The Path to Happiness

How many people are chasing happiness everyday?  Is it possible to find happiness in a world that seems less than happy?   Where do you begin to look for this elusive positive state of bliss?

I am a positive person and a happy one at that.  I searched for happiness many years ago and finally found it.  I didn’t find it in a full bank account or a fancy dress but where I did find it astounded me.  It was a moment of insight that showed me where to begin finding happiness even before I had all the things that I thought would make me happy.  I used to say, “I will be happy when…”  Each day I told myself how happy I would be if I just had the perfect amount of money.  I would wait and wait and wait just for the day that I could truly be happy.  I didn’t realize at the time that life was passing me by as I waited to be happy.  I would live each day for the moment I could claim happiness. 

As I was married and had three small children I enjoyed life but continued to search for the happy magic where every day I would be able to say, “I am happy.  Happiness has finally found me!”  I raised my children and divorced and began a search that left me exhausted and disappointed. 

Then one day while I was taking a walk I looked up to the sky and exclaimed, “Where is the happiness that I seek?  Can you tell me? WHERE?“  I didn’t expect an answer but I kept walking.  It was a beautiful fall day and at that moment the wind picked up and the green, yellow, red, and orange leaves began to swirl around me as they fell to the ground.  I said it out loud.  I said, “That makes me happy.  It is so beautiful!”  As I stood among the leaves still whirling around my head I realized where happiness begins.  It begins within us.  

We seek happiness and believe we can find it in some kind of thing or experience.  We expect it to show up on our door step one day and then that will be it.  Life will be a wonderful dream full of rainbows and butterflies and we will then have found happiness but it doesn’t work that way.  Happiness starts with you.  In order for you to have a life full of happiness it must begin with you being happy.  Find the happiness in the small things at first.  Look around at nature.  See the wonders of this world and make an effort to find what makes you happy right now.  Find happiness in everyday life. 

Find happiness in a baby’s laugh or through an experience that just makes you smile.  The more you focus on what makes you happy right now you will that create more positive thoughts and feelings that in turn will bring you more to be happy about. 

When you think positive you emit a vibration into the Universe that the Universe will recognize and bring back to you in some form.  Focus on happiness and that particular vibration will be sent out from you into the world and a match will be found and sent back.  The more you find to be happy about now, the more happiness will come to you.

Begin by focusing on what you have to be grateful for in your life right now.  Smile at the fact that you have a car that runs even if you think you need a new one.  You can envision a new car and look forward to it but at the same time be happy and grateful for what you have now.  Happiness is a choice.  It doesn’t come along, wrapped in a big gold box, and all of a sudden ‘you’re happy.’  It takes you making a choice to focus on the positive in your life, and as you continue to focus and make the choice to seek happiness you will have taken the first step to living a joyful and positive life.