“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
— John Lennon
When you stop to listen to yourself talk, do most of the words you share express ideas of happiness? Or are you sharing your unhappiness with other people through your words?
Talking about how unhappy we feel—at home, with our jobs, towards ourselves or our mates—can only bring us more of the same. It can never make us happy. Our experience of happiness grows when we share the happiness we already have.
You see, our happiness doesn’t come to us. Happiness is an emotional state of being that is built in to us. As holds true for any aspect of abundance, whether friendship, wealth, or happiness, we can only experience more of what we are focusing our attention on.
Consistantly noticing what we appreciate and acknowledging what we feel grateful for in our lives is a habit that brings us more of the same. Our brains are naturally programmed to bring more of that which we notice and acknowledge is already here.
Happiness is available to us any time we choose to feel it. If we think that we can only feel happy “someday” after attaining an expected goal, then “someday” may never come.
We all need to vent our feelings at times to release our greivances and move forward. But the more happiness we spread, the more we guarantee that our happiness will grow. We always have the choice!
Why not make it a habit to experience the joy, peace, fulfillment, and light-hearted ease of happiness? Even if what this means brings up different images and sounds for each of us, who wouldn’t want to hear more joy?
What happy words are you spreading more of into the world?