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Perhaps you are one of those individuals who is always in the pursuit of happiness. It seems that no matter what you do, no matter how many actions you take, happiness always alludes you. In your pursuit of happiness perhaps you have changed relationships many times hoping that each one will be the very perfect relationship which will bring you happiness and contentment. You may have taken job after job hoping that each one will bring you a sense of satisfaction and allow you to realize your gifts and talents. You’ve probably read many books, attended classes and seminars, and gone through many self help programs in your pursuit of happiness, only to find happiness not constant for you.

Why? You ask yourself repeatedly why it is that happiness always seems to be just out of reach. The reason that you are not happy is very simple. Happiness is not the result things lining up in the way that you want them to be in order for you to feel happy. This pursuit will always leave you needing to do just one more thing in order to be happy. True happiness is a choice. The simplicity of this is why so many fail to see it. Mankind has taken this basic gift of the Creator and added so much complication that he now feels he must find happiness rather than just choose to be happy.

Most people are holding onto unhappy emotions and experiences of the past. It’s very difficult to be happy when you were filling yourself up with the emotions and experiences of the past. Take a moment and think of something that was painful in your past. What emotion comes to you almost once? It is the emotion that you identify the past experience with. If you are spending more of your time RE experiencing something that has already happened in the past the emotions you feel are always connected to the past. Now for just a moment think of something that you enjoyed, that was pleasant to you. What happens with your emotions? Emotions follow thought. Your emotions always follow your line of thinking. In order to change your emotional state you must choose thoughts that are in line with how you wish to feel. Although this is a very simple principle it is exactly the way your emotional state of being is created.

Rather than looking without yourself for happy take time right now to look within. That is the only place where happiness can ever be found, right within you. Choose a thought that feels good. Now let those thoughts grow, adding more thoughts like itself and go with that in your imagination. Your imagination is a wonderful and powerful tool that not only helps you create an emotional state but it is also the catalyst through which molecules join together to become what we call physical form. In order for anything to become a physical form it must first be thought and felt. This is the process by which you are always creating your next set of experiences.

A report taken several months ago showed that Americans were not the happiest people on the planet, this is rather surprising considering that we are the wealthiest nation. With all of our technology and all the financial wealth in our nation most people still find that they are not happy. The reason for this is very simple; happiness can never be obtained through the experiences outside the self. Happiness is always a choice, you are the only person who can choose it. Isn’t it time that you stop chasing happiness and make the decision to be happy?

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