Happiness A Destination or a Journey?
Life & Executive Coach Adam Taylor discusses happiness and the chemical hacks to keep you smiling
I often wondered if I would ever reach happiness in my life, due to experiencing highs and lows on a daily basis and struggled to reach that consistent state of euphoria I was led to believe existed. So, happiness, what is it, how do we get it and what does it feel like?! Well let me pause you right there and suggest that happiness is not a place, nor is it a road trip, it’s simply a state of mind.
Happiness is choice, it’s always there for us, even when we don’t think so – we can control it and make it part of our daily lives and also share it with others. It’s inside of you and you can achieve it no matter what the outer circumstances are.
Happiness is not holding on to a negative feeling or a something that can adjust your mood, to surround yourself with people who make you content and to feel a sense of awesomeness about everything you are.
As a Life & Executive Coach, my clients are often held back from being their authentic selves, because of stigma, doubt, resentment, avoidance and much more. This can lead to a path of an unhappy state, so, in client sessions we talk about “a time when” they were happy and what this means, how it felt and associate techniques to harness those moments and grow the feelings into the present.
Fixing your thinking and not the problem is a huge step forward, often you find that the problem becomes resolved once the thinking is fixed – mindset shift, what a WOW moment!
I find that enabling yourself to step outside of an emotion and take a helicopter view on a situation, can give resolve or comfort which in turn allows you to be happy (don’t forget, you are controlling this). How many times have we absorbed ourselves so deep into something, that we forget how we got there and why we went, that then combined with a variety of emotions, produces a stuck state? Hover above yourself, look around, what advice would you give if you are now looking in? It’s amazing how these little tips can really make a difference.
I recently came across this brilliant nugget, which I hope you will find useful, try and apply a mix of them each day and see how you feel.
If you would like to find out more about how coaching can help you in your life, please contact me at www.adamtaylorcoaching.co.uk or @adamtcoaching on Instagram
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