“How To Be Happy = How You Deal With Stress”
Learning how to be happy is a life skill that WILL correct health problems and maintain good health. So, it’s preventive too. It should be the easiest thing to do, but sadly you may have lost that valuable wisdom as soon as you left infancy. You definitely knew it at some point. In this section, you’ll relearn methods to become happy, because it’s a choice to be happy and also a state of mind and being.
It doesn’t mean that life won’t have it’s ups and downs. It just means that you’ll be able to recover from those ups and downs. Surely, some of them will be devastating. But because you know how to be happy, you’ll be a lot more resilient. And that’s my goal, to teach you how to be resilient, how to be flexible, how to bounce back from adversity. Because the alternative is a very STRESSFUL life.
Look at how to be happy as a tool for dealing with stress. Somewhere along the way, you may have learned that it was almost selfish to be happy. You may have been ridiculed for laughing too much or you may’ve been told to get serious! Now that in itself sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? Who was the killjoy who said that to you? Okay, okay. You can’t blame them either, because they didn’t know any better.
Yes, being and feeling happy is the key to success – in all areas of your life. Your career. Your bank account. Your family life. Your other relationships. Your recreational life.
These are the obstacles to happiness. You must decide to:
• Overcome addiction from emotional addiction
• Deal with anger. It’s OK to feel angry when you do! Just don’t hang on to it. Use that extra energy to get determined!
• Deal with fear. Get outside of the box because it keeps you small.
• Deal with grief. Then move on. It’s time for change.
• Deal with depression. You don’t feel in control. Well I have news for you, you have to take back control of your life or you’ll always feel helpless and listless. Is that what you want?
Decide that you are going to be happy. It really is Okay to be Happy. But it’s up to you to pull yourself up.
