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Your Heart

Is your Happy Meter

By UNpretentiousPublished 4 years ago 3 min read
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Happiness is supposedly based on the warmth of your heart. Therefore, we all have happiness inside of us as long as we are living, if you'd like to think of it in that way. Your happiness could also be dependent on how helpful and kind you are to others, the warmth of your heart is the generosity of your character. No matter which one happiness is based on, it doesn't work without a smile, and laughter, the delivery of your generosity matters.

If happiness was based on just being alive today, then you just need to turn to yourself in the mirror and think of the many different things you could be grateful for just after opening your eyes. You could be happy to have a room over your head, having woken up, to have clothes on your back, to have teeth used to smile, to have a job, to have the means to survive, to have a chance to be a better you today than you were yesterday. These are all reasons to be happy and grateful that we look past almost everyday, it's the little things that matter, so put on your think cap, open your eyes and smile until your mind understands your happy. Sometimes you have to fake it, if your anything like me, you tell yourself you need a reason to smile, and I usually do, but I have a reason every second that I'm breathing and it's always substituted with a frown. I don't know about you but when I'm smiling my mind is only thinking about the better parts to life. When I'm frowning though, my mind likes to think i'm said and so, then it starts to race with thoughts of trouble and pain. I don't know about you but I value today and am just happy to be breathing.

If happiness could also be dependent on how helpful and kind you are to others, or of your hearts generosity seen through your character, then that means happiness actually takes a little work to achieve. Giving is one of those things easily done, but as said in the bible must be done with good intention. Which means its not as simple as giving to someone just because you want to be happy, it depends solely on if you genuinely feel empathic for the person and would feel terrible if you didn't help. I can't speak for anyone else, but I feel I've given so much that my bones quiver at the impossibility of helping. When I am unable to do something for someone else it feels like a bombs is ready to explode inside of me. These are just a few signs that helping and giving are sincere efforts caused by your empathy instead of your own selfish purpose of seeking happiness. But again, happiness is apart of the mind and how does your mind know your happy if you don't smile, you have to incorporate the physical features of happiness before your mind can compute your emotions when being happy is a struggle for you. Stay in this mindset for 30 days or more and in no time it will become second nature to you, and you will be the girl that frowns no more.

Happiness is a tool in your toolbox, if you never use the tool how do you expect to build happiness? You have to take into account who you are and what brings you happiness, sometimes just complimenting someone when you walk down the street is enough. Be mindful of your delivery and make sure to smile, so the other person doesn't have to question if it's sarcasm or not, no one likes to be complimented by a stone person, it seems disingenuous. So let's get smiling and find our smiles as soon as we wake, give it 30 days and you won't even have to think about it. Remember if happiness is based on the warmth of your heart then we all have happiness inside of us as long as we are living. Happiness also depends on how helpful and kind you are to others, or of your hearts generosity seen through your character, so happiness actually takes a little work to achieve. No matter which one happiness is based on, it doesn't work without a smile, and laughter, the delivery of your generosity matters. So be kind to yourself, and then be kind to others.

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About the Creator

UNpretentious

I choose empathy over sympathy, because I am a problem solver. I’m a dreamer, that wants to be able to help others Grow, Evolve and Dream big safely. BOSS Mentality. Poetic Flow. Unconditional Lover. Artisan & Server Spirit. INFP, thats me!

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