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MARCH 2023<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Happiness
Spirituality
Wisdom Healing Qigong<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Being Happy For No Reason<\/h1>

by Rachelle Rogers<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n

The past three years for me have been among the most intense of my life. I like to keep my own counsel when it comes to my stories. Too many times a person can become her story to others who often project worry instead of holding the vision of wellness for her. I will, however, share some of my challenges here. Due to the Covid pandemic, plus physical issues \u2014 four eye surgeries among them, along with fear, anxiety, depression, and unexpectedly having to care for my long time ex-husband through his illness and death including settling the enormous mess of his affairs, I felt parts of me slowly slipping away.<\/p>\n

At the time, I also had to retire many of my \u201cidentities\u201d \u2014 part-time hair stylist, website designer, jewelry designer, relatively social being, and I was left with not knowing who I was, or what I wanted my life to become going forward, which at the time looked like it was heading down a dead end road. In truth, I felt such deep loneliness and loss of hope that I didn\u2019t even know if I wanted to stay alive in a body in this insane time on an insane planet. And because you get what you focus upon whether you like it or not, my lower vibrational energy manifested the reflection of my body having difficulty \u201cmoving forward\u201d \u2014 hip, knee, ankle, and foot issues.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The biggest thing that helped was my Wisdom Healing Qigong practice, which I\u2019ve now been doing for almost seven years. (see Challenge, Choice, and Chi<\/a>) Even through the physical and emotional challenges, I didn\u2019t give up doing practice. It was my Lightline through the murkiest tunnels of despair.<\/p>\n

Eventually, I added craniosacral therapy, and several \u201cchanneled\u201d conversations with non-physical guides, Angelics, and other Beings of Light that I affectionately call The Dead Guys, who offered a larger perspective from which to explore my experiences.<\/p>\n

Eventually, like a lotus flower, I rose from the muck, and I began to contemplate who I wanted to become, what brought me joy, what made me happy. I honestly didn\u2019t know. All I did know was that it was an inside job, that it was about learning how to be happy for no outside reason. This is at the heart of spiritual practice. Big T Truth is within. And everything we\u2019re looking for, especially happiness, is within. Spiritual journeyers search for it. Psychologists counsel it. Books have been written about it. Quantum healing therapies espouse it. Buddhism teaches it. Taoist traditions embrace it. And, it is the ultimate path to wellbeing for practitioners of Wisdom Healing Qigong.<\/p>\n

As the Dalai Lama has said, \u201cHappiness is the highest form of health.\"<\/p>\n

In a series of live and online retreats last fall, my teacher, Mingtong Gu, offered a difficult observation in a way I found obvious, yet profound. I had not heard it put so simply and clearly, and yet hearing Mingtong condense it into an irreducible truth was a little disconcerting. He said that these are the most personal challenges for every human:<\/p>\n

1. The busy mind
2. The discomfort of the body
3. The complexity of desire, or the gap between desire and fulfillment of that desire<\/p>\n

I\u2019d certainly experienced the truth of this in my life, but I had practiced enough to know there was a path through, a way to heal despite these human challenges, and it had everything to do with feeling what was happening within my body, unconditionally accepting \u201cwhat is\u201d on all levels of my experience, activating the always available healing energy through movement, sound, meditation, and visualization practice, and appreciating everything. I knew that the only way out was within.<\/p>\n

With a new commitment, that is what I did, and over many months, my energy began to feel lighter and freer. I\u2019d have fifteen minutes of not crying. Then half an hour. Then half a day. Then whole days of actually finding things to smile about. When I dipped in between, I\u2019d remind myself to remember the uplifting half hour, or hour, or day. Everything is always changing<\/em>, I told myself. Things are shifting,<\/em> I told myself. There\u2019s always a choice<\/em>, I remembered. You\u2019re doing great,<\/em> I said. Out loud. In the mirror. While I was washing dishes, doing laundry, driving. I love you,<\/em> I told my body. I feel you<\/em>, I said, hugging myself. I appreciate you. Thank you thank you thank you,<\/em> I chanted.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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But it wasn\u2019t until the early days of February that I sensed the largest shift. I awoke one morning and felt as if a huge boulder had been lifted off me. For one thing, my Muses, gone for ten years, had returned from Bora Bora. Well, they weren\u2019t exactly my old Muses, but new muses that had arrived. Either way, I was finally receiving the writing inspiration I had been praying for, and found myself heading for the keyboard with an urgency I hadn\u2019t felt in decades. Writing frenzy, I used to call it.<\/p>\n

The first thing I did was resurrect this blog, a long time unfulfilled intention. (see A Resurrection Of Words<\/a>) And I also began to receive intuitive insight into certain situations I had struggled with. But most of all, I suddenly wanted to be alive, in this seventy-six year old body with all its challenges, moving forward into the bright future I was ready to create. And the first thing I wanted to discover was what within me brings me joy, what within me makes my spirit soar. I wanted to heal my body and my heart. I wanted to discover how to be happy for no reason.<\/p>\n

I asked my Big Heart to show me, and I began again noticing the birdsong I loved \u2014 Carolina wrens, chickadees, cardinals. I sat down at the piano (no I can\u2019t really play) for the first time since before the pandemic began. I danced joyfully around the living room as best I could despite what my body was doing, to my favorite Stan Getz\/Jo\u00e3o Gilberto bossa nova music.<\/p>\n

I started cleaning out cabinets and closets making room for the new. I called my cousin Evan, and asked him if he\u2019d send me a painting of his that I loved, one he\u2019d never wanted to sell. He knew the exact one, and said that he\u2019d send it, that it should be mine.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The Land by Evan Obrentz<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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It\u2019s now the middle of March, and although life still presents its ups and downs, I feel I\u2019m heading in a new direction. And in my Big Heart I also feel that something unprecedented is about to happen on this planet, that a new Light is becoming available, allowing a leap in consciousness that has never before been possible. Perhaps beings may eventually even be able to evolve beyond what Mingtong explains as the three most personal human challenges. May we all shine on. Haola!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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