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Morning Platitude from The GratiDude
The general feeling is that you wait for things to happen or events or people to come into your life that make you happy. And then you get to experience happiness.
I don’t recall growing up being taught, explicitly or indirectly, that happiness is primarily an inside job. That was information that I only received recently since I woke up in the last half of a dozen years or so and decided to live my best life.
Now I realize that happiness is a choice to make every single day and not a random set of circumstances.
While the notion of “choosing” to be happy is a popular one, it’s more accurate to say that happiness is influenced by a combination of factors, including our choices and our circumstances. We can choose to engage in activities that bring us joy, cultivate gratefulness, and practice self-compassion, all of which can contribute to a more positive mindset. However, external factors like mental health, social situations, and even genetics can also play a significant role in our overall emotional well-being, making the idea of simply “choosing” happiness an oversimplification.
Here’s a more nuanced look at the concept:
Factors influencing happiness:
Internal choices:
We can consciously choose to focus on positive aspects of our lives, engage in activities that bring us joy, and practice mindfulness.
External circumstances:
Life events, relationships, and our overall environment can have a profound impact on our emotional state.
Mental health:
Conditions like depression and anxiety can make it difficult to experience joy and happiness, even when we make conscious efforts.
Genetics:
Individual differences in temperament and personality can also influence our predisposition to experience happiness.
The power of choice:
While external factors can influence our emotions, we still have a degree of control over how we respond to them. By choosing to be grateful, practice self-compassion, and engage in activities that bring us pleasure, we can cultivate a more positive outlook and improve our overall well-being.
For many people, though, before you can even choose happiness, you must build up a belief or a feeling that you’re deserving of such good feelings. I don’t believe that most people that don’t feel worthy of experiencing joy are doing so consciously or intentionally sabotaging their own enjoyment. However, the subconscious talk track that they have create so many limiting beliefs that they’re unable to be active in their pursuit of happiness.
Just getting to the point of believing your deserving of the abundance of beauty that is in front of you and this is a great reminder to all of us who have our hearts in the right places and the intentions to help other people in our lives.
You simply can’t help other people if they don’t yet believe they are deserving of help.
Whether it is somebody that has gotten out of shape and is risking their health due to cardiovascular strain on their body, or somebody is suffering from prescription drug abuse, or another substance abuse, and you want to be able to step in and provide support and help however the decision to get better has to start with the person that is having the substance issues not with the helper that wishes to help.
When it comes to day-to-day happiness, contentment, and things of that nature, it is clear that the only path back to living a happier life is to first get comfortable with the stillness that is required to give you the information on the level set and help you understand where you got off track.
One such example for me is how much I love the simple act of walking meditation. Not a hard-core focused meditation that requires discipline or something of that nature, but simply the act of walking, thanking my body for its ability to do so and feeling my breath happen in conjunction with every step.
When I take the conscious time and effort to focus on simple gratitude I feel for my ability to locomote under my own volition through my environment. I’m super appreciative and it is an opportunity for me to thank my body for all it does for me on a day-to-day basis
Going for a walk has become an activation vehicle for me for creativity and I often end up writing or recording something that I never would’ve thought of if I had remained sedentary and if I had not been moving my feet with headphones to a beat.
And because this activity doesn’t harm anyone else, and it is good for my health my higher self encourages me to do it daily to the point where I can’t stand playing golf and having to ride in a golf car! Sorry to my ClubCar and EZGO friends, but golf cars are confining and I want to feel that grass underneath my feet.
We have just this short life to live and it is not the dress rehearsal so I encourage you to first slow down and stop so you can connect to your higher self, which will tell you where you should be headed where you should go and what you should be doing.
We can call this the “pause for the cause”.
The cause being your own happiness, and the fact that we know that it is an inside job, and pause being some deep rest and stillness, and a connection to something bigger than you and to your attitude of gratitude.
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Every day, every way, grateful.
KC
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