We have all experienced chasing happiness.
You know the feeling.
“I’ll be happy when I can enjoy life more, get that new car, make more money, have the relationship I want,” or whatever it is for you.
We’ve all had that feeling at some point in our lives, often without realizing how much the importance of community plays into it.
But I think it’s important to understand that happiness is a choice you get to make every single day.
You are a vibration made up of the accumulation of your thoughts, words, deeds, and actions.
And because of that, you can choose at any moment to shift into more happiness.
So today, I’m going to share 9 simple ways on how to be happier so you can create a happier life.
The first super-simple shift is to listen to music that you enjoy.
Music can either help you feel better or keep you feeling more of what you’re already feeling.
If you’re thinking about breaking up with your significant other, listening to breakup songs may pull you deeper into that spiral.
But if you’re wanting more love, joy, and abundance, listen to music that supports those feelings.
Anytime I’m feeling melancholy or sad, I listen to chanting music and sing along.
I also love listening to music I enjoyed as a teenager.
The music we listened to during those years can be deeply connected to our memories and can help calm our nervous system.
So turn on the music you love and let it shift your energy.
Another way to answer the question of how to be happier is to journal.
If something is weighing on you, put it on paper.
You create space in your mind and energy when you get those thoughts out.
If you had a rough week and it’s still on your mind, journal about it.
You’re not making yourself heavier by writing it down.
You’re releasing it, processing it, and letting it move through you.
Your journal doesn’t have to be positive all the time.
Write what you need to write, release what doesn’t serve you, and then allow yourself to move forward.
My third shift is to journal three things you’re grateful for, or three wins from your day.
Ask yourself, “How did I win today?”
You can even treat this as a standalone gratitude journaling practice, focused purely on wins and things you’re grateful for.
By acknowledging your wins and your gratitude, you shift your focus toward what is working in your life.
You create more space for happiness, gratitude, and joy.
Shift number four is to permit yourself to be in community.
We aren’t meant to be alone, and that’s the whole importance of community in a nutshell.
Even though we’re more digitally connected than ever, many people are lonelier than ever.
Find local groups with people who share your interests.
And if you can’t find that community locally, find online friends and connect with them consistently.
The more we connect, the more opportunities we have to recognize our brilliance and give back, which is truly how to be happier long-term.
If you want to be part of a community, I’d love for you to join ours.
You can find our free Facebook group through the link in the show notes or description.
Shift number five is to pay attention to the thoughts that serve you and let go of the ones that don’t.
Notice your words.
Notice what you’re saying to yourself, because how you talk to yourself is often the real answer to how to be happier.
Then choose an affirmation that supports you.
It can be as simple as, “I am choosing happiness today.”
Or, “I am happy.”
I used a money mantra for years: “Money flows to me easily and effortlessly.”
I eventually added, “I’ve created the perfect business for myself.”
At first, I didn’t even have a business.
But that mantra helped me shift out of stress and into receptivity, and eventually I really did create the business I wanted.
So catch the thoughts that don’t serve you and replace them with words that support the life you’re creating.
The next shift is to wear things that actually make you happy.
Look at your closet and notice what you love wearing and what you don’t.
I have pieces I’ve owned for more than ten years that still bring me joy.
This little jumper I’m wearing makes me happy.
Wearing yellow makes me happy.
So wear the things that make you feel good, comfortable, and confident, since that’s part of living in joy every single day.
Another simple shift is to get ready.
Do your hair if that makes you feel good.
Put on makeup if you enjoy wearing makeup.
And if you don’t do any of those things, that’s completely okay.
Just get ready in whatever way makes you feel good.
This small act of self-care answers how to be happier more often than people expect.
You don’t have to dress up or wear business attire.
Wear the things that help you feel comfortable and confident.
When you feel good about how you’re showing up, you can shift into more confidence and happiness.
Another simple shift is to notice the things in your environment that make you happy.
If something doesn’t bring you joy, make a plan to remove it.
You don’t have to clean your entire house.
Start with five minutes a day.
Set a timer and clean or organize for just five minutes, the same way a quick five-minute gratitude journaling session can reset your mindset.
Notice the things that bring you joy and give them space in your environment.
Your surroundings affect how you feel, so start creating a space that supports your happiness.
The final shift is movement.
When stress and emotions get stuck in the body, they can weigh us down.
So find some kind of movement that works for you, because moving your body is one of the fastest ways to how to be happier when nothing else seems to help.
Walk.
Stretch.
Dance.
Do yoga, Pilates, cardio, biking, or resistance training.
It doesn’t matter what you choose.
Just get your body in motion.
When you’re in motion, you create space for something new, take care of yourself, and support your body in releasing negative emotions naturally.
My friend, you deserve to be happy.
Happiness is a choice you don’t have to chase.
You simply have to become aware of the decisions you’re making that let you choose happiness in the moment.
With love and blessings,
Amy Robeson
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We have all had the experience of chasing happiness. You know that I’ll be happy when I’ll be able to enjoy life, when I get that new car, I make more money, I have the relationship that I want, whatever it is. We’ve all had that feeling at least once in our life. And I really think it’s important to understand that happiness is a choice that you get to choose each and every day. You are simply a vibration that is accumulation of all of your thoughts, words, deeds, and actions.
And because of that, you can choose at any moment to be more happy. So I’m going to share 9 simple ways to shift into happiness so you can live a more happy life. So let’s get into it. First, super simple shift is to listen to music that you enjoy listening to. And here’s the fun part about this one.
Music will either help you feel better or make you feel more the same of what you’ve been feeling that is the opposite of happiness. If you are wanting or thinking about breaking up with your significant other, listening to breakup songs is going to bring you into that spiral even more. But if you’re wanting to have more love, more joy, more abundance, listening to music that supports that feeling will shift you into a different vibration. And so Music is one of the best ways to shift your energy. And by shifting your energy, it will assist you in becoming more happy.
And so anytime I’m feeling melancholy, I’m feeling sad, I’m feeling depressed, I start listening to chanting music and I start singing. I also will listen to music that I love listening to when I was a teenager. Doesn’t matter if that music is happy or sad, because science has actually shown that the music that we listen to as teenagers wired our brains in a particular way. And it can actually calm our nervous system down. And so listen to music that you really enjoyed listening to when you were a teenager because it can create happy juices for you to experience more joy and happiness.
Another way to shift into happiness is to journal. I find journaling to be extremely helpful in letting go of the things that are bogging us down. So if there are things that are heavy or you have too many to-do lists, By putting them on pen to paper, you actually make space in your energy field to experience more joy and happiness. You’re also letting that out of the mind, out of the field, and you’re making space for other opportunities to come your way as well. You also clear things when you journal.
So let’s say you had a rough time last week and it’s still on your mind. Journal about it. It will not cause you to get more heavier. It’s going to cause you to become more lighter because you’re Letting it out, you’re releasing it out of your field. You’re processing it as you’re journaling it.
Your journal does not have to be all happy. It does not have to be all butterflies and rainbows. It can be very positive towards the end. And what I mean by that is journal what you got to journal about, release what doesn’t serve you for the day in your journal. And then my third shift in becoming more happy is to journal three things that you are grateful for, or three wins.
How did you win for the day? 3 things you’re grateful for. These can be opposite things. So if you want to do 3 wins and 3 things you’re grateful for, you can also do that. By acknowledging your wins and by acknowledging what you’re grateful for, you shift into a different frequency of a higher vibration, which allows you to attract more happiness, more opportunities for gratitude, more opportunities for wins, which will allow you to shift out of the lower vibrational frequency and into a more happier, frequency as well.
Tip number 4, or shift number 4 to becoming more happy, is to give yourself permission to be in community. We are not meant to be alone. We are meant to be in community, and we are so connected digitally that we are actually more lonely than ever before as a society. And so give yourself permission to find local groups that have similar interests to you so you can build a local community of like-minded people that you enjoy spending time with. Let’s say there is nobody in your local community that you enjoy spending time with.
Get online, find some online friends, and make a point of connecting with them on a consistent basis. The more we connect, the more community we have, the more we have the ability to recognize our brilliance and to also give back within our community as well. And so if you are wanting to be a part of a community, I would love for you to be a part of our community. If you’re watching this on YouTube, please make sure you like and subscribe so we can stay connected. If you are on social media and you want to be in our free Facebook group, you can go to our free Facebook group.
The link is in the show notes or the description. We have an amazing free community in our Facebook group as well. My Sacred Awakening students, my Akashic Records They give free Akashic record readings in there when they’re getting certified. We have all sorts of fun things that are happening, and I can tell you, I’ve watched people that join our community for the first time shift energy in a very short period of time because they’re connecting with like-minded people, which is huge. Shift number five into happiness is going to be paying attention to the thoughts that serve you and letting go of the thoughts.
That no longer serve you. And this can be a little bit of a hard one, but I think that if you pay attention to the thoughts that serve you, so you’re noticing your words, you’re shifting your words, you’re finding an affirmation that works for you. And an affirmation can be, I am choosing happiness today. I am happy. And at first you might not believe it, but this is a conscious choice in words and intentions and thoughts that you are thinking.
When you use a mantra, you use an affirmation, you shift out of your mind. I had a mantra that I used for a really long time that was about money, and then that mantra actually ended up becoming a part of a business as well. So the mantra was, money flows to me easily and effortlessly. I’ve created the perfect business for myself. And at first I didn’t have that last line in there, and this was before I even had a business.
This was before I even had a business plan. I just knew that one day I wanted to have a business, and so I started having that mantra in my money mantra. And let me tell you, 2 things happened. One Anytime that I noticed that our numbers were not that great in my previous career, it would shift me out of stress and shift me into a state of receptivity and a state of receiving because I wasn’t stressing about it. And I knew that money was gonna flow to me easily and effortlessly.
If I stressed about it, I would close down that opportunity. And the second cool thing that happened is I really did create the perfect business for myself. At the time, I didn’t even have the words of what kind of business I wanted. And And I love what I do, and I created exactly what I wanted to create once I understood what I was creating. And I’m so grateful, and it was because I was putting positive words into my mind and I was speaking them out loud.
Now, for the negative words, you want to catch and you want to understand what you’re saying that is not serving you so that you can shift and replace it with a different mantra or affirmation that supports your highest good. So the more you actually use positive affirmations, the more you’ll actually understand like, oh wait, what I just said doesn’t support me and that doesn’t feel good. And so like if you have a statement that you always say, I’ll always be broke, you will always definitely be broke. But when you start shifting your energy and paying attention to what you’re saying out loud, you’ll start attracting the things that are of that affirmation versus the negative statement that you are making. The universe doesn’t know the difference between negative or a positive.
So you might as well say something positive so you can attract more of that into your life. The next shift that I’m going to recommend to shifting into happiness is to wear the things that actually make you happy. Get rid of the things that are in your closet or don’t wear the things that don’t feel comfortable to wear anymore. I have some classic pieces that I have been wearing for years and years and years. This actually, this little thing right here that I got on, I probably bought this thing over 10 years ago and I still love it.
It brings me joy when I wear it. Do I wear it all the time? No, but I certainly do have it in my closet and it certainly brings me joy. This little jumper I have on brings me absolute joy. Wearing yellow brings me joy, makes me happy.
Wear things that feel good, that make you happy. Notice the things that don’t make you feel happy when you’re wearing them. If you’ve been in a depressed state or if you’ve been in a state where you’ve noticed that you are like struggling to find happiness, notice the clothes that you’re wearing. Are you in pajamas all day long? Are you in yoga pants all day long?
Are you getting ready? Get ready. Do your hair. If you put makeup on, put makeup on. If you don’t do any of those things, that’s okay.
Just get ready. Wear the things that make you feel good. I don’t wear makeup every day, but I certainly do put things on that make me feel good. Because if I don’t and I continue to just wear things that make me feel either heavy or I feel like I don’t look good in them or I feel like I look tired, that’s only going to add to the vibrational thought that I have about that thing that I am wearing or about the way that I am feeling. And so shifting your wardrobe and getting ready on a consistent basis, and it doesn’t have to be uncomfortable.
Like you don’t have to wear business attire to feel good. Like wear the things that feel good to you where you feel comfortable, you feel confident, Because when you put things on, you’ll shift into confidence. You’ll shift into happiness, which is an amazing way of showing up for yourself in life. Another way to simply shift into happiness is to give yourself permission to admire and explore things within your environment that make you happy. If there are things within your environment that do not make you happy, make a plan.
Of spending 5 minutes a day to start eliminating those things from your environment. Five minutes—that’s it. So if you have a ton of papers, spend 5 minutes starting to clean it up every day. Spend only 5 minutes. Set the timer.
Notice the things that are in your environment that bring you joy and happiness, and showcase them. Give them space to hold you in the energy of joy and happiness, because when you look at them, they’re going to make you more. Happy. Your environment impacts your happiness all the time. And so trust.
Look clean. Look around. Clean up your space. Spend 5 minutes a day. If you are in overwhelm and you’re like, oh my God, Amy, there’s just too much stuff to do, great.
Get moving. Because if you just sit down and you get stressed and overwhelmed where you do nothing, you’re not going to change the environment. So take your phone. Take a timer, set 5 minutes, and you’re just like, I’m only gonna do this for 5 minutes. And if after 5 minutes you’re like, I still got another 5 minutes in me, keep going.
The more you’re in motion, the more you will change your frequency. Which brings me into the final shift, which is movement. Movement is key because when we get energy and we get emotions lodged in our body, they weigh us down. And in order to get those emotions out, we got to be in motion. We got to move our bodies.
And so finding some sort of movement each and every day to move that stress out of your body, to move those unprocessed emotions, to move the heaviness, to move the sadness, to move the anger— you got to get in motion. And emotion can look different for each and every one of us. You can do yoga, you can do Pilates, you can walk, You can do a static dance. You can stretch. You can lift weights.
You can do resistance training. You can do some sort of class, some sort of cardio, some sort of biking, spinning. Like, there’s so many different things that you can do to move your body. And by moving your body, you are in motion, which allows the universe to go, okay, they’re not stuck. They’re ready for something new.
They’re ready to be a participant in the happiness code. And you’re making the space for happiness to be lived because because you’re taking care of yourself. And by taking care of yourself, you increase your serotonin, you increase your dopamine, which then brings in the happy juices. My friend, you deserve to be happy. Happiness is a choice you do not need to chase.
You just have to be conscious of the decisions you are making that allow you to choose happiness in the moment. All right, my friends, please like and subscribe. Share this with a friend. Also comment below this mantra: I am choosing Happiness today. I am happy.
I’d love for you to proclaim that as your new truth, or I’d love to hear what your new mantra is for happiness. All right, I’ll see you soon. Bye.
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