When we take the time to
recognize when we are happy and what that feels like, it becomes easier to
recreate.
Those of us on the path of personal and spiritual growth have a tendency to
analyze our unhappiness in order to find the causes and make improvements. But
it is just as important, if not more so, to analyze our happiness. Since we
have the ability to rise above and observe our emotions, we can recognize when
we are feeling joyful and content. Then we can harness the power of the moment
by savoring our feelings and taking time to be grateful for them.
Recognition is the first step in creating change, therefore recognizing what it
feels like to be happy is the first step toward sustaining happiness in our
lives. We can examine how joy feels in our bodies and what thoughts run through
our minds in times of bliss. Without diminishing its power, we can retrace our
steps to discover what may have put us in this frame of mind, and then we can
take note of the choices we've made while there. We might realize that we are
generally more giving and forgiving when there's a smile on our face, or that
we are more likely to laugh off small annoyances and the actions of others when
they don't resonate with our light mood.
Once we know what it feels like and can identify some of the triggers and are
aware of our actions, we can recreate that happiness when we are feeling low.
Knowing that like attracts like, we can pull ourselves out of a blue mood by
focusing on joy. We might find that forcing ourselves to be giving and
forgiving, even when it doesn't seem to come naturally, helps us to reconnect
with the joy that usually precedes it. If we can identify a song, a picture, or
a pet as a happiness trigger, we can use them as tools to recapture joy if we
are having trouble finding it. By focusing our energy on analyzing happiness
and all that it encompasses, we feed, nurture, and attract more of it into our
lives, eventually making a habit of happiness.
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