Happiness is a choice. Whether we want to believe it or not, we are responsible for how happy we are.
After all, life brings certain obstacles that can challenge everything we’ve ever known about being happy. There are times when it is incredibly difficult to find the joy and the light when you think life is a bitch. In fact, when you’re in "troubles", someone telling you that happiness is a choice may be the last thing you want to hear. But it’s being able to find that spark, that light, that one thing you can hold on to that will allow you to see the good up ahead-lighting the way through the dark. And following that light, knowing that happiness is a possible option, can make all the difference in the world.
HAPPINESS IS CHOICE.
That’s right, a choice. Not an accident, not a charitable gift from god. Of course, it’s nice to receive those gifts of universe, and easy to be happy when you do, but happiness is about choosing to see the adventure in every moment, seeing the path of your being, seeing the growing potential in each situation, choosing to understand that there will always be a light after the dark, that there will be always an up after a down that there is always good in every situation and every person, no matter how grim things may seem.
That’s the key to happiness: choosing it. It’s not easy too choose happiness all the time, and it may be the last thing you want to do sometimes. When your boyfriend betrays you, when your banc account is empty, when you miss your flight, sometimes you just want to sulk and stay upset, not accepting this situation and getting believing your mind, that everything is shit right now. It’s a natural response, but it isn’t a required behavior, it’s a choice. And choosing to be happy will make you a better, stronger, wiser, more lightful person.
You can’t "choose happiness" until you choose to see what's hindering you from being happy. You can meet each day with a smile and a positive attitude, but true emotional freedom comes from radical self-awareness, from finding your true you underneath who you think you are. It’s about meeting yourself at your worst and choosing to go on, choosing to accept the situation, accepting all of your emotions and that version of yourself in that moment right now. It’s about feeling the darkness that exists within you, and choosing to express it, to observe it, accepting it, loving it, forgiving it to the light of day, so you can take its power away. You can choose to love yourself, even when you don’t like yourself very much. You can choose to confront your emotions. You can choose to heal a wound, confront a trauma, brave a part of yourself that's hidden away. You can practice Ho oponopono Ritual (i will write soon about it).
We always have the choice to be happy. Learning to change our attitude is frustrating, but worth it in the end. When we choose to be happy, luck seems to be a part of you and you focus on those things you can be happy and grateful for, even for the worst things, you will be happy, because you see the good in it ; and even if things don’t happen the way you want them to, if you choose to be happy, you can accept situations for what they are, because you feel that sometimes life has a different plan for you and maybe this plan is much better than you can ever imagine. Be patient with you and your life, sometimes things don't work out, because they should not be or something else is waiting for you. Stop trying to control everything, because when you plan to much in your life, you are not ready for the plans of universe. And believe me universe has amazing plans also for you :))
Sure you are responsible for your happiness and the more you will observe your mind, your old patterns, your old wounds, your old traumatas and the more you are willing to accept them, let them go the more you will be responsible for your new you. Start doing meditation, practise yoga, go to satsang, visit an ashram, start singing mantras, learn something new, start singing, go often into nature, start traveling, let go of everything that does not serve you any more, yes everything!
Be responsible for your life, for your body, for your soul mission, the biggest problem is, we think we have time, but very fast you will look at the date and realize it's already 2040!!!
The time is now, every single day, you can start your new life, working on your new mind, your new body, your new work, your new passion, etc.... NEVER STOP BELIEVING IN YOU, YOU ARE AMAZING AND YOU HAVE ALL THE POWER YOU NEED!
An unexamined mind is a loose cannon, spewing its untamed beliefs all over a perfectly good life. You can find yourself in self-destructive patterns, killing all hope for success and happiness, just because of hidden, unhealed pain from the past. You can distract it away, and drink it away, and screw it away, and smoke it away, but it’s still there, biding its time until you’re ready to face it.
You have to be patient with you. People want happiness immediately, they want quick success and are inpatient with their life growth. But anyone who has done the inner work of self-discovery knows that happiness is an inside job, which takes some time. Happiness is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, yet there’s a journey to get there and the journey is exactly the path, your spirit wants to experience and grow through this process of self-growth. You will see it will be worth it, day by day you will shine more and more and spread your happiness into this world. The more happy people we have on this planet, the better it will be.
You can try to choose happiness every day, but still you have to do the inner work which has to be done. You have to earn your own respect, acceptance, and love.
"Today I decide to be happy, see the beauty in every moment, see the beauty in me and love everything that is right now, no matter what it is, because I know that everything is perfect, as it is and I can grow and be stronger and stronger!"
Namaste happy people!