11 Jul How to Be Honestly Happy in the Present Moment
I’m pretty sure you’ve heard of “fake news”.
Well, what about “fake happiness”?
If we’re honest, we all fake happiness sometimes; we put on a brave face and smile even though we don’t feel that great.
And that’s OK. Sometimes.
But it’s not necessarily healthy too often and it’s not really what out goal should be.
We want “real” happiness, “authentic” happiness, “honest” happiness …
via Psych Central by Suzanne Kane
“Every day there is only one thing to learn: how to be honestly happy.” – Sri Chinmoy
Happiness is something we hear a lot about. Advice on how to be happy proliferates on the Internet and almost anyone you ask will give you a different suggestion on how to achieve it, how to know if you have it, what to do if you lose it. If you say you want to be happy, that implies that you are somehow not happy at present. In reality, you probably are happy, yet you’re expressing an overarching desire for happiness in your life — your entire life. Trying to map out a strategy that ensures you’re absolutely happy all the time, however, is both unrealistic and unsatisfying. What is a good strategy, though, is learning how to be honestly happy today.
I have some experience on the subject of trying desperately to find happiness, searching in all the wrong places, expending energy doing what I thought would make me happy and wasting precious time in the process. It wasn’t until I realized that happiness is already within me and I have but to embrace it that I stopped my frantic search and started experiencing happiness.
How did this all come about? Furthermore, what secrets about happiness did I discover that may prove useful to others? Here are some of the tips I learned about how to be honestly happy today.
Not everything you do today will be thrilling, causing you to gasp in recognition of how happy it makes you feel. You must be willing to take some unpleasantness, including sadness and pain that may accompany the experience, before or after you acknowledge that you are happy.
This takes patience and practice, yet it also requires courage. It’s not always easy to do, although it is something that you can learn…
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