Happiness is a State of Mind

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Happiness is a State of Mind

Happiness is a state of mind and has nothing to do with the external world.

                                                                 From the Bhagavad Gita

Far too often we make external circumstances accountable for our state of mind. We are grumpy because the weather is “bad”, because our spouse woke us up at night, because there’s a hole in our favourite sweater, or simply because it’s Monday. We do it because it’s easy and because it has become a habit to search for mood reasons outside of ourselves.

However, deep inside we know that outer circumstances don’t have to bring us down and that we ourselves decide upon how we feel. That just demands a little effort: switch over to your inner life and check out its status. Is there a center of not-being-happy-with-the-world-as-it-is? Well, drop the complaints. 

Decide to brighten up your life and enjoy it. Get in touch with the happiness and love you feel for yourself, for others and for life in general. Feel the blissful warmth inside. Smile to your Monday, to the weather - whatever it is - and if you can’t mend the hole in your sweater, I’m a master at it ;-)