Happiness Happening: How To Get There From Here
With so much stress in our daily lives, it’s often necessary to reset and reboot ourselves in order to find peace, tranquility, and happiness.
Finding inner peace can give us a renewed strength and vigor to focus better and become better at achieving our personal as well as career goals. And the fact is, the ones we love and the ones who love us wish happiness for us. A cheerful spirit is contagious. A smile or gesture of selfless goodwill can get some very real karma going.
The key is to find happiness first, then share it and spread it, letting happiness stream like warm, life-giving sunshine. But happiness in most cases doesn’t simply spring into our laps as a playful kitten, it must be found. And this takes some effort on our parts. It was Abraham Lincoln who said, “Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Whether we listen to Honest Abe, or Abraham & The Law of Attraction, or the teachings of Christianity, Buddhism or Islam, none of the world’s great religions and philosophies seek to deny happiness. In fact most philosophies and religions espouse the virtues of living the good life and a happy life as a single, small but important life entity in our vast and mysterious universe.
It’s a shame when many feel that the road to happiness lies in drugs, prescription or otherwise. Happiness does not come via drugs, although 10 percent of women 18 and older and 4 percent of men take antidepressants, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Anti-depressants benefit those with mental illness but are no happiness guarantee, researchers say.
Likewise, neither money nor prosperity will buy happiness for many of us. Money that lifts people out of poverty increases happiness, but after that, money does not provide a sense-of-well-being, research shows.
We need to look inwards and make conscious choices to by all means necessary pursue our life goals and dreams. In most cases, the satisfaction of achieving the goals can be overshadowed by the difficult journey along the way. It’s the journey that is typically where we can find meaning and truths which reveal to us where true happiness is and lies.
Our own happiness can then inspire others around us and in our lives to also seek out happiness and share this happiness with others. And when our circle of family and friends joyfully come together – this is Happiness Happening.
