Finding Happiness
within our Problems!

Many of us would like to believe that if we had fewer problems we could be happier!

Or that if only we could solve this or that particular problem, then we'd be happy

but as we all know so sooner one problem is solved .......along comes another! that's the way life goes!

Solving a problem or two can be extremely gratifying, but as we are constantly being confronted by new problems and challenges, this isn't really a way of finding happiness for very long!

Most of us know people who have huge problems!
or enormous difficulties......yet they are happy!

Then there are those people who seem to have everything, but are miserable and unhappy!

So it seems, it's not what happens in your life, it's how you deal with it, that separates happy from unhappy people!

"Most people are about as happy as they make their minds up to be"

Abraham Lincoln

We need our problems!

We cannot develop strength and character by avoiding adversity and struggle!

We need problems as form of resistance to make us grow strong!

In the end we do choose our own happiness or not!

It may sound too simple, "I choose to be happy, or not" when the source of our unhappiness seems to come at us from the outside, but that choice is the key to us either finding happiness or not.

It's in our own hands..........and its very empowering!

Helping others to be happy!

One of the best ways of finding happiness, is to help others to become happy we can't do it on our own, because we're all connected to each other!

Try to make someone else happy everyday!

Even if you are not feeling particularly happy at the time, go out and make someone else happy, or just smile at the grumpy bus driver!

It has a knock on effect and may affect many more people than you know! and it will certainly make you much happier

In the same way that you being bad tempered or rude has a knock on effect to others and will make you even more miserable!

It's like sending out ripples of energy, either positive or negative.......you have the choice!

what goes around comes around!

it always comes back to you in the end

Basically there are two types of energy in the universe and inside of each us - positive and negative

We need both positive and negative energy to grow strong!

Of course the positive seems more desirable to most of us, but we do need the negative energy too! not to be afraid of, or to give in to, but to act as a resistance to push against, to strengthen our positive resolve

So we can use the negative energy in a positive way!

It's a bit like; if we didn't have night we wouldn't know what day was!

We also need to know unhappiness sometimes, in order to know real happiness and so we can understand and empathise with other people's suffering

So we need our problems and difficulties to spur us on to finding happiness and with a positive, cheerful attitude to challenging our difficulties or problems we become strongerand.......... yes happier too

So can we enjoy the struggle? - well..... most of the time!

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