Choose to be Happy

Is happiness really a choice? In the midst of adversity and stress, can we choose to be happy? The answer is not ‘can we choose’ but ‘we MUST choose’ to be happy; especially in those moments or times of distress.

How do we Choose to be Happy?

It may seem like a new age concept of choosing to be happy, and perhaps this is the first time in thousands of years where being happy is not frowned upon. In man’s recorded history, being happy seems to have reserved for the rich and powerful leaders, with common man being reduced to just being able to survive. The dark ages often burned at the stake anyone who was not quiet, serious, and pious. Being happy was to call great suspicion to one’s self. Only in enlightened countries such as classical India did the saints and sages help their students and disciples understand what happiness is, and how to achieve it in one’s life.

The Christmas story is about being happy and on a world scale, but that too seems to have been buried in the ashes of the Roman Empire, then the dark ages, and finally, today, religious extremism, and all forms of religious persecution. Yet, in spite of those who would have  you believe the opposite, you can choose to be happy.

This choice is made by rejecting the negative, removing doubt and insecurity from your heart, clearing up your ambiguities, and choosing your basic nature to manifest.

The Result of Choosing to be Happy

What happens when you chase away the negative thoughts, remove the doubts in your heart and let situations become clear for you, is that happiness begins to manifest itself and makes your choice for you. It is a feeling you have, and these feelings affect your thoughts, and your positive happy thoughts affect your present situation, and naturally, your present situation determines your future.

Being Happy in a Sea of Unhappiness

Is it possible to be happy in a sea of unhappy faces? Certainly! Help one or two people to become happy and your own happiness increases. If you gain some wealth, share it with others, and you will find in that action, happiness returns to you, along with greater wealth!  If you can make someone frowning smile, lighten their burden, help them (even for a moment), you will see that your own happiness is reinforced and more able to withstand the attacks from those unhappy ones who would have you join them again!

Happiness is Your Birthright!

No matter who tells you the opposite, or gives you examples of suffering and tragedy, know that your true birthright, indeed everyone’s is to be happy.  As this truth becomes known, it destroys the eons of lies told to make you subservient and submissive. Happiness is a choice to life itself and , once this simple truth is understood, nothing can ever make you unhappy again. For when adversity and misfortune come to find you, they will find happiness that greets them, and quickly leave to find more fertile soil in the less enlightened!  So, always choose in every situation to be happy, and you will be. The more your practice this great truth, the more it becomes established in your everyday life.