Joy and happiness is what we all search for, but the real question is what exactly happiness is. Do we all have our own personal definition of happiness that we live by. This article explains what others believe happiness to be and what you should think of happiness being for you in your daily life to achieve happiness. (Image by aussiegall via Flickr)
Mired in this over stimulated environment, we are constantly reminded of our own inadequacy. (Oh, you finally lost those 10 pounds after giving birth six months ago? That's nice. Gisele did it in two weeks. See this morning's Google alert.)
Society has manufactured some of us to not know what happiness really is and we seek out ways to try to become happy by spending our money to do so.
So, how can happiness be defined to where we understand it?
Feeling a sense of satisfaction and delighted mentally is happiness.
Although, pleasurable and satisfying experiences sure are nice, I believe the Webster definition doesn't really set our society up for success. I'd like to go out on a limb here and share my own definition of happiness:
Happiness: a timeless state of contentment due to embracing the control you have over your state of mind.
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It would be really hard to be in a blissful state of mind each and every second of every day, but we get to choose which seconds define our day, our week and our lives. It is that choice and that control that I believe is true happiness.
We must stay on our intended course of happiness which we get internally, rather than happiness that we can get externally such as going to your favorite bands concert. These types of things are short lived.
Being happy is recognizing that you'll have your bad days, but you know how to work through them. Knowing how to differentiate momentary happiness such as getting a bonus at work from timeless happiness from feeling enjoyment with the fact that you have control over your state of mind and no one else does. You determine your happiness, your life and the path it is taking doesn't, because you have control over all of that.
The only person that really can define your happiness is you. You are the one holding the reigns to your happiness.
...More at The Craze Behind 'Happiness' - Huffington Post
This is what I believe to be the definition of what happiness is and if you choose to believe this definition your life and state of mind will change for the better.
Mired in this over stimulated environment, we are constantly reminded of our own inadequacy. (Oh, you finally lost those 10 pounds after giving birth six months ago? That's nice. Gisele did it in two weeks. See this morning's Google alert.)
Society has manufactured some of us to not know what happiness really is and we seek out ways to try to become happy by spending our money to do so.
So, how can happiness be defined to where we understand it?
Feeling a sense of satisfaction and delighted mentally is happiness.
Although, pleasurable and satisfying experiences sure are nice, I believe the Webster definition doesn't really set our society up for success. I'd like to go out on a limb here and share my own definition of happiness:
Happiness: a timeless state of contentment due to embracing the control you have over your state of mind.
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It would be really hard to be in a blissful state of mind each and every second of every day, but we get to choose which seconds define our day, our week and our lives. It is that choice and that control that I believe is true happiness.
We must stay on our intended course of happiness which we get internally, rather than happiness that we can get externally such as going to your favorite bands concert. These types of things are short lived.
Being happy is recognizing that you'll have your bad days, but you know how to work through them. Knowing how to differentiate momentary happiness such as getting a bonus at work from timeless happiness from feeling enjoyment with the fact that you have control over your state of mind and no one else does. You determine your happiness, your life and the path it is taking doesn't, because you have control over all of that.
The only person that really can define your happiness is you. You are the one holding the reigns to your happiness.
...More at The Craze Behind 'Happiness' - Huffington Post
This is what I believe to be the definition of what happiness is and if you choose to believe this definition your life and state of mind will change for the better.
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