So often I have found myself saying, "I'll be happy when..." My thinking put happiness in the future and placed its dependence on some event or thing or person coming into my life. It was as though happiness was something I had to wait for. It was not in the present, or at least the happiness I hoped for was not in the present. And I seemed content to live like that. Waiting for happiness to arrive.
Louise Hay, author of "You Can Heal Your Life," teaches that anything we want in life we need to affirm in the now. Say it like it already exists. "I am happy." The first time I said that I let the words resonate for a while. I said it over and over until I understood that to be happy is a choice. It is something I am or I am not, and either way I choose it. At first it was surprising and a little uncomfortable. I get to choose. It's up to me. It's in me. I don't have to wait for it, or hope for it, or long for it. I can be happy right now just by saying so and believing it.
We live in world filled with people who long for, wish for, and wait for, but cannot seem to get what they want. I have been one of those people. "Someday things will be better." Today I look in the mirror to have a upfront and personal conversation with the woman who is me and I tell her, "Someday is today." I know that the choice to be happy is all mine. No matter what has happened or will happen I am alive with the certainty and blessing that today is the day I am happy by choice.
If we choose to be happy so much of what we struggle with will ease. Like magic we will be surrounded by other happy people, drawn to us by the power of our choice. This simple truth can be applied in all other aspects of our life. What we think and what we believe draws to us and creates for us our reality.
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