Happiness Ambassador
Become Your Own
By Gina Bell
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.” ~ Denis Waitley
Most people believe that happiness is based on external forces like other people. That happiness is something we have to work hard to experience or a destination we have to get to.
I’ll be happy when… I’ll be happy if…
And many believe that our happiness can be taken away.
The reality is that we each hold the key to our own happiness and we don’t have to relinquish it to anyone or any situation.
Is life feeling a little more frustrating lately but you’re not entirely sure why? Does “being happy” feel like an act for you? Are you tired of putting on a happy face and ready to really FEEL that happiness?
If you answered yes, it’s time to RAISE your happiness vibration! Just the tiniest shift in your awareness will help you to attract more happiness into your life.
So what is Happiness?
According to Wikipedia “Happiness
is a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy.”
I don’t know about you but I want as much of THAT as I can get
And a sure-fire way to experience more happiness is to become the source of contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure and joy.
Here are five tips to becoming your own
happiness ambassador:
1
Accept Responsibility for your happiness…
Recognize that YOU (your beliefs, your self-talk, your behaviours, your responses, your actions and inactions) are the primary source of the happiness or unhappiness you experience. Unfortunately most people are operating by default. Give yourself permission to slide back into the drivers seat of your life!
2
Choose to be happy…
“Live each day as though it may be your last because one day you’ll be right.” ~ author unknown.
So often we WAIT to be happy; we tie our happiness to a destination
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or an achievement or a set of circumstances that you believe have to occur before you can be happy. The reality is that each of us can be happy right here, right now if we choose to be.
3
Get Clear About What Makes You Happy…
How? take inventory, pay attention and collect evidence of what makes you happy. What does happiness mean to you? Sometimes we need a little nudge in the right direction. The best strategy for this is to develop contrast. Sometimes we need to know what bugs us to gain clarity and see what makes us happy and then, we can turn those negatives into positives.
4
Activate Your Happiness GPS:
Want to know why it’s so important to get clear about what really makes you happy? Your brain wants you to be happy!
What you focus on expands and activates your reticular activating system or R.A.S. I like to call it your Happiness GPS.
If you focus on happiness, that becomes your predominant experience.
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