How To Start Feeling Happier About Yourself

This is one subject that we all think about once in awhile, and I have found that altho' difficult, we can achieve a state of happiness so long as we direct our thinking to that state of mind. Sometimes I'll watch these talk shows that are targeted towards helping people with concerns of being overweight, being self critical, not knowing how to solve their problems, feelings of depression etc. and the one thing I find about these people with these problems is that they don't seem to know that it's their own thoughts, their own ways of seeing themselves, their own ways of focusing on more negative thoughts than positive thoughts that make them feel so helpless or inadequate. Their inner strength and power has become stagnant.

Let's face it....when you wake up in the morning and the first thought on your mind is, :( "Oh no..another day.." that's a hum-drum negative response to greeting the new day. Whereas if you were to greet the new day with a positive note, like, "It's going to be a good day.." you would probably feel alot better about starting the day. It's all a matter of what you tell yourself...how you're going to feel everyday. You can wake up every morning and say to yourself..."I'm going to have a good day today" or you can say to yourself, "I'm going to feel bad today". It's really up to what we say to ourselves.

I call that "Self Talk". Some people ask "What can I do to achieve a state of happiness?" For one, they can start writing a daily journal. Take the time to write how you feel about the people in your life, your family, your job, your hobby, what made you happy today, what made you mad. Do this for about 2 to 3 months, faithfully, then read over what you've written, and take note of the things that made you feel negative, sad or angry and you'd like to change. There's your list to start making positive changes to. Start with one thing at a time, take small steps and remember you have to walk before you can run.

So don't be too hard on yourself, you're not going to fix everything in one day, one week or even one month, it's going to take time to change the pattern of your thinking, but it can be done. Start trying to radiate an outward feeling of happiness. Feelings that are positive and happy will show outwardly and can create happiness around you and for others. Divert negative thoughts to positive thoughts.
Develop a positive outlook towards yourself. If you're unhappy because you're overweight, or your life isn't unfolding the way you'd like it to, start to make positive changes to those undesirable feelings and make it a goal to change to positive results.

Remember, it's how you "Self Talk" to yourself that will set the course of your thoughts which will make the pattern of the way you think change for the better. Which will help you achieve a state of happiness. It will take some effort on your part, but don't give up, don't fall into the pattern of being emotionally lazy, keep working toward a better outlook. See yourself as having a positive effect on your surroundings and you will achieve your desired state of mind. For more inspirational writings, affirmations and suggestions please visit: Myself Self Help blog http://myselfselfhelp.blogspot.com

Copyright(c)2015.How To Start Feeling Happier About Yourself. Written by Sherrie Vitello. All Rights Reserved. 

Have You Ever Smelled Your Life? Think About It.

Thought for the day: What does your life smell like? At first it may seem like an unusual question. On the second thought, the question will probably

reveal to you some things you may have overlooked. If you were to take a whiff of your life, which response mechanism would be activated? A gag reflex?

The laugh button? A sigh of relief? Or unspeakable joy? If you were passing by your life, what would you smell? A bed of roses? Or a gym locker full of

sweaty socks? Perhaps some of grandmas' home cooking? Or is it more like popcorn that has been left in the microwave too long? If you were to throw open

the front door of your life, what would hit you in the face? The scent of Carpet Fresh or the stench of a moldy basement? The aroma of a cake that's

just about done? Or the smell of trash that needs to go out? Most of us are very familiar with the way our lives look. Few of us have ever taken the

time to make sure that our lives smell as clean as they look. Quite often, what our ears, eyes and hands miss, our nose can detect. The sense of smell

is also quite useful because it evokes memories. With a whiff of something, you can be thrown back into a memory of something that happened, how it

happened and whether or not you liked what happened. From there, you are motivated to encourage or discourage the same thing from happening again in

your life. Most important, the sense of smell evokes feelings. If something in your life doesn't smell right, you will not feel right. If you don't like

what you feel, you know it is time to clean up! Until today, you may only have been concerned with the way your life looks. You may have ignored certain

things you heard or saw, but you cannot ignore a smell. Just for today, be devoted to sniffing around your life. Be on the lookout for rotting things

you need to discard and fragrant things you can put on display. Enjoy the day!

Excerpts taken from her book: Until Today by Iyanla Vansant.

A Higher Level of Consciousness & Science? Its coming!

Open your mind, get out of your confined programmed mental box & understand that anything is possible. Especially the views of those whom discuss things of this magnitude. Who are we to think that what Teal discusses here could not be true? Its like she states, the people of this generation are waking up & its time to evolve into better/more enlightened human beings. I totally believe in the fact that people are waking up spiritually & with an open understanding of higher thinking is the key to our positive existence. For those of you who have doubts about this... ask this question & think for a moment. How have humans been doing with taking care of our world & all things within it? Enjoy this brief insight.
 

    

 

Teals concepts and views are very interesting. Her insight makes alot of sense too. Especially once you allow yourself to hear what she is saying here. I agree with what she says here about Science catching up & becoming multi dimensional. All things evolve in their own time. Its only inevitable.  As science continues to look through the scope of possibilities and then prove they exist, they will expand into a new horizon of multi science that will catapult us even further into knowledge with wisdom & of higher consciousness. They will merge to become one. Altho' it may take some time to reach this plateau. I believe it will happen. It makes me think of cultures of people like the Annunaki & others. They were considered highly intelligent and yet its not really clear as to where they went or how they dissappeared. And when you think about what Annuaki means: "those who from the heavens came" it leaves much room to ponder.

We All Have Good and Evil Wolves Within Us.

One evening an old Cherokee Indian told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, ‘My son, the battle is between two ‘wolves’ inside us all.One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.

The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.’

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: ‘Which wolf wins?’

The old Cherokee simply replied, ‘The one you feed.’

This is such a lovely story: so simple and yet so true. I think each and every one of us has these two wolves running around inside us. The Evil wolf or the Good Wolf is fed daily by the choices we make with our thoughts. What you think about and dwell upon will in a sense appear in your life and influence your behavior.

We have a choice, feed the Good Wolf and it will show up in our character, habits and behavior positively. Or feed the Evil Wolf and our whole world will turn negative: like poison, this will slowly eat away at our soul.

The crucial question is “Which wolf are you feeding today”?

 

Except taken from website: Wizdompath.com

 

 

Praising Our Children - Too Much Is Not Healthy

  Praise is key to positive development of self-esteem in children.            

But don't overdo it! That will give them the wrong messeage and they will not learn the proper value of their efforts.

Positive Affirmations

I really enjoy using positive affirmations. This one is very inspiring. I believe they truly do help us change for the better. If you think about something long enough and repeat those thoughts over and over again. Those thoughts will become behavior. Be them negative or positive. If you think about it, it takes awhile to get into a bad habit and when we are not living in positive light things never seem to work out for us. But when we learn to become open to change, embracing life and acceptance we begin to use positives from every angle. And you do change. Its amazing when we look back at how we were when we were not living in the light. We chose to stay in the dark and convinced ourselves that that was all there was to our existence. But soon, when we've lost it all and there's no where to go but up, we begin to see the light of change. We begin to move towards it & we find ourselves all over again. Except this tme.. we are golden.

Dean Leysen Tells Us About 'How We Get Addicted."

The views of Dean Leysen are energetic, funny and of a positive nature. In this video he expresses his views about How Addiction Works. His brief comical attributes add to this light hearted informative message. He also explains why we get addicted in the first place. He talks fast but you can still gain the message he telling us about.. Enjoy! (Don't forget to leave your comments below.) 

Science has found that the brain is highly susceptible to addiction. Because neurotransmitters like to make our bodies feel good. The brain becomes addicted to releasing these "feel-good" chemicals, like dopamine and epinephrine. Since a lot of drugs release these "feel-good" chemicals in our brains it does cause the brain to want more and more of it. We become emotionally addicted, then the body follows. Its all a part of how we get addicted to things. What we have to remember is IF we can get addicted to things we can also become UNaddicted to things. There is always help and hope. You just have to reach out and get help.