Happiness is one of the most studied areas of human endeavor in the history of the world. When you look at psychology and philosophy, this is all they’ve been talking about for literally centuries.
So we figured out the basics of happiness, but it’s just that sometimes common sense isn’t common practice, so people struggle for no reason.
Look at what we know about happiness.
- We know happiness comes from an orientation towards the world, in which we look at the past, the present, and the future, in specific ways.
- We’ve also learned what it takes to be happy and healthy physically.
- Another thing that people often struggle with in their happiness is their relationships.
- Everything we know in spirituality comes back down to the basics, to having faith, to having a sense of connection to something larger than ourselves, to allow ourselves to be amazed and awed by the mystery of the world, of this universe, of our God and our Creator, to be honoring of those very things in which we have faith towards.
None of this is magic.
It’s about looking at your life sometimes and just doing a full scale evaluation on a Sunday once in a while — to look at your life and say, “All right, okay… Am I emotionally happy? If not, how am I looking at the past, the present, and the future? Am I physically healthy? If not, how am I eating? How am I sleeping? How am I working out? Am I doing the basics here?”
If your relationships aren’t happy then the answer is, “Okay… What is not happening in the relationship? What am I not bringing into this relationship anymore? How am I not sensing and contributing to this relationship anymore? What have I not asked for consistently enough? What is it that they specifically need that might turn it around?”
Spiritually, just feel gratitude. How blessed are we that we have people who are around us? How blessed are we that we could give more love to the world just because we choose too? How blessed are we that we can get up tomorrow, decide who we are going to be and start becoming them? How blessed are we that we can wake up tomorrow and start designing the life we always wanted to life?
* Source: Brendon Burchard – How to Be More Happy