Too often, we look to our surroundings, our possessions, our partners and other areas outside of ourselves for happiness. Some may feel happier when they drink alcohol or partake in other mood-changing substances. Some people may depend on family or friends to make them to feel happy. Others may think that if they lose weight, they will be happier. Discover how you can create your own happiness, improve your health and start enjoying each day of your life.
Our surroundings, our possessions and our partners can help contribute to happiness, but until we accept who we are and embrace ourselves, we will never know true happiness is. We must learn not to rely on others to make us happy.
Once we understand this basic lesson, we can then take control of how we react when the situations around us aren’t going so well. We cannot control most situations. We can only control our reactions to them.
Happiness is seen as a positive emotion. We may be happy when we are feeling contented or when we are feeling pure joy. Even though we think of happiness as an emotional response, happiness actually transcends emotions.
We often put pressure on people in our lives because we expect them to make us happy. However, our relationships simply cannot live up to these expectations. Although they contribute to our happiness, they cannot be the source of it.
Happiness is an attitude. In order to find happiness, we need to first change our perception of events. No one can be happy every single minute of every single day. But what we can do is think differently about any external circumstances that we may have to deal with.
Perspective is in the mind of beholder and it can create happiness and it destroy happiness. When we begin training ourselves to see things in a different light, we will be much more content and happier. Being aware and taking notice of your reactions is the first step to learning this skill.
For one week, when things aren’t going your way, try to talk yourself into looking at the situation differently. If you get cut off in traffic, instead of getting mad, tell yourself you could have had a collision instead. Become more empathetic to your fellow man and remember, every one has a story and we don’t know what they are going through.
Once you begin training your thought process to look for the good, you will see a drastic change in your life and the way people treat you. This is just the first step on your journey of self-awareness and happiness.
