focus to your heart and middle of your forehead. To center yourself, visualize a big white sun where your heart is located. Close your eyes and put your hand over your heart and shift your consciousness and energy to that spot. Alternatively, visualize an orb of white light above your head and below your feet and visualize that a beam of white light shoots out from the orbs and the light beams meet at the center of your body. With respect to centering in the middle of your forehead, put your fingers on your forehead and shift your energy and consciousness there.
Center and focus. To fortify your ability to center and focus, look at an object or symbol. Then close your eyes and visualize an image of that object or symbol in the middle of your forehead. Focus on this image. When thoughts come into your head, focus on the image in the internal screen in the middle of your forehead. Negative thoughts and a negative inner voice come from the sides and back of the head. Be mindful of negative thoughts and a negative inner voice. When they come, switch to positive thoughts and images, positive affirmations, deep breathing exercises, centering yourself and staying focused in the moment. Live in the moment and your senses and not in your thoughts. Thoughts tend to always go negative when we live in them. Stop angry thoughts about the painful past or worried thoughts about the future especially. Just Be.
Chakra cleansing, healing, balancing and alignment
Close your eyes and sit comfortably or lie down. Focus on each of the major seven chakra points, one at the time and visualize that you bathe them in white light. Then visualize each of the chakra colors one at a time with your eyes closed. YouTube has good chakra cleansing, healing, balancing and alignment meditation videos.
Melting the hard shell around the heart (heart chakra)
Traumas and stress often cause a hard energetic shell to form around the heart (or heart chakra). To more effectively draw in chi energy/positive energy/love, we must melt the hard shell around the heart. In meditation, close your eyes and visualize a hard gray shell around your heart. Visualize a white light orb above or in front of you. Visualize that this white light orb shoots out laser beams that blast the hard gray shell around your heart. Visualize the hard shell melt and your heart become pink, open, soft and vital.
Higher self and inner child meditation/visualizations:
In meditation visualize a pure white angel that looks just like you (but is happy, peaceful and full of love and white light). See an energy cord connect you to that angel from your heart. Visualize that angel (your higher self) now merge with you. Visualize you as a child playing and having fun. Now visualize that you hug that child and tell him or her that he or she is safe and to just have fun. Take a pillow and visualize that pillow is you as a child and hug it. Tell the inner child you love him or her. Now, become the loving inner parent to our inner child. Indulge your inner child everyday by allowing yourself to have fun and do things that make you happy.
Meditation/visualizations to get rid of negativity:
Here is an exercise to get rid of stored anger, fear, anxiety and painful and negative memories: visualize the image of the painful event from the past or the image that worries you about the future. Close your eyes and visualize this image in a glass ball that hovers a few feet in front of you. Put your hands on this visualized ball and push it with force deep into the ground. Hear and feel the energy cords that attach you to the image snap and fall away. Do this over and over until the image no longer has an energetic grip on you and all related anger and fear melt away. As you push the ball deep into the ground say the following to yourself: "Into the ground, into the core go away, melt away, gone." In deep meditation, visualize positive scenes that make you feel happy. Focus on scenes from nature and celebrations.
Cutting energy cords
The ego spins out energy attachments to people, things, substances and beliefs to fill the void inside us. These energy attachments lead to unbalanced thoughts, obsessions, ruminations, lusts and addictions. As we heal the void inside us (through energy body cleansing and healing), and as we build up the white light within, we will not spin out these energy cords very much. In order to substantially reduce ruminations, obsessions, lusts and addictions and establish balance, it is important to cut energy cords - especially energy cords with negative and toxic people and painful memories. Likewise, it is important to let go of anger and hate and fear. Detaching from and letting go of emotional pain is important for healing.
So, to cut energy cords, do the following: Sit down and close your eyes. Visualize the energy cords that attach you to people, things, substances, ideas and beliefs that cause unbalanced or obsessive thoughts. Visualize them as cords connected to your heart and torso. With your weak hand visualize that you grab the cords. Then with your strong hand visualize that you cut them and sever them from you with a visualized knife or scissors. Visualize that they fall away.
Grounding
Grounding and centering are important to do to fully focus your mind and to be in the moment. You can find the centering exercises in this article above. With respect to grounding, do the following. Sit comfortably with your eyes closed and your feet firmly planted on the ground. Take off your shoes. Visualize that roots or laser beams shoot out from your feet and into the earth. Visualize that they anchor you firmly to the earth. Visualize that you draw the energy of the earth in through the soles of your feet and up your body.
Visualization for energy and power
Sit comfortably with your eyes closed and your feet firmly planted on the ground. Clasp your hands together. Visualize and will the energy from the earth come up the soles of your feet, up your legs and accumulate as a molten mass of energy in your solar plexus. Hold that energy there. Alternatively, visualize a bright white sun in the middle of your solar plexus or an orb of white light in front of you that shoots white light in you. Visualize this white light accumulate like a molten mass of energy in your solar plexus. Hold the energy in your solar plexus for awhile.
Conclusion
When you feel anxious, depressed or insecure, take some time out to do the breathing and meditation/visualization exercises in this article for a few minutes (especially white light and color meditation/visualizations) and smile, dance, laugh, say positive affirmations. Pray from your heart with your eyes closed and raise your vibrations - focus especially on white light, green and light blue.
Eat a high nutrient diet (primarily fresh vegetables, fruit, nuts, berries and seeds). This is important to maximize nutrition. Take mega vitamins (especially B complex, C, D and E vitamins) and anti-oxidants such as co q 10 and trace minerals. Stress and negativity depletes nutrients in the body. So, stress reduction, relaxation and energy body cleansing and healing is essential for nutrient absorption.
Exercise daily (walk and dance and lift light weights). Listen to peaceful and harmonious music. Stay away from negativity as much as possible - negative people, thoughts, situations, news, etc. Get at least 15 minutes of sun on your face and forehead each day. If you cannot get enough sunlight because of where you live, get LED lighting (approximates sunlight) for your home or from time to time get a little bright light from suntan machines at suntan parlors.
Do positive affirmations and beta, theta and delta brain wave entrainment with binaural beat. See YouTube videos for these exercises. Re-program your beliefs with positive affirmations. Say to yourself with your eyes closed from your heart "I am happy, peaceful and serene. I am loved, loving and lovable." Smile.
Pray from your heart daily with your eyes closed. Pray with complete focus on the substance of your prayers. Thank and praise the Divine, ask for forgiveness from the Divine and offer all negativity to the Divine. Ask the Divine to take this negativity from you. Visualize that the negativity is lifted from you, making you feel lighter. Forgive yourself and ask the Divine for healing, protection and blessings. Carry crystals in your left pocket and/or over your heart- angel light or light blue crystals for inner peace, green crystals such as green aventurine for healing, rose quartz for healing the heart and citrine, orgone and clear quartz to raise your vibrations. Crystals interact positively with the energy body. Take salt baths and showers and sage your home and body to clear away negative energy.
Focus on achieving and maintaining an ongoing feeling in your heart and torso of inner peace and joy. Focus on achieving and maintaining peace of mind. Do not focus on negativity, loss, illness or what is lacking. Focus on feeling good.
Michael E. Goldberg is a Reiki Master and Life coach and Author of The Road to Healing, Good Health and Wellness (available on amazon.com, kindle and barnes and noble.com), The End of Mood Disorders (available on amazon.com and barnes and noble.com) and The Road to Happiness, available for free at
http://www.theroad2happiness.com and the Facebook Page entitled The Road to Happiness.
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