I've often thought that most of the advice on how to be happy was misguided. Not that it was all bad, but most people don't understand what the root of true happiness is.
My observations come from my life long experience with studying Metaphysics, Meditation, and various religions. My view is that we live in a world of illusions and we delude ourselves into thinking that by satisfying our Ego we will be happy.
We suffer numerous illusions about our relationships, school, government, our nation, and politics. Although my country the U.S. is a great country, we often suffer the illusion that we have more freedom than we do.
Many less developed countries have much more freedom in their daily lives than we do, when you count all our regulations.
We also suffer many illusions which keeps us believing that we can become happy through worldly goods, power, or sex.
Our Ego is an illusion too. It's not our true self. Our eternal spirit is our true self. The eternal self or spirit exists outside of time and space.
Imagine that your spirit is light a light in a fish bowl of water.
Your thoughts and emotions are like silt swirling in that water. When you learn stillness and peace-usually through some form of meditation, then the silt falls to the bottom and your true spirit shines out.
When we learn stillness, and calm our thoughts and emotions, we also start to pierce the illusion of temporary "happiness". Instead we start to become happy by living in the spirit-which is where true happiness resides.
The book “Removing Illusions to find True Happiness” goes into the illusions we suffer and how to remove them in much more detail.
Here’s hoping you all learn to live in the spirit and find true happiness.
This book can be found at http://removeillusionstruehappiness.com
Martin Kirk Ettington is an Engineer by training and has had multiple careers. These include technical sales for GE and HP. Owning his own software and consulting business. Doing software development as a developer and manager. He also provides IT Project Management expertise to Fortune 500 companies and large Defense Contractors.
Martin's interest in the Paranormal and Occult goes back to his childhood. He has had many paranormal experiences and has been a student of Eastern Philosophies and Meditation for 35 years.
Seeking Enlightenment; he knows that we are already all Enlightened. We just have to realize this deeply.
His books are expressions of his creativity to help others understand what he has internalized through study, experience, and membership in different societies.
Not many technical persons or scientists spend a lot of time in parallel studying the Metaphysical and have many spiritual or psychic experiences too.
Therefore, Martin believes that he can provide a unique vantage point to integrate Western Scientific thinking with Eastern exploration of the mind and spirit.
Also, the goal is to provide a holistic set products on this site for readers to learn meditation and other skills to help them spiritually
His website at http://mkettingtonbooks.com also has other fascinating books on the Paranormal including Happiness from Removing Illusions, How to do Prophecy, the Scientific Method and the Paranormal, and other subjects