3 Simple Secrets to Happiness

by j.w.gibson, m.s.

Everyone wants to be happy. Unfortunately, Happiness is a habit just like anything else, the more you practice at it the better you get and the easier it is. This is probably the most true thing I know.

Neurologically, humans are wired to encode information about our environment, culture, and experience into complicated webs of inter and intra-relationships. We create nueronets that constantly link experiences together into a semblance of "reality". The emotional system we use determines the quality of our neuronets and directs HOW we encode future information. So, if you constantly bombard your neurons with negative emotions, those chemicals will fundamentally alter the chemistry of your neuro pathways and thus create a crappy outlook to every situation.

If you want to change your life its not hard to understand what to do, the trick is to constantly FOCUS your attention to do it.

Here's How to Create Happiness

1. Change your PHYSIOLOGY--Standing up straight or looking up causes the body to shift its level or awareness from the interior to the exterior. In primitive times, when humans focused on a detail task or the way they feel inside, it causes the posture of the body to literally shut out the external world. This makes the internal world, temporarily, seem more important and more real than it actually is.

Try this: Hunch you body over and look at the ground, let your head drop and see how you feel after 5 minutes. What do you think about? Then try to stand straight, tilt your head back and look up slightly, stand proud. Your body will release different chemicals into the blood stream and this will cause you to FEEL different.

2. REFRAME your thinking. Listen to how you talk, to what words you use often, and what picture you constantly paint in your head to explain your reality. Often, people do not realize the way they constantly create their own states of reality. Humans are adapted to create patterns of meaning to speed up the ability for them to make decisions about survival in the world. Whether the patterns produce positive or negative emotions is immaterial to the body, because the body simply establishes whatever pattern is most efficient for the particular person. Consciously Reframing how you tell your story will break unwanted behavior patterns.

3. LAUGH at everything. Evolutionary psychologists, microbiologists, medical doctors, neurologists, and just about everyone else with a formal training in humans agrees that laughter produces positive changes in body chemistry that cannot be duplicated in any other way. Laughter produces vibrations in the organs of the body that stimulate cells to process more efficiently, thus detoxifying the body. Laughter, released endorphins into the blood stream that have been shown to improve everything from the immune system to memory, sexual performance to strokes.

Choosing to laugh is the key.

--jwg