Happiness Is an Inside Job

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They are showing that the brain, through self-directed focus, can actually change its neural patterns as a result of the thoughts we think – we can even dial up the “happiness set point! This is always the case but alas life tries it's very best in some cases to make sure happiness is an almost impossible feat to achieve.

How can we continue to love–to keep our minds in a happy mood–when life is complex, difficult, and, often, disappointing? It certainly feels a lot more empowering in the situation then going and “I can't control if someone's going to actually care about me or not”. You get to choose at any moment to take your life experience – the adversity you’ve faced — and use it to become stronger.Afterwards, I get quiet for around 10 minutes of meditating (calming my mind) and getting connected to Love?

Little did I ever realise that it would turn into an approach; a complete lifestyle change that would turn my thoughts and considerations on life around. Sure, we need to look both ways before we cross the road, and a healthy respect, even fear, can assist in that habit. It also has very specific and practical instructions on how to practice metta and mindfulness in everyday life.But it can bring the opposite to what we need; it can create further feelings of hopelessness and isolation. In more than three decades of practice and teaching she has discovered that the secret to happiness lies in actively cultivating our connections with the world, with friends, family, colleagues-even those we may not know well. We humans overestimate threats in the world, and we pay a lot of attention to perceived threats and the way we believe we are mistreated by others.

These qualities strengthen our ability to meet encounters of every kind with balance and intelligence, providing us with a grounded sense of true contentment. Instead, we associate happiness with something we have to find, something that’s dependant on us getting or achieving certain things.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.