March 15, 2010
Finding Your Joy
Be Happy Every Single Day
Being happy doesn't come naturally to everybody. It is your birthright to be happy, choose happiness everyday.
Our lives are rich with potential sources of happiness, but sometimes we become victims of negative thinking because we believe that focusing on all that has gone wrong will provide us with the motivation we need to face the challenges of survival. When we choose to focus on what makes us happy, however, a shift occurs in the fabric of our existence. Finding something to be happy about every single day can help this shift take place. The vantage points from which we view the world are brought into balance, and we can see that being alive truly is a gift to be savored. There is always something we can be happy about —- it is simply up to us to identify it.
On one day, we may find happiness in a momentous, life-changing event such as a marriage or the birth of a child. On another day, the happiness we experience may be a product of our appreciation of a particularly well-brewed cup of a tea or the way the sun shines on a leaf. If we discover that we literally cannot call to mind a single joyful element of existence, we should examine the cause of the blockage standing between us and experiencing happiness. Keeping a happiness journal is a wonderful way to catalog the happiness unfolding all around us so that joy has myriad opportunities to manifest itself in our lives. Writing about the emotions we experience while contemplating joy may give us insight into the factors compelling us to resist it.
Happiness may not always come easily into your life. You have likely been conditioned to believe that the proper response to unmet expectations is one of sadness, anger, guilt, or fear. To make joy a fixture in your existence, you must first accept that it is within your power to choose happiness over unhappiness every single day. Then, each time you discover some new source of happiness, the notion that the world is a happy place will find its way more deeply into your heart. On this day, find one thing to be happy about and let it fill your heart.
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2 comments:
Do you agree with the book or think it is full of pie in the sky? Kind of like the idea that poor people are always happy. While it is true that you can be happy without much as my very rich brother says, "No, actually having a LOT of money makes a LOT of problems go away." - was that problems...or bodies?
Beth -- I think this is geared more toward the people who have dozens, even hundreds, of things to be happy about but agonize over that ONE THING that's out of whack. It's for those kinds of people that I posted it. Like a person I know who complains non-stop about her really-not-that-stressful job without stopping to think that with the US's economy the way it is, she's damn lucky she HAS a job.
I am definitely not of the opinion (nor do I think this DailyOM is conveying) that some non-disabled people will spew -- "If you just try hard and think positively, you will no longer be disabled/childless/poor/homeless" etc. I see this more as, if you have to get up and go to work anyway, why not enjoy the sunrise or the birds singing or the jonquils peeking up?
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