Discover something daily that
makes you happy and become witness to your life transforming.
Our lives are rich with potential sources of happiness, but sometimes we become
victims of negative thinking because we believe that focusing on all that has
gone wrong will provide us with the motivation we need to face the challenges
of survival. When we choose to focus on what makes us happy, however, a shift
occurs in the fabric of our existence. Finding something to be happy about
every single day can help this shift take place. The vantage points from which
we view the world are brought into balance, and we can see that being alive
truly is a gift to be savored. There is always something we can be happy about
-- it is simply up to us to identify it.
On one day, we may find happiness in a momentous, life-changing event such as a
marriage or the birth of a child. On another day, the happiness we experience
may be a product of our appreciation of a particularly well-brewed cup of a tea
or the way the sun shines on a leaf. If we discover that we literally cannot
call to mind a single joyful element of existence, we should examine the cause
of the blockage standing between us and experiencing happiness. Keeping a
happiness journal is a wonderful way to catalog the happiness unfolding all
around us so that joy has myriad opportunities to manifest itself in our lives.
Writing about the emotions we experience while contemplating joy may give us
insight into the factors compelling us to resist it.
Happiness may not always come easily into your life. You have likely been
conditioned to believe that the proper response to unmet expectations is one of
sadness, anger, guilt, or fear. To make joy a fixture in your existence, you
must first accept that it is within your power to choose happiness over
unhappiness every single day. Then, each time you discover some new source of
happiness, the notion that the world is a happy place will find its way more
deeply into your heart. On this day, find one thing to be happy about and let
it fill your heart.
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