Secret of Happiness

November 18, 2007 by MiSs LiLy  
Filed under Relationship

Are you feeling gloom, unhappy, boring, lonely and unfulfilled? Want to fulfill your life with happiness, joyful, meaningful and totally blissful? We all do but it’s not tough or something that you might fear. There’s always ways to get into happy life as long as you ready to seek for it. You might not aware that things that you did everyday can make you happy because it’s part of your routine. You even don’t know whether you enjoy doing it or you have no other choice and because you have to. So, how to let yourself out from feeling of like and dislike so that you can enjoy on whatever you do every day? While getting the major parts of your life right does help, of course, learning to seek and find happiness in small everyday things can also give you a much-needed happiness boost. Don’t let yourself living in sorrow and gloom because it can harm you for long term. You always have a choice.

Take a challenge and makeover yourself to prove that you also can be happy like others. Never let go any opportunity come to you. Catch it to fulfill your dream. Don’t let other people or any situation stop you from go further. Stay on your own feet and make decision wisely for your future. Life which is fulfilled is more meaningful and this contentment will make you feel happy. Never aim too high and target big thing in your life because if you cannot go for it, you’ll feel frustrated and unhappy. So, don’t push yourself over limit to make others happy but not you. It was wrong. Consider before decide and think before take action. At least, you already prepared for whatever may happen in future. It’s not hard to be happy, right? Be yourself & love yourself is the key. So, take a look, deepen the meaning written here and try at least some of these and you’ll find your happiness quotient leaping up. Promise!

Happy #1 Join the health social club

No activity during weekend? Why not joining local clubs, societies and groups? Joining a club not only gives you a sense of belonging and well-being it’s incredibly beneficial for your health. It’s not only that, according to Psychologist Michael Argyle of UK’s Oxford University, by meeting other people and sharing the story and activity actually increased lifespan and made participants infinitely less likely to develop cancer and heart attacks. With our emphasis on individualism, we tend to associate happiness with success; with being driven and striving for personal achievement.

The fun we have by joining lots of activities, make us much happier, healthier and often wealthier too. The sociability we share with like-minded people and it forces us to get out more and not just concentrate on work and sitting at home. So, start looking for your favourite sports and sign up now. Nothing is more interesting than having healthy and happier lifestyles.

Happy #2 Share your sorrow

The true happiness only belongs to you if you let go your sadness by sharing with someone close to you and start new day with new constancy. It’s true that a sorrow shared is a sorrow halved, or at least rendered less potent. People who keep their troubles to themselves inevitability suffer far more than those who feel able to get rid of them by telling close friends. Self disclosure is very important. Telling someone your trust about your problems will make it easier to cope and make you feel healthier. You don’t need lots of friends; just few close one you feel comfortable disclosing to and who feel they can disclose to you.

Having friends you can rely upon is good for your overall sense of security and thus happiness. Sharing, listening and giving will build connection and deeper understanding between you and your friends. So provided it’s not too one-sided and you both get your turn at sharing, self disclosure is another route to happiness.

Happy #3 Say NO to alcohol

Some people think that drinking plenty of alcohol can release them from stress or problems. However, it’s not like what they think. Alcohol might feel like it’s giving you some an instant lift from the moment you take that much-wanted first sip of the night, but in fact, alcohol is depressant, not a stimulant. Using alcohol to settle your problems or giving peaceful to you doesn’t work at all. It’s better to use happy foods such as salads, protein, fruit  especially bananas  and complex carbohydrates such as wholemeal bread, brown rice and particularly pasta. These will give you better emotional uplift than trying to drown you sorrows in a bottle.

Drink is fine if you’re already happy enough, but because it tends to enhance your mood, rather than change it, steer clear of imbibing too much when you’re at your lowest  it will, quite literally, make you go lower.

Happy #4 Work your body and get enough sleep

Why exercise? When you do exercise even few walk out a day will makes you happier because whenever you increase your heart rate to the point where you become a bit breathless, the body releases natural opiates called endorphins which flood you with a sense of well being and happiness. This is why some people actually become addicted to exercise they’re addicted to the Happy Hormones their body rewards them with every time they exercise. You not need to do lots of exercise, just walking for 15 to 20 minutes a day, at a vigorous pace, is sufficient to raise your endorphin levels and make you feel much better.

And why enough sleep can bring happiness to you? Do you sleep well every night? Some people never care how long or effective is their sleep per day. However, it’s very important to make you feel energize, happy and healthy. It’s not always easy to sleep well, especially when you have problems or something weighing heavily on your minds. But they’re ways to improve your chances. You can practice go to bed and get up at the same time. Never eat anything heavy before sleep. Enough if you only take a glass of milk to help you sleep fast. Try not to do vigorous exercise in the evening; but a light exercise will help you sleep better. Don’t read at bed or watch television before sleep because it makes you feel less want to sleep. Keep your bed only for sleep and stick to a routine that works for you. That way you’ll get gift yourself one of nature’s best happiness boosts.

Happy #5 Feel Blessed & Be Lucky

You think you’re the most unlucky person in the world when life thwacked you with a metaphorical hammer few times. But, do you realized that there’s other person life worst than you ever image. Unless you’re living the life of a homeless refugee in a war-torn country with no food, no water and no form of stable government to ever make things better, then you’ve plenty to feel blessed about.

When you realized they’re other people living in no choice situation, focus on something that’s really good in your life. There must be something that you can proud about and make you feel blessed to have life like you have now. Try to think about something in different way. We can, in fact, train the brain to think more positively and our down moments are a good time to put this into practice. Start with compile a list of your favorite people, your favorite times, your favorite holidays, and favorite parties. By setting mind remembering those snapshots in your life will retrain your brain to be more positive and have a happier look.

Why is he/she so lucky? Does this kind of question seem familiar to you? Lucky people are not just plucked randomly by fate; a lot of them work at it. Can you increase your chances of being lucky? Why not? If you believe it’s possible to happen, then why asking for more? Lucky people look out for the main chance and the small ones too. They listen to their intuition, which we all have, and act on it. They take chances because, okay it might not work out but if you don’t take a risk every now and then, how else will you know?

Everyone faces downtowns in life. Don’t imagine when it happens to you that the world has got it in for you it hasn’t. Life is random, far more random than many of us seem prepared to accept or believe. If your life takes a downturn, assume things will get better, not worse and be glad they didn’t take an even deeper downtown. There is always a silver lining. You just have to look for it.

They’re so many ways to live happily than living in misery. Some people choose to wallow in misery by choosing the wrong way. It is up to you! Ask yourself. Do you w ant to be happy? In which case, you will be. But it’s not compulsory. You do have a choice and if misery suits you and you’re be honest getting more mileage out of that, than stay miserable. Just don’t expect to have lots of friends or live a long fulfilled and healthy life. It’s you call!

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3 Responses to “Secret of Happiness”
  1. David Rogers says:

    Can I add – (1) get in the habit of praising yourself, being positive about what you have rather than what you don’t have. We receive so many negative messages in our life its easy to accept our negative automatic thoughts as facts. (2) Don’t have happiness as a goal in itself, but see it as a “side effect” of doing things we enjoy and find fulfilling.

  2. MiSs LiLy says:

    Hi David, thanks for dropping by. I quite agree with some of your ideas. To find true happiness in life, we needs to try and find the ways on how to achieve it. As you said, ’see the happiness as a “side effect” of doing things we enjoy and find fulfilling’. We cannot find true happiness if we never enjoy and feel great on things happen around us. To accept negative messages as facts only might be not the solution but accept it as a ‘hop stone’ to grow stronger, grateful and thankful on what we have today and attempt for tomorrow. Left behind yesterday thoughts and learn from it for better life. Get rid of the negative feelings and learn how to feel grateful all the time and there where you can find the true happiness.
    Thanks for sharing with us and you’re always welcome to share your thoughts with us.