Happiness Is Just Inside

Wouldn’t it be great if we could go to the store and buy a bottle of “100 Percent Genuine Happiness” and pour into our lives? That’s not going to happen.  Neither is life the greatest ice cream cone we’ve ever had.

Sometimes things in the world can get a bit too heavy.  Yet it’s encouraging to find people who continue to live wonderful, full and fascinating lives through it all.  I think to myself, “What makes their lives that way?”

I figured out that maybe, just maybe, they know how to work and live from a place called ‘self’.  It’s all about being genuinely happy within one’s self.  It starts within me and it starts within you, also.  We must find happiness within ourselves.  So, how does one become genuinely happy?

Certainly an important element to genuine happiness is to love and accept yourself.  That means acknowledging that you are not perfect, but have the courage to discover ways for continuously improving yourself.  It means being able to recover from your mistakes in a wholesome way.

I also think happiness comes from “blooming where you are planted.” That includes doing the very best you can with the job you have, the way you look, your family, your friends, and all the things you have now. It means being and doing the best you can in the place where you live right now.

When you discover who you are, you can begin uncovering your genuine natural happiness.  From there, you will expand toward something greater than you ever thought possible.  You’ll find yourself doing and making the best of everything.  You’ll catch yourself smiling at your mistakes and saying, “It’s okay.  I’ll do better next time.” You’ll give yourself room to breathe – to inhale, to exhale and to expand.

When we discover a small start somewhere from within, that small start will eventually lead to something else, and to something else. But if you keep questioning life, you will never be able to find genuine happiness.

Learn to accept yourself and others.  Learn to love and be loved.  Learn to stand up and try again.  You don’t have to have the best things in the world.  Just learn to make the best of everything that you do have.  Learn to have a sense of humor.  Sometimes that may include laughing at yourself.  It’s good to be able to laugh at yourself.  You’re genuinely happy.  You’re free.

Your genuine natural happiness is just inside of you!