The Relevance Of Now
The Relevance Of Now
The Key To Happiness
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You can lead yourself down the road of happiness. Join William and Michael in this teeming conversation of being your presence, the relationship between desires and happiness, creating the optimum atmosphere of achieving desires, and the restorative and sustaining gift of something as simple as a “Gratitude List” that may be more basic than you imagine. Walk down the road of happy, healthy, whole and complete, with “The Keys to Happiness”.
Hello and welcome to the Relevance of Now with William Linville. My name is Michael Connell and I'm hosting with William hey.
Speaker 2William. Hi Michael, how are you, my good friend.
Speaker 1Awesome, fantastic. How are you doing?
Speaker 2I'm doing really well, my good friend. Thanks for asking.
Speaker 1Yeah, A client had requested a topic of the key to happiness and I look for a reference in your book Relationship with Everything and Everyone, and in the chapter a true loving relationship of the heart with your life stream, your beingness and the whole universe, and in the first paragraph it described a state of being that I felt would complement us to start off with about the key to happiness.
Speaker 1And you wrote a true loving relationship of the heart with your life stream, your beingness and the whole universe is an in-depth, passionate relationship that allows for the giving of your unique expression and, at the same time, receiving from your expression. This is creating a cyclical dance of going out and coming in. The giving and receiving are one. One's heart is opening and opening and it's coming from every facet of every particle of the physical being, which is a total, open expression that is growing upon itself in every way. This is creation, as creation was created to be. This is what you can call a true relationship of the heart, a total, constant communion of love. Absolutely. In this paragraph you're talking about expressing your loving presence, and can you share more about that in relation to living in a body on a planet, experience and the keys to happiness?
Speaker 2When you're giving, you're giving from a full space, you're giving from a place of being healthy, whole and complete within yourself. You're not giving with any agendas, you're not giving with expectations. You see, like, when you become present in the relevance of the now, you're healthy, whole and complete within yourself. You need of no one, you need of no thing. You're a healthy, whole and complete right here, right now. And that's the cool thing is because when you're living in the now, right here, right now, when you're living in your presence, you'll notice that everything will be perfectly divine and perfectly taken care of right here, right now.
Speaker 2Their ones get tripped up when they go into going into linear time because, well, what about tomorrow? What about the next day? What about retirement? What about? What about? What about?
Speaker 2I mean those are things that, yeah, you want to look into but not live there. It's that, okay, I may plan for retirement, but I'm not going to live in retirement. I'm going to be right here, right now. I may make a decision to say, okay, I may get a 401k, I may get an IRA or whatever, but we're not living there. We're making investments using our wisdom, but we're also right here, right now, to where we're giving from our heart. So it reminds me of the holidays, christmas, birthdays or whatever.
Speaker 2I'm not going to give a gift due to duty, obligation. I'm giving a gift from my heart. Because when I'm giving a gift from my heart, I'm not doing it by obligation, duty, responsibility or because I want to be liked. I'm giving because it feels good. So when I'm giving because it feels good, so when I'm giving because it feels good, because I really feel love for the dear one in which I'm purchasing for, I'm giving from a full space. And I'm giving because it feels so good to give, because it feels so good to give to the dear one in which I'm giving to.
Speaker 2It doesn't matter what their actions or reactions are, because of the gifts. That's where the giving and receiving becomes one. Because I'm giving because it feels so good to give and it feels so good because I can give that we're able to let that feeling good and feeling awesome, feeling all that love for giving. That's where we start to receive more love, just by the act of giving, because we're receiving that love from giving, regardless of how it's received. That's the other dear one's issue is how they're able to receive or not. But you are receiving the love via giving from love and as love that continues to keep that fluidity within yourself, which is your natural state, continuing to flow and flourish. You're not concerned about them liking it, not liking it. You just know where you're coming from when you're purchasing and going through the process of giving that gift.
Speaker 1Can we talk more about this state of being our true self, who we are? So, if we're in the now and having the opportunity to experience our inner loving beingness, our inner loving joyfulness right now, the relevance of now I wanted to try to summarize some of what you were saying to really bring this home is that the key to happiness is being your loving presence.
Speaker 2Yes, being you as your presence.
Speaker 1Being aware that you're your presence and getting the opportunity to experience it as you go throughout your day.
Speaker 2Yeah, and letting your presence come forth through your day, Without trying to control, dominate. And here's the catch. It's that, without giving your power away, like I'm going to be my presence here, I'm going to be my presence there, but not over there because of whoever's there or whatever's going on. No, you're not holding back your presence because of situations, scenarios or different dear brothers. You're not giving your power away to situations, scenarios or others. You're being your presence and you're becoming your presence, regardless of what's going on around you.
Speaker 1Right. Whenever I've had that experience, even if it's just short lived in the moment, under different circumstances, it's truly. There's nothing like it.
Speaker 2Exactly and remember when you're being and allowing yourself as your presence to emanate, regardless of who's there, you're assisting, you're facilitating.
Speaker 2You're also animating and raiding right through whoever's there to where you're not giving your power away, you're not letting yourself become smaller because of what their ones may understand or not understand, because you've got to remember universally their higher levels, their soul level as well, have brought them into that scenario, depending on you being your presence to literally affect them, because they're being steered journey to be in your presence, right there, with the opportunity to go further, opportunity to wake up and kind of depending on you to be your presence to shake them up. You know, whatever it may look like, not for you to make yourself smaller or dimmer, for you to become lighter and brighter, to really shake them up with ease and grace. Not about words, not about trying to prove a point, not more than less than, but for yourself not to go hiding away, but for yourself to become brighter and brighter, regardless of what the scenarios are, whether they understand or not, it's not important. It's that you are you. We're not giving your power away to their emotional hangups for things.
Speaker 1our desire for a home, a certain type of home, our desire for a family, our desire to send kids to college how does that all correlate with happiness?
Speaker 2Absolutely. It all fits into it your desire to send your kids to college. I want to have you ask yourself okay, why? Why are you wanting to send your kids to college? What is it you're really asking for? Are you asking that they have better opportunities in the world for their live stream? Is it because your mother did, your father did, their fathers did? I mean just becoming clear on what you're asking for and why. I mean I would say, you know, if they're wanting to go, yeah, bless it, be done with it and, namaste, have a blast Now. Not because you're wanting to change them, but because you're wanting to open more doors for them and when they're in sync with you, knock yourself off. If you're wishing a better home, a nicer home, a larger home, great, knock your socks off, go for it. But be clear on why. I mean you're here to enjoy. You're here to enjoy the physical, materialistic matrix. That's what it's here for Not to become identified with.
Speaker 1But to be experienced and enjoyed. It seems to me that it's important for us always to honor what makes us feel good, Absolutely and I heard you say as long as it doesn't own us.
Speaker 2Exactly. It's about all the things that you're here to experience and enjoy within it all, but it doesn't make you anything.
Speaker 1In my experience, the most valuable thing that I've learned through life is that I am the love and joy already I'm aware of that. I can feel that without doing anything Exactly or having anything or having anything Exactly, and we're having anything or having anything, and that is a true key to happiness, and the other wonderful thing about that is it's available to all of us Exactly. And so can you talk about some of the principles of getting to this state of being, for example, we were, you were talking about without having any expectation. One thing that comes to mind to me and talk about like not seeing things as good or bad, not seeing things as good or bad Exactly. I just want to reiterate for me, the key to happiness is no judgment.
Speaker 2No judgment at all which brings us to the next part is for those that are struggling with judgment, a week or so to sit down with a pen and paper or pencil and paper, whatever floats your boat, and make a gratitude list, even if you feel like your life is doom and gloom, whatever. Sit down with a pen and paper or a pencil and paper or whatever, and not your computer. Write it out, make a gratitude list, even if it's something as simple as the ability to breathe, if it's okay. I have one hand, I have two hands, I have the ability to see, I have eyes, I have teeth, I have a tongue, I have the ability to breathe, I have a heart rate, because you kind of have to have a heart rate if you're alive. You know it doesn't have to be miraculous like this happened at work or this is going on. No, let's start simple. I have corpuscles of touch, I have clothing, I have a relationship, I have a beloved of the heart, I have loved ones, I have those that I do love, I have a job, I have abundance coming in, I have the ability to look at a beautiful photo or have the ability to walk on the seashore. You know we're starting simple If you feel like your life outside of you is crumbling great.
Speaker 2Start simple with the ability to feel we want to start creating a gratitude list. That's what's going to make all the derogatory stuff collapse, because you're breaking the chain, you're breaking energy with it, you're breaking the cycles down, you're breaking down the patterns and that's where you'll start to watch all the stuff's been creating. That reciprocal cycle will start to dissolve because right now you're even speeding up the vibratory levels in your own body, your own vibratory levels, because the attitude of gratitude here is where you're starting to speed up your own vibratory levels to where all this other stuff can start to fall away and even your own optimal health and well-being and homeostasis is going to start to increase. Where you're breaking patterns, you're breaking down these old paradigms and old patterns and cycles that have been running your life and where it helps you go into more non-judgment, because the judgment is like a hamster on a wheel. It keeps you stuck in a cyclical cycle watch, rinse, repeat, watch, rinse, repeat, watch, rinse, repeat that has the same manifestations regurgitating themselves over and over and over and over and over again.
Speaker 2So as we start doing the gratitude list, you're going to start feeling more joyful. You're also going to start becoming more happier about all the things you do have, which is only going to beget more happiness coming into your life. It's a matter of fact, it's a factual thing. The more happier you are with the things you're grateful for, the more happier things are going to start to come into your life. It's a fact, rather than being stuck in all of what's not happening, which is all the ego's tricks and games of okay, this is happening, this is happening, but that's not happening. That's not happening. Rah, rah, rah, says the ego. Well, if we more we shift our focal point into what is happening, the more you're going to start seeing more physical, tangible changes in your mind, your body and, literally, your outside world. It's not as hard as it seems well you just describing.
Speaker 1It's a real natural expression of yeah, you might be at first thinking about your gratitude list, but you shared that. We get the opportunity to start feeling it and then the feeling just continues to expand, more than the analysis or the logic.
Speaker 2Yeah, because once you start writing it, you're making it real Not typing it, but writing it physically. And then you'll turn the page the next day. You'll start on the new list. You can have the same thing on the list, that doesn't really matter, but you'll start feeling more of yourself, your own presence, coming forth now. You'll start noticing more the birds singing. You'll start noticing more of your presence coming forth. You'll start noticing the paint on the wall changing Because you're going to start becoming more present in your present. So this isn't about more meditating, more meditating. It's none of the above. We're talking about long-term factual changes and beneficial changes, even through your physical biology and all this stuff you've been giving all this energy and power to, about what's not working. You'll start watching that shift into what is working and what can work for you, which is going to lead you down a road of happiness and down the road of being healthy, whole and complete within yourself.
Speaker 1Wonderful William. Thank you, and thank you all for joining us. This is the Relevance of Now with William Lindville. Please click subscribe. Join us next time, namaste.
Speaker 2Namaste.