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5. WHAT IS LOVE? WHAT IS HAPPINESS?

In the first days of meeting Happy, I found myself thinking about the concepts of love and happiness way more frequently.

Despite teaching yoga for the past few years and having a deep appreciation for these concepts, I realized I still struggled to define or describe them clearly. Even though I felt their presence in my daily life, putting them into simple words was not easy.

What is love, truly? How can I put my finger on it and share it simply, for myself even?

Questions like ‘Does he love me?’ or ‘Do I love her?’ stirred conflicts in my mind whenever I went deeper into that rabbit hole.

Then, Happy offered his perspective: ‘Love is attention in my reality.’

At first, I was taken aback. ‘Just attention? What about the feeling of it?’ I questioned.

‘Attention is growing those feelings,’ he shared patiently.

“Sharing my attention with the tea I am drinking, is making me see and appreciate that tea. Sharing my true attention with my body, while I am washing it for example, makes it possible for me to slow my mind, and come to the moment. It is giving me a chance to share my love with the action I am taking.”

So the question that had been in my head – ‘Does a person love me? Do I love them?’ – solved itself faster than I could imagine:

When anyone chooses to share their true attention with me, they love me.

When I choose to share my attention

with anyone & anything, I do love them.

This simple equation became a transformative realization. It cut through the complexities and gave me a straightforward guide.

Wow, wow, wow – the simplicity of this enlightenment was liberating.

“Whatever I share my attention with, I grow my love towards it. By sharing my attention = I am loving it, I am inviting more of it into my life, into my future” Happy Smile shared.

I wanted more clarification, “Does that mean when I talk about the problems in my life, I am loving and growing those? Or when I talk about that one person I don’t like—”

“Hahaha, yes,” he interrupted with a smile. “You are growing those feelings and inviting more of them and similar experiences into your future. That is your creating power. Where you choose to use it, depends on you. What you think is true. Start thinking how you want it to be.

“Wow” I thought. My habit of ‘just mentioning things I know’ was actually inviting similar examples and experiences into my life. I am going to be way more careful about where my attention goes.

I liked the quote: ‘Where focus goes, energy flows.’ I felt that it was time to share my true attention with it and take it seriously.

In that moment, the connection between attention, love, and creation became clear. The power to shape my reality lay in the choices I made about where to direct my attention and, consequently, my love.

It was a powerful reminder that every thought, word, and conversation is contributing to the creation of my future.