Wake Up To Health

We are as happy as we choose to be. No more and no less.

We can think of happiness as something that spontaneously arises in our lives from time to time or as an end post we reach after life’s great trials ad tribulations have taken their toll, but it is not until we open to the idea that ‘happiness is a choice that we can all experience at any moment’ that we will source the flow of an abundance of this glowing warming feeling into our lives.

Make happiness a priority and feel good from moment to moment. How often do you enter a situation in full awareness that you are responsible for how you feel? Do you allow circumstance to decide or do you take charge? It is easy to forget, and we all do, that happiness is at our disposal all the time! We get caught up in life’s dramas and events that we mask that which we all need and are truly searching for. It is indeed the one who wears rosy glasses that sees the beauty, the joy, the greatness and the happiness in everything. We can choose to see what we want to. We can choose to be happy. We each have a pair of rosy glasses, we just don’t always put them on.

Happiness is available to us all, in every moment. It is up to us as individuals to claim happiness and to live it and dance it’s song. From the second we get out of bed in the morning we can choose happiness, in all of our actions, words and motivations. Just as on our birthdays or Christmas day we choose to experience rushes of excitement and tingly sensations within which carry us through our day, we can do this day in day out. It just takes an awareness of how we choose to feel.

We often spend too much time wasting opportunities, moments and experiences. We carry blame, judgment, non-forgiveness, criticism and hurt around with us. But where does this get us? Further away from happiness and further bogged down into an unnecessary state of no return. We need to create bridges towards peace and happiness, to freedom. We need to start living to our fullest potential and sing happiness to the treetops! And to do so we must dissolve the things that keep us stuck and distant. Life is too short not to be happy.

Sure, still choose wisely your environment, circle of friends, hobbies, partners and what you fill your life with. I am by no means suggesting that you choose to be happy but neglect your wheel of life. Positively change the things that you can and choose happiness in those you can ‘and’ can’t change. We all have certain things that we can’t change, that just are – whether it be our past, families, genetics or the way others treat us – but it is down to us to nurture acceptance for these. To react in a positive and healing way and to make the most of everything in the best way we can. Why make a situation worse than it is by being unhappy? We can all turn any situation around for the better and call it one of life’s lessons.

What lies in the way between you and continuous happiness? Rid any excuses that you have. Put on your happiness coat right now, go outside and enjoy the light rain as it falls on you. Enjoy all weather! Marvel in it’s uniqueness! And apply this attitude to all things, big and small. Smile more, in fact right now. Give it a go. Be aware of your facial expressions, your body language. Look around you and see the beauty. See the heart in everyone, the brilliance in everything and know this is how things should be! We are experiencing the real uncovered us when we feel fuzzy inside.

So instead of seeking ways to justify unhappiness or complacency with life, find reasons to be happy. When you meet up with your friend today or tomorrow make an intention to only speak words of kindness and positivity. Give moaning, complaining and negativity no room, no purpose. Make a list of all the things that you are grateful for in your life. Sit back and be amazed by how many you can come up with. Make today a happy day! Do the things that help bring about happy thoughts and encourage this warming glow.

How do you currently live happiness? To the maximum or with great interludes? Start to bring happiness to the forefront of your minds, your actions and your motivations. Experience feeling happy in all situations, from brushing your teeth to writing a letter to meeting up with family. Think carefully about how you are feeling and how you could influence happiness inside yourself and all around you.

Our world needs more happy people. Choose happiness now.