Who Says You Can't Be Happy All the Time?
Have you ever considered why you work so hard? It's true you live between the hope of abundance and the fear of lack, but isn't the deeper reason, so that you can build a happy life for you and your loved ones?
The drive for happiness is behind almost every action you take.
Unfortunately, to get to happiness you often end up doing many things you'd rather not do, and you suffer enormous stresses in the process. You consume your energy, time, and money, all in hopes of finding that elusive state of genuine lasting happiness.
For all your effort, happiness remains elusive. It needs coaxing out, and sometimes when you think you finally have it, it slips away silently.
Why You're Not As Happy As You Could Be
Do you remember your parents teaching you the methods for creating happiness? What about all those hours your teachers spent teaching you the precise actions needed to become happy? Doesn't sound familiar, does it?
The irony of education is that it was meant to give you tools for living well, yet no one taught us happiness skills. We spent years in school studying subjects we ended up never using, yet not one minute was spent learning the methods for creating happiness. The very skill we could use every day of our lives isn't even taught!
What an incredible oversight!
Instead, you've had to muddle through, learning by trial and error--lots and lots of error. You've also learned many myths about happiness from peers, customs, advertising, and clever quotations...almost all of it worthless hearsay.
Advertisers, for example, would have you buy every single product with their solemn promise that each one will bring you greater happiness. They show you smiling people as a result of time savings, cost reduction, excitement, sex, greedy consumption, rainbows, sunshine...all the usual tricks. Ridiculous! Your wise inner-self knows these to be purely illusions. It's no wonder most advertising is so ineffective. People have been disappointed so often that they've become very skeptical of advertising claims, and rightly so!
Happiness Knowledge
However, there is such a thing as "happiness knowledge"--a very special kind of knowledge that tells you exactly how to create genuine lasting happiness.
Happiness knowledge doesn't have all the glitz and glamour of those glossy advertisements, for it is a quiet kind of knowledge that has no need of gimmicks. It won't dazzle your eyes or hypnotize your senses. Happiness knowledge deals with very simple things:
How you can think in certain ways, and act in certain ways to cause the natural core of your being to light up.
Remember the times you knew deep feelings of satisfaction and contentment, the pride of newly-acquired skills, the warm glow of touching another soul through your kindness, the feeling of honorability when you did the right thing, the peacefulness of being in nature, or the sheer joy of doing what you love? This is happiness knowledge.
The Methodology For Continuous Happiness
Did you know there is a methodology to being continually happy? There's actually a whole collection of special physical and mental actions that naturally and automatically produce feelings of well-being.
These actions are called happiness actions.
I've written almost a quarter of a million words about happiness actions and I'd like to share this life-changing knowledge with you in condensed form. What you'll find undeniable is that...
Happiness Is A Way Of Living, Not Something That Happens To You
The One Simple Key to Living a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life
Develop A Positive Attitude. It's that simple.
It's now a scientific fact that having and maintaining a positive attitude will not only change or improve your life - having a positive attitude could even allow you to live a healthier, longer life while leading you to be more successful at everything that you do.
Positive Attitude Means Longer Life
If you want to live a longer, healthier life then you need to develop and maintain a positive attitude - Researchers followed and studied 1500 people for 7-years. All 1500 were in good health when the study started. Researchers followed how they aged by measuring such things as weight loss, walking speed, exhaustion and the strength of their grip.
They found that people who maintained a positive attitude were significantly less likely to show signs of aging, they were less likely to become frail and were more likely to be stronger and healthier than those that had a negative attitude.
If you have a doom and gloom attitude you're actually killing yourself and at the very least - you're negative attitude is just making you weaker.
These very same researchers also found that your beliefs have a direct impact on your health - because your beliefs actually alter your body's chemical balance. That's right what you believe has a direct impact on your body.
Change the way you think, you change your beliefs and you change your life. Yes you can actually improve your life and your body by having a positive attitude and a positive belief system. With that in place you'll live a healthier, longer life.
Happiness Helps People Stay Healthy
People who are happier in their daily lives have healthier levels of key body chemicals than those who muster few positive feelings, a new study suggests. This means happier people may have healthier hearts and cardiovascular systems, possibly cutting their risk of diseases like diabetes.
Previous studies have shown that depression is associated with health problems compared to average emotional states. But few studies have looked at the effects of positive moods on health. Now, researchers at University College London, UK, have linked everyday happiness with healthier levels of important body chemicals, such as the stress hormone cortisol.
"Perhaps laughter is the best medicine,"
We usually concentrate on things that are either bad or wrong, rather than good or right."
How to Have a Good Day...Every Day
How do you guarantee that your waking moments, your days, are successful, joyful, effortless, and deliver the results of your desires?
There is a way to accomplish this. It is a simple way but it requires a few steps that may be very different from your current habits. However, with willingness to practice every one of these steps, you will soon replace your old habits with this new way. The following steps are adopted from A Course in Miracles. Step 1: The Day You Wish To Have
The first thing to realize is that you are always making decisions, that decisions are continuous. You are not aware of many of the ones you make, but by practicing awareness of the present moment, you will begin to become aware of many more of the thoughts and decisions you previously made unconsciously.
The first thing to do, when you wake up every day, is to ask yourself "What kind of day would I like to have today?" Feel your desire for such a day. Then remember that whatever you ask for, you always receive by universal law. The point of the remaining steps that follow this one is to fine-tune that asking and uncover the "sabotaging" asking that has been going on behind the scene.
To recap:
1. Think about the kind of day that you wish to have. Actually, go over the experiences and feelings you would like to have. Feel the reasons and desires, the experiences of such a day. 2. Remember that you always receive whatever you ask for.3. Therefore, you know that there is a way that this day you desire can happen automatically. You need not know how. In fact, you do not know how exactly. The how is up to Life to take care of. Life,
Five Way to Add More Spice to Your Life
You know the old saying "variety is the spice of life", and although many such phrases are just nonsense, this one is anything but. Because let's be honest, sometimes our lives can become routine. We settle into a comfort zone and boredom and dissatisfaction can soon follow. If you're looking for some exciting ideas to spice up your life, here's my top 5 tips - go on, give them a try!
1. Once a week, visit somewhere you've never been before. A city, town or village, a museum, a theater, a restaurant, caf�, or bar, a park, a zoo, a wood or forest - get the idea? Visiting new places broadens your horizons and helps to keep life fresh and interesting.
2. The biggest thief that will ever enter your home does so by your invitation. Your television can steal something more valuable from you than any other thief on the planet: Your precious, non-renewable life time. Time to stop this little thief from pilfering any more! At least once a month, spend an entire week without watching any television and use the time to do something much more life-enhancing. You could workout, read books, learn a new subject - languages, cookery, swimming, diving, computers, wine-tasting, crafts, astronomy, astrology, music, advanced driving, drama, take up a new sport - the list is endless. You'll meet people, you'll develop more skills, you'll add to your knowledge and you'll develop more confidence. And you'll feel more alive!
3. Fancy a challenge - something that will test you to the limit? How about a survival weekend? There are many courses available for this, from basic outdoor survival to more specialized ones for arctic, desert and jungle survival. You'll learn more about the environment, you'll develop survival skills and again, you'll meet new people and share a highly rewarding experience
4. Spontaneity can bring excitement and adventure into life. Doing things on the spur of the moment is fun too! So why not just do something totally unplanned? Get in the car and drive somewhere, go to the train station and take a train journey somewhere, or, for a holiday, just visit your travel broker or go direct to the airport and see what deals they've got for you to go there and then. Have your bags packed and ready and don't forget your passport! This brings the unknown into our lives, and although this can be a little bit frightening, it's also very exciting too. Enjoy the adventure!
5. I've saved the best till last! When it comes to living a happy, fulfilled life, a life where you do all things you really want to do, fear is the biggest threat you will have to face. It ruins the hopes and dreams of millions and millions of people. Every time you give in to a fear, you lose. You miss out on opportunity, experience and happiness. So do something you are afraid of. Yes, I know it is very hard to do this but the alternative - giving in - is much more painful. If you're afraid of heights, learn to abseil or climb. If you're afraid of water, learn to swim. Flying - attend a fear of flying course. Frightened of driving? Start to learn. If you want to start a business, devote the time to become fully informed and start your research. Whatever it is, TAKE ACTION to beat it.
Fear only exists in one place - YOUR MIND. It is an illusion that will set boundaries on your happiness. The only way to break through these boundaries is to confront fear and overcome it. When you do, your confidence will increase, you will experience more happiness and my word will you feel alive!
And there you are, five great ideas for you to try. Make them work for you by putting them into action and don't forget: Knowledge isn't power, it is putting our knowledge in to action so it works for us is what empowers us!
