Happiness Mantra part.2

 

Traditional Happiness Ideas vs. New Age  Happiness Ideas

Synopsis

When you dream of happiness, you probably dream of that one place where suffering is absent – a place with no guilt, anxiety, melancholy, and mood swings. With the present way of life of many people, most of them surely look forward to that one day when all their mental battles and worries will subside – that one golden day when purely positive things will take place and there will be no more reasons to experience pain, tension, and sorrow.

Ways To Look At It

But unfortunately, all these things are just part of a mythical place. This is a kind of place that society would like you to believe exists, just another gold pot sitting at the end of that proverbial rainbow, which, when found, will give you security and wealth.

The traditional happiness ideas revolve around this mythical place with perceived security and comfortable luxury. However, there is no  way for this ideal to come to reality all because of one law of life, which can be easily summed up in a single word – change.

Change is everything that life knows. Your assets, your moods, your relationships, your liabilities as well as the other conditions of yourexistence are not going to stay constant, whatever your cultural idea might make you believe.

Disaster, death, unforeseen misfortune, conflict, disease, heartbreak as well as the simple anxieties of your everyday life will continue and disrupt what you perceive to be peace of happiness.

The new age ideas about happiness dwell on the principle that even though the traditional happiness ideas might be mythical and somewhat boring, still, there is a chance for you to find a deeper and truer state of being. As a human being, your greatest satisfaction will lie not in the constancy, but in the transformation.

For the modern era, true happiness is about accepting, embracing and laughing at your pain. Its aim is to understand that your pain is a natural result of the changes in your life and it is a crucial precursor to even your growth.

Empowerment for Happiness – What does it mean to you?

 Synopsis 

Right from that very moment of your birth, you never got the chance to choose the kind of life that you will live. Back then, it does not even matter a bit. Being a newborn, you had no care at all about those things that matter to the grownups around you. But when you reached that point when you already understand the difference between white and black, happy and sad, good and bad, when you find yourself trying to feel good, it is when you finally start to wonder. What is the real definition of happiness? How you do find it?

What Does It Mean

Dear friends, happiness is not something that you can just purchase from a nearby store because if it can be, then, all people in this world will surely get their pockets empty and their banks broken on buying happiness each time they feel the need for it, both for themselves and those close to their hearts. It only means that people with no money will also be deprived of the chance of being happy.

But of course, this is not the case. Happiness is something springing from within, a product of all your actions. And despite being intangible, happiness is not necessarily elusive.

So, before you wallow yourself in negativity and completely giving up on your search for happiness, you need to feel empowered and for this, you have to know how you should set goals so that you can be happy, truly happy.

First, you have to determine the things that make you feel bad. Identify each one of them by writing them down on a paper. If you want to be genuinely happy, you have to identify the reasons for your sadness because it is the only way for you to face the issues head on.

While laughter is considered as the best medicine, it will surely not feel right, especially when all you want to do is cry your eyes out or scream at the top of your lungs.

Happiness will only come if you will address those things that induce negative feelings such as sadness, guilt, anger, and so on and so forth. After writing down the things that make you feel bad, the next thing to do is right down those that make you feel good, small or big alike.

Of course, you cannot do all things that you want for there will always be things that will hold you back from doing so but there is no need for you to fret.

You will only have to manage your time and set your priorities. In goal setting, you will learn managing your time so that you can fulfill all your duties and at the same time, do those things that can make you happy.

And last but not the least, you should never let other people wipe away that hope that you have in finding real happiness. When they tell you that it is impossible for you to find it, prove to them that they arewrong.

Empowerment for happiness is about not letting others bring you down and fighting for your right to be happy. After all, you are entitled to it and all you need to do is choose.

Why Adopt The Empowerment Mindset For Happiness?

Synopsis

Having a happy mindset is very powerful and is not something that you should underestimate. In just a single day, you have thousands of different thoughts, and only some of these are actually happy and positive. It is not a secret a happy person has happier and more positive thoughts compared to an unhappy person. When you think positively, you are also given with an improved clarity as well as courage and confidence in facing the day that lies ahead.

Why Do It

Adopting the empowerment mindset for happiness helps you in determining your own path instead of following others. Sad to say that through the negative thoughts like jealousy, fear and anger, people are thrown off their path, losing their ability of thinking and acting effectively.

But if you try to have a happy mindset as opposed to an unhappy one, you can certainly attain greater things in your life. You will have the chance of being a happier person overall.

When you are happy, a more exciting future waits ahead of you while being unhappy and thinking negative thoughts places you stuck in a vicious circle where you continue to be afraid and fearful, causing you

to act defensively. It is something that tends to push other people away from you, creating more problems as you become lonelier and more afraid than ever.

Following the empowerment mindset for happiness as you travel in the path of life can help make you feel better, which will then lead you to become a stronger and even more stable person. With this kind of mindset, you will be completely in control and not someone who will be easily pushed around by others.

While there will always be bad days and negative things that will happen, learning to see the positive side of these things and learning how to avoid yourself from being dragged by such situations will help you stay on happiness’ path.

Thinking is an automatic thing, which means that changing your thoughts can take effort and time, though it is not necessarily impossible. By adopting the empowerment mindset for happiness, you will learn how to automatically think in a positive way, which will then lead to a longer, healthier and happier life full of happy thoughts only.

Tips For Becoming Empowered For Happiness

Synopsis

“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.” ― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

In their search for happiness, a lot of people search for it not within themselves but in other people. Many of them assume that things such as a good job, more money, better relationships and others will give them the happiness that they are searching for.

But, the truth is, you can only find true happiness and contentment if you will look within yourself and you will learn how to be your self’s best friend. It means that you need to care, trust, and love yourself the way you care, trust and love those people near your heart.

Here are several tips that are guaranteed to make you empowered for happiness that you might want to keep in mind:

Tips

1. Give positive rewards to yourself. If you have done something That you are proud of, try giving yourself even with just a small reward. If possible, never wait for praises from others because if it does not come, you will end up feeling resentful. Patting your own back every once in a while won’t hurt and in fact, this is agreat feeling which will surely stay with you within a long period of time.

2.  Instead of pulling yourself down, try lifting yourself up. If there is one thing about yourself that you do not like, do something to alter it. If it cannot be changed, then, accept it as it is. Never go for negative self-talk because you lessen your chances of changing for the better if you are already filled with negative thoughts.

3. Learn forgiving yourself. Surely, you will not scold a child over and over again for a mistake that he did so never do such a thing to yourself as well for it will not do you any good. Forgiveness is a gift that you can endow yourself if you made a mistake. After that, try figuring out the lesson that you learned, using it as an inspiration in making better choices in the future.

4. Take pleasure in your successes. Many people can still clearly remember the details of embarrassing, painful or depressive events that took place several years ago. What if you try doing exactly the same thing with the wins and successes that you had in the past? Instead of wallowing on your downfalls, why not remember your accomplishments and trials and keep their memory with you? Thinking about these successes at least once every week will surely make you feel good.

 Never forget celebrating all the wonderful qualities that you have! The best and most important tip for becoming empowered for happiness is learning to love yourself for as you do so, you will also be able to love others around you and they will also start to love you even more!

Mindset for Happiness –The Pros and Cons

Synopsis

No matter where you live, or whatever race you might belong to, it is easy for one to get stuck in a rut, emotionally and intellectually, which can cause unhappiness. A lot of studies have revealed the causes as well as effects of happiness, with numerous benefits being associated to being happiness, professionally as well as personally.

Your happiness can be negatively affected by outside forces, some of which are out of your control, such as bothersome coworkers, loss of a loved one, or even the weather.

But, there will also be those forces which are controllable and during such cases, happiness becomes a choice. It is easy and common to be wallow and be engulfed in self-pity once the blues start to call, but adopting the empowerment mindset for happiness will be very beneficial for you.

The Good And Bad

One good thing about this mindset for happiness is that you will actually be more motivated to face every single day. You will not experience that laziness of waking up every morning and instead, you will be more energized to face the day. You will feel happier and if youare happy, you will also be more optimistic, allowing you to focus only on those good things with your life.

This empowerment will also help you to become more creative and productive. An unhappy person is more distracted, less productive and more sluggish.

They also have higher chances of getting sick. But if you are happy, you will feel better, be more energized and have an improved focus that will increase your creativity and productivity. If this happens, you can easily and successfully finish all the things that you are set out to do while still having some spare time to do the things that you really enjoy.

If you are a happy person, more people will start to like you. It is good to be work and be around a happy person who smiles more often and has a more uplifting and positive attitude that inspires others.

Unhappy people can bring negativity to those around them, causing unhappiness and negative thoughts, something that is unpleasant for those around them. On the other hand, happiness is contagious, making other people around you much happier, which will then make you more positive and uplifted.

The empowerment mindset for happiness only has good things about it and there is nothing bad about it for after all, there is surely nothing wrong with being happy, is there? This kind of mindset is something that needs to be adopted for everyone because if it happens, then, the whole world will surely become a much happier and better place to live in.

Conclusion

“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.” ― Benjamin Franklin

At the end of the day, there is only one thing that this Empowered Happiness Bible wants to teach you, and that is, the source for happiness is just lying within you. Real and genuine happiness can only be yours, whatever the circumstance you might be in right now, by looking inside you.

While short term happiness can be yours with the pleasant circumstances, this can actually chronically distract you in your pursuit for the long term type of happiness.

The primary ingredients for you to obtain real happiness are summarized as follows:

A. Recognize that your emotions and thoughts are not “you” in essence for these are just products of the mind which can come and go as they please.

B. Never categorically abandon short-time pleasures but be more selective in opting for long term happiness over the short term pleasures every time you feel the need to chooseConsider your heart as the instrument that will guide you in

C. Consider your heart as the instrument that will guide you in making the right choices which will help you in finding happiness for long term.

D. Try to give your mind with undistracted rest and time. Set aside some time in your calendar for peace of mind that can be used for contemplation and creating new spaces within your mind.

While living in this world is far from being perfect and there will always be times when you will feel the weight on your shoulders, it must not stop you from being happy. As being said over and over again throughout this book, happiness is actually a choice, not something that just “happens.” You, and not other people, will decide when you will be happy. Being happy is a matter of will. If you willed yourself to be happy, then, there is no reason for you not to find that happiness.

May this Empowered Happiness Bible serve as your guide and inspiration in reaching and experiencing genuine happiness! Never look for happiness anywhere else. Instead, look inside yourself and in there, surely, you will find that one thing that you have long been searching for!

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