Are You Happy?

Sister Rose Goodenough is the Co-ordinator of Inner Space Meditation Centre in Glasgow and has been a student and teacher of Raja Yoga Meditation for over 35 years. A down to earth speaker, she presents complex subjects with great clarity and examples from personal experiences. She truly walks the talk and this acts as an inspiration to others.
How is your mind? Is your mind feeling relaxed, calm and clear? Vibrant and full of energy? Or does your mind drive you crazy? The mind is where everything starts. It’s where we imagine, create, plan. It’s where we think fast, think smart, think deep. Just about everything evolves, revolves and involves the mind. To make the mind work for you, keep it happy and healthy. And if you want a happy, healthy life, the work starts with the mind.

Transcript

With our energies coming from inside from a little battery and that little battery has all our strength and according to our thoughts,

Words and deeds will be the strength in this battery and then according to our attitudes will be the kind of energy that you percolate through your physical body so I was thinking it's not even knowledge as such,

It's not even saying the right things or knowing beautiful words or that's not being positive because I could know something really beautiful but if I say it with the wrong attitude and if I say it to myself with the wrong attitude,

The attitude that I've used will be that which touches my brain which cascades all that wrong attitude energy through every cell in my physical body so if I say my name is Jim,

My name is Jim,

Very arrogant or very angry my name is Jim or very friendly my name is Jim or very cheerful my name is Jim,

Jim is my name,

Yeah my name is Jim the same words but very different energy would be cascaded through the entire body according to my attitude if I said it with superior arrogance it would go through my whole body but also it would go out to whoever I was talking to and they would have a barrier they wouldn't like it too much,

Who do you think you are Jim?

I don't remember his names Jim,

Who do you think you are?

If I said it in a really friendly way they'd think oh,

Oh what a nice person is this Jim but also if I said it in a friendly way I would get really nice friendly energy cascade through me and I would have put it out to touch people,

They'd think oh I like Jim so it's all to do with our attitudes but also being aware as we go on and on about here about Raja Yoga meditation practices it's keeping being aware that my energy is actually here and whatever I think this energy responds to that thought and that kind of energy is created angry energy,

Friendly energy,

Kindly energy,

Tired energy,

Not happy energy,

Feeling unwell energy and of course there are things in the body that go wrong and there are things out there that go wrong but once I start to realise that I can have a big say in how all this is orchestrated I can do a lot to take away a lot of the stings and the aches and the discomfort and the sadness by understanding that this energy is putting my attitude through my entire body system and if I remain arrogant or angry,

Just use these as an example then I'll always be filled with arrogance and anger,

Fed up,

Arrogant,

Angry,

What's wrong,

Why is everyone this and they're like that oh discontent,

I would become discontent and I would be disenchanted and I'd feel everything's against me and this person's not very nice to me and this person but it really does happen that we don't realise that that's the energy we're putting out and we're putting it out through our thoughts and our attitude which is touching our brain and then it comes into our words and then our deeds don't like this person because they're not nice to me and why are they not nice to me?

I've always been nice to them but listen to my tone of voice,

Even to myself even to myself I'm complaining,

I'm moaning and whining and whinging and complaining in my head to me there may be nobody else here,

Is that me?

And I'm not happy,

I'm not happy chap here at all I'm talking to myself in such a disenchanted way so I won't get happiness through that will I?

So happiness does come through my thoughts,

Words and deeds,

It comes from inside so the first lesson in Raj Yoga is knowing myself and we will have a lot of energy patterns which are not happy and we'll think well no matter how I try this,

This happens well because I've created unhappiness,

Arrogance,

Disharmony,

Dislike in myself over a long period of time if we're truthful with ourselves as everyone is like this,

All of us no one gets away with this it's not that some people are totally born perfect and they never ever were in a bad mood no,

Because the way the world in today's time scale is that that seems to be the way of speaking to each other it is actually isn't it?

That's the way people speak to each other oh what a horrible day today,

Oh gosh what a time I've had oh my goodness,

Oh oh oh oh maybe I'll win the pools,

I'll win the lottery or something,

Keep trying but it never happens this can be normal conversation and what is that conversation doing to yourself but to all the people that's hearing you the atmosphere around you no happiness,

No life and so we spread this but we injure ourselves if we're the ones that's doing this so Raj Yoga says keep an eye out watch yourself for your own sake and do your best to change even what I did years ago,

A change in midstream I changed my words as I realised the attitude I had and I was starting to say something which was quite normal people would have thought I got away with it but I realised gosh,

You hear what I'm going to say and I would just change it,

Twiddle around,

Change it and smile and go oh oh oh oh think of something nicer and put it out and so I started to practice that,

So everything's about practice because you're changing your behaviour patterns and it's not just like that that you can change your behaviour patterns because we've practiced these patterns for a long long time and they seemed so ordinary in a huff,

In a bad mood,

Storming off not speaking to you,

Who do you think you are all of these seemed to be so normal and the person I'm doing it to,

I'm sorry,

Crashing their energy patterns you'll always feel a bit upset when someone speaks to you like this,

Always but you're doing it to yourself you're cascading your whole body system now if we do this for a long long long long time the body will become sick in some form or another some people get worse sickness than others some people have a bad sickness but somehow they start to train themselves to think in a cheerful or a positive way and they say this has got me through this particular illness because they started to change their habits so there's no other way if we want to change our habits because no matter what happens to me if the good things come along we think oh well I'm worried about look I've got a new job and I've got three times the salary and I've bought a new flat and I've got a new car and I've had a makeover wow,

I could have everything like that and look at my big fancy ring oh I'm just so happy but are we really because inside I've still got the different attitudes and inside I'll still be hurting myself,

Hurting myself then I'll be ordinary,

Have the new house,

The new car and the big ring and everything won't be enchanting me anymore I'll be then looking for something more to give me a buzz what else could I have,

What else that I'm just not still wouldn't be happy and I think it was because I met this person who was horrible to me or my boss at work wasn't so nice as the boss I had at my other job or I've now got a lot of stress and oh so I have all these things that I can blame for being unhappy and a lot of these things will be triggers for me and they will be making me what will they be triggering,

The energy patterns I already have within me of discontentment,

Disenchantment,

Annoyance a bit down,

A bit fed up a bit angry,

A lot disrespectful and so could I be happy with these kind of attitudes doesn't matter I had a crown on my head and everything and I wouldn't have so many friends I might have friends if I've got enough money to keep them with me but if I'd lost all my possessions and I hadn't been very nice I wonder if I would have friends and I mean even in an old fashioned way we used to think things long before we practiced or knew anything about this but we used to think I would be happy with very little or I would be content as long as I was happy or as long as I could have somebody close to me and we were nice to each other that seemed to be the main thing in the old fashioned days actually with ordinary simple people but now it's kind of gone out of date it's gone out of fashion and the reason it's going out of fashion is because we've all forgotten that it's our attitudes that create our energy patterns and it's our attitude that I speak through my mouth and we think that's fine that bit but the other bit it's our attitudes that create the energy that touch my brain that cascades through all the cells of my body so if I sincerely begin to think of this it will pull us up and make us stop because these attitudes are killing us and they're putting a barrier to friendship and love and love is what we want,

Love is what makes us grow love is the most valuable thing so Raj Yoga starts off by saying know yourself this isn't just words,

Get to know that you are the energy in here and look at the grumpiness I often say there's no point saying I'm so good,

I'm so good that's not true say I am grumpy,

I'm not so good,

I do get annoyed I do get this take ownership of our habits and then you can decide to change them but if I cover them up and pretend I've not got them and think I'm really okay,

Everybody likes me I look really good,

I'm doing fine,

I'm quite comfortable you'll never change anything so Raj Yogas get to know yourself I am a soul I'm a point of living life energy I am a soul I'm a point of living life energy I am a soul I'm a point of living life energy I am a soul I'm a point of living life,

Energy.

Reviews

Wow 😮 pleasant and so wise 😊 I enjoyed a lot 😊thank you so much 😊

I am a soul
I am a point of the pure life energy
Thank you so much👏

Thanks Rose, wonderful wisdom as usual. I needed to hear that this evening. 🙏 OM Shanti

I’m listening. Thank you.

Ah yes, it’s all about the energy, that’s what influences whether we’re happy or not… we reflect back what we project out. Thank you for sharing! 😊

Thank you so much💕

Excellent, wise advice, thank you!!

Book marked this to listen to regularly! A perfect tonic for the soul. Thank you 🙏🏻

Wondrous insightful talk. Thank you 🙏🏼

It’s a pleasure to listen to you & you make so much sense . Thank you 😊

Thank you ! Just perfect for me today

That was truly wonderful 💚💜

Thank-you from the bottom of my heart for this INCREDIBLE message. I’ve been wanting to change my energy, but not knowing how. I’ve been suffering such a LONG LONG time trying self-help courses, affirmations, journaling, meditations, but I’m still stuck- not feeling success in many areas of my life. Thank-you for sharing your message with me. Blessings & Joy.

Wonderfully wise words, thank you 💜 x

You are a soul!! Loving and living life energy... Thank you for touching my soul this new glorious day!!.. May Blessings continue to shower you in this life and beyond!!

So sweet and meaningful. Everyone benefits from your words. Thank you.

Spectacular! It was the perfect way to start my day.

Your message came at the right time. I am grateful for your words. Namaste.

Thank you and God bless you 🙏❤️