Feel Happiness Now

Does happiness seem illusive? Then you need to know that happiness is a state of being that can only be experienced in the present moment.

Think about the things that at are making you happy (or unhappy) at the moment. Are you feeling happy because you are healthy or unhappy because you are in pain? Are you happy because you feel loved or unhappy because you are alone? Do you feel happy because you have enough money to live on or unhappy because of money worries?

We all have personal priorities in life and different things that make us feel happy. It is important to understand that happiness and unhappiness are the two extremes of one emotion [energy in motion], and emotions can only be experienced in the present moment.

If you are dwelling on bad experiences that you have had, you are missing out on feeling happy in the present moment. Each moment of now is being spoiled by bad memories that you keep dragging up from the past to make yourself miserable. You must let go of that baggage if you want to experience happiness.

You may think “I’ll be happy when…..I get that promotion, find a partner.....” but you can’t put your life on hold - waiting for happiness in some imagined future. It may not turn out the way you hoped.

You can get stuck in the habit of backward or forward-looking such that you are never mentally/emotionally present to experience happiness in the moment of NOW and chances for happiness will pass you by.

You can harness the amazing power of your mind to experience happiness emotions as easily as you can experience any other (unwanted) emotion. You simply need to choose how to feel and instruct your mind – take the reins and be in charge instead of allowing habitual ways of thinking rule your mood states.

When portraying any strong emotion, “method actors” recreate an actual experience from their memory banks - focusing intensely on the emotion until it triggers a reaction in their body-mind in the present moment. Award winning actors share a secret with people who have studied hypnosis and NLP. They know that the body-mind has no sense of time and are able to laugh, cry, be depressed or be ecstatically happy in such a real way that we suspend our disbelief and empathise with their characters – and they win Oscars.

Time is simply a mental concept that we have created to help organise our lives. It started with following the Earth’s seasons for planting crops or hunting migrating game, but time has become a governor that rules most peoples’ lives. When you ask someone to think about what they really haven’t got enough of, the answer usually boils down to time:

“If I had more time I could earn more money and retire earlier to really enjoy my time”.

This is a circular statement. We have “evolved” to make a scarcity out of that we actually value the most!

Remember that when you are feeling harassed. There really is no such thing as time, there is only now. You may be late for that “important” meeting, but the meeting will no longer be a part of your reality if you kill yourself in your rush to get there.

Take a deep breath, relax and focus your mind on the moment of now. Find a happy experience filed away in your memory bank and go into that experience. Really feel those happiness emotions…..now.

Notice how your body changes whilst experiencing happiness. Do you feel lighter? Do you feel more relaxed? Do you forget about your aches and pains?

When you are feeling happy feel-good hormones are released into your blood stream. Research has shown that these chemicals give you a natural high, boost your immune system and help your body to heal and fight disease. Hence the saying “Laughter is the best medicine”. [Stress and anger have the opposite effect on the body-mind].

Scientists now know that it is impossible to separate the mind from the body. Chemical messengers are continually sent around the body and the emotions [energy in motion] that you focus upon effect changes in your physiology. Similarly your posture and facial expressions have an affect upon your emotions. So, shoulders back and smile!

Since happiness is a state of being, and you are that being, you have a choice. You can choose to be a being that is being happy, or you can choose to be a being that is experiencing unhappiness. Which would you prefer? You get to decide.

It is actually within your power to be happy or unhappy. It is you who is in charge of your body-mind after all. When making your daily choices remember that happiness can only be experience in the moment of now. If you are not being in the moment of now you are not present to experience happiness. n