“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

 “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

We are all human, and we are all subject to experiencing a broad array of emotions. We experience emotions on both ends of the spectrum.What defines which end will carry more weight?

The one we feed the most.The stoics, Buddhists, and other sages truly understood/understand the process of the mind, and how our thoughts control our brain chemistry, and ultimately, our happiness.Many people simply drift through life, experiencing neither extreme, but retain a rather indifferent, or “comfortable” attitude.Others slip into a deep, depressed state, or a state of being overcome with anger, rage and resentment.Others, however, achieve the ultimate state of consciousness and awareness. The Buddhists call this state “Enlightenment”. It is the ending of all suffering.

When we understand the true cause of happiness, and learn to differentiate the cause of happiness from things that bring us joy, only then can we achieve the state of higher being.

I like to practice gratefulness. I pay great thanks every day that I wake up to see another day. I pay great thanks for the wonders that life brings; to all the acts of kindness that I encounter.

While it’s normal to experience sudden negative emotions such as anger or sorrow, I understand that it’s of utmost importance to choose to respond wisely, rather than to react in the moment and create a ripple effect of continued negativity, which inevitably sits in the back of our subconscious and leads to a poor state of mind.

When we choose to change our perspective on external circumstances, we then can understand the finer side of life.