Don't Chase Happiness, Chase Tango Alignment (the true success to happiness)
Tango alignment = Happiness?
"Chasing happiness makes you unhappy." - paraphrasing Dr. John Demartini.
Dan Sullivan jokingly blames Thomas Jefferson for all the unhappiness in the United States from his concept of 'pursuit of happiness' in the Declaration of Independence.
"Peace is happiness at rest, and happiness is peace in motion." - Naval Ravikant
What the hell is happiness?
Everyone has their own definition of happiness.
For me, happiness comes from tango alignment.
5 months ago, a world-class tango teacher named Luis Carpi bought me a Baileys latte and we became friends.
Like a great marketer, he offered me a free tango lesson, so I tried to dance tango, and I became hooked.
The problem with dancing tango is that if just a small part of your body is out of alignment, your whole alignment becomes crap.
It's the same with life.
If your head is not above your hips above your feet, your dance partner will hate you.
When you dream of having wild sex on a cruise under a sunny blue sky and raining hamburgers but all you do is watching Netflix all day, your life is out of alignment.
The solution is not to stop dreaming.
The solution is to align your dreams with everything else in your life.
Your best tango dance is when you are not thinking about anything, your environment is ideal for dancing, and your body is aligned because you practiced.
Unhappiness comes from being out of alignment.
You have a lot of thoughts contradicting each other.
Your feelings contradict your thoughts.
Your actions contradict your feelings.
Your past self is holding back your future dreams.
BUT you CAN remove unhappiness by resolving these contradictions.
Then little by little, like removing onion peel layer by layer, you'll be more aligned, and therefore more happy.
Practice having your body aligned when dancing tango and you will enjoy dancing more.
Practice alignment in your life and you will enjoy life more.
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” - Gandhi
