You Can Choose to Be Happy
You can be happy because happiness is a choice. You choose your mood all day every day in reaction to every situation, every sensory input, every change in blood sugar levels or adrenaline or caffeine . Maybe you can't choose your initial gut reaction to something. Sometimes something catches you off guard and the feelings are just there, raw and unedited. After that initial moment however, as you become conscious of your emotional state, you have a choice. Try it. In any given moment ask yourself, how do I feel? Do I feel good or bad? That's it. Good or bad. Don't break it down don't analyze it beyond those two categories. If the feeling is bad, then think of something you like, something you enjoy, a joke, a song anything and focus on it. If you really focus on this positive thing, this thing you enjoy, then very soon you will begin to feel good. This may be difficult at first. For one thing most of us are used to feeling our feelings not choosing them. We believ...