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Test Your Happiness
Test Your Happiness
_One of the ways you can test your happiness is by testing your unhappiness._
Sound strange?
Okay, here's how it works. (Warning! this is a very powerful exercise so be prepared)
*Think of something that would make you unhappy. For example: losing your house, or losing your family. Reflect on that for a moment. What would your feelings be? Sad? Miserable? Lonely? Suicidal?*
_Now really go for it and try to imagine the thing that would make you unhappy._
When I do this exercise. I imagine losing my family and I really do get to the point of being tearful.
Now, come out of the scene you were in and look at what you have. For example: if you pictured losing your family, look at your family now. How does it make you feel?
_I always feel extremely grateful and look at them in a different way as if I have been given a second chance with them. This feeling lasts a long time before I slip back into my normal loving self. However, what it does is let me be thankful and never take them for granted._
*So it is with life. We are so busy chasing the rainbow of happiness we forget what makes us happy now. We have to get that feeling back.*
_So many of us are working hard to make money, working long hours, nearly killing ourselves, all in the pursuit of happiness for us and our families when in fact if we loved our families first and loved the job we were doing we would find that happiness here and now and not in the future._
*Be Thankful*
_For any of our dreams to happen in the future, and they will if we intend them long enough and work at it, we have to be thankful for what we have in the here and now.
Omatee Ann Marie Hansraj
Motivational Author/Poet/Novelist
Annmariewrites.com
Copyright 2021
_One of the ways you can test your happiness is by testing your unhappiness._
Sound strange?
Okay, here's how it works. (Warning! this is a very powerful exercise so be prepared)
*Think of something that would make you unhappy. For example: losing your house, or losing your family. Reflect on that for a moment. What would your feelings be? Sad? Miserable? Lonely? Suicidal?*
_Now really go for it and try to imagine the thing that would make you unhappy._
When I do this exercise. I imagine losing my family and I really do get to the point of being tearful.
Now, come out of the scene you were in and look at what you have. For example: if you pictured losing your family, look at your family now. How does it make you feel?
_I always feel extremely grateful and look at them in a different way as if I have been given a second chance with them. This feeling lasts a long time before I slip back into my normal loving self. However, what it does is let me be thankful and never take them for granted._
*So it is with life. We are so busy chasing the rainbow of happiness we forget what makes us happy now. We have to get that feeling back.*
_So many of us are working hard to make money, working long hours, nearly killing ourselves, all in the pursuit of happiness for us and our families when in fact if we loved our families first and loved the job we were doing we would find that happiness here and now and not in the future._
*Be Thankful*
_For any of our dreams to happen in the future, and they will if we intend them long enough and work at it, we have to be thankful for what we have in the here and now.
Omatee Ann Marie Hansraj
Motivational Author/Poet/Novelist
Annmariewrites.com
Copyright 2021
