” The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” James M. Barrie
What makes you happy?
What brings you energy and inner peace?
Think about these questions for a few minutes.
Ponder over what truly makes you feel good about being alive.
What brings a smile on your face?
What allows you to breathe deep refreshing breaths?
Hold what truly makes you happy in your heart and smile thinking about how this makes you feel.
Tap into this happiness and feel they way it travels through your body, mind and heart. Feel the way you breathe. Feel how tensions fade away. Close your eyes and allow this happiness to reside deep within your body. Take a moment or two to stay in this place.
My next question to you is this:
Are you taking action for more happiness and inner peace in your life or are you doing what does not truly bring you more joy?
Really think about this question. Review what you have done in the past month or two and evaluate your actions.
If you are acting in ways to enhance your happiness and inner peace, congratulations.
However, if you are not, my next question to you is this:
Why are you make the unsatisfactory choices that you are? Why are you not doing what you heart is pulling you towards?
We all know the excuses:
- Money.
- No opportunities.
- I am not good enough.
- I have no help.
- I do not know how.
- No one ever showed me.
- My family will be upset with me.
- My friends will not understand.
- My boyfriend/girlfriend will leave me.
- I am afraid.
- as well as many others…
While there are always excuses you can make as to why you do not do what truly makes your heart rejoice and where your heart is pulling you to go, there are always many reasons why you can bring more joy in your life and how you can follow your heart.
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The choice is yours as to what you will focus on and allow to drive your actions.
What are you choosing to focus on?
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Are you focusing on the reasons why you can not do what makes you feel alive, happy and experience inner peace or are focusing on the excuses as to why you can not feel alive, happy or experience inner peace?
What you focus on truly matters.
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What you think about affects your happiness, inner peace and the next steps that you will make in your life.
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You have all you need within you and whatever you may not have , you have the resources available to attain what you need.
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Allow your heart and your intuition to guide you and not your excuses.
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Your heart and intuition will give you so many reasons why you can be happy and to experience inner peace, as well as show you the
way.
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Or better yet, how about forgetting about what we mean by happiness and inner peace, stop defining everything and simply be guided by our heart? All is one. That to me is what I believe is inner peace.
So tell me, what makes you happy and experience inner peace? Share below.
Embrace the journey.
Wishing much happiness to you,
Joanne Cipressi, CHt, CNLP
Empowerment Coach, Speaker and Author
Host of #InspireChat
To schedule speaking engagements or workshops, please email me at joanne@joannecipressi.com or call me 267-266-6480.
About Joanne Cipressi
Joanne Cipressi is an empowerment coach and speaker who's life ambition is to encourage people that they are worthy of happiness and living the life they want. She has over 13 years experience in coaching people to overcome depression, addictions, low self esteem, trust issues and the effects of abuse and to develop the skills for great relationships, attracting and keeping clients/customers and balancing the mind and emotions.
I think that what makes me happy and experience inner thing is when I have thought new things in the future. These can help me in order to deal with the things that I care the most.
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Here are the things to make me happy:
- love)
- pleasant communication with the girl next to me at my work)
- good sunny weather
- walking in the rain
- riding my bicycle..
- kissing for hours))
Great insight! happiness is complicating sometimes, it’s easy at times, but when the tough gets going i feel like that’s the time that people can become discouraged rather then, (like you said) find ways to think happy thoughts and remain in a happy state regardless of the outer environment that may possibly be making you frustrated etc.
GREAT READ AND GREAT ADVICE JOANN