What Makes You Happy? Would you be happy if you won the lottery, lived in a $500,000 house, how about two homes one for winter and one for the summer? What does being happy mean to you? I believe happiness is an illusion, a thought, a series of thoughts, or a series of habits we train our minds, bodies and spirits to believe. If we think we are happy...we are.
Rhonda Byrne wrote the book the "Secret" and it is filled with Incredible information about how to be happy. It's not about things, or jobs, or anything on the outside...it's all about our thoughts and where we allow our minds to go. If we allow our happiness to be an outside job and not an inside job we will be disappointed every time. It is wonderful to relax on a wonderful vacation, spend time with loved ones and be able to change your routine. Can we be happy no matter what is going on? People who are not dependent on what happens to create their happiness, actually attract more happiness. Everyone experiences sad, fearful and angry emotions.
Some people have learned how to have within them an underlying state of peace and well-being. Our minds are wired to be fearful and it takes a conscious effort to change your energy to... happy. We are expected to cry at funerals, and hospitals and to laugh at parties, family gatherings, Sunday morning brunches and walks in the park. This paradigm has been a pattern for generations and generations. We go through good times and bad and we usually return back to our original pre set level of happiness. If we consciously change our thought pattern, we can change our underlying mood from fear to happiness. No matter what happens to you in your life, you will return to your pre-set level of happiness. How do you change your pre-set level of happiness? Studies have shown that 10% of our happiness is determined by our circumstances, and 90%is determined by your genes, habits, thoughts and actions. If we want to be happy we need to practice the habits of happy people.
The first step is to bring into your Awareness the habits that support happiness in your life. Keep a journal of the habits that bring you happiness and which ones bring you unhappiness. As the negative habits dissipate the new, healthy, happy habits will begin to grow like a beautiful butterfly. I believe in the power of change!
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Janie Behr is a qualified life coach specializing in helping people find their purpose, achieve their goals, and explore all the possibilities that life has to offer. She is available for private individual coaching, group coaching and public speaking engagements. She runs frequent teleseminars dedicated to helping people find and live their most positive lives! For more information please visit http://www.jblifecoach.com
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