S4-E10: Happiness and Name

Episode Summary:
Garett Hennigan explores the significant connection between names and happiness. He discusses how names create our mental qualities and life experiences. This conversation delves into how a balanced name can lead to a happier, more fulfilled life by aligning our mind with our inner potential.

Explore how the Kabalarian Philosophy links names, happiness, and mental freedom. This podcast delves into the Philosophy's teachings on mental freedom, personal potential, and true happiness. Uncover how this Philosophy defines spirituality through constructive expression and balanced living. Their online courses offer a roadmap to achieving a balanced, happy life. Spiritual fulfillment and establishing happiness in our thinking are the basis for living a balanced life.

Key Takeaways:

• Name Analysis: A person's name plays a critical role in shaping their personality and life experiences by influencing their mental and emotional expressions.
• Attitude: Maintaining a happy attitude is essential for creating positive experiences in life, demonstrating the connection between moods and daily interactions.
• Balanced Names: Through the Kabalarian Philosophy, a balanced name can harmonize one's life by aligning our mind with our inner potential and leading to greater happiness.
• Mental Freedom: Achieving mental freedom involves recognizing and overcoming negative expressions to attain a state of peace of mind and happiness.
• Spiritual Expression: True happiness is related to fulfilling one’s inner potential and contributing positively to life, emphasizing pragmatic spiritual growth.

Notable Quotes:

• "But the true happiness is this joy of living each day as a conscious growing mind. And that's what at the core of the Kabalarian Philosophy is to teach these Principles of name, of cycles, of health, of balanced diet, mental freedom. That's what creates this flow of energy that a person recognizes as, "It's great to be alive, you know, it's a wonderful world. Life is to be loved." And if they have that sense, they are living as a truly constructive, happy mind." 
• "So really you can say the positive flow of energy through our minds is what happiness is."
• "If we say that spiritual is the expression of our potential, we would say that the Kabalarian Philosophy is truly a spiritual philosophy because it deals with the practicality of how to bring this happy constructive energy of mind into reality."

Resources:

• Free Name Reports: validate this Principle with your own free Name Report from our website at www.kabalarians.com
• Kabalarian Philosophy Apps: Download the two free apps available on either Android and Apple app stores to explore the Kabalarian Philosophy further. Search for "Kabalarian Philosophy" and “Kabalarian Philosophy 2” on the app stores for enriching quotes and insights.

Tune in to this captivating episode for an in-depth exploration of happiness through the lens of names. Stay connected for more intriguing discussions on living a fulfilling and harmonious life.

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Transcript

S4-E10: The connection between name and happiness?

Daken: Welcome to You Are Your Name. I am Daken Ariel and my co-host is Marlowe Shearing. Our guest today is Garrett Hennigan, who's very qualified to cover topics on the Kabalarian Philosophy. He's been part of the head office for... it must be 30 years, Garett?

Garett: Sounds like it. Yes. It feels like it.

Daken: Garett's developed the website. And he developed the online courses. And he's in charge of the new students with a Support Class on a weekly basis. How many episodes of that have you now?

Garett: I think we're somewhere around one hundred and eighty since 2020 when we started it. Not every Thursday, but about two or three Thursdays a month.

Daken: So someone enrolls in Life Analysis Training, they can go back and listen to any of those classes as part of the archive?

Garett: There's a full archive. And again, we do the live ones on the Thursdays. We cover a range of topics to support the people in their online studies. And it's very interesting. We take some questions and we do a brief name analysis.

Daken: You usually have a guest who's an instructor of one of the courses, and so you can do course-level questions or questions on life in general?

Garett: Yes. We have a series of guests we rotate through. And many of them are the instructors who are part of the online class. So it's an opportunity for the new students to both see the instructors, but also to see the other students wherever they are in the world and give them a little bit of support that they're not alone.

Daken: Sure. So our topic today is happiness and we've already initiated this on episode eight, which was on an article by Alfred J Parker called Happiness. And there was also episode nine, which was Happy Thoughts are Healthy Thoughts, which was based on another article by Mr. Ivon Shearing who's taught the Philosophy for over 60 years. So I wanted to get back to that topic but relate it more directly to name. So is there a connection to name and happiness?

Garett: Yes. You know, if we think of the concept of happiness, I think if you ask anybody in the world, they would recognize that having a happy attitude is a very positive energy in your life in creating the circumstances that you attract. Somebody who's in a dark mood and they go shopping at a grocery store, chances are they're going to get a grumpy cashier who's abrupt with them. And they'll say, you know, they'll have this experience. "That person was rude, and I'm never going go shop in that store."

Versus another person who's happy, you know, upbeat, enjoying life. They go to the store they meet people in the aisles. They have nice exchanges with them. They drop something on the floor, somebody helps them pick it up. They have a nice cashier who's super polite. Asks them how they're doing. So our attitude is the driving force of what happens in our day-to-day experiences, and for that matter, day after day becomes our life experiences. And so that is a very important point to remember is our attitude. And so the happy attitude is a one of optimism. It's the one where there's like a smile on your lips. You're not laughing, but there's a buoyancy. And that is something we have to be conscious to create in our thinking.

The problem arises that what really creates our thinking? And many people strive to be happy, but the reality is the influence of name and also the understanding of what the whole Principle of Life is all about. And I know in, in previous podcasts, we've talked a lot about name and so forth, but if we want to be happy, what we have to do is understand what creates our thinking. And the power of the name and what it does is critical to that. And so, that is why the Kabalarian Philosophy teaches this understanding of mathematics and language, and how through the alphabet become symbols of intelligence. You combine them into a name, you give that name to a child. And it's like a chord of intelligence that creates this personality with positive characteristics, some negative, a mixture, and a resulting life that unfolds through time because of that name.

Daken: Now you mentioned constructive and destructive qualities of intelligence. In the Philosophy, they teach the 1 to 9 Principle where each number represents a quality or a set of qualities, and they can be either positive or negative. So really would you say you can't be really happy unless you live the positive qualities, otherwise you're living within the negative?

Garett: Yes. And I mean, you have to live the positive qualities and not express the negative. But the thing is if a name has been given without a knowledge of how to create the balance, then what happens is is the mind becomes tuned to certain negative expressions. And that becomes the reality of their thinking.

So for example, if somebody is given the name of Terry, which we may have analyzed in a previous class as being a 59/5 combination, which makes a person very intense, very driven, restless. Usually they get impatient if things aren't going their way. For example, that person who's going to this grocery store, they're at the cash and the cashier weighing their broccoli and they don't know the code for it. And it's taking time. She's trying to look it up on a list. The 59/5 name will create this intensity in this person. And they may not verbalize it, but within themselves they're thinking, "Oh, I got to get to this other appointment. And, you know, why is this person taking so long? Don't they know their job?" This whole mental stream of consciousness is sometimes not verbalized, but many times it is. They'll say, "Well, don't you know the code?" And then the person goes and calls their supervisor and the person starts almost grinding in their thinking.

And we also say that the 59/5 name, as an example, will have stomach issues, ulcers. Well, that's because of this intensity of thinking. They're going, "Well, why don't they get their act together? I mean, don't they train the people here?" and on and on and on.

So that thinking is a negative expression of the 5 quality when it's combined improperly in a name. And so that person may have read a, a self-help seminar saying, "Well, you know, you should be happy Terry, and be upbeat!" They can try and it can make a little bit of a difference through just positive will.

I guess you could also look at another example we've used. It's like you have a stake in the ground and a person's on a bungee cord and the 59/5 characteristics of the intensity, the ambition, this restlessness, that's that stake. If they're strapped with a bungy cord, they can move so far away from it with will, and you know, "Okay, well I got to take a deep breath. That's right. I took that course last week and it said, take a deep breath so I can relax." But they get to a certain point.

We will think of the same example in the store. The cashier says, "Look, I'm going to have to have somebody go out to the produce department and get the code for that." A person just can't take it and they snap back to that 59/5 and say some sarcastic remark. So that's just one example of how the name is the driving force.

And so the Kabalarian Philosophy teaches that to create harmony in the individual, you have to balance the name mathematically to the inner potential, which I think has also been covered earlier. And the inner potential is determined from the date of birth. And that's your potential in life. All inner potentials are positive. The problem is that when certain combinations are in the name, it doesn't allow that positive flow, that natural flow of the constructive energies of mind which are 1 to 9, and you get these discordancies. And really any attempt of trying to keep happy thoughts, you know, and they have this 59/5 name is like having a, a big pipe that has a big hole in it. And you're not welding it, you're just putting a little bandaids on it. It's temporary.

Daken: If Terry balances his name, so he's balanced the principle of how those qualities of intelligence flow through him, but he still has some mental habits from the past, maybe he's lived as Terry for 25 years, we teach the principles of mental freedom. And I wondered if you can discuss how the balance name is the start, but then they have to learn to develop that positive expression?

Garett: Exactly. There's many people that, let's say they would get a Name Report on their name. Terry reads the description, "Yeah, I am like that." They go, "Okay, well I'm going to change my name to a balanced name." So they contact us. We give them some choices of balanced names. They pick a name, they legalize it. And they say, "Now I am Ross Brown."

And so they started going through life and the fact that they have made the change will create a certain amount of resulting change in their life because they are the new name. But like you said, they've had that old name for 20 years, 30 years, 50 years.

And so that's a tree that's maybe grown a little bit offshoot. And so the new name is like grafting on new branches to create a different expression. But the change will happen over time, but it's accelerated when the person understands what the whole Principle of Life is, that they have an inner potential, they have a mind. Where are they going? What's the ultimate purpose in life? And the concept of understanding what mental freedom is as a step-by-step process of refinement, recognizing the negative expressions, which were unfortunately a part of that name they were originally given, and saying, "No. I am going to take a deep breath when I'm in those situations." 

But thing is, is with the balanced name, instead of being driven by the qualities of that original name, it gives them, in a sense, just a little bit of a moment to make a decision saying, "No, I won't express like that." But when they have that original name, they don't get to that. They go straight to the emotional quality of that name.

So with the balanced name, it gives the person the opportunity to make a decision. "No, I won't express those qualities. But now I will express the positive qualities. I'll be patient. I'll realize maybe this person's just a first day. I don't know. So why jump to conclusions?" But you have to have a reason to be able to make that decision. And rather than just waiting on the balanced name through time to make the changes which it will always do, understanding this principle of mental improvement that the Kabalarian Philosophy teaches of mental freedom, then the mind has a sense of progress. It's knowing where it's going. 

And in that step-by-step process of refinement, the mind is becoming more conscious of their thinking, life around them. They're thinking now, rather than feeling. This is an important transitional state that really is the birthright of every human being. We come into emotion as a baby, we cry. We want to have the bottle. And we go through this process of refinement so that we can think more and control our emotions and be happier consistently, and not be affected by somebody who is abrupt with us. Do we get abrupt back? Do we just change like a chameleon to whatever we encounter in life.

And so the Kabalarian Philosophy teaches that principle of refinement to a state of mental freedom. And in that mental freedom, we become ultimately more conscious of life, more conscious of the Principle of Life. And really that's part of this bigger Principle that the Kabalarian Philosophy teaches; that this Power involves with the first breath, and should evolve back to merge back with that Universal Consciousness.

Marlowe:  Happiness is such a important quality to all people. Is happiness the same for everyone? Is it something that could be just defined as a happy outlook on life? Or is happiness something more to a Kabalarian student?

Garett: Many times in life people associate happiness with some type of emotional experience. They're happy because they got a new car. They're happy because they were able to go skiing, or they went on a holiday, or they got married, or whatever it is. They're all events that are really an emotional thrill that society has associated with "Now, you're happy because you've had that." But those events are very instantaneous. And you got your new car today. What about tomorrow? Are you still as happy as you were the previous day? And after a month you've had the car, you're, you could still enjoy it.

But happiness is really a sense of well-being, and a sense of knowing that you're expressing your purpose in life. That's different for each person. because everybody has a different inner potential which is their birthpath, which are qualities from 1 to 9. And so you have different qualities of birthpath and they will find their harmony in the expression of that birthpath.

So for example, a 1 birthpath is meant to be the pioneer, and so in coming up with new ideas and pioneering new endeavors in life. Now, if that mind is expressing that potential, that is where the true happiness will come. They're a positive contributor to life because they're expressing that inner potential through their mind into life.

Another person may be a 3 birthpath, and so their role is to be this expressive power. So when there doing that particular role; they're entertaining, they're teaching, or just bringing some optimism to even a one-on-one conversation, they have a sense of happiness because that is this natural harmony, the natural flow of energy. So really you can say the positive flow of energy through our minds is what is happiness.

And if we have an ache, you know, we've maybe ate too much for dinner. We had two, three helpings and now our stomach hurts. Uh, are we still happy? Well, we can put on a brave smile, but because our energy is down, we're not able to be as buoyant. We're not expressing our potential. So we don't feel this sense of of freedom that we're expressing our potential into life. So it varies. Each person will find happiness in different ways.

But the true happiness is this joy of living each day as a conscious growing mind. And that's what at the core of the Kabalarian Philosophy is to teach these Principles of name, of cycles, of health, of balanced diet, mental freedom. That's what creates this flow of energy that a person recognizes as, "It's great to be alive, you know, it's a wonderful world. Life is to be loved." And if they have that sense, they are living as a truly constructive, happy mind. And, we always have to hold onto that state of mind and not let anything affect our quality of thinking, our quality of mental freedom, and we're just as this positive quality as we go through life.

Daken: So this is slightly off topic, but is the Kabalarian Philosophy a spiritual Philosophy?

Garett: What's the definition of spiritual? And if we say that spiritual is the expression of our potential, we would say that the Kabalarian Philosophy is truly a spiritual philosophy because it deals with the practicality of how to bring this happy constructive energy of mind into reality. And it's not just sitting alone out in the woods meditating. People think, "Oh, a person's being spiritual." But what are they contributing? They come back in the city. Do they have some new thoughts? Are they a positive energy? Do they help people?

And so we see the spiritual as really the expression of that spiritual potential that came with that first breath. And that is an energy of giving, an energy of progress, and energy of lightness that is really the birthright of each person who takes that first breath. And the Kabalarian Philosophy, through those principles which we talked about, allows the person to use those principles to make that a reality in their life and a reality in life in general.

Daken: Can a person with an unbalanced name, without the understanding of these principles of mental freedom, can they be happy?

Garett: Let's say from that name combination of Terry. There are Terrys who don't put forth any effort and are just in that mental state of intensity and sarcasm and everything else. And there are Terrys who've put forth the effort to be more progressive and try to be patient. And so they can experience a certain degree of happiness because they're free from those intense emotions.

But again, it's a partial, I wouldn't even call it, a fulfillment. They've improved their life, but it really isn't the expression of their potential. Because they may be a a 2 birthpath and a 2 birthpath is meant to be this person that merges people together, the natural diplomat that creates harmony amongst people. So if that's their inner potential, how would they, with this name that throws in the odd sarcastic comment, be able to achieve that harmony amongst people because their very nature tends to be a little bit bristly like a little bit of a thorn, you know, and it drives people away.

So they may find some joy, the 5 likes nature, maybe they go skiing, they can have some fun, but they're not getting to the true core, the true lasting quality of happiness. Where those other ones are really temporal experiences of joy, which are part of life. There's nothing wrong with them. But that's not where you're going find this peace of mind that comes with expressing your inner potential.

Daken: So there is a connection between happiness and mental freedom?

Garett: Yes. You can't say, "Well, I'm mentally free, but I'm in a mood." You know, they go together. And if you're happy you must be mentally free because you're not affected by moods. So it's another description for that state of mind. But mental freedom, in a sense, is more descriptive because it says that you have to be free of these negative expressions, which are unfortunately part of many names, most names, and are really part of society as a whole over generations. Certain qualities have been expressed and people have accepted them. Like you know, if you get angry, get it off your chest. Yell at the person, get rid of it. Don't keep it internal. Well, you know, why are you angry in the first place? What is the quality that's creating that? And that's the difference, is that mental freedom describes that, "Well, we're getting free of these emotions and reaching this happy state," but we have to also focus on keeping that happy state and keeping that state of mental freedom.

I guess they're describing two sides of the same coin.

Daken: Thank you, Garrett. I think that's a broad picture of happiness. I really appreciate your thoughts. Did you have any final thoughts, Marlowe?

Marlowe:  No, it's very interesting. You're saying then that there's not just a perspective of happiness of a glass half full, or a glass half empty. That there's actually a state of thinking that one can reach and then express that quality.

Garett: Right. Thanks for asking me on Daken and Marlowe, and look forward to chatting with you at a future time.

Daken: If you are interested in exploring the Kabalarian Philosophy further, download our free quotes apps from the Android and Apple app stores. Simply search for Kabalarian Philosophy, and you will find two apps; Kabalarian Philosophy, and Kabalarian Philosophy 2. They both have many quotes and excerpts from the writings of the Kabalarian Philosophy.

That concludes the episode for this week. Tune in next week for more on this topic. Until then, happy thoughts!