When you are happy, what exactly you feel?
You feel content, you feel you want to hold the moment forever, you feel you don’t want anything to disrupt and change this moment.
You want to preserve the moment, the state.
“Happiness is simply absence of desire.” James Clear said.
However, happiness is a fleeting. Because we are human. We always have desires and wants.
When we have desire, we have struggles, challenges and failure. We want more, we want to achieve more. As human, it’s natural for us to have desires all the time. It’s in our DNA.
Desires move us from happiness to worries, hope, stress, joy and satisfaction.
We live in a dynamic world.
When we are happy, we need to preserve the treasured moments. Because happiness the space between our desires. They do not last and may not come easy.
This does not mean we should not have happiness. It simply means that happiness is a state. Happiness is not a goal.
Happiness is dynamic. It moves from time to time. It depends on the environment and context you may experience different degrees of happiness.
For example, when you had your first chocolate, you may fall in love with its taste and fell so happy. You become in love with chocolates. You like it. But the degrees of happiness each time you have one chocolate may be different depending on when, where, and with whom you have it.
You will not be happy all the time and everyday. But, you certainly can create more moments in your life to appreciate any happy moments you have.
Here are a couple of tips for creating more happy moments in your life:
1) when you are happy, savor it with your heart, your spirit and your body. Remember how this happiness makes you feel, smell and taste.
2) reflect the peak moments or happy moments you have had when you are down and feel flat. See how can you “repeat” or regenerate it. This can bring you more happy feeling and release some frustrations in your life.
With these two tips, have a happy day!
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