You are YourHappiness

Our mind is a labour room, pregnant with the ideas
we feed it till its birth. Most actions we take in our
conscious state comes from the mind.

How does the mind relate with our happiness?
One thing to note is “You are in charge of your
happiness, your environment is not. YYour body is not
only You”.
The process you let get into your mind is what the
body executes.
Using a lady as an example: most or all of us love our
hair (natural or fixed), imagine getting that hair you
admired 3 months ago as a gift from a friend who has
really upset you, that seems like the best thing. But
how then do you feel, you feel so so excited, because
you start imagining how beautiful the hair will look
and the style you will make, some of us even go as
far as imaging what that boy that has been admiring
us for a while now will do when he sees us and some
of us will want to fix it in a way that our crush must
ask us out. Lol
But then if we study the process we realise that it is
not the hair that actually made us happy, it is the thought of
the hair that made us happy. You had the option of returning
the hair in anger, saying, “what nonsense, do you think I
can’t afford the hair, because of the anger you had in mind
for that person; but then a simple gift that he/she knows will
make you happy, stole the day . So that’s how our mind
works. It is solely dependent on what we feed it, which in
turn births happiness or sadness.
Nobody or nothing is in charge of your happiness than you.
It starts from you and it ends with you.
What then are the basic steps on how to be happy and
remain happy?
Remind yourself
If a situation comes up and you are stuck in the moment of
being sad and getting angry about the situation around you,
the first thing to do is remind yourself that your happiness
is your choice.
This takes continuous practise. People often say it is not
possible to be happy all the time and I ask why? Being
bothered does not mean you are sad, it just means you are
in search of a solution, but people often tag being bothered
with sadness.
I know it is possible to remain happy and that can only
come if you take the first step of reminding yourself. It is a
conscious act and with constant practise it becomes a
habit.
Live It
If you must stay happy, you have to live happy. You have to
radiate happiness. Surround yourself with the positives,
walk off naysayers and joy killers. Stay around people who
inspire you and make you be the best of yourself. You can
only live everyday happy if you appreciate who you really
are.
You can only live what you believe, if you constantly remind
yourself that you ought to be happy, then it becomes a habit
to always live happy.
Just when you begin to live happy, you see yourself looking
younger, feeling younger and look a lot healthier. People
say music, but I say laughter is the food for the soul.
So it is over to you to make the conscious step of choosing
happiness today and every day. It is not expensive.