Published for you in Live Enlighten — Aug 29, 2021.
Why Happiness is Important — 3 Significant Reasons.
You can be happy right here, right now!
Happiness is a state of mind, which you can instantly get into if you really think you want it right now.
I have previously written an article about how to turn to suffer into happiness. In that article, I have written down the most important way to get you into happiness and end suffering once and for all.
The strategies are pretty much the same, but in this article, I wish to talk more about the importance of being in a happy state of mind.
How to become happy instantly
Let me tell you briefly about how you can have happiness right now, even if your situations or thoughts are miserable. You already know that happiness is a state of mind. If you want to become happy, just change your state of mind and you can do it instantaneously.
A state of mind is the state that your mind is in right now, whether you are angry, sad, depressed, passionate etc. It is a little more subtle than that, like what specific feelings that your mind is right now. Simply say, it is just how you feel. It is very significant to change your state of mind if you want to be in life-supporting states of mind like happiness.
So, to change your state of mind there are two ways, that is changing your physiology and changing your internal representation. Changing your physiology means changing your posture, your tone of voice, breathing pattern etc.
Your internal representations are the perspective at which you view a situation, or a person, or even yourself. It is how you represent things, events, and people to yourself. Just change your state of mind and you will instantly be in happiness.
If you want a little more understanding about changing your state of mind, read my article about how to deal with disappointments, where I wrote more about changing the state of mind.
Reason One — Becoming Grateful and the Sense of Growth
One of the most important reason why happiness is a must in life is to have a sense of gratitude. When you are truly grateful for all the little things that you have in your life, you begin to start a life full of fulfillment. It immediately puts you in a life of success. You will begin to see more and more ways that you are actually successful in life, and you feel that you have a quality life ahead.
When you become grateful for what you are and what you have in life, you will instantaneously feel happiness. Its more like having that sense of gratitude for what you are now and all those that you have now will change your state of mind to happiness. So be grateful and think about all those that you feel grateful for and become happy.
One of the important aspects of life is to become grateful. It immediately puts you into a sense of fulfillment. If you are grateful in many ways, you will understand that life is progressing because you are in happiness. This is a significant factor in life, that when you are happy, you feel that your life is progressing and will continually develop in future. That sense of progression or growth is very significant in life.
You may have felt that you got stuck in life, that there’s no development or growth. You may have felt that your life is not moving forward or higher. It is because you are lacking that sense of growth which is one of the most important factors in life. We all have a need deep inside of our mind to constantly expand. This constant and never-ending expansion must not cease in people’s life.
The expansion may be in so many forms, it is maybe about having an increase in money, it may be expanding your contribution, or it may be having a big social circle etc. There are so many ways in which you can expand.
Every person has their own unique ways to expand, but that doesn’t mean that a person should settle with expanding only one or two areas of life. A person can expand their life in so many areas of life, according to his passions and preferences in life. According to spiritual science, people are constantly expanding and the ultimate destiny is to constantly expand, that is to become infinitive.
Reason Number Two — To Succeed in Life
You want to succeed in life. You want to achieve the goals that you’ve set or you want to follow your passions throughout your life. The main factor that’s preventing you from achieving your goals or success is not knowing how to be happy.
You need to be happy in life in order for you to achieve success. When you master your emotions, you master your life and success will come automatically. Mastering your emotions is knowing how to be happy. If you understand how to be happy, then even in adverse situations you will be happy. You will overcome difficult situations just by being happy and that will help you in meeting your goals.
When you are in disempowering emotions, like pain, anxiety, depression, suffering etc. you will not succeed. You will be hindering your own progress and ultimately your success cannot be achieved. It is imperative in life to understand these disempowering emotions. They are actually giving you a specific set of direction in life.
For example, fear gives you the sign that there is something dangerous coming in your way and understanding that you need to change your approach. When difficult times come people usually tend to be in the disempowering emotion so long, not knowing how to change that and ultimately lead to a defeating situation. It is really important to understand the disempowering emotions and turn it into your advantage. It is possible only if you know how to become happy when you are in difficult situations.
Reason Three — It is a life-supporting emotion
Happiness is a life-supporting emotion. It supports you in your life to move forward smoothly. Even if you have nothing in life, you need to be happy. When you are happy, you feel that you have everything. You understand that you have everything in life, only when you become happy.
Happiness is an emotional need. You need to cultivate the habits of constantly becoming happy. Ultimately your success and achievements are related to how much happiness they bring into your life. Being successful and not being happy is the ultimate failure. When you prioritize the goals that you want to achieve, ask yourself if it makes you happy. If it doesn’t, then leave those goals and make new ones, which ultimately lead you to both happiness and achievements.
One of the stories that I have heard is about a group of tribal people who are living in one of the Islands of Fuji. Anthony Robbins, the world-renowned life coach went there to buy an island and he happens to see these people and made contact with them. He immediately thought about developing them financially and sharing with them the world’s wealth. But he discovered another most important aspect of life, and that is to have a life full of happiness.
These people don’t have money or other riches, but they have the most important aspect of life and that is happiness. They are happier than anyone in this world and that is the most important wealth that anyone in life must have. Immediately he lost the idea of developing them because they have the wealth that everyone is aspiring for in life, happiness. Anthony Robbins shared his experience with us, which is one of the most eye-opening messages for everyone.
