Focus on your feelings, not what you’re experiencing. The German-born Buddhist nun, Ayya Khema, has a solution to the happiness problem. Imagine an experience that made you happy. Maybe it’s the first time you had fallen in love. Happiness curled your toes when the object of your desire walked into a room and you caught …
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Happiness Is An Inside Job
Happiness isn’t something that is deserved or earned from something outside yourself. Looking for happiness outside of you is like expecting the speaker of the ‘Happiness’ seminar to show you the sun you can’t otherwise seem to find. Even when it is right above you in the sky. You are only ripping yourself apart by …
How You Self-Sabotage Your Own Happiness!
Yesterday I read an article on how we unknowingly sabotage our own happiness. It is not often that I completely agree with an author’s idea but in this case, I do. Here is part of the article: People aren’t happy on a deeper level. So rather than confront the problem head-on and work to resolve …
Everybody Needs A Life Free of Blame: Here’s Why —–
No one else is responsible for our thoughts, feelings, and actions Too often, we lie to ourselves and others – about the reason that is making us mad or out of control. We blame others when we are the only ones responsible for the way we are feeling. If we don’t look in the mirror, …
Stop Expecting Happiness from an External Source
Let us say that you want to buy a ready-made new dress for yourself. What do you do? You go to a shop that sells ready-made dresses. You select the one that you want, the one that fits your body and the one that you like. And that is it. Your work is done. It …
You are the Engine of Your own Happiness!
You are the engine of your own happiness. Not your earthly possessions. Not your external environment. Not your education. Not your bank account. Not your relationships. You. This isn’t a matter of opinion. Science backs it up. Your earthly possessions might give you something you can show to others and they can enable you to …