5 Ways to Find Happiness Within
5 Ways to Find Happiness Within
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Find happiness withinAlthough this article is about five ways to find happiness within, there is really only one way to access the feeling of happiness and that’s through your heart.
Happiness is about experiencing a deeper level satisfaction that comes from the Soul. When you try to find surface level happiness which comes from the Ego, the conditions in your life have to be great in order for you to feel good. That means you have to put your happiness in the hands of other people and things outside of yourself, which makes you dependent on those things and people to treat you perfectly all the time. When that doesn’t happen you become disappointed.
Following Your Heart to Happiness is about creating more happiness in your life by changing the way you feel inside. To instantly change the way you feel and engage your heart in a deeper level of satisfaction, consider choosing one of the following practices:
Kindness
Kindness means to be caring, consider and thoughtful without expecting anything in return. It means being kind just because you felt like it! Did you know that when you engage in kindness it increases the serotonin levels in your brain? Serotonin has been referred to as “The Chemistry of Well-Being.”
Generosity
Generosity means giving of yourself and your possessions; your time, your knowledge, your help, your money and your friendship. When you give those things it makes you feel abundant inside. You can’t give away what you don’t have, so in giving away these things it makes you feel like you have more of them. The more of them you have the better you feel. The better you feel the more of them you attract. It’s a win/win situation.
Gratitude
Gratitude means showing appreciation. A feeling of being thankful can only come when we consciously pay attention to the good things in our lives instead of always focusing on the bad. Condition yourself to pay attention to all the good things you seem to forget about. As Louise Hay once said “The more you are grateful for in your life, the more life gives you to be grateful for. “
Forgiveness
Forgiveness is the process of ceasing to feel resentment, guilt and shame toward yourself and others for perceived offenses, betrayals and mistakes made. Resentment keeps you from forgiving others. Guilt and shame keep you from forgiving yourself. Both are toxic to your body.
Respect
Respect means treating yourself and others with dignity. It means honoring the differences in people without judging. It means being loving to oneself and others without condemning or criticizing. The better you treat yourself and others, the more happiness you will experience.
Those five practices will engage your heart and lead to a deeper level of satisfaction than you ever thought possible.
Till next time….
Follow Your Heart to Happiness
Linda Higgins
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Find happiness withinAlthough this article is about five ways to find happiness within, there is really only one way to access the feeling of happiness and that’s through your heart.
Happiness is about experiencing a deeper level satisfaction that comes from the Soul. When you try to find surface level happiness which comes from the Ego, the conditions in your life have to be great in order for you to feel good. That means you have to put your happiness in the hands of other people and things outside of yourself, which makes you dependent on those things and people to treat you perfectly all the time. When that doesn’t happen you become disappointed.
Following Your Heart to Happiness is about creating more happiness in your life by changing the way you feel inside. To instantly change the way you feel and engage your heart in a deeper level of satisfaction, consider choosing one of the following practices:
Kindness
Kindness means to be caring, consider and thoughtful without expecting anything in return. It means being kind just because you felt like it! Did you know that when you engage in kindness it increases the serotonin levels in your brain? Serotonin has been referred to as “The Chemistry of Well-Being.”
Generosity
Generosity means giving of yourself and your possessions; your time, your knowledge, your help, your money and your friendship. When you give those things it makes you feel abundant inside. You can’t give away what you don’t have, so in giving away these things it makes you feel like you have more of them. The more of them you have the better you feel. The better you feel the more of them you attract. It’s a win/win situation.
Gratitude
Gratitude means showing appreciation. A feeling of being thankful can only come when we consciously pay attention to the good things in our lives instead of always focusing on the bad. Condition yourself to pay attention to all the good things you seem to forget about. As Louise Hay once said “The more you are grateful for in your life, the more life gives you to be grateful for. “
Forgiveness
Forgiveness is the process of ceasing to feel resentment, guilt and shame toward yourself and others for perceived offenses, betrayals and mistakes made. Resentment keeps you from forgiving others. Guilt and shame keep you from forgiving yourself. Both are toxic to your body.
Respect
Respect means treating yourself and others with dignity. It means honoring the differences in people without judging. It means being loving to oneself and others without condemning or criticizing. The better you treat yourself and others, the more happiness you will experience.
Those five practices will engage your heart and lead to a deeper level of satisfaction than you ever thought possible.
Till next time….
Follow Your Heart to Happiness
Linda Higgins
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Permalink Reply by bridget orman on
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beautiful words thank you for sharing them love and hugs
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such a beautiful pictures thank you for sharing them with us hugs
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Permalink Reply by Sunil singh on
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Hi bridget, you write so well and, more than that, you feel it all within you so well. Thanks for sharing. But here are a few things that I would like to share with you. I have found them in my journey of life, not because I searched for them but only because they searched me out.
I believe that there are not 5, 10 or many ways of finding happiness within. It's something that can't be broken into different methods or ways. It's an experience of life that doesn't come without taking all things in their totality. The moment you accept yourself with full honesty and without any pre-conditions, a change occurs within you - the positive change of looking at the world without judgement. Every little thing that earlier baffled, excited, tied you down or hurt you, will fall into place in it's true form- naked to it's essentials. Both the sun and the shadow will meet together. You will find your vision being sweetened and set free from all the worldly strings. To cut it short, you will stop counting trees, one by one and analysing their individualities, and see the entire forest in a flash. Your heart will become your candle and lead you to a light that never appeared before you only because all along these years, you had been preoccupied with the cosy darkness of self-love and armed with the razor-sharp edges of your ego-centric critical faculties. Happiness requires a total surrender of self to truth and this journey begins , continues and ends through your heart.... But remember, the beginning, continuity and the end are not separate events. They are a process- an illusion that's sustained by our mind but disappears before our heart when it's filled with love and peace. So follow your heart to happiness. -
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