Happiness

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HAPPINESS

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Written by Harry Croose

"Happiness to me is being eternally grateful for the times you have, nomatter if they are good or bad; while perceiving the world through the lens of mortality and love." 

2. Establish Strong Independent Boundaries

What I mean by this is no matter who you are or what you want to be there is a path in life where we all cross. The barriers of our happiness levels, these are things which can change us and our direction forever because we realise in a flicker of clarity that we have been going in the wrong direction for many years or in fact we have been on the right path all along and all we need to do is face forward and be brave for what lies ahead of us.

I am just writing my thoughts down at the moment and have decided form this blog-post on wards to write my blog as more of a reflective self-journal for myself, with hopefully some benefit to you. Because, I love writing and expressing my thoughts and feelings and that is what I find truly satisfying.

Happiness in my opinion is the most important part of our existence on this earth and many people have come under the illusion of how money and materialism is the ultimate goal to happiness.

Of course having resources is always a plus and can help significantly on your journey in this Capitalist world. However as I have mentioned before on my blog many I’ll deceived by the notion that pieces of paper with numbers on can provide you happiness when in reality it is only a tool for you to find yourself.

I in my life aim incredibly high in all aspects of my life including my financial future but I believe it is what you do with the tools and skills you are given that truly defines you than how much or how little you actually have.

I am sure we have had moments in our lives where we feel lost and confused looking up at the stars out our window asking despite me having what I want I actually feel less whole.

True happiness is being one with yourself during good and bad times rather than being distance and emotionally reserved in good or bad periods in your life. Love and happiness I believe are two sides of the same coin as when you give unconditional love, a core feeling of happiness occurs throughout your mind, body and soul, as you are aligned with a sense of purpose not greater than yourself necessarily as on e must be careful not to fall into self-neglect but equal and in align with your own core values and beliefs.

It is better to live in truth and be happy than to live a lie to live up to other peoples expectations and not your own.
If you don’t want to do something you have the power and control to decide no matter how improbable it may seem. Of course decisions like this may take time but all it takes is a five second commitment saying I’m going to change now. I have many regrets already in my life I have loved and I have lost a great many of things and many greater stories never told, because of a prior lack of knowledge into who I was; as I was engulfed by society and group boundaries when with all man-made labels aside we are all one with each other whether that be with God or the Universe.

Happiness is in the small things when someone gives you the time to say Hello, which can lead to the greatest moments of your life by making a great friend or by meeting the ones you love. Sometimes happiness is like a roller-coaster with loads of drops sometimes you get a little bit soaking wet and there are many loop the loops. But in the end our lives are one hell of a ride, but at the same time over in a moment.

Be happy. 🙂
Speak to you soon!

Harry, 🙂

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Embracing your dark side

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EMBRACING YOUR DARK SIDE

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Written by Harry Croose

"If one is to understand the great mystery, one must study all its aspects, not just the dogmatic narrow view of the Jedi."

 

In a reflective mood today I was. As I gazed out of the window watching the snow slowly I felt an intuitive call to write this. My line of thought was that all things will eventually melt no matter how beautiful or unpleasant everything fades away. A truth that is true of all things. 

Carl Jung has dedicated a lot of research to the shadow-self and how all of us have a shadow created by repression of feelings and how we respond to experiences.

In order for us to do good, we must embrace both sides of ourselves. A very important differentiation that is overlooked  we always associate light with good and darkness with evil. 

When in actual fact rays of light could reveal us to the danger around us and darkness may be the one that hides and protect us, this is why we need both to survive and adapt. That’s why we have both day and night cause we would just have day, and without night we wouldn’t be able to appreciate the other.

I have found that in my personal experience once I appreciated the fact that I had a side of me that has a dark side. Then I was able to strengthen the light side as well, as the stronger my shadow side, the stronger my light side became as there must be balance. 

Once I discovered and embraced my dark side, I was able to love all things more deeply and I felt a whole again rather than rejecting and repressing a part of myself that I was conditioned to believe was bad by society and some media.

I am not blaming society for these constructs as without them I wouldn’t have grown into the person I am, and I wouldn’t have been able to have grown such a self-awareness of myself.

 I believe that it is not what happens to a person that makes them who we are, but it is how we respond to them that makes us the person we are. 

Self-acceptance and loving and giving your dark side (and your light side) a hug in extreme times (where your too positive or too negative in your eyes) is incredibly important. 

Just give yourself some breathing room to just sit with your emotions as they arise and feel your emotions with an intention of self-love. Sometimes Jung says this shadow-work can be emotionally relaxing and other times really challenging. 

This is because many of the emotions that you have repressed in your past is gradually becoming to resurface to the conscious mind from the subconscious. 

Remember though that the past has happened and cannot be physically changed, but with the emotional tension release of the past the feelings of regret long ago should subside over time. With this release thus brings more room for your bright futures and the present moment. 🙂

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The Tower of London

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3 REASONS TO VISIT THE TOWER OF LONDON

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"It's not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them."

You know something, I thought the capital city London wasn’t going to be as exciting as I thought it would be, but boy I was wrong. Once I saw the massive billboards advertising and the reflection of the skyscrapers towering overhead, I fell in love with what I saw…

1. It's Beauty

Our trip with the University was surreal for me, you have probably gathered clever people that I haven’t ever been to London before. So my reaction to many people on the coach as a bit over the top and excitable. I want to start by saying that with what I saw of London I want to go there again, it just seems so big and exciting to explore. (I am always up for an adventure). But our trip was specifically for The Tower of London. I must admit I was picturing a massive tall tower but apart from that and the really inflated prices of food, I was in awe with the entire day. 

2. It's History

Our trip with the University was surreal for me, you have probably gathered clever people that I haven’t ever been to London before. So my reaction to many people on the coach as a bit over the top and excitable. I want to start by saying that with what I saw of London I want to go there again, it just seems so big and exciting to explore. (I am always up for an adventure). But our trip was specifically for The Tower of London. I must admit I was picturing a massive tall tower but apart from that and the really inflated prices of food, I was in awe with the entire day. 


3. It's food.

It is important to mention though that I wouldn’t have enjoyed that day without the company of some great friends of mine. Actually if I’m honest they are better than great! We even had a subway after the Tower of London, played a few games of hangman and even had a reading of 50 Shades of Grey! Don’t ask you had to be there! 
 The tower itself I thought was a very fascinating place and no it wasn’t just because of the enthusiastic tour guides or even the crown jewels (damn the monarchy had some bling) I absolutely loved the architecture and the feel of the place. I felt as if I was travelling through time in some locations climbing the really and I mean really tight spiral staircases that led many to either a sense of security or a definite state of doom. 
I wondered thorughout the day that was I menat to be shown this? Is their a hidden message or secret layed between the bricks of these foreboding walls? I mean with the Princes in the Tower this place has really seen a lot. I wander what it would say to us if it could speak. This trip was great for inspiration and rekindling motivation (as I had been struggling to motivate myself). To see the history and the past unfold in front of our eyes was spellbinding and made me wonder what will the future hold for all us. This is why Humanity students are important, we notice more often than not the implications that things have on our world. A world that I don;t know about you but I am ready to explore…


Thank you for reading!! I hope you have a nice day!!
Take care now!!! 
Harry, 🙂

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