Stirring Life With Sacred Happiness,

From Debbie Rosas

Currently, not a day goes by without taking time to measure my daily success of living with what I call my “Feminine Spirit” knowledge and wisdom that guides my heart. Some days I fall off my path. Often this happens when I feel triggered and fall prey to being “right” while viewing another as “wrong.”

Living from my heart is one of the greatest compliments that I ever receive, which to me, outweighs all others. I love being told that I am beautiful, but being told that I live from the heart really keeps my spirit on the path that I made a promise to walk, which is my path of “Sacred Happiness.”

When I look back on my life, it’s easy for me to see the choices I made from the heart and the choices I made out of ignorance. One of those times I didn’t take time to listen to my heart was when I decided to move from California to Oregon. That choice did not come from my path of sacred happiness.

I told myself I needed to buy a house but the problem was that the house was not in California where I lived and shared time raising my girls with their father. The move was an unhappy one for all of us. If I’d stayed, life would have unfolded very differently for me, and for my girls in California.

Years in therapy has helped me to look at my choices and actions while allowing myself to come to grips with the fact that “Debbie Happy,” can create a whirlwind of pain for many others when I am blinded by my wants and desires without considering anyone else. This is blind happiness, not sacred.

Sacred happiness is the simple sensation I use to stay walking the path of my heart. It’s measured by tracking simple moment-to-moment answers to the question, “Are you happy?” and then receiving the instant feedback when I answer “Yes” or “No.” I recalibrate and think through better choices.

If my decisions make me feel “Debbie Happy,” it is all about me and cares nothing about others. When I moved from California to Oregon, I thought only about myself. Debbie being happy took precedence over everything else. Sacred happiness, on the other hand, is about the whole of which I am a part.

I am closer to the sensation of sacred happiness when I see a cute dog; when I shop for a perfect gift for someone; when I enjoy the sensation of my body; when I help other people; when I see my children happy in their lives; when I complete something I once dreamed and envisioned.

This is not to say that my choices don’t make some people unhappy…they do. It means weighing the happiness of all involved and that I don’t always get my own way. Sacred happiness occurs when my world becomes better from the choices and decisions I make both for myself and others.

As a journaling exercise in a notebook, on a vision board or a collage, or through any one of the numerous ways in which you create in your world; ask yourself what gives you the sensation of sacred happiness and how have you listened to your inner knowledge and wisdom for the benefit of others?

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