Happiness does not exist. You can stop buying maps looking for this mythical place.

Happiness as a noun or a location is a fairy tale – one we continue to believe in and get disappointed when we can’t find it.

Looking for happiness is like looking for infinity. It’s illusive and it keeps you searching.

There are billions of people on our planet and each of us has a different criterion for happiness, yet we talk about it as though it is a one-size-fits-all, concrete thing.

Happiness is a distinct feeling within you. Your feeling of happiness is unlike any other person’s feeling of happiness. Feelings are as individual as snowflakes – no two people get hit with the same snowball.

Everyone knows a happy feeling when it arrives. It’s to be cherished and enjoyed. If you try and capture it in a jar like a lightning bug, its light will fade more quickly.

There are countless books and methods selling you their brand of happiness. Most of them attempt to tell you how you should feel. Only they can feel that way. Your happiness feels different and can’t be found in a book or a 3-step process. Happiness is not a set of circumstances; it’s a feeling.

This is not to say you cannot lay the framework to feel more happy moments – you can.

It’s a lot easier to feel your version of happiness when you are in a less cluttered frame of mind and are engaged in activities that don’t go against your core values.

Yet, happy feelings are so strong that they can interrupt a cluttered mind and wash over you without warning. I just had one of those unexpected, wonderful feelings moments ago. I walked into my son’s room and there was Snuffy, the black nosed beagle cozily curled up in a blanket on the floor. I felt happiness. It lasted but a moment or two but there was no mistaking the feeling.

Now suppose you’re not a dog lover and I try and sell you on what makes me feel happy, it’s going to be an unhappy moment for both of us.

So rather than chase after someone else’s version of happiness, take time to appreciate your happy sensations when they happen and enjoy the moment for as long as it lasts. Just by taking the time to catalogue and fully feel that feeling, you set up an invitation for it to visit more often.

Basically, you are noticing and feeling more things to be happy about and that sets the stage for more happy feelings to revisit.

How much happiness goes unfelt because you don’t stop and take time to notice and sense the feeling?

You can continue your search for highly advertised, elusive, airbrushed happiness out there somewhere, or you can begin to notice and feel what’s already here and real.

All the best,

John

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