Make sure to do at least a few acts of kindness each day; for example open the door for someone, smile and give a kind compliment or give up your place in queue. These acts will soon bounce back to you and bring great happiness.
By wanting things or people or even ourselves be in a certain way or to change in a certain way we may frequently end up unhappy, because we cannot control the world and circumstances. It is essential to accept things as they are, try to understand them, and then love them. The most important thing to focus on may be ourselves: always accept who you are and allow yourself to be yourself.
A daily gratitude session, or the maintenance of a gratitude journal is are two very powerful ways of attracting happiness. Spend some time each day to think about what you can to be thankful for, and silently thank those who have enabled those things and those who have done something that made you happy. You can also write down 2 – 3 things each day that brought you happiness, or something other good , in a gratitude journal. When you sometimes would feel a lack of happiness then you can simply read parts of the gratitude journal.
Did you know that you can become infected with happiness? Yes, happiness is contagious and it is a good infection to have. You only have to make sure you surround yourself with happy and positive people. Emotional states are contagious and you’ll easily pick up states from the people to surround you. It is therefore also important to avoid people with negative emotion – if you can’t infect them with your happiness!
Spend at least a few minutes each day thinking about the things that make you happy. These few minutes will give you the opportunity to focus on the positive things in your life and will lead you to continued happiness. We are the creators of our own reality and it is therefore entirely up to us to create happiness – by thinking happy thoughts. You can also maintain a “happy journal” in which you write down two or three things each day that made you happy.
Drawing on 2,500 years of mental techniques for paying careful attention to the workings of their own minds, Buddhist meditators deploy their brains with exceptional skill. They have basically develop expertise in controlling the flow of their mental life, avoiding the emotional squalls that often compel us to take personal feelings oh, so personally, and clearing new channels for awareness, calm, compassion and joy. This is a good example of the possibility that we can choose to regulate our emotions, modulate our moods and increase cognitive capacity. The good news is that you don’t have to become a Tibetan monk to enjoy these advantages of meditation. Meditation is now out of the closet. The word is, it eases stress, drops blood pressure and helps put that bad day at the office in perspective. Scientists have recently begun to map the brain regions related to positive emotions such as empathy. When they hooked up EEG sensors on subjects meditating on compassion they found a striking activity increase in the left side near the front of the cortex – the region that also becomes active when we feel happiness and enthusiasm, and joy. Anxiety and sadness stimulate the right side. Happiness can be generated from within, either through formal meditation or by informal “thought focusing” while going about the business of daily living. There are many types of meditation, and they can be used to develop a variety of mental skills. With meditation it’s possible to cultivate a longer attention span, develop emotional stability, understand the feelings of others and release yourself from the constraints you place on your own happiness.