Stop Searching for Happiness Now!
Stop Searching for Happiness Now!
I remember before my catalyst (divorce), everyone in my life believed I was happy. After all, I created the perfect picture, beautiful house, 3 beautiful kids, handsome husband, pets, new cars, vacations to the beach, to Europe, etc. I volunteered at my children’s schools, was a soccer mom, dance mom, started a bunko group in my neighborhood, owned my own art gallery. Basically the “perfect picture” according to the standards for happiness right? Success, money, health, abundance, yet I was not happy!
Happiness isn’t something you can get your hands on, its something you carry in your heart. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could just be happy! Imagine, just for today, you give up the struggle and surrender to slowing down. Cancel your plans, just for today, throw away your ‘to do” list and simply make a choice today to just be happy.
Imagine your having a conversation with yourself, and saying, “just for today, I will stop searching, I will stop resisting.” “Just for today, I will stop beating myself up, stop sacrificing my own happiness.” “Just for today, I will allow myself to be happy,” what a crazy thought, right! Just for today, have the courage, if only for a moment to take a baby step and be happy just for a minute.
For a whole 60 seconds, right now, picture yourself just allowing happiness to bubble up, all by itself. You are not meditating, praying, or affirming that you are happy. You are not asking for happiness, you are simply being happy.
Happiness needs no reason; your ego will disagree with this, maybe even strongly disagree. However, your ego uses “reason” as its chief currency for being, doing and giving. Happiness is not the ego’s natural state of being, it believes it needs a reason to be happy. You do not need a reason to be happy, no special equipment no perfect circumstances, no justification, and no money. Every moment is perfect for you to be happy. Being happy is you allowing and accepting who you really are, and returning to your natural state of being.
Stop saying, “I will be happy when......”
Stop saying, “I will be happy If.......”
Stop saying, “I will love myself when.....”
Simply allow yourself to be happy even if only for a moment or two, this is your first baby steps into living in happiness every moment of your time.
-----Teresa