How to Find Happiness In Yourself (eBook)

25 Habits Guaranteed to Help You Live a Happier Life

Michelle Mann (Autor)

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2025 | 1. Auflage
118 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
978-0-00-071935-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Invite happiness into your life with 25 simple habits.

We all have the same goal in life. Whether we believe we want money, a degree, a partner, or a baby, our underlying hope is the same. If we dig deep enough, we can see that what we're truly seeking is happiness.

Given that happiness is the state we prize above all else, why is it so difficult to achieve? Whenever we think we've found it, the moment is fleeting, especially in a world of commodified attractions and instant satisfaction. While we may be able to trick ourselves into thinking we're happy, the genuine emotion is rare.

The fact is that happiness won't automatically come when we get a certain job or make a certain salary. Even getting married or having a child can't guarantee happiness. Fortunately, we can choose to be happy right now, without changing any part of our situation. Happiness is a state of mind characterized by peaceful thoughts, and, by simply changing negative habits into positive ones, we can obtain lasting internal happiness.

How to Find Happiness In Yourself is a concise, helpful guide to the 25 most important habits to improve your emotional state. When you follow the advice within, you will enjoy each moment, be at peace with yourself, and feel joyful about your existence.

In How to Find Happiness In Yourself, you'll discover:

Why the right time to be happy is always now

How living a life of virtue allows you to set yourself free

The power of the imagination to change your mood and attract opportunity

Why it's vital to have something worth fighting for

Ways to motivate yourself by pushing your own boundaries

How your exercise, diet, and sleep affect your mental state

Why you can't find true peace without expressing your individuality

How to connect with nature and find gratitude for the simple things

Communication skills to improve your relationships with family, friends, and colleagues

Ways to be a blessing to others, sharing your positivity and talents with the world

Activities to help you trust, love, and accept yourself

... and much more!

Happiness is abundant and we are all capable of finding it within ourselves. By changing your habits and the way you think, you will find yourself more peaceful, more positive, and happier than you ever imagined.

Live your life to the fullest and savor every moment. Scroll up and one-click How to Find Happiness In Yourself now!

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Chapter 1:
Thoughts About Happiness

The right time for you to be happy is always now.

Happy thoughts come from memories with positive experiences that allow us to identify what feels safe or pleasing to our senses. As opposed to this, negative experiences form into bad memories and make us dread similar incidents like them in the future. We naturally crave the good things in life but are also prone to being affected by harmful and discouraging events. Part of being human means that life may not always be luxurious and comfortable. We may be exposed to outside perils, that in turn, have the probability of characterizing our personal anxieties. Convincing yourself to overcome a toxic mindset does not have much of an impact if you force yourself to be happy but is rather acquired through a slow and formative process called living.

Thinking about happiness is just the beginning of a whole new perspective.

The paradox of living a happy life states that happiness can be found within you but also partly comes from how you perceive and interact with the world. Living life to its full potential would call for you to know yourself and nourish your talents in the best way possible to reach out to the world and make the changes you intend. Ideas and actions always work together to create progress, but if both of these factors cease to agree with one another, then it may stunt our growth as human beings.

Human behavior can be unpredictable at times, and this greatly affects how we make decisions. We can change our opinions in an instant if we encounter powerful words, or we could adopt new habits if we think that those tactics would help us survive better. Because of all the change happening around us, it can sometimes be difficult to pin down our emotions.

Have you ever experienced losing yourself and thinking you might never get out of a bad situation?

When an exaggerated notion of self-preservation reaches extreme limits, it turns a person into someone else entirely to avoid stress, panic, and paranoia. Although blocking out unwanted feelings serves as one way to deal with negativity. What it also does is pull you out of reality. Our thoughts are powerful forces that give us ideas on how to take things in new directions. If you choose to keep tricking your mind by giving in to momentary thrills or taking the easy way out. You may risk the danger of losing yourself and your relationships with others.

The present moment is the only time you have control over certain things, but mainly yourself. You are an instrument of hope, peace, and love. You have the potential to be creative and innovative when you embrace reality before you. Being happy allows us to feel comfortable with ourselves and gives us the assurance that tomorrow can be a new day to try again. Whatever situation you may be in, this exact moment can be something for you to learn from. Look around and allow yourself to be inspired by possibilities.

You are about to become the best version of yourself.

Smile

The way you put on a smile can dramatically change your outlook on a situation, not just because your facial expression might be slightly uncalled for, but for the fact that it introduces a different element to what is going on.

Have you ever thought about how laughter and jokes have the ability to momentarily break a train of bad thoughts and lift your spirits in a dull situation?

Humor has this remarkable quality of making people see reality for what it is. Not only does it give us something to crack up about, but pointing out something bluntly in a mild tone naturally eases the weight of a situation. Telling facts in a humorous way, like saying “listening to the silence is thrilling” instead of “don’t ignore me,” can break the ice and make that moment quite memorable.

Smiles and laughter give the impression that things may be less daunting than they actually are. A storm isn’t going to destroy you if you know how to work your way around it. A bright comment takes us back to ourselves and gives our minds a break from overwhelming thoughts. Bringing life issues to the table with a bit of lightheartedness never hurt anyone. It rather allows us to confront tough situations by lifting their levels of seriousness. Have you noticed that happy-go-lucky people are generally more approachable than grumpy people? They seem more open to the world and are not as easily phased by danger or change. This does not necessarily mean that all problems are something to joke about or to be forgotten. Still, the power that a smile has to break the monotony of negativity can surprisingly shift the tides to any situation.

We all look out for the punchline of a joke or the unexpected turn of events at the end of a funny story. Because of this, we listen and pay attention to the elements around the narrative and even try to guess the outcome. For example, what do you brace yourself for when relatives come to attack? You may not know the end to this dad joke, but you may be willing to think ahead and analyze things in the storyline. In this case, relatives always mean family gatherings, and family gatherings mean getting together after a long time, so you might be bombarded with kisses on both sides of your cheeks.

Encountering the unexpected similarly leaves you almost defenseless to expectations before that event. The difference between listening to a funny story and living in real life is that our emotions tend to be more complex in the latter experience, rather than just excitement or cheerfulness. Real life is also continuous, and each situation usually unfolds into other ones. Taking things one step at a time is a simple yet effective way to maximize your control over yourself and gives you the mental space to think about what you can do next.

Your ability to see a situation for what it is brings rise to your conscious awareness—the state of being aware of yourself as well as the things going around in your environment. Anticipating something makes you mindful about what is going on and always involves planning things along the way. Somewhat like multitasking, being consciously aware of everything allows you to see a situation from a bird’s eye view while still maintaining your individual perspective. This naturally gives you the chance to move a situation forward by seeing more options to act on, as well as deciphering the best solution to tackle it.

Catching yourself unaware may sometimes give you insights into some things that you have not considered before. Your conscious awareness can be further strengthened by incidents like noticing someone else’s reaction to that same event, or it may come to you in the form of a new idea. Keeping track of all these observations may give you the circumstances to mix and match the extent of your capabilities with whatever the situation calls for. Think of it as adding a new ingredient to a recipe that has the potential to drastically change its flavor and your impression of it. Doughnuts with either chocolate or vanilla filling might seem like a small difference, but some people really do prefer one over the other. A genuine smile is a physical feature that not only suggests optimism but is something that makes us feel restful inside.

Our minds and bodies are connected through purpose, which means we more or less do what we think. This happens as a unique process for everybody. Factors like personal background, personality traits, peers, and the relationship we have with our environment all contribute to our individual perspective. In most cases, we may find that these influential aspects of our life might hold conflicting views from one another. The challenge to bring the best parts of all of these things lies in your mind’s ability to focus.

Acting courses have something called the “inner smile exercise,” which are drills that help condition the artist’s mind before performing heavier scenes. It works like meditation, which encourages you to focus specifically on happy thoughts. Embodying happiness can reflect as an outer glow on your face, even though you may not be smiling. Cases. Where we seem to be held back from wanting to do something means that our thoughts about prevention are much stronger than those about wanting to change. It takes time to heal yourself from feeling discouraged and hurt, but that does not mean that things will stay depressing forever. Just like the inner smile exercise, we all have the potential to train our minds to consider possibilities and manifest positivity into the things we do.

Being optimistic all the time should not be mistaken for blind positivity because that always leads you to making ungrounded decisions. Optimism entails being aware of your current situation and working with the limited available resources that you have to make the best out of it. Obtaining a positive mindset also does not necessarily call for you to put away unwanted thoughts for good, but rather to look at them more closely and see if you can spot any useful information that you missed. Organizing your thoughts might be a little bit overwhelming at first, especially if you feel strongly about certain matters. We all have experienced the inability to face people because of how angry we may have been at them or the struggle to impress someone on a first date because we wanted it to go perfectly. Our feelings and perspective make us human and allow us to experience life from a unique point of view. Letting your emotions clouds your thoughts and individuality and only makes you see one shade amidst an entire spectrum. It might take some time to get accustomed to seeing everything in full color, but being aware of the present moment is sure to bring out...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.1.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• ISBN-10: 0-00-071935-8 / 0000719358
• ISBN-13: 978-0-00-071935-5 / 9780000719355