How To Attain Bliss

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Jonathan R Wachtel, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.

Bliss must be created, must be formed from a state of mindful peace. When you are fully present to the moment, focusing only on that which most requires your attention in the present—be it the rise and fall of your breath as you breathe, or the movements of your feet as you walk, or the words you are speaking as you talk, or the words someone else is speaking—then you attain peace. You must refine your mind in this way, practicing awareness of what is going on in the present moment with acceptance of it all as it is, nonjudgmentally bringing your mind back to the anchor to which you have chosen to attend each time you notice your mind wandering.

When you eliminate staticy thoughts and consuming feelings and nagging desires from your experience in this way, you gain control. You get back into the driver’s seat of your life rather than continuing to live on autopilot, with your personality in the driver’s seat. And when you are in the driver’s seat of your life, your thoughts no longer think themselves for you, and your feelings no longer feel themselves for you, and your instincts no longer desire themselves for you, and your life no longer creates itself in reaction to itself through you. You recognize that you are the capacity to choose all of these things. You are the capacity to choose—free will, itself. You have no limitations upon you except those that you place upon yourself through the thoughts that you think and the feelings that you feel and the beliefs that you allow yourself to form through the repetition of thoughts and feelings.

You recognize that you can choose to transform the patterns and habitual routines of thought and feeling and behavior in which you have engaged. From this place of mindful peace, you can create new patterns—choose new thoughts, which will give rise to new feelings, which will give rise to new inclinations, which will give rise to new speech and actions, which will give rise to new physical manifestations in your life. From this place of mindful peace, each thought you think is like a single raindrop falling on the still surface of a pond. Its ripples spread outward without the interference of the ripples formed by other staticy thoughts.

In this clarity and stillness of mind, you can choose to experience bliss. You can choose to learn from the past, rather than regretting it, willfully create the future toward which you are headed rather than experiencing anxiety and fear regarding it, and live in the present with acceptance and peace and joy rather than with anger and frustration. When you accept the way things are, you attain peace. And from there, you can create the way things become through the willful focus of your attention, making use of your mind as it has been carefully refined through the practice of mindfulness.

When you watch the world that you have consciously and willfully chosen with your thoughts and accompanied with good feelings take form before your eyes in every moment, you experience bliss. For it is in this way that you come to fulfill your purpose in existing—to experience what it is to be the Source and Creator of existence—and that you experience this fulfillment. It is in this way that you come to experience life in its truest form—the form in which it is being shared with you, and that you need only make yourself capable of receiving.

—Jonathan R. Wachtel

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