“1001 Ways to Happiness”

Are you happy?

It’s a simple question, right?

“When you choose to dance in Song, you interlace with the world, you are intimate like lovers and you make harmony with all the other parts. This is Katasee, this is dancing the web.”

– Domano Hetaka, The Reluctant Shaman by Kay Whitaker.

Domano also says during his many conversations with Kay:

“Happiness is our natural state of being.”

And:

“The most important thing we can do for ourselves and the world is to let ourselves be happy”.

We’ve so often heard, or read, statements like this and think those are nice, but then quickly forget about them.

This last quote has been with me from the first time I’ve read it.

Here is a man who, together with his life partner, has given up his tribal life, a mostly serene unencumbered life in nature, far away and untouched by the marvels and troubles of western civilization to bring his considerable knowledge, which he has gained through lifelong study and practice with the most amazing teachers from ancient lands, to the western world. Knowing all too well that in doing so both of them will never be able to return to their people, their families, their tribe and the one thing, of all the things we can do to help ourselves and the world, he considers most important is happiness.

He was a Kalah Keh Nah Seh, a healer, a seer and a weaver of webs of balance. Kalah Keh Nah Seh means that he has been trained in all the medicine teachings and secrets of his tribe. In case any of their medicine people would pass away without having completed the training of an apprentice, or even without having an apprentice in their particular area of medicine, he could step in any of these areas and either complete an ongoing apprenticeship with the apprentice of that medicine person or teach new apprentices in any of the medicine traditions of his tribe so they become a medicine man or woman for their people in that particular area of their tradition.

To be able to do that requires vast amounts of knowledge, experience, commitment and gifts. Enormous amounts. And, the one thing he considers most important, the one thing that, in his experience, makes the biggest difference for ourselves and our world is the ability to let ourselves be happy.

Unfortunately, this one thing which Domano considers the most important thing  we can do for ourselves and the world, also is the one thing that is eluding us the most in our modern world, in our modern western lives. We seem to have focused on every kind of miserable that we can think up.

Are you happy?

No, I mean really happy? Really completely, fully, passionately happy and joyful and excited about life.

The can’t wait until the sun rises for a new day kind of happy.

The can’t believe I’m so fortunate to have this life and these amazingly wonderful people in my life kind of happy.

The wanting to hit yourself on the head to make sure you’re not dreaming kind of happy.

Are you living wonderful happy relationships with the people in your life?

Are you living a wonderful, happy, fulfilling, nourishing, joyful relationship with yourself?

Maybe you are among the lucky few that can answer these questions with a resounding yes.

Maybe you believe you are happy enough.

Maybe you have convinced yourself the pursuit of happiness is overrated anyway and life is all about suffering.

Our culture constantly reinforces those ideas and beliefs about suffering.

For thousands of years we have been indoctrinated that life is suffering and trying to change that is futile.

The news-outlets, and their respective talking heads, are bombarding us with doom and gloom 24/7. The more gloom the more money they make. I’m not even sure happiness is a possible consideration on their radar of consciousness.

Both, Victoria and I are living proof that happiness – living a happy, joyful, passionate life, living joyful, passionate, fulfilling relationships with ourselves and the people we love, even in a world so out of whack as ours currently is – is not only possible, it is required to stay sane, to stay balanced and centered, in our power, to know our own Song, no matter what is going on around us.

That is not to say that we don’t deal with problems, because we do. But we have learned to stay in our Song, in our center and don’t let the problem control how we feel.

Yes, we deal with sadness. Yes we deal with upsets. The difference is, we go through our sadness, we go through our grief, we go through our upsets and then LET THEM GO!

We don’t hang on to them, we don’t rehash them 50 times every minute throughout the day. We let the record play to it’s end – and we even feel and know our Song as we go through that – and then we let it go and move on with our lives.

We know we have a choice and we have made the decision to always choose Song.

The opportunities missed in life without this ability are enormous, even horrific.

The opportunity for sharing love, joy, passion, excitement for life. The opportunities missed for sharing love in your relationships, the greatest gift we can give to each other, is so amazingly horrific that the only way most of us could, and can bare to go through it in our daily lives is by numbing and blinding ourselves to the enormity of it all.

So in our modern culture – that’s how we survive. Numbing and blinding ourselves.

Well, it’s time to wake up. It’s time to reclaim happiness. It’s time to reclaim happiness, joy, Song, passion, the wonders of aliveness in our lives and our relationships.

It’s time.

And, we believe the world is ready, we know the world is ready. We know you are ready. If you are anything like us, you are sick and tired of the BS we are being fed all the time and you are ready for change, you are ready for joy and happiness and love and wonder and excitement for life. You are ready to share all the love and the beauty and joy you know you are capable of.

And, we will help you to learn how.

We will help you to learn how to know Song, how to know yourself, how to truly know your passion and wonder and aliveness and beauty by accessing all the knowledge and gifts within you. You will not need us to live that life for you. There is no need to give your power to a guru, there will be no need to blindly believe anything. All you will need, and learn, is to believe in yourself, in your enormous abilities and gifts.

This is a tradition of becoming self-sufficient and self-reliant – never dependent on someone or something else.

If you’re not quite ready to believe how amazing you truly are, you will learn to feel delightfully comfortable with that. If you already know and believe how amazing you are, you will learn and explore and discover things about yourself even you haven’t thought possible before.

We will never ask you to give your power away to anything or anybody. We will never ask you to surrender to anything or anyone. We will never ask you anything other than to always pursue the truth of your own being, your Song. To know it, be it, own it and live it again.

And we are sharing all this free to you and the world through a series on this website called “1001 Ways to Happiness”.

We could also call this new series, “1001 Ways to Living a Happy Life,” or “1001 Ways to the Most Amazing Loving Relationships,” or “1001 Ways to Living a Song Centered Life.”

“1001 Ways to Happiness” is short and sweet and it expresses everything we are planning to share.

And, it starts now.

Welcome to the journey.

Welcome to your new life.

Welcome to your new happy you.

Love and Song,

Helmut

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