"Happiness comes from within." This has been a theme that has popping up a lot lately for me. It’s been something I’ve been thinking about and it also came up while doing a Life Guidance reading for a client. You know what they say: every reading you do for someone else has a message within it for you. So I figured it’d be a great blog post for today.
I used to think that once I had the love of my life and once I had my dreams come true, I’d be so happy and nothing would ever bring me down.
I see now, my thoughts weren’t exactly true. We’re human, we’re going to feel every part of the emotional spectrum our entire lives, no matter what is going on in our lives.
You could be living the best life you’ve ever lived and still have a down day. You could be living the worst life you’ve ever lived and still have a good day. It’s just human nature. Our emotions, very much like life and nature themselves, are cyclic.
I see it even in my toddler nephew; he’ll get mad and frustrated, and you think: what would a baby have to be mad about? But it’s just within us as humans to feel it all.
And that’s okay!
I wonder if this belief of dreams coming true solving my problems derived from all the fairy tales I love with “Happily Ever After.” Now, I fully, completely believe in Happily Ever Afters, I will never ever knock them because I love them and I know everyone does receive a Happily Ever After if they so choose… but I’m realizing that Happily Ever After doesn’t mean that you will be solely happy forever and that nothing bad will ever pop up again.
I have the love of my life and I am so grateful for him, and my life is definitely better and overall happier because he’s in it - but, having him doesn’t mean I don’t ever get sad or mad or down with life.
I have one of my biggest dreams in the process of coming true (I can’t wait to share with you in time!), but despite that, I still have days where I worry, doubt, and just feel bad.
Our dreams coming true aren’t a cure-all for life; they definitely enhance it absolutely, but they don’t necessarily save us from lower emotion days.
Honestly, nothing will “save” you from lower days and that’s okay! You could literally be the perfect model of doing mindset work, manifesting your dream life, doing your gratitude routine and still have a bad day here and there. It absolutely doesn’t mean you did anything wrong; it just means you’re a normal human!
We’re supposed to feel all of our emotions; our emotions actually are our guidance system to clue us into where we are leaking our energy (what we are giving too much power too) or what lights us up (the path we should be following!) They are necessary for our growth and expansion. In fact, sometimes our lower emotions really help push us to make the change we need to make.
If there is anything I’ve learned from having some of my dreams come true, is that while they definitely boost our happiness, our lasting forms of joy comes from within us; our joy is us.
True happiness and joy really just comes from acceptance. Accepting that life is full of ups and downs and we’re here to embrace that, grow from it, and learn from it. Accept that you are an amazing, wonderful, human being exactly as you are; whether you’ve already achieved great things or not, you are so worthy of anything and everything.
True happiness comes from loving yourself, seeing yourself as beautiful, as divine, as a creature brought to this Earth to experience life in all its magic.
It comes from accepting that no matter what path we’re being led down, no matter what ways the Universe is taking us, whether we get what we want or seemingly don’t, we can still find ways to be happy and enjoy our time on Earth.
True happiness comes from letting go of putting so much pressure on ourselves to be perfect and happy all the time. Acknowledge that you’re human, you’re entitled to some down days, just don’t let yourself stay down. Feel your emotions as much as you need to, and when you’re ready, pick yourself back up and find ways to make yourself smile. Don’t wait for someone else to do it for you. Don’t wait for validation from external achievements to do it, find ways to be happy now, exactly as you are in present time.
Happiness comes from releasing people and things that no longer serve us; to saying no to what brings us down, and not letting it keep us down.
Happiness comes from choosing ourselves; from following our hearts. It comes from choosing to see the magic in the world and the magic within us.
Because you already are so incredibly magical.
I hope that made sense to you, and I hope it resonates! It’s really all a culmination of everything I’ve been feeling and thinking about lately. Honestly, even writing all of that out lifted a bit of sadness off of me and helped me to feel more empowered.
While it’s true its important to feel all of our emotions and honor them, at the end of the day, we are the ones in charge of lifting ourselves back up. Our true loves and dream achievements and buying awesome stuff and getting money obviously help, but deep joy always come from within first.
And if you have a bad day, don’t feel like you did anything wrong. You’re human, it’s going to happen. So honor it, but then when you’re ready to move forward, find ways within you to lift yourself back up. You can do it, you deserve it, You’re amazing <3
