Start by looking into this moment right now. Ask yourself these questions, “Am I truly happy right now? Do I want to be the way I am or do I want to be happy? Do I want to reach for a happier thought?” Assuming that your answer is yes continue reading.
Now there are circumstances that you are supposed to be unhappy. Without going into any detail it is justified to unhappy when those circumstances come up. That is fine. Be unhappy, be miserable be sad. It is justifiable and you can wallow in that as long as you choose to; but when things are not quite that bad and you realize that the temperature is not 72 it is 74 and I am only happy when the temperature is 72 you can deal with it.
Allowing things to be the way they are allows you to be happy because happiness is the natural state. Coming back to happiness is the key. We all will get knocked off from being happy. That is just the way life is you are on and you are off, on and off. When you can come back faster to the state of happiness that is the process of Secrets For A Happier Life, returning to the natural state of happiness
Balance just like with the coin occurs when you are focused on what is happening right now. By placing your attention on the present moment, this very instant right now, the happier you will be because you are not in the past or the future. You are in the present and when you are truly in the present you are in the natural state of happiness. It is just there, it emanates just like a light bulb emanates light and heat it is just what it does. The sun emanates light and heat it radiates it. You, your person your body your individual complete tri part soul whatever it is radiates happiness. The Universe is happy.
Yes, we create conditions to make ourselves happy or unhappy. We create games to make ourselves happy or unhappy. Take golf it is a great game and you can get ecstatic in it or miserable in it. Or you can just play it and enjoy it. And be happy and the score is just the score.
But you still get moments of elation and its opposite depression and it is your choice.
So what can you do?
So the first thing is to make the decision do I want to be happy. Okay, I would like to be happy what do I do?
First just find out am I balanced or not? Am I leaning forward or backward? Are my thoughts to the future or to the past? You want to bring them into the present. When your posture is balanced then your thought process is also more balanced.
The more balanced you become the happier you are.
So just balance your body. If you are sitting rock back and forward from your hips and side to side. Bring your torso over your seat. Sit squarely like the nickel so that your torso is balanced over your hips and then balance your shoulders over your torso and then your head over your shoulders. If standing do the same and bring the weight of your body more balanced over your feet.
Allow a nice full breath to flow into your nose and to flow out and flow into that balance. Explore it for a moment, sway a bit or swirl a bit feeling the balance. Once that balance is centered your mind starts to become balanced and centered and you will see that you are a little bit happier than you were a moment ago. You are now radiating a little bit more happiness. |