Finding Happiness

Finding happiness is often like searching for a long lost artifact.

"I'm going to develop myself... make myself better and eventually I'll find happiness".

And so begins another quest to find happiness.

It is sought in every home, in every office and in every shop. Eventually the searcher, some sooner, some later, realizes that finding happiness doesn't come from what you buy or what others think of you.

Perhaps they start reading self-help books, go on training courses and so on. Yet the harder they seek, the more elusive it is to find happiness.

The frustration builds and finding happiness now seems like searching for the pot at the end of the rainbow.

There is nowhere to find happiness.

There is no way of making happiness.

Happiness is the most natural thing in the world. If you don't feel happy it is because you are blocking happiness from coming through to you.

We block happiness by denying who we are.

We do this every time when we do what we should over what we feel.

We do this every time we act as if we are someone whom we are not.

Only you (unless you are an identical twin) will ever have exactly the same genetic blueprint. So we all have a unique design... we all have a unique history of experiences.

And then we say we should do this, we should feel this, because others do.

How can there be any should's if we are all different?

No-one has ever travelled down the exact same path you are travelling.

Whatever you decide to do... however you choose to use this gift of life... you are making new footprints and hacking through your own path.

So the key to finding happiness is in choosing the path that is truly you... not what you should be or do.