The reality though is happiness comes from within, literally from inside a person’s brain. The chemicals released in healthy brains are controlled beyond genetic makeup, but by the stimulus chosen.
Figure Out What you Love to Do and Do it
Many people would prefer to earn an income from the things that they love to do. If this isn’t possible at the moment, a person can cultivate their hobbies and must make some time for them.
For those who “hate their job,” today is the day to begin the search for what will be satisfying. Finding a career path based on interests and strengths will add more happiness to a person’s everyday life.
Meditation Yoga and “Me Time”
It all begins with breathing, and when stressed the body does not breathe correctly. Practicing mediation which focuses on the mediators breath, allows the body to instantly distress. It also gives the person a few minutes to allow their thoughts to just travel down the stream of their minds.
Combining Yoga with meditation adds a powerful ally for the body. Quick tip to receive instant stress is to take the tip of your tongue and press it on the roof of your mouth near your two front teeth, which presses on a nerve that will cool the person down.
Take Stock of Your Accomplishments
Focusing on our accomplishments, even if they are not grandiose such as winning an academy award, but rather what was a successful audition, or performance with a community theater, even better, when it has happened after previously being rejected. Maybe striving to be a better cook, a better parent, or just master a hobby you love.
People, who focus on the steps they have taken on the way, feel more empowered to keep that momentum up. Always look at how far you have come in different areas of your life. At one point in your life, you didn’t know how to read, but now you’re reading this article.
Be Grateful for the Life, Love and Wealth Already Obtained
People, who are grateful for the things they have in the life, feel more full filled then those who are always trying to reach for something they may already have. Being grateful can be in the beauty of the day, the sun is shining, or even sometime cloudy days can be beautiful. Find what is remarkable about your life, even if it isn’t perfect because perfection does not exist.
People who do not feel grateful often focus on the faults in their lives, what is wrong with their homes, or their pay, as opposed to how lucky they maybe to have a home and what is good about it, or how their job maybe has excellent hours and is satisfying even if there are poor benefits. If a person focuses on just the things they do not like, that is all they will see.
Surround Yourself with Positive People and Activities
Having at least one unselfish friend who is always upbeat and sees the positives in situations and life helps keep a person focused. The more friends the more positive energy, and like attracts like, if you don’t have any positive friends, be a positive one.
Some find it helpful to ignore naysayers or people who are judgmental. Often it is those judgments from others that tell more about them, than it does about the person being judged.
Accept the Things you Cannot Change
To some, the proverb “To accept the things I cannot change, change the things I can, and have to the wisdom to know the difference” is as true as it can when it comes to keeping the peace within. When a person understands that they do not have total and complete power over all things this brings acceptance, letting the individual off the hook where necessary.
If someone is trying to lose weight and struggling but is eating right and exercising, yet the pounds are not coming off, it is better to go to a doctor and find out why. Sometimes it means certain hormones are to blame, and once corrected the body will follow. Accepting that struggle is not always within a person's control and is not always because they have done something wrong opens the door to finding the answer and for freedom from self persecution.
Sources:
Stress reduction and its powerful impact on NewHorizons.org. Retrieved March 24, 2010.
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