Do you know how to be happy?
The pursuit of happiness. Everybody is doing it, but many do not know where to find it. It remains elusive. We may not even agree about the definition. Is it having success and recognition on your job? Or is it having expensive things such as expensive cars and homes?
Studies have shown that the happiest people are not those that have the most "things" and the most money. People who are recognized on their jobs are certainly happier than those who are not but it is not the final answer.
Many people do not understand that they are responsible for their own happiness. Someone else cannot make you happy. Things and people around you cannot cause your happiness or misery. It all depends on how you decide to respond to them, it is your decision whether or not you choose to be happy.
Happiness does not come from outside but comes from inside each one of us. The good news is that we all have the capacity.
Some tips for happiness are:
1. Adopt an attitude of gratitude: Make a daily list of the blessings you have. Happiness does not come in iamenting about what you don't have but in appreciating what you do have.
2. Help someone eise: Helping someone can get the focus away from you and how you are feeling and shift it onto others who need your help, it can also limit the time you have for feeling sorry for yourself.
3. Get your priorities in order: Spend more time developing and nurturing your relationships. Connect with the important peopie in your life and make new friends.
4. Do not compare yourself with others: Someone will always have more than you have and someone will have less than you have. Some will have talents, opportunities and strengths that you do not have and you will have talents, opportunities and strengths that they do not have.
5. Take care of yourself: Exercise, sleep well, and eat healthy foods.
6. Use prayer or meditation: This will help to clear your mind and give you renewed energy, serenity and focus.
7. Recognize what you can control: Focus on what you can control and change and less on getting others to change.
8. Listen more and talk less: You will learn more and grow more when listening than when talking.
David Gannon, Ph.D., Psychological and Family Consultants, Canton, Ohio.
USNISA VIJAYA DHARANI
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