Happiness In Life - What About Being Happy With Ease?

Dr. Purushothaman
October 4, 2013

Are you wondering how to live a happy life? I'm sure that you've heard that happiness is a choice. But what if choosing happiness in life doesn't feel as easy as a choice?

If you are like many people then you have tried to choose happiness and you might have noticed that your emotions didn't exactly agree with your conscious choice. At first glance you might think that it's a bunch of hooey to think happiness is a choice because if it was, then you would be happy right? I mean, who wouldn't CHOOSE happiness?

So how to you live a happy life if your choices doesn't impact your impact your emotions in a way that you can actually feel happy when you choose it? The answer is simple but will take some active effort on your part.

You see, the subconscious mind actually runs the majority of our life. It has been proven that we consciously think with about 4 percent of our conscious mind. Our conscious mind is the awake part of us that we tend to rely on every day to make the majority of our decisions. The subconscious mind is much more quiet. And while it can be consciously controlled by you, it takes some practice to learn how to control it since we have habitually let it run on automatic for the majority of our lives. The subconscious mind does things like beat our hearts and turn food into blood, but it also controls our emotional responses.

 

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