How To Be Happy

Learning how to be happy is one of the most important things you can do for yourself and everyone around you. True happiness comes from how we feel inside rather than our outside circumstances. There is a core of happiness inside you already, and the tips and suggestions below can help you tap into it.

A Reality Check

“In the final analysis, the hope of every person is simply peace of mind.” Dalai Lama

Before I get into the different ways to learn how to be happy, I want to be clear about something. If you are experiencing a lifetime on this earth, then you came here for a reason that usually involves growth. Where there is growth there is discomfort. To grow we evolve and expand into new and unfamiliar territory. That always has an element of pain or discomfort as we push past our comfort zones and break through our limits.

So no one can promise you that your life will always be sunshine and rainbows forevermore. As long as we’re here we will have growing pains, even with all the happiness information in the world.

It Doesn’t Have To Be So Hard

However, I CAN promise you that if you take to heart and test out the suggestions on this page, you will move more quickly and easily through your growth phases and be well on your way to finding happiness. You will begin to “grow” happiness within you in your own unique way.

Your experience of true happiness may start out as a tiny seedling but as you feed it with these suggestions and your own self-care, it will grow bigger and stronger. Your mental/emotional landscape and the circumstances of your life may fluctuate all over the place, but you can still find the core of true happiness that is always there inside you and learn to align with it. These suggestions can help you do that. You can learn to listen to your heart and find your own unique path of joy.

Okay, here we go. We’ll start with the innermost core steps for finding happiness.

How To Be Happy

Make Good Use Of Your Awesome Power Of Choice

“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Abraham Lincoln

The first step toward happiness is to choose it, no matter what. There are only two streams of thought – positive and negative. Choose the one that is in alignment with where you really want to go, and it will take you there! Read more …

Tap Into The Root Of Happiness

True happiness can never be added to us from the outside. It can only be accessed from within. Once we’ve chosen a positive direction for our attention, we then automatically line up with our internal root of happiness. Read more …

Learn How To Love Yourself

Knowing how to love yourself is extremely important in learning how to be happy. Self-love is at the very core of wellbeing, joy, self-empowerment, and your ability to create and enjoy the kind of life you want. Read more …

Discover The Purpose Of Emotions

The key to understanding emotions is to recognize them as the amazing guidance system that they are. They are not to be gotten rid of or changed. When we understand what they are telling us they are a tremendous ally. They can guide you in learning how to be happy. Read more …

Work With The Law Of Attraction

Your Vulnerability Is A True Strength

When we allow walls of self-protection to come down we have access to love and all of its healing qualities. Being willing to be vulnerable is the willingness to have your heart open, to let love flow in and out. Read more …

Learn How To Forgive – For YOUR Sake First

Holding negative energy for another being is actually holding it for yourself, which can cause you tremendous suffering. Forgiveness IS possible! This is a key step in learning how to be happy. Read more …

Use Your Mind Power To Break Free Of Limiting Beliefs

The mind is an awesome tool for learning how to be happy. Use it to identify and break free of limiting beliefs that may have been holding you back. This helps you release the brakes you’ve unconsciously been holding on yourself. You can then focus and direct your energy toward what you truly want. Read more …

Learn A Simple, Do-It-Yourself, Energy Healing Technique

“Happiness is a form of courage.” Holbrook Jackson

Residue from past traumas can get stuck in your body, your energy field and psyche, and attract more negativity into your life. By learning a simple energy healing technique, you can release these energies, thereby liberating and healing yourself. Read more …

Practice Gratitude

When you orient yourself toward gratitude it automatically opens a channel of wellbeing within you. It is a great way to immediately reverse your energy from negative to positive. This enables you to vibrate in alignment with the positive things you want in your life. Read more …

Learn To Receive – Open To The Law Of Abundance

An abundance of love, prosperity and joy is already available to everyone. However, our experience of abundance depends on our alignment with it – how much of it we actually open up to and allow in. Read more …

Your Creative Gifts Are Your Road Map To Wellbeing

We are Creators! The same energy that created and enlivens the planets, the stars, and all of us, flows through our very being, in this moment and all moments that we have in these bodies. And we have access to it every time we create something. This can be as simple as re-arranging your plants or cooking a meal, or as complicated as writing a symphony. Every time you take the step to solve a problem or improve on something, you summon more Life Force, which simultaneously floods you with good feelings and uplifts you. Read more …

These Will Help Too

Relax

Take a walk in nature, listen to soothing music, meditate, pet your cat, do yoga or whatever your favorite method of taking a break is. The body as well as the psyche needs to unwind and decompress on a daily basis. This allows you to release stress, replenish and nourish yourself with your own Life Force. Relaxation allows it to freely flow and circulate within you.

Exercise And Play

The benefits of exercise and play are so numerous they are uncountable. Any kind of play or exercise that you love doing increases longevity, self-empowerment, strength, endurance and mental clarity, among many other things. From a PBS special on “Brain Plasticity” I learned that the brain actually creates more neurons with regular exercise, and also releases “feel-good” chemicals into the system. This is a tried-and-true way to lift depression. When you pick something that you really love doing you will release even more wellbeing juice into your being.

Care For Another

“There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.” Robert Louis Stevenson

When caring for someone comes naturally from the heart, it opens up the flow of love within you even wider. It widens out your perspective from the micro-view (generally this is focusing on ourselves and our problems) to the macro-view, which helps you keep things in a healthier perspective.

Whether it’s taking care of your plants, pets, or a loved one, or volunteering your time and love, having someone else’s best interests at heart can turn your energy around from negative to positive. One of the best ways to learn how to be happy is to want happiness for another.

Start Where You Are

Don’t underestimate the power of these suggestions. They may seem simple, and actually, they are. Yet each of them is also profoundly powerful. As you read through the list, notice which ones spark your interest. Start there. It is important to start where you are and expand out from there.

Another important point is to not judge yourself on how well you do any of these points. No one is keeping score on how well you’re learning how to be happy! Be kind to yourself. You will know how well you’re doing by how well you’re feeling.

Your outlook may change in small steps, but it WILL change. Don’t give up. Keep at it. True happiness is a worthy goal and you CAN be happy!

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