Friday, August 15, 2008

Think Happy Live Easy

'Happy thoughts children,' I remember my kindergarten teacher telling my classmates and I this when we were five. Happy thought yield to an easy life. We get a lot of living easy lessons when we are we are young that are simple, but later in life when we need we think - Happy thoughts, that can't work. The reality is that happy thoughts do work.

If you want to be happy, and most of us do, then think happy thoughts. If you think then the body will respond in kind. Try this right now, repeat over and over to yourself or out loud, 'I'm happy!' Say over and over again for one to two minutes. Chances are that at the end of this experiment you will be feeling happier at the end of it then when you started. The reason behind this is that your brain responds positively to affirmative thoughts. If you want to be happy think happy thoughts.

Why is happiness so important? Its quite simple when you happy life goes by easier. Happiness allows you to accomplish things effortlessly. Happiness is a great motivated. Happy people tend to be fit, have great relationships, and love their work. Happiness breeds success. If you want to do well in life then think happy thoughts.

So if you want to have an easy life, then keep thinking your happy. Each day when you rise tell yourself today is going to be a happy day. When you go to bed review all the happy events. Before you know it, you will be living a happy life, and your life will be easy.

Vince Chiles, LCSW is the author of a self-published book Happiness in Five Minutes a Day which is scheduled to be released to the public 3/26/08. Information about Vince and his book can be obtained by going to http://www.happinessinfive.com

By Vince Chiles

Happiness Is A Choice - 3 Keys To Choosing Happiness

Did you know that happiness is a choice? I know it doesn’t always seem like it but it is. Just think about it. How can someone who has everything in life be miserable and yet someone that hardly has anything can be amazingly happy? It comes down to what they choose. Happiness is a choice that you must make. Here are 3 keys to help you choose happiness.

1. Don’t be led by emotions.

Emotions are very powerful but can be dangerous if you don’t control them. If you are led by your emotions it will be difficult to continually be happy. You see, emotions change with every little thing that happens if you let them. Happiness is a choice you have to make regardless of what outside circumstances are. The better control you have of your emotions the more you will be able to choose to be happy.

2. Set yourself up to be happy.

Most people actually set themselves up to be unhappy. They set the rules to be happy so high that it’s practically impossible to be happy. Are the rules that you have set to be happy to hard? For instance, are one of your rules for happiness that you feel happy when you successful? If so, being successful all the time is hard to do. The odds are that you will be unhappy more then you will be happy if this is your rule. Make you rules easier and you will be happier.

3. Choose your thoughts wisely.

Happiness is a choice and therefore starts in your mind. If you think on things that are unhappy you will be unhappy. Begin the process of being happy by changing what you think on. You have a choice of what you are going to dwell on so make the choice to think about happy things.

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