Can You Learn To Be Happy?

 Can You Learn To Be Happy?

First of all, another question: What does it mean to be happy? The term happiness is used in the context of mental or emotional states, including feeling well, good, positive, optimistic, pleased, proud, pleasant, content, joyful, satisfied, at peace, secure, accepted, free, realized, excited and fulfilled. 

Happiness may have many different definitions, but it is always linked to experiencing more positive feelings than negative. Also, happiness is subjective, because it looks different to each one of us. However, regardless of your version of happiness, living a happier, more satisfied life is within your reach and you can learn how to be happy in life.

Happiness is an emotion inside us and under our control, hence, nothing outside of us can make us happy or truly happy. External circumstances or relations can make you happy, for a while, but real, true, long lasting happiness can only be produced inside you.

This is how you produce happiness inside you: Your thoughts create emotions and your emotional reactions to situations and circumstances come from automatic responses programmed in your mind by repetition of thoughts/emotions/actions during your lifetime. That is the paradigm you must change to be happy. Change from negative to positive thinking. Expect the best, not the worst. ReProgram your paradigms by changing your thoughts, believing positive outcomes are possible, visualizing them and persevering to act in positive ways.

Happiness is always available,

inside you.

What News Are You Following?

What News Are You Following?

Emotions make us become more impacted by certain types of information, because our emotional load makes us pay attention to the cause. That is, information relevance to us is correlated to the emotions we are experiencing. That happens to each one of us in our individual world. But, research shows that groups of people sharing the same level of consciousness and emotional response to certain types of information, create a collective response network that actually determines the perception of reality.

The world today has massive amounts of information available almost instantly, and when you get the attention of large groups of people who share the same emotional load on information, you create a collective response network. This determines the perception of reality for each different group. Reality in essence doesn't exist or it is absolutely unimportant, because it doesn't affect the world. Only the mass perception of reality matters.

This is creating the divisionism we experience and the only way to get unity is by creating unity in the emotional loads we carry. This will call for the need to gather around the promotion of a general positive feeling. However, this may be naive, because bad news is better business than good news. But, the game changed and the ease of spreading large amounts of news very fast makes the game a lot more dangerous now, than before.

I can only do my part:

Let's spread love, positivism and hope.

Learn As You Go

Learn As You Go

Learning as you go is the same method you used to learn to walk when you were a baby, or to learn to ride a bicycle, to swim, to drive a car, to cook, to be a spouse, a parent, and many more.

However, formal education is predominantly structured to: Learn first and go later. We tend to lose a lot of time and have a lot of unfinished projects, careers and vocations, because we are afraid to start until we have all of the learnings and facts, since we got used to formal education, plus our fear of failure.

Our heritage from thousands of years is to learn from our environment, and our interaction with the information around us, working in real life. I understand that theoretical teaching has a reason to exist, but... Real life practice will always beat theoretical teaching.

Go and reach your goals…

Learning by doing, as you go!

You Need To Erase Your Past

You Need To Erase Your Past

Your environment is defined as the surroundings or conditions in which you were born, raised and have lived. Your environment may have been and may still be polluted by tons of limiting ideas about all you can't do, all you are not and all you will never achieve. So, you may need to free yourself from your past, to discover your unlimited potential.

You were not created as you are. Your environment made you who you are and if you want a change, I have good news for you. You were created with the power to change and reinvent yourself by searching inside you, who you really are. You are there, deep inside you, buried by tons of limiting ideas.

Learn to reprogram yourself,

with new thoughts, emotions and attitudes.

How Good Are Your Predictions About Your Life?

 

How Good Are Your Predictions About Your Life?

A self-fulfilling prophecy is the phenomenon of "predicting" or expecting something, and because you believe this "prediction" will come true, your behaviors align with the prediction making it true in your life.

For instance, you might predict that your work or business will turn out exceedingly well, and feel confident about it. Then, your hard work pays off and your results are great. Alternatively, you might expect that things will go terribly, and thus your results are well below expectations.

Although you could conclude that you know yourself quite well, you should think about the effects your expectations have on your behavior. Your beliefs and expectations influence your behavior at the subconscious level, enacting what is known as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Your subconscious mind will carry out your orders.

May The Force Be With You… But Which One?

May The Force Be With You… But Which One?

 

Star Wars shows the dark side as evil and the light side as good, and that is true to some extent, but it goes beyond that. We are very complex creatures, produced by a cocktail mixture of genetics and environment, that includes culture, upbringing, education and experiences.

To explain the dark and light sides in an oversimplified way, we can say that the dark side is the one that walks towards hate and death, while the light side walks towards love and life. It is not too difficult to see that the dark d¿side destroys and the light side builds. So, I have to admit that I am biased and my choice of life is on the light side.

Nurture your mind with

positive, optimist and hopeful thoughts

The Secret To Success

The Secret To Success

How do you define success? Money? Health? Love? Fame? Power? Beyond your definition of success, and the goals you are seeking to achieve, success is simply the by-product of your decisions in life. A successful person in any area of life, is someone who provides value.

To create something of value for the world you cannot live your life like regular people. You cannot think like the average person. To become a provider of value, you will need to reprogram your mind, to go beyond your own limits that have been placed there by your upbringing, your education, your culture and your past experiences.

Take the risk of setting a goal of creating something greater than yourself. Set a goal of providing value to someone, some community, country or the world. Then, you will be successful.

Success is always beyond what you have been told.

Making Predictions In A Random World?

Making Predictions In A Random World?

You can't predict the future, but you can cause an effect. You can't make predictions in a random world, but you can create the causes that will get you the effects or results you want. Don't predict the future, cause it.

Switch from reactive to proactive, to become a promoter and developer of new realities. Start with new realities in your mind to achieve the realities you want in your life.

Be the pilot not just a passenger

Your Mind Is Your Best Ally

Your Mind Is Your Best Ally

You need to think, believe and feel the future you want to have. This way, you will get your mind working on it. Since your subconscious mind doesn’t know the difference between a heartfelt thought that we believe as true and reality, it will start working on it.

If you want it and feel it, your mind will start working to take you there. So, instead of sabotaging you with your past experiences, it will become your ally to achieve a new result.

Your past doesn’t need your thoughts, your future does!

Smile In The Face of Adversity

Smile In The Face of Adversity

You don't have to like everything that happens, but it's just easier if you don’t hate it. You need to have the perspective that life happens for you, and not that it happens to you. Then, you could see how you can create opportunities out of every situation and circumstance. You will stop hating adversity and will begin to see the benefits and blessings you can reap, just by having the right attitude.

Adversity can be your Coach and pain could help you become stronger. Every effect has a cause and everything happens for a reason. The positive way to analyse the situation is forward-looking. That is: Instead of analyzing how this event will make you fall back, analyze how it can help you spring forward.

Your faith can shed light in the deepest darkness.

Think about it. Believe It. Feel It. Receive It!

 Think about it. Believe It. Feel It. Receive It!

Why are you giving the same answers to the same situations? Why are you doing the same things to achieve the same results? Why can’t you break the vicious circle? You have to consider the connection between thoughts, beliefs, feelings and attitudes.

Thoughts are ideas, words or images in your mind. They are created by your imagination and have energy.  Basically, if you can create it in your mind, you can make it happen.  Everything has started with an idea.

Belief is an acceptance that something is true or that something exists. The question is whether you believe in your thoughts or not, and that is where your potential i¿of success is determined.

 

Feelings are emotions and they can be experienced in varying degrees of intensity and usually have a physical sensation attached. The type and intensity of your feelings is highly correlated with your belief in your thoughts. Feelings are important because they are always expressed.

Attitudes are a psychological construction in your mind conceived by the coupling of emotions and experiences, forming a person’s character and temperament through repetition.

 

The Connection is that our thoughts create our feelings based on our beliefs and our feelings drive our attitudes. Our attitudes trigger our actions, and our actions through repetition form our habits. Your habits will create your future and determine your destiny.

 

To achieve any goal, you need to create that thought in your mind and believe you can do it. Believing is the hard part. You can help your belief by creating good feelings about it. Visualize yourself achieving your goal and feeling great about achieving it. Then comes the other difficult part: start doing it, with baby steps, but you need to start. Your mind can’t differentiate between thoughts and reality, with this process you will create a new reality in your mind that will get you building the habits that will get you to achieve your goal.

Your mind is capable of getting you to achieve

anything you want to do.

No Seeds No Harvest

No Seeds No Harvest

 

We need to plant seeds to get a harvest, and that is a universal law. Whatever we want to get, we need to plant seeds and work the planted field, taking care of it and protecting it, until we obtain the harvest we want and expect.

 

We must learn to do that with the greatest power we received as a gift from the Creator: Our Mind.

 

Whatever we want in this life, we need to plant it, in our mind as a thought. That is the seed. Then, we need to work those thoughts, taking care of them and protecting them, by rehearsing in our minds our actions to achieve it, see ourselves achieving it and feeling the emotions produced by our achievement. Then, we need to allow new attitudes to flow out of us and become new actions we take. The new actions by repetition, will become our new habits, that will take us to achieve what we want. That is the harvest.

 

Yes. Our future is conceived in our minds.

If you don't move, you will always be in the same place.

Are you doing the same thing and expecting different results?

 

You know, of course, that in order to get different results, you need to do different things. So, why don’t you? Because, you know that in your conscious mind, but your subconscious mind will sabotage you with the automatic answers that keep you doing the same things, in spite of the fact that you want to achieve different results. Crazy, right?

 

How to get out of that catch 22? Reprogramming your mind to change those automatic responses, to do different/new things/actions.

 

This process begins with new thoughts. It always starts with a thought in your mind that will generate a new vision, producing new feelings/emotions and new attitudes that will produce new actions. Those new actions by repetition will change your automatic responses (paradigms), acquiring new habits that will take you to achieve the results you want.

 

Your new reality will be created in your mind

Believe It In Your Mind and Heart, and You Will Do It!

You Can Do It If You Start Right.

1. You start by thinking about it, believing you can do it.

2. You must help your belief imagining yourself doing it.

3. Visualize yourself doing it successfully, like in a mind video.

4. Feel the emotions produced by your successful achievement.

Since your subconscious mind doesn’t know the difference between thoughts and reality, your attitude will change and you will start acting accordingly.

Your actions will create new habits and that will get you to achieve what you want to do, successfully.

See it in your mind to see it in your life.

Do You Know Your Algorithm?

Your Actions Define Your Algorithms

In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is a sequence of well-defined instructions, or set of rules, also called a process, to be followed or used in problem-solving operations. The basic principle is: Input - Process - Output.

Essentially, life is a full display of algorithms directing the actions of cells that make up our bodies. So, this means that below the level of consciousness there are trillions of algorithmic processes constantly occurring within our bodies.

Also, all organisms, including human beings, are essentially algorithmic. Even the human mind is itself only a super-complex algorithm, and we can model it by building our own algorithms. That is, the way we respond to different situations and circumstances.

Many algorithms are innate, but they can also be learned by repetition of some combinations of steps and rules that work in the brain as building block algorithms, which may be combined with other steps and rules to form more complex algorithms.

Nobody can control your freedom to think and feel.

Grasping We Lose

Is it true that it's better to give than receive?

Scientific Studies show that the old adage "it's better to give than to receive" is correct: spending money on others or giving to charity has a bigger impact in your internal happiness and health, than spending the money on yourself.

It is true that making more money will make you happier. But to be really and integrally happier, depends on how you spend your money. Research published on science journals show that people that spend money on others are happier than those who don't.

Most of the research in the past has said money isn't that important in terms of happiness. The things that are important are things to do with relationships, with other people, and things that help to promote meaning and the purpose of life.

These research results can be expanded to other areas: How do you spend your time? Your love? Your care? Your thoughts?

Give and discover happiness

You Need To Rehearse Before You Act

Do You Like To Play Make-Believe?

Learn to rehearse, practice, try out and prepare for anything you want in this life, in your mind before you do it in real life. See in your mind the future you want. Is like playing make-believe in your mind. Do it in your mind everyday, rehearse your new life in your mind.

This will reprogram your mind, by changing your mind from a record of your past to a map to the future. If you do this right and repeat it enough, your new thoughts will change your feelings and emotions, which in turn will change your attitudes and actions. Your new actions will by repetition, create the new habits that will bring the future you want, to you.

See it in your mind to see it in your life.

Comfort Is An Addiction

Good Changes Require To Leave The Comfort Zone

To change you need to make different choices as you have done before and that will make you feel uncomfortable, because it takes you out of the safe zone your mind have created for you.

The challenge is to break the bad habits. When you have a thought or face a situation or circumstance, the auto execute program in your subconscious mind will produce and automatic response. It is the emotion that accompanies that response what counts, and that is what you need to change, because you will want to go to your comfort/safe zone. So, you will probably think/say: Not now, later. I will do it tomorrow. This is not going to work. It doesn't feel right.

If you accept that as true, then, the same thought will lead to the same choice and behavior, which will create the same experience, producing the same emotions, and you will believe you are ok, because that is your comfort zone.

Don’t accept the automatic response from your subconscious mind that shows a habit that results in bad, negative, pessimistic, hopeless, sad, hateful, discordial, impatient, selfish, unfaithful, unkind, rough, self-indulgent attitudes.

Go For It, If You Want It!

Don’t fear, have courage, be bold and thrive.

The infinite potential of life always have positive outcomes for those who dare to seek a better life. Stop your addiction to the past that reaffirms your limitations and feel inside you the unlimited potential you have when you connect to the positive energy of Love, Joy, Peace, Hope, Patience, Kindness, Positivism, Generosity, Faithfulness, Optimism, Gentleness and Self-Control.

When you connect with this Energy you are connecting with the foundation of everything, and that is Light, Love and Life. You will not be confused by darkness because you will have your own light. You will be fed by the positivity of love and you will be alive with the life purpose you will find. You should never let anything hold you back from living every day to the fullest, in the most positive way possible.

Live to thrive, staying intentionally purpose driven, building your body, mind and spirit, constantly.

Dare to seek a better life.

See Yourself Reaching Your Goals

See Yourself Reaching Your Goals

The definition of the word Dream is: A series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep. It also means: a cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal.

The first definition is something not real, that happens while you sleep and is gone when you wake up. That taints the second meaning, because our cherished aspirations, ambitions and ideals should not be unreal and should never be gone.

Whatever you want, should happen and should not be called dream but goal. Eliminate from your mind the terms: dream, wild hope, fantasy, wish and illusion, and change them for goal, vision of the future, new life, new self, and the life you are building. If you don’t believe in your goals and don’t work on them with perseverance, then you can call them dream, wild hope, fantasy, wish and illusion.

If you see it in your mind, you will see it in your life.

Good Habits: The Pathway To Success

 Good Habits: The Pathway To Success

A habit is a routine of behavior that is produced as an automatic response from your subconscious mind.

A habit is acquired when you've done something so many times, that you will do it almost without thinking, because it is kind of automatic response from your inner self.

The only way to change a habit is to acquire a new habit that overwrites in your mind the old one. Repetition is the only way to acquire a habit.

So, It is up to you!

You Need A Lot of Data To Succeed.

 You Need A Lot of Data To Succeed.

Failure has a negative connotation in our everyday conversation. But is it, really that bad?

We always want to avoid failure, but when we are building our dream, there are so many ways that things can go wrong. We can see those failures as something terrible or see them as useful data.

A common mistake is to cancel what we were doing and look for a new approach or solution, because what we were doing didn't work. Most people will tell you to do that.

On the other hand we could consider our previous experience a test that was not successful, but we should understand why. So, we need to gather information about the results we just achieved. Failure really means you are one step closer to success. So, see failure as a set of data that helps you make decisions down the line. And... keep building your dream.

What Can You Give?

What Can You Give?

Love is the origin, the reason and the purpose of life. Love is the real success. Love is the way to achieve sustainable success.

To love is to give life, gratefulness, appreciation, help, forgiveness, happiness, company, friendship, fellowship, hope, time, kind words, encouragement, comfort, support, and prayers.

Giving is Loving. Let's Love.

Program Your Goal In Your Mind

Program Your Goal In Your Mind

1. In the morning before getting out of bed think about the attitudes you will have and the actions you will take during the day to achieve your goals. Feel the positive emotions you will experience while taking the steps towards your goal. See yourself in your mind as your new self with your goals achieved. That is how you plan your day.

2. During the day you will work with determination on the steps you decided to take during the day and also, to overcome the bad habits of your old self, you will engage your thoughts, words and actions in the habits of your new self, building your day to achieve your goals.

3. At night, when you are in bed and before going to sleep, review in your mind the day is about to end. Who you were being during the day. How did you do executing the plan you set in the morning. Think about adjustments for tomorrow's plan. Celebrate your efforts!

Everything Begins With Your Thoughts

Everything Begins With Your Thoughts

Our memory bank contains our past connected to people, places, times, situations and circumstances, and the feelings and emotions those people, places, times, situations and circumstances triggered in us.

Our automatic responses will try to repeat good memories and avoid bad ones. So, whether we like it or not we live tied to our past and also, whether you accept it or not your past will predict your future, unless you reprogram your mind with new thoughts about those people, places, times, situations and circumstances, to trigger new feelings and emotions, so that you develop new attitudes and stimulate new actions that when taken, will begin to create new habits.

In summary, you need to feel good and not afraid of the life you want to have, to be able to start taking the actions that will take you there.

Do You Live In The Past?

Do You Live In The Past?

The key to understand our life is to accept that we live in our past, because most of our life today, is the result of our thinking habits acquired through the repetition of past experiences. We have developed a habit of thinking in a particular way and thus, we react and act through automatic responses from our mind. These thinking habits keep us tied to our past. You need to get free from your bad past habits.

Habits To Succeed

Habits To Succeed

A habit is a routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously. The American Journal of Psychology defined a habit, from the standpoint of psychology: A more or less fixed way of thinking, willing, or feeling, acquired through previous repetition of a mental experience.

A habit is acquired when you've done something so many times, that you will do it almost automátically. It is kind of an automatic response from your mind.

Creativity Should Produce Action

Creativity Should Produce Action

Inspiration is the process of being mentally stimulated to do something creative. It is a sudden brilliant, creative, and timely idea.

Inspiration is an influence exerted directly on a human mind or soul. Something, such as a sudden creative act or idea, that inspire us to create something or to find a way to solve a problem.

So, if you have an Inspiring Thought…

Act On It. Now!