You Can Choose To Be Happy

by Philip King.
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I have said this many times and I will probably say it many more times as it is an unfailing truth.....

Do you know that you can "choose to be happy"? You can't just say to yourself, "Be happy" and magically become happy; but you can choose beliefs, thoughts, and actions that will lead to happiness.

CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY BY MAKING HAPPINESS (for self and others) YOUR TOP GOAL. If you make money, success, a good lifestyle, or even family approval your top goal in life--yet are not happy--what have you gained To maximize your chances of being happy, make overall happiness for yourself and others your top goal in life. Happiness is different from pleasure. It isn't shortsighted or selfish the way pleasure is. Happiness requires love, enlightenment, truth, getting higher needs met, and inner harmony.

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN HAPPINESS. Do not allow any other person or external condition to make you happy or unhappy. You control your own happiness by your own thoughts and actions. Your happiness is in the palm of your hand.

LOVE SELF AND OTHERS. Love and happiness go hand in hand. The feeling of love is a happy feeling--perhaps even the essence of happiness. Loving someone means making their health and happiness a high priority. Choosing to make happiness for self and others your ultimate concern is the practical application of loving self and others. Love can overcome the criticism, negativity, and dysfunctional treatment from others. Loving self and others means finding something beautiful and worthwhile in ourselves and others no matter what we are or what we have done. No matter how unintelligent, ugly, uneducated, poor, or sick we are. No matter how much we have failed or done bad or stupid things. No matter what anyone thinks of us. No matter if no one else in the world likes us or not. No matter what--we are still worthy of our own love and still worthy of making happiness a top goal.

OVERCOME YOUR GREATEST FEARS, and LEARN THAT YOU CAN BE HAPPY IN ANY SITUATION. What are your greatest fears--poverty, loneliness, rejection, failure, blindness, sickness, death? As long as these fears remain hidden and unresolved, "little daily reminders" of them--such as a poor grade or a rejection--will haunt you and reduce your happiness each day. Develop plans and clearly imagine what you would think and do to make yourself happy in any awful situation. You may need to find out how others have successfully coped with those situations. People who survived Auschwitz showed that an active mental life filled with positive mental activities and thoughts can sustain a will to live and even create happiness in the worst of situations. Once you overcome your deepest fears, then you can face each day with new confidence and calmness.

Try to make some changes! Till next time!

Violet King...... Confidential Relationship Counsellor

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