Happiness Lies Within – Happiness is an Inside Job

Happiness lies within. Yet most people look outside themselves to find happiness. They think things and people can bring them happiness.

Nothing, absolutely nothing outside of you will ever bring you happiness. It can’t.  Everything outside you is ephemeral–temporary.

I read an interesting post on Twitter yesterday,. The original statement was, “Money can’t buy you happiness.” The response was, “Are you kidding? Do you live in the US? Money can buy you a wave runner. Did you ever see anyone on a wave runner not smiling?”

I wonder what that responder does when not riding the wave runner that makes her happy. How about you?

If you look to someone or something outside yourself to make you feel happy then what happens when that someone or something cannot be with you? Duh.

Things and people come and go. The only one on whom you can depend your whole life long is you.

The fact is happiness lies within.

You do have folders deep in your subconscious mind for being happy. The problem is somewhere along the line you stopped fueling those folders and created new folders saying you are unhappy. And, following the general mood of society, you constantly fill those unhappy folders with evidence that life is crummy.

Whatever you focus on expands, quite literally, in those file folders. Think of each event that  you interpret as making you unhappy as a sheet of paper, a document that you put into your unhappy file folder.

The more you put in there the more that folder expands – until ultimately it bursts and you get sick or hurt.

Happiness lies within – not outside of you. You were born happy. Go within to find the happiness that still lives there–buried by years of frustration and inaccurate thinking.

Decide to make yourself happy. Draw on the documents of happiness from the happy folder. Feed that folder with new events that leave you feeling happy. As it grows your life will change dramatically into one of happiness.

Meditate or self-hypnotize and you will find your own answers within.

To your happiness!