FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Be Happy and Live Now!

Happy Flower by Cali2Okie (April)BBe happy may sound simplistic or naive to some but you know what, it is also an excellent exhortation – a fabulous way to be.

I think of it as satisfaction with what the good that you experience right now – utopia does not exist and is unrealistic - that's a cop out.

Emulate the children – live now and enjoy – that is what happiness is all about.

It is easy to be happy when we begin to look, each day, for what is different in our environment. It opens a new world of wonder when we realise that beauty and newness has been sitting right under our noses all this time.

These types of discoveries will make you feel great. They will liven you up. They did me and they distance you from your seemingly overwhelming problems. When you put emotional distance between yourself and your current challenges, you gain a better perspective on the situation.

And that is what being happy or appreciative does when you continue to see the "newness" in your current environment.

Here's what Abraham has to say about our relationships and the fact that we expect others to make us happy which is impossible. We all must take responsibility for our selves and our actions.

After all, living now is all we have. The past is gone except in our heads and we can fix that if we really wanted to and the future isn't here yet so even if we wait for it, it will still be now. So, be happy now!

The best thing you could do for anyone that you love, is be happy! And the very worst thing that you could do for anyone that you love, is be unhappy, and then ask them to to try to change it, when there is nothing that anybody else can do that will make you happy. If it is your dominant intent to hold yourself in vibrational harmony with who you really are, you could never offer any action that would cause anybody else to be unhappy.

~Abraham