| Is there a formula for happiness? Is there one sure-fire | | | | Choosing your thoughts, and choosing what to focus |
| way to achieve everything we want in life? Well, | | | | on is key in this process. We often think of choice as |
| actually, there just might be. And it's as simple, or as | | | | something that has to involve a "yes" or "no" decision. |
| complicated, as getting happy. Simple, because we all | | | | When you begin to think of choice as saying "yes" to |
| have the power to do it. Complicated, because our | | | | what you want, rather than "no" to what you don't |
| conditioning tells us it's not that easy. | | | | want, you will find your energy shifting. |
| Everything around us is energy, including our thoughts. | | | | Once we focus predominantly on that which makes |
| Law of Attraction teaches us that like attracts like. If | | | | us feel good, we'll find that the world around us |
| we focus our thoughts on things that make us happy, | | | | changes. Life flows more easily. We attract people |
| we attract more of the same. But how do we do this | | | | and situations into our reality that are pleasant rather |
| in a world that seems to be so full of unhappy things? | | | | than frustrating. Our lives work. We get happy. |
| We do it by making a conscious decision that we | | | | Today, make a conscious choice: no matter where I'm |
| want to be happy. We have the power to choose our | | | | going, no matter what I'm doing, no matter who I'm |
| thoughts - so why not choose thoughts that make us | | | | doing it with, I'm going to look for things that make me |
| feel good? We can make these conscious choices in | | | | feel good. |
| every single moment - by choosing to focus on what | | | | And if you need a little help with feeling good, look to |
| is working in our lives rather than complaining about | | | | your animal companions. They're masters at making |
| what isn't, by choosing books and television programs | | | | themselves feel good. Have you ever watched a cat |
| that make us feel good rather than depressed or | | | | follow the sunny spots in the house, or a dog roll |
| upset, by choosing to be with people who uplift us | | | | around on his back in the freshly mowed grass just |
| rather than drag us down into negativity. | | | | because it feels so good? |