Wellbeing and the Secret of Happiness

The Quiet Mind is our all-time best-selling book of the White Eagle teaching. You are probably very familiar with it and the final saying in the book about the secret of happiness: ‘Happiness is the realisation of God in the heart. Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving, of faith, of acceptance; a quiet, tranquil realisation of the love of God. This brings to the soul perfect and indescribable happiness. God is happiness.’

I gave a talk based on this in our Temple at New Lands at the beginning of the year. In preparation for this talk I contemplated each individual phrase and its meaning for me in my daily life. I have been contemplating this again since talking with Jan, my colleague here at New Lands who looks after all our Contact Healing work and represents the White Eagle Lodge at UK Healers. She shared with me some very interesting thoughts: ‘I would consider that in offering spiritual healing we are looking into an inner state of ‘wellbeing’. It is interesting to note that this year a landmark goal has been recognised in the United States. A meeting took place at the UN headquarters in New York in April 2012 and brought together more than 600 participants from government, academics, business, civil society and spiritual and religious groups. Following this conference, ‘wellbeing’ is now intended to be at the centre of new sustainable development goals which are expected to replace the millennium goals when they expire in 2015. This ‘happiness resolution’ stated that gross domestic product (GDP) alone is not an adequate measure of human prosperity, a more inclusive, equitable and balanced approach is needed… to enhance psychological wellbeing. As healers we need to be aware of this global movement and the UN resolution 2015 that is promoting inner healing and wellbeing. I believe we need to be increasingly aware of providing resources and information for greater understanding of how we can help in our own healing process and those of others. Our interconnection as human beings living on this planet becomes the responsibility of us all to work towards inner peace and unity. There are wonderful, committed Light Workers all around the world who are making huge contributions towards this goal. I see UK Healers and our individual organisations in this category, working towards achieving this level of happiness and wellbeing.

I found this very inspiring and linking it again with the beautiful words of White Eagle already quoted, the key phrases from this teaching that I find particularly relevant are thanksgiving for all we have (rather than dwelling on what we do not have), absolute faith in God and God’s perfect plan, and acceptance of this plan in our lives. If we can do this, we have a chance to truly master what has been described to me as ‘the art of being happy’.