Happenstance 6

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What makes you happy? 

It depends on what happens… thus the word Happy coming from the word happenstance.

 

Money does not make you happy…

Many of the most miserable people are wealthy beyond measure. 

 

Happiness is so important to us as Americans that it is actually in our Declaration of Independence. As you know, it states that among other things, we as Americans are "endowed by [our] Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

 

 

6 happiness tools - “what happy people know, by Dan Baker PHD

 

1.     Appreciation is the first and most powerful tool at being happy. Can you learn to appreciate.

 

 

 

2.     Choice, it is the father of freedom and the voice of choice. Having no choices leads to depression loneliness and ultimately learned helplessness.

 

 

 

3.     Personal power. This is the most indefinable proactive force similar to character that gives you power over your feeling and over fate. Personal power has two components a. taking personal responsibility by taking action.

 

 

 

4.     Lead with your strengths. Most people when pressured focus on their weakness, which cycles out of control.

 

 

 

5.     The power of language and stories. We don’t describe the world we see, we see the world we describe. Language as the single most fundamental force of the human intellect has the power to alter perception. We think in words and these words have the power to limit us or to set us free. They can frighten us or evoke our courage. Similarly the stories we tell ourselves eventually become our life. We can tell healthy or horror stories the choice is ours.

 

 

 

6.     Multi dimensional living. There are three primary components of life relationships health and purpose. Most people focus on only one of these. The 5 happiness traps are: trying to buy it, trying to find it in pleasure, by trying to resolve the past, by trying to over come weakness, trying to force it. “what happy people know, by Dan Baker PHD

 

 

But here is the real secret… 

The Body can experience Pleasure

The Soul can experience Happiness

The Spirit can experience Joy

Don’t confuse these.