The happiness habit is developed simply by practicing happy thinking. Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through mind several times every day. If an unhappy thought enters your mind, immediately stop, consciously eject it. And substitute a happiness thought. Every morning before arising, lie relaxed in bed and deliberately drop happy thoughts into your curious mind. Let a series of events pass across your mind of each happy experience you expect to have during the day. Savour their joy. Such thoughts will help cause events to turn out that way. Do not affirm that things will not go well that day. But merely saying that, you can actually help every factor, large and small, that will contribute to unhappy conditions. As a result, you will find yourself asking, ´why does everything go badly for me? The reason can be directly traced to the manners in which you begin the day in your thoughts. To become a happy person, have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child’s heart and spiritual simplicity says Norman Vincent peale. Many of us manufacture our own unhappiness. Of course, not all unhappiness is self-created, for social conditions are responsible for not a few of our woes. Yet it a fact that to a large extent by our thoughts and attitudes we distil out of the ingredients of life either happiness or unhappiness for ourselves. It is pity, too, for there are so many problems created by life itself that dilute our happiness that it is indeed most foolish to distil further unhappiness within your own mind. How foolish is it to manufacture personnel unhappiness to add to all the other difficulties over which you have little or no control! Rather than to emphasize the manner in which people manufacture their own unhappiness. Let’s us proceed to the formula for putting an end to this misery-producing process. Suffice it to say that we manufacture our own unhappiness by thinking unhappy thoughts, by the attitudes which we habitually take, such as the negative feelings that everything is going to turn out badly, or that other people are getting what they do not deserve and we are failing to get what we deserve. Our happiness is further distilled by saturating the consciousness with feeling or resentment, ill will and hate. Get back into the main stream of life’s activities. Take up your old associations. Form new ones. Get busy walking, riding and playing. Lose yourself in some effective and fruitful stuff. Fill your days with creative activity and emphasize physical aspect of activity.
An excellent and normal release from unhappiness is to give way to grief. there is a foolish point view current today that one should not show grief, that it is not proper to cry or express oneself through the natural mechanism of tears and sobbing. This is the denial of law of nature. It is natural to cry when pain or sorrow comes. It is a relief mechanism provided in the body by the Almighty God, and should be used. To restrain grief, to inhabit it, to bottle it up, is to fail to use one of the natures means for eliminating the pressures of sorrow. Like every other function of the human body and nervous system, this must be controlled, but it should not be denied altogether. one of the mostpowerful concepts, one which is a sure cure, is the thought that God is actually with us and helping us. The is one of the simplest teachings in every religion, that Almighty God will be your companion, will stand by you, help you and see you through, no other idea is so powerful in developing self-confidence and happiness as this simple belief when practiced. To practice it simply affirm Godis with me, God is helping me, god is guiding me. Spend several minutes each day visualizing his presence. Then practice believing that affirmation. Affirm it. Visualize it, believe it and it will actualize itself. The release of power which this procedure stimulates will astonish you. Feelings of happiness depend upon the type of thoughts that habitually occupy your mind. Think defeat and you are bound to feel defeated, but practice thinking confident thoughts, make it dominating habit and you will develop such a strong sense of capacity that regardless of what difficulties arise you will be able to overcome them.Brasil king once said, “Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid”. Experience proves the truth of this. You will feel these mighty forces aiding you as your increasing faith reconditions your attitude. Emerson declared a tremendous truth, “they conquer who believe they can”. When the mind is emptied, something is bound to enter. The mind cannot long remain a vacuum. You cannot go around permanently with an empty mind. Start filling your mind with creative and healthy thoughts. When the old fears, hates and worries that have haunted you for so long try to edge back in, they will in effect find a sign on the door of your mind reading, “occupied”. This may struggle for admission, for having lived in your mind for a long time, they feel at home there, but the new and healthy thoughts which you have taken in will now be stronger and better fortified and therefore able to repulse them. Presently the old thoughts will give up altogether and leave you alone. You will permanently enjoy a mind full of peace.
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