Happiness

Today I want remind you to the fact that happiness is a choice and not an attainment.
Many of us tend to postpone joy.

We spend our time focusing on future plans or acquisitions believing that will be what finally brings us to that elusive goal of happiness.

Peace and joy come when we stop waiting for the next thing to come galloping over the horizon and recognize our power to choose right now - in this moment, to experience joy.

In a consumer society, it is pushed through aggressive marketing campaigns that we always need that next thing, that next “fix” to make life easier. We depend on products to make us more intelligent, more beautiful, to provide security, etc. and therefore allow us to “achieve” happiness.
The truth is happiness that is dependant upon acquiring things is fleeting and temporary. Its effects wear off quickly and leave the individual feeling empty and seeking the next “fix”.
When we attain joy through the conscious effort of choice we become empowered, and that results naturally in becoming more at peace and centered in our daily lives.

Think about:
Happiness and unhappiness are situations of our whole personality, which expresse to its self often in somatic reactions and that in a more obvious way than our conscious feeling.
The long face of a person, the unwillingness, the tiredness or the physic symptoms, like headache or more serious forms of illness, are frequently expressions of unhappiness, exactly like ”feeling good” in a physical sense, a symptom for happiness constitutes.

In reality is our body less disposed to accept lies relating to the situation of our happiness than our mind.

Joy is a conquest, probably of an interior effort, an effort of active productivity ( like personal development).
Happiness is also a conquest, predetermined from the interior productivity of men and not gifted form deities.
Happiness and joy does not only consist in the satisfaction of a psychological or physiological lack, does not consist in the elimination of tension which come up from such a lack, but accompanies every productive activity, be it thinking, feeling or any other action.

Joy and happiness has not different qualities. Theire only difference is in the measure in which joy refers to a single action, while we can say that happiness is a continue and integrated experience of joy. We can talk about joy in a plural form but about happiness only in singulars.

Happiness is the sign for that men has find his answer to the quest of existence:
the productive realization of his potentialities and in the same time to be “one” with the world and in a constant integrity of his self.
Spending his energy in a productive way grows up his potentialities, he burns his energies without to consuming them.

Happiness is the criterion, for excellence, in the art of living, for virtue, in the interpretation which is given to it in the human ethic.
The opposite of happiness is not pain but depression, what derives from a deep sterility and unproductively.

Focus your attention on consciously choosing joy and a sense of satisfaction moment to moment. Watch your thought patterns, best to do during meditation.
When you think of joy does it feel distant to you?
Is it centered around things or other people?
Are there conditions placed on it?
Often we speak of unconditional loving, but many of us dont’ reflect on “unconditional peace” or “unconditional joy”.
Today, allow yourself to discover true happiness.
At the end of the day reflect on your discoveries in your journaling.
Try to look deep inside your self, try to recognize why are you not happy in your life.
The pathway to happiness is meditation!

by werner http://personal-developmentblog.com