The Best Guide to Happiness

Our minds carry a wealth of emotions that we have evolved and been programmed into understanding over time. So much so that we run our very lives around them. The first important step to acknowledge and remember is that happiness never comes from materialistic things. Happiness comes from within yourself.

Whilst material things may bring you a temporary sense of joy, this comes from the ego and the ego will just scream for more. It’s never enough and we crave more even when we have all the material wealth the world can offer. It isn’t representative of where happiness comes from.

A £10 million mansion still has the same loneliness as a one-bedroom flat.

A £100 basic smartphone still makes the same calls and offers the basic capabilities that £1000 smartphone offers.

A Lamborghini will still get you from A to B at the same time that an old cheaper car will during rush hour.

Material wealth is not where happiness comes from. Nor should it be the thing we crave the most as the reality is when we do this it will overrun our lives, thought processes and bring about feelings of jealousy for example which in turn creates unhappiness and self-doubting feeling within yourself.

When we learn to be happy and grateful for what we have then this may bring about material wealth in the future by which point you will have already built happiness from within rather than let your ego chase it for you.

Why do we tend to be attracted to positive things and hide away from the negative things? Isn’t it better to look at the positive things that can come from negative situations? 

Negative and positive emotions can vary from person to person but the obvious negative emotions are fear, anger, sadness, etc. Every emotion that we feel has a feeling component, a sensory component, and an action component.

These feelings that we have can have a tendency to override consciousness and everything else that is going on around us. This triggers a sensory alarm that there is an impending battle between win/lose situations that most of the time we have created ourselves unnecessarily.

Some people have a lot of positive affects and this stays fixed for most of their lifetimes and in turn, this brings them great joy, wealth, and abundance and they feel good most of the time but just as many people often feel negative feelings more than the positive which has the opposite to what we want to feel. We have to flip that switch.

To do this you must first stop comparing yourself and your life to that of others. Be happy with yourself, love yourself, and be grateful for who you are and what you have. This is the first big step to loving yourself and the Universe will love you back.

Secondly find the good in your life right now, there, and then presently, at that very moment focus on it. bring out the positive energies in yourself do the things that make you happy and flip that switch.

Bad things happen to happy people too. It’s how we respond which determines whether we feel good or not. A reaction isn’t necessarily the same, as a reaction tends to be the same to the situation, for example, negative situations get negative reactions and positive situations get positive reactions but if we respond then we can determine what that response will be and we can choose which way the switch goes. There is always a solution to every problem.