happiness

I'm happy. That's pretty much true 100% of the time. That hasn't always been something I would say, although always leaned towards happiness. It's true, now, though, because of my method. What I do is, I always have something in mind TO DO. If there's a moment when I don't have something in mind to do, that'll make me feel a little bit of unhappiness, or, maybe, more than a little, until I adjust. As soon as I start to feel fretful in that kind of way, I search my thoughts for things to do. If nothing comes to mind, I make something up. If something that comes to mind seems so outrageous as to be impractically difficult to accomplish, I make up ways to get it done. Those things in themselves are often outrageous, but I can feel them beginning a process that will work.

Just that makes me happy. And it has beneficial side effects, too. Things start to happen. Things do happen. The underlying conditions for happiness develop, so happiness and conditions develop together.

It may be that to move from a state of accustomed unhappiness, or even accustomed sometimes moodiness (moving from that within reason), to a state of constant happiness requires more than a logical prescription. One may be in a kind of other space or place from the other. If that is the case, the reader may be able to apply a some supplemental practices. For example, earlier in my life, I pursued happiness by studying macrobiotics. Happiness, its value as a goal, is at the very heart of macrobiotics, explicitly ... "key to health and happiness." Perhaps, though, practitioners have been too serious, treating macrobiotics as about doing something right, and forgetting that well being may be its essence. Still, to me, that essence made complete sense, and I pursued it with complete confidence, and total enthusiasm. One result: I've always had something to do (cooking being the fundamental practice, with philosophizing, gardening, editorializing, teaching, business, being other examples).

You could try that. Just think of it as cooking. Dedicate yourself to cooking and happiness, and you will have health and abundance to support them.

Another story has to do with medicine I took. I'll write about that later.