These few days back I've been reading a book called Zen the Art of Happiness (Chris Prentiss) that emphasized on ways to change your inner strength to act as a magnet to your happiness. Maybe for some reasons we thought that by getting good results makes us happy, born in a rich family makes us happy, or living in a huge mansion makes us happy. The fact is it is the other way round: when you are happy, you can get what you wanted.
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Happiness is within yourself and you need to bring it out to the surface in order to make yourself happier. I would say the best way to understand this is by looking at your polar or trained of thoughts. Let's do this together. How many times have you ruminated about your stupidity in school?? How many times have you said that you are a complete failure?? And how often you undermined your own capabilities or believing that you can't do anything?? I think for many of us, those ways of thinking are pretty normal right. So now asked yourself, what did you get out of that?? Failure, lethargy, stupidity, and yada yada yada.
Well fear not, embrace yourself people because there are many ways of coping with that problems and guess what, they are very easy - doing tasks.
First, put this in mind: Everything that happens to me is the best things that can happened to me. When I said everything, it's literally means EVERYTHING and no one could change the fact. Make this polar of thought your daily chanting until you truly believe in that. The problem happened when difficulties strike, and conflicts peak. Many of us think that it will be the worse thing in life or maybe that are the punishments/karma for our wrong doings. Remembering trials as a mean of punishment could be a good way of looking at it but mostly people will extrapolate that to an extent blaming God and distancing themselves from Him which is wrong.
Look at the problem as it is and do not take them close to you. Handle them wisely and confront them bravely. God gives us trials and tribulations to elevate our positions in the eyes of the paradise dwellers. The more you think positive and less blaming, the better your position in the paradise. Give the problems and difficulties to scaffold you to grow, to become mature, being more independent, to hold on, and to be stronger. Remember, the way you think would have repercussions which either positive or negative, so choose what you want.
Second, we are the authors of every next moment. Without realizing it, we are such powerful beings that have the abilities to create and to form our own future based on our personal philosophy of life. Personal philosophy is simply the way you look at things which determined how you respond to anything. Be it your partner, your family, your school chores, and your problems. We seemed to be using bad impressions of our own life like putting connotations us being stupid, weak, bored, incapable and many more in which our bodies react to the way we look at things.
For example, when you believe that you are not handsome because you are above average in weight that people always criticize you for not being in a good shape. Well remember this, when you open a room for bad strangers, you are granting them permissions to take whatever they wanted and ruining whatever they feel like doing. So get the hell out of them be yourself people. They got no power to tear you down, but you do. If you are doing things that confirmed their attributions on you, there goes the conflicts and problems.
Lastly, for now, your brain inordinately have a super power to give effect on your physiology (physical body). Based on research, there are three major chemical categories in our bodies which are neurotransmitter, steroid, and peptides. Above all, peptides cover 95% of the entire chemicals that signal the activities of cells. Dr Peth in her research confirmed that when we think positively about anything, our hypothalamus which act as the site for peptides secretion releases more good peptides that will eventually channeled to the bloodstream to the cells. The peptides will get to the cells and help maintaining a good supply of cells that regulate our bodies.
When we think bad about something, we are prone to have almost eighteen billion of cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed - type peptides and less feel - good peptides. So when that happened, hypothalamus releases a surge of bad peptides to the bloodstream to the cells, and the consequences would be your daily life seems gloomy, dull, bored, depressing, and anxious. So it is all about thinking and building a good trained of thoughts.
Overall, I think this book is a good food to serve our mind and thoughts. We can change our life's result by improving the way we look and perceive things. I would say that it is a process and it takes a lot of efforts and energy to do it. But it is better to do it now before too late. Sorry for the least elaboration, but I hope that the main points were made clear. Change the way you think, and you'll change everything..
Loves,
firdausfazuan
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