happiness
Happiness, defined; things that help you find happiness, keep it, and share it with others.
Removing Negative Blockers through Positive Affirmations
I remember when I first started to focus on using positive affirmations. It was pretty incredible how many people felt that they needed to be "real" with me when they said that "Just thinking positive is a waste of time,"
By Jennifer S. Benson 6 years ago in Motivation
Walking my way into the morning sun.
Ahh. What a great day! I thought I'd wake up early and go to the beach for a cup of coffee. No! Its freaking winter, it's very cold! It's so windy. Plus I have so much work to do and have to finish my homework. Why do I still have to study anyway? I hate this morning! I just really want to go to bed. Maybe I'll just go back to bed.
By Macey Monday6 years ago in Motivation
Who Am I?
I feel absolutely insane most of the time. Thoughts take over my head what seems to be demons. Or am I making it up. You see I have many pieces of myself. Like a shattered mirror in a realm of time loops. As I try to intuitively seek out this God, Source, Creator.. I also believe that God is me and that I am all of those things.. I like to say i'm a Goddess, because why the fuck not. I always imagine myself in Greek, Egyptian, and Mayan/Aztec cultures, me being a wise Oracle, Warrioress and Queen. These are merely just pieces of the shattered mirror I mentioned. Maybe i'm crazy, I want you to call me schizophrenic, I feel like I have many personalities, or maybe i'm what people say, a multidimensional being. But this reality is filled with so many lies I don't know what to believe or who to trust, so I trust myself, family and close small knit of friends. I imagine myself as one of those old wise witch ladies that lives in isolation away from civilization with flowers and overgrown plants around her house with lots of cats/animals roaming around, AKA the crazy lady that talks to animals, I mean I'm already on that path and I accept that fate entirely. Am I becoming? Am I ascending?
By Shelby Maxine6 years ago in Motivation
The Best Meaning of life: Gratitude
The meaning of life: Gratitude, being grateful, helps you see what's there when it isn't ~ What I say is, "I am grateful for the life I have, not wanting anything that I don't need that I cannot work for myself and appreciating everything I do have." If you do not say this, you might be an alien. If you are an alien you are not a human being, thus getting yourself into a lot of trouble when you are a good person and all good people who are grateful, as I am, have all of my love~ However, it is very urgent to follow everything I wrote about gratitude, just trying your best should be good enough. For the sake of perfect peace, being calm and collected, believing in yourself, and becoming the type of person you've dreamed of to be is very important~ Also please do not use drugs and alcohol, these will slowly kill your mind and body~ There's always sexual stimulation I think unless that's the same as drugs and alcohol~ Also if you say peace, this originates from the concept of P.C.E. [PATAY Cake, Everyone = Positively All of The Above, Yay....and the cake is just there to make things sound better. You can think of it as, "this is a piece of cake," and any other creative ways u can think of~). If you say this to situations your not sure of, then you will always be right~! Because(x)5~ this kind of life I just wrote IS THE BEST DREAM HUM (come) TRUE~ !! 💝💗🖤💙💚💝💘💖💗💓💞💕❣️🖤🖤💟💙💚💜🧡💛❤️, etc.
By Cung Lian6 years ago in Motivation
Eternal Sunshine
Eyes sitting low, eventually your gaze meets the beaming light projectimg for heaven above. Warmth on your skin as you feel the gentle breeze caress through your hair as if you had a personal connection with the wind. Deep breath. Listen to the birds chirping. Deep breath. Acknowledge the calm stream make its way down its ordained narrow path. Deep breath. Don’t think about yesterday’s headache and tomorrow’s foreshadow of unfortunate events. Live in this moment, for you will never feel so alive as you do in this very second. It’s funny how we go through life, living portions of feeling happiness, grief, disappointment, jealousy, rage, excitement, restlessness and stillness. The flesh, the soul, and the mind in a constant battle between how exactly you should go about your everyday life. To feel and how to act. What to think and what to say. I have been on this earth now for 18 short years of my life as of June. I can testify to the struggles and the joy life has to offer, but for some reason the negativity always outweighs the optimism that flows through my head. I have dealt with anxiety and depression for some time now, as many people are dealt with the same cards everyday as well. For many years I have tried to suppress my feelings in hopes that I would somehow, someday be happy. But how does one actually get happy? Is happiness forever once you find it? Or at least until you think you’ve found it. Eternal Sunshine, a glow within yourself that can easily be taken away in just a moment. A light that shines in you to give a little spring in your step and spread laughter to those around you. A sense of feeling present and not having to wear a smile that shortly diminishes the moment you’re finally alone. When you don’t have to pretend anymore. Eternal happiness, it may not be forever but it is definitely a feeling that is worth the good fight. To strive for at least a minute, if not a second of pure joy. Within a babies laugh, or a preferable scent that reminds you of a cheerful day. Joy in a hobby or a film, in a person even. I am a firm believer that no one is truly happy. Everyone deals with some sort of pain and it comes in all shapes and forms. There is too much bad in the world that most times the ugly wins the battle over what’s beautiful. No one is happy, but no one has gone through life and hasn’t experienced what happinesses can feel like. Strive for the moments. In this photograph, it takes me back to a happy feeling each time I look at it. The scenery takes me back to what it was like standing around all of Gods artwork and I felt blessed to be a part of that moment right then and there. To more moments of Eternal Sunshine.
By Elyse Razack6 years ago in Motivation
glow from within
When I picture writing about what makes me glow from within, I picture a silhouette in front of a window as the sun rises, sun rays splash the walls of a room and me taking it all in one breath at a time. Ironically, my pre-chaotic transformative moment doesn’t start in the morning as the glow from the waking sun appears. It actually begins right before I close my eyes at night. I once watched a YouTube video that stated what stimulates you (whether it be food or content) the first two hours awake as well as the last two hours before sleeping has a direct correlation to your well-being thereafter. Like, it actually has a psychological and physiological affect on your being. Nothing beats that feeling inside knowing you have an opportunity to be deliberate about your actions and control how you will move forward from one moment to another.
By Amber Walker6 years ago in Motivation
Discovering ME
My favorite emojis are purple hearts and upside-down happy faces. I like gangster rap and classical literature. I like to sew but I never finish any projects. You need something hemmed or a button sewn on? I’m you girl. I rearrange furniture, compulsively, even in hotels, especially hotels. I clean when I’m trying not to cry, and I have been known to organize the same drawer 3 times when I'm worried. I like using things for different things than the were supposed to be used for, yet find great peace and comfort in honoring traditions. I have been searching my whole life for simple, steady, and good. Yet my life is perpetual, complex, chaos and drastic shifts. I’ve learned to be my own simple, steady and good.
By Emily N. DeFalla6 years ago in Motivation
Crowds To Loneliness
My Spirit is dejected, but I have found a better comfort in the truth. Cast out from the hearts of those I gave myself over to, in expectation that I'd be accepted, what was birthed in my mind as friendship was truly a crowd of enemies. They welcomed me with sneers and malicious winking, and as I was naive, believing their expressions were trustworthy, I sat among the ones who hated my life. What was love to me back then proved to be nothing more than fiends preying upon a lost child, sitting among dogs who hadn't any true honor about themselves. I am gladdened more by my sorrow than by their company, for it reminds me of the honesty I seek. It is my own, but it is worthy, more so than their deceit has ever been, and never shall their lies be acceptable to me again. I am alone.
By Benjamin Adam Altiery6 years ago in Motivation
A Mighty Fire
The power of the individual is like igniting a match. The single flame could light other matches but the start of it has to remain with the individual match. That is the inner glow of the individual. Each person, each human being is an end unto him or herself. This means that the individual cannot be disposed of in any manner based on the “needs” of others. I learned this fact thirteen years ago and still exhibit the promise.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Motivation
Sunset Memories
We always tend to blame the things happening around us for missed opportunities that we didn't take, but if we look back maybe we had more control over what we could have done than what we chose to do, I know personally for myself I could have gone on more walks with the people I love when I had the opportunity, I chose not to go and now because of this pandemic I would love to go on a walk and look at the sunset while talking about the things happening in life, but I'm not sure how long I will have to wait to get an opportunity again since life's changed so much. I never imagined that time was so precious until I started to realize I had less of it to spend. Even as an adult I still can't explain why a sunset looks so beautiful and why I'm drawn to it. Sometimes when I see a sunset I can't help but stare and be mesmerized by the beauty of it.
By Naylay Win6 years ago in Motivation
The Freedom Paradox
In the words of Carl Gustav Jung: “People don’t have ideas, ideas have people.” How many ideas exist? Many to be sure but only one exists which possesses people in order to create an ultimate purpose therefore meaning and finally happiness: Freedom.
By James Sirois6 years ago in Motivation
