Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Oct/Nov 2014 - Featuring Louise Hay | Page 87

WHAT WE LABEL AS HAPPINESS IS NOTHING MORE THAN FEELING THE SENSATION OF OUR OWN ENERGY BODY BEING UNBOUNDED AND FREE. What I’d like to suggest is that there is a deeper reason that happiness can feel so elusive and fleeting, and this is because we’ve been trained to define it as a single emotion – as a feeling of accomplishment, of passion, of desire, of relaxation… or as any one of a thousand other sensations. The fact is that no one emotion can capture the experience we call happiness, for the simple reason that “happiness” is not an emotion at all. The state we call happiness is created when the energy that sources our body, mind and emotions is unobstructed by resistance and therefore free to move at a frequency that is high and fast. What we label as happiness is nothing more than feeling the sensation of our own energy body being unbounded and free. Thanks to both quantum physics and modern science, it’s now a well-accepted fact that energy – not matter – is the primary substance that comprises everything that exists in the universe. Even things that our senses tell us are solid– rocks, mountains, trees, and flesh-and-bone human beings – are made up entirely of energy. Anytime the energy of our thoughts, feelings and actions is expressed without resistance, we register this experience as one of being “happy.” This explains why happiness can be defined in so many ways – sometimes as passion; other times as peace – all are aspects of our inner being, and when they are given free reign, joy is the natural result. So, how can we deliberately foster within ourselves a state of being in which happiness flows as a natural result? By activating the Law of Allowing. Allowing is our natural state. It’s the way we’re all born when we enter the world – pliable, receptive, dese