THE WAY TO HAPPINESS
Is something blocking your happiness?
If you’re not happy it may not be due to being
less lucky, deserving or successful than others -- but because you’ve placed
many restrictions on happiness, deferring it to the future. You might have told
yourself, “When I get everything I want, then I’ll be happy.”
But even if you do get everything you
want, happiness may still elude you. Because getting what we want only brings
temporary good feelings, not happiness. Becoming a happy person requires much
more than that. It’s the result of developing a high level of positive
awareness -- being able to see value in everything, even in what’s normally
considered ‘bad’.
Our possibilities for happiness dramatically
increase as we see humor in our failings, misfortune as a chance
to test courage and grow stronger, mistakes as valuable lessons to guide
success, pain as a call for improving self-awareness and self-care, conflict
as an opportunity to improve relating skills, anger as a signal to
improve understanding, and beauty as an intrinsic quality inherent in
the unique character of most people, places and things.
Happiness also comes as we increase our capacity
for gratefulness, generosity, acceptance, authenticity, and
compassion, as well as embracing positive ways of thinking and dropping
negative ones.
The bottom line: the
way to happiness lies not so much in getting all we want, but in upgrading the
quality of our consciousness and character.
Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.
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