Research has shown that 40% of our happiness comes from our thoughts and actions, which also mean that they are dependent on what we can take control of.
You can not imagine how much your thoughts limits you, it is as important as the steps we take everyday.
The things we think act as a block to our level of success and hence reduces our ability for all round success. Is this true?
I recently conducted a Q & A session trying to find out what makes people unhappy, I expected to see Financial crisis at the top of the list but then I got answers that had about 50% on Self, 40% on family, relationship and about 10% on financial crisis and the economy.
This goes a long way to further explain how we are products of what we think. Let us take a few of Self-Imposed thought actions:
- Sadness: I personally refer to sadness as the downtime of a person, leading to the inability to express Joy. Let us relate this to our technology, when they say there is a down time in our network, this simply states that some internal factors have gone low hence leading to interruption in the outward result of the network, the down time is from the back-end, so also is sadness a result of the back-end. The back-end in this case refers to our thoughts.
If you notice, you do not get sad in a second, you often get sad after a period of time and it starts with a frown, meaning that you actually sat and thought about the situation hence you got deeper into it and it caused a down time.
- Depression: This can be as a result of compound forces, which include but to mention a few, hatred, sadness, anger e.t.c. The ultimate effect of depression is the thought of Suicide.
The compound factors of hatred, sadness, anger are also from the back-end, which is your thought.
The uniqueness of our thoughts is that we are in CONTROL.
Guess you never thought about that.
How then do we align our thoughts towards happiness?
-Accept that you have the wrong thoughts
-Look for what revives your positive being (Personally songs and words of affirmation do it for me)
-Saturate your thoughts with everything positive, rather than think of who hurt you, think of who gave you that ultimate compliment (maybe not a compliment but who made you smile).
Does this happen in a day? Obviously not. It is a daily effort.
So let me hear from you, what did you struggle with? Anger, fear, depression or any other and let us know how you got through them.
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