The Source of Happiness
Have you ever asked yourself where happiness comes from? Have you ever wanted to have more of it in your life? I have some good news for you, you cannot have happiness. If you are wondering how this could possibly be good news, you will understand why by the end of this post.
You cannot have happiness, it is not something that comes to you, it is not something that comes from the outer world and into your life. You cannot have happiness, but you can be happy. In the same way that a light can either be on or off, you can either be happy or unhappy. Happiness is a light that, when on, radiates from within you and illuminates your life. The light comes from within you. Happiness comes from within you. As simple as that is, I am sure you know that it is not the whole story.
Where focus goes, energy flows, and you cannot feel happiness, anger, excitement, fear, love, frustration and any other emotion without focus. Think of it this way, if you want to light up your living room, you need to flick the switch in your living room. If you flick the switch in your bathroom on, you will illuminate your bathroom, and no matter how much you want the light in your living room to go on, you will not achieve that if you keep flicking the wrong switch. If you flick the switch in your living room, you will succeed at illuminating your living room, but why is this? By flicking the a switch, you allow energy to flow to the light bulb. By flicking the right switch, you allow energy to flow to the right light bulb.
If you think of your various emotions as light bulbs in different rooms within yourself, by flicking the right switches, you can illuminate the rooms you wish. If you want to illuminate your happy room, you need to flick the switch that allows energy to flow to your happy light. If you want the happy light in your happy room to go on, you cannot do this by flicking on the switch in your sad room. So what are these switches? Your thoughts and the meanings you attach to them and to other things. Where you focus your thoughts will determine which switches you turn on. Think about the things that make you happy, and derive positive meanings from your thoughts, and from and do not happen to you, you allow energy to flow to your happy light in the happy room, and as a result, you will feel happy, and that happiness will radiate into your life.
You cannot have happiness and that is a good thing because having happiness implies that you will have to rely on things you cannot control for you to have it. You can be happy, and this is good news because being happy is something that comes from with in, something that you can control, just like you can control which light comes on in your house.
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