Happiness: Job/career positive? Relationships and love fulfilling?
Happiness: What are its dimensions? Discover the steps to take!
Certainly it is something we all try to achieve for ourselves. In our lives and relationships with others. But it’s something that we all struggle with day to day. It is not easy to control. We all have our ups and downs!
Recognising what we need to make us content within ourselves is a great achievement, if we can get there. Mostly our well-being state is transitory, so we go with the ups and downs that life dishes out.
From Wikipedia: "Happiness is a prolonged or lasting emotional or affective state that feels good or pleasing. Overlapping states or experiences associated with happiness include wellbeing, joy, sexual pleasure, delight, health, safety and love, while contrasting ones include suffering, sadness, grief, and pain. Associated behaviors include smiling and laughter.
Societies, religions, and individuals have various views on the nature of happiness and how to pursue it..."
"HH the Dalai Lama: Consider the following. We humans are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others' actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others' activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others..."
"Right and Wrong: By the time we come to realize that our parents were right, we usually have children of our own who think we are wrong..."
"What children need more than anything else is your time..."
"Children produce adults..." "Children teach us what life is all about..."
"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own. This is happiness." J B Priestley
What are the dimensions of happiness? * Our well-being! * Good health! * Contentment within yourself! * Peace of mind! Optimism! * Feeling on "top of the world" * Things are going well for us; our friends or family! * Our immediate family are doing well. * Making others happy!
How do we make the journey to be content in our lives? * If only you knew that answer; well we can but hope! * We take one step at a time, every day * Some try to leap forward too quickly in life's journey * Other take the slow and steady approach, but get there eventually! * Often the "fast track" is accompanied by ill-conceived approaches? * There is much evidence of fast decisions are usually futile! * Long-lasting happiness is difficult to achieve in relationships!
What is being happy all about? * Fundamentally it is a "state of mind" * You learn how to roll between happiness and unhappiness. * You achieve contentment being content within yourself. * Relationships are about give and take. * Relationships are about when you make someone else content. * We are usually okay, when we are doing something worthwhile! * We are content when we are doing things that we enjoy! * We are at peace with ourselves when we are self-fulfilled! * There is no need to say a lot about being content. * The inner self knows. * Happiness is about being at peace with yourself.
It's not easy to achieve! * Often we don't know when we are there, or how to recognise it! * Most people have the notion that money will make them content! * Have you noticed the large number of very unhappy rich people! * It's like love, and about giving to others! * Taking from others will never make you feel good! * Think about it!
Unhappiness is the other dimension...if you! * Lack confidence! * Have no job/career prospects! * Falter in your relationships with others! * Have no love in your life! * Are bored with yourself and life! * Have a broken relationship!BR>* Have little or no money! * Lack good friends! * Can't cope! * Have made yourself and others unhappy!
Making others happy: Ever tried this? * It is perhaps the most fulfilling achievement? * Often it takes so little to achieve! * Try smiling at someone today! It only takes a little effort! * People seem to have forgotten how to exchange a smile! * People show that they are happy by smiling! * Relationships are about doing something for each other! Try it!
Pleasures and fulfilment: ~ Robert Burns ~1759–1796 ~ "But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white--then melts forever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm."
* With happiness, like the poppies, our emotions change so quickly! * It is what you make it. * Be positive in your outlook! * Pick yourself up when you are feeling low! * Think of contentment, serenity, and pleasure! * Relax and listen to some music! * Re-read your favorite book! * Call your friends and have dinner together! * Be optimistic in your life, or it will quickly pass you by!
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