To Choose Happiness

To choose happiness means going to sleep tonight having made the decision to be happy in the morning. Then whatever we decide or do, we do from happiness. We are happy so we…

This way we never get into the situation where we start to flounder. We only ever get into trouble, when we make our decisions for any other reason than choosing happiness. Once we drift off the path, it is easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of life and before we know it… we are so disorientated by life bouncing us around, we have forgotten who we are and what we really want.

Conventional wisdom tells us to make the best of what we have. If we have lemons, make lemonade. This is one of the main ways that we trap ourselves. Because we then believe that our life can only be as good as the raw materials we have and our ability to make something from these.

Instead decide what you want and let that set the tone. Then gather the raw materials you need. When we look at what we currently have we feel trapped and limited. When we start from a perspective of what we want, without limit, then we open up our imagination, creativity and enthusiasm. This is where we gain the inspiration and ability to create whatever we want.

Choosing to be happy first, broadens our perspective. We have more energy and creativity to see opportunities and act on them.

Feeling good, feeling happy and in love is nature’s guidance system. It is the way that we can know we are connected to the flow of life.

If we stay connected to that flow… our path is clear and we have all the motivation, energy and ability to do whatever we have to do.

When we feel anything other than happy and motivated it is because we drifted off our path and started to listen to others.

You were never put here to buy a nice house in a quiet suburb, fit in with your neighbours and make people feel good about the new dress they bought.

You are here as an expression of the evolutionary force of life to create new ways of expressing yourself. This is how you add value to the world. Not by becoming Clone No. 5890678.

So what does this mean. It means say what you think, do what makes you happy and in Joseph Campbell’s words ‘follow your bliss’. If you are happy and connected to the flow of life energy… your words or actions will not hurt anyone. To hurt another would create fear of retribution and so disturb your happiness.

So many people say to this, ‘But I can’t just worry about my happiness. I have responsibilities’.

You cannot effectively fulfil your responsibilities without happiness. If I asked you to give me a million pounds, what would be your response? Probably something like, ‘It would be nice to have it, to give it’. Even those who have millions, would say something like ‘I’m not made of money’ or ‘I earned mine through hard work and you should too’.

In other words they believe that they only have so much money and so they cannot freely give away all they have. In the same way, unless you know that you can dip into a limitless source of happiness and create more happiness whenever you want… you can never freely give happiness.

A person without happiness to smooth their words and actions creates friction. Their actions may on the surface seem to help, but they are performed at a cost to the person. This cost feels as if it is eroding the person, just as running a car without oil will damage it’s parts. And so they will sooner or later feel bitter or resentful and damaged by the wear and tear to their wellbeing in giving to another.

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