Building Relationships of Joy with Inner Engineering

With the stresses of modern life, it isn’t always easy to nurture deep, meaningful connections with others. In fact, research shows that Americans today are more disconnected from their family, friends, and neighbors than ever before. It indicates that people are meeting with their friends less often than ever, and are even spending less time with their own families. And even though we’re interacting with more people on daily basis, we’re unable to cultivate healthy, lasting relationships with most of them.

Relationships of Joy and Happiness

Every individual is capable of building relationships of joy and happiness, if only we get the fundamentals right. Sadhguru, yogi and mystic and the foremost authority on yoga, looks at creating an inner “climate” from which healthy relationships can naturally blossom.

Sadhguru: “There are many types of relationships that you hold in your life. There are neighbors, friends, wives, husbands, children, parents, siblings, lovers. There are people who hate each other. Everything is a relationship. Fundamentally, all relationships in your life have come up because you have certain needs to fulfill – physical, mental, emotional, social, financial and so on. You try to establish a certain type of relationship to fulfill whatever kind of need you have. If that need is not fulfilled, that relationship cannot be.

Find Completion within Yourself

There is another way to exist experientially where one can exist without any relationships. One is so complete within himself that it does not matter. But right now, for most people, the quality of their relationships decides the quality of their life. So let’s see how we can have the most beautiful relationship, every moment of our lives, wherever we are. If you look at it, you are trying to somehow make yourself happy by building different types of relationships and doing different types of activities. You make friends, you get married, you have children, you start businesses – you do everything – because somewhere you believe this will bring you happiness. You built all these relationships in pursuit of happiness.

Or in other words, somewhere you are trying to squeeze some happiness out of people. Once you do this, relationships will be a constant trouble. You cannot do without it, you cannot do with it. There is no sense of joy or happiness within you, and you are trying to extract it from somebody, and that person is trying to extract it from you. This is bound to become a battle.

Become Your Own Source of Joy

If relationships have to be really beautiful, it is very important that a human being turns inward and looks at himself in a very deep way before he looks at somebody else. If you become a source of joy by yourself and your relationships are about sharing your joy, not squeezing joy out of somebody, then you would have wonderful relationships with anybody. Is there anybody in the world who would have any problem with you if you are going there to share your joy with them? No. You are trying to extract joy from them, that is where the problem is. Relationships have become a problem because we are not using it to enhance our lives. We are trying to fill the gaps in our lives with relationships.

Relationships as Inner Offerings

If your relationship is about extracting something out of somebody, it does not matter how much you manage, there will be constant trouble. If your relationship was an offering to the person who is next to you right now, then everything would be fantastic.”

Put Your Happiness on Self Start

Sadhguru Designed Inner Engineering to put your happiness on self-start and learn how to improve your relationships

The Inner Engineering course empowers you with tools to attain what you are aspiring for within yourself so you experience life at its peak. It helps you to understand and improve your relationships. It gives you the opportunity to intellectually explore the ABC’s of life using methods from the distilled essence of yogic sciences. The course imparts practical wisdom to manage your body, mind, emotions, and the fundamental life energy within.

Inner Engineering

Here are just a few reviews from Inner Engineering participants:

“I am happy on a daily basis, moment to moment, as I realize that this moment is the one that counts. My clients are happier and my employees are like new people. I am gladly rubbing off well on everyone and I love it”- Roisin Daly

“The significant changes I have noticed is the change in my mood and way interact everybody. My relationship with my husband has greatly improved.”- Gerson Macmillan

“I am having a love affair with everything. Noticing things in everyday life that I haven’t noticed before. I am more patient. It will take commitment and practice for this to be my natural state all the time.” – Valerie Berry

Inner Engineering Results

A research study on those who participated in Inner Engineering shows the following results.

Inner Engineering in San Francisco

Sadhguru will also be personally offering Inner Engineering in San Francisco, November 3-4 at the San Mateo Event Center. This is a unique opportunity to learn Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya, a life-transforming practice from him. To learn more visit: www.InnerEngineering.com or contact us at SF@ishausa.org.