Happiness

Joy is not a destination, nor something to be found outside of oneself, it is a disposition of the mind. Happiness is the mental and emotional experience of positivity and pleasure, with feelings ranging from peace to intense bliss. It is both a state of mind and a way of life, and expresses itself through feelings of satisfaction, well-being, flourishing, and eudaimonia. For many, the experience of bliss is often not permanent because the individual has based their happiness on external circumstances. However, we are often more in control of our happiness than we realize. The presence of happiness in one's life is directly connected to the presence of love, gratitude, and peace within their mind, body, and soul. When an individual is internally content, they understand that good thoughts and feelings are just a perspective change away. You have the power to change your mindset, lifestyle, and environment to restore balance to the cycles of happiness within yourself. If you navigate the world with the mindset that you are unhappy, you will subconsciously continue to attract things, experiences, and people that confirm your viewpoint. The mind loves to be right. If you lead a life with happiness and gratitude then you see that exponential joy exists in you at all times, waiting for you to acknowledge and tap into it whenever you desire. To find the happiness one is looking for, he or she must learn how to direct the search inward and not allow external factors to be the basis of their joy. Constantly attempting to change the circumstances of your external world will make you exhausted before it ever brings you sustained happiness. There is no condition in the outside world that can make you truly happy if you are fundamentally unhappy inside. One must first create change and joy within themselves to see it reflected in their experiences. The foolish man seeks happiness, the wise man grows it under his feet. The presence of happiness in life is by choice, for man does not stumble across it by chance.