My newfound happiness; any advice?

[TheCloud]

Gradually over the last two months or so, I've awakened to a new level of being.  Which makes it sound like a big deal, and it is huge to me personally, but what really changed is that I went from effectively never experiencing unconflicted happiness for over thirty years, to experiencing it every day in one form or another.

More than that, there is a new confidence and resilience in me that if I do feel bad for some reason, the reason is just mechanical, so that if I fix the mechanics, I can go back to a baseline of being happy and excited for life.  I am increasingly sensitive to the effects my actions and habits and choices have on my experience, whereas before I couldn't feel the effects of many of my detrimental choices against a background radiation of inner chaos.  If I had to describe it in terms of spiral dynamics, which I am barely familiar with but seems popular on this forum, I would say I've just breached stage Yellow.

To those who have reached this level and beyond, I ask;  do you have any suggestions for me, such as advice that might matter to a person at my level that wouldn't have mattered at a lower level, or experience on how my perspective might be expanding from this point on?

To those who aspire to this level and beyond, I offer my anecdotal experience.  I have not currently reached a level of any kind of obvious cosmic consciousness or unity or any such thing.  I still feel anxiety and resentment, even when I don't always have to.  Reaching a new level did not make me smarter or more knowledgeable or even a better person, really, so the best I can promise is that I'll be selling no medicine I haven't taken myself.

[AtmanIsBrahman]

Seems like you’re making some good progress. 

You can reach a stage where you aren’t really affected by external events, only your internal state—which is largely under your control. Sadhguru talks about this a lot. It’s also in this video: 

 

 

[TheCloud]

20 hours ago, AtmanIsBrahman said:

You can reach a stage where you aren’t really affected by external events, only your internal state—which is largely under your control.

Was it a fairly sudden level change for you to reach that state from roughly where I'm at, or was it a gradual cumulative thing?

[cetus]

On 4/14/2026 at 10:07 PM, TheCloud said:

or experience on how my perspective might be expanding from this point on?

Sooner or later it's all going to come your way. So, embrace it all when it does. Even suffering teaches a lesson to be learned.