I was reminded (how could I have overlooked it?) that today is International Day of Happiness by The Hot Goddess in What is Happiness? I suppose I’ve had my head in writing a new book, that I was overlooking the mentions of this day.

(If you’re feeling cynical about a Happiness Day when you don’t feel it right now yourself, please read on…)

Natalie gives shout-outs to these awesome bloggers who write very positively and who she garnered happiness quotes from: Kaushal Kishore explains how peace, detachment, and acceptance are keys to happiness in his post, Golden Rules of Happiness…, Dawn of CreatedbyDeesign writes in her post, Finding Happiness, about feeling happiness in little moments, Khaya of Khaya Rhonkainen also writes of finding happiness in simple things, Kathy of Kwoted and Navigating the Change finds happiness in being herself, Anand of Ananda Only also believes happiness is found within, Jeff of Develop. Inspire. Transform agrees happiness is not found in external things, Beth McKinley writes that true happiness is about self in her blog post Happiness, and Brad of Writing to Freedom has a different view on happiness. Thank you Natalie for posting these links!

I haven’t written about Happiness in a little while so perhaps it is time to share some new bloggers with you who have found ways to identify it in their own lives!

In the past, I had difficulty feeling happiness or even feeling that I deserved it. I feared happiness, for I always thought I’d be punished with more trials if I allowed myself to feel it for too long.

In my search for trying to seek happiness, I discovered that I didn’t like myself very much, so I set out to teach myself to do so. In doing the inner work, I found I had opened myself and cleared the pathways to see and feel happiness.

I had self-sabotaged for so many years, and I had come to believe I could shield myself from more troubles by not feeling happiness too deeply. Now I know that was a symptom of the inner damage I had sustained, but at the time it made sense to keep myself miserable!

As many of you know, I wrote Developing Happiness When You Can’t Find It from the lessons I learned coming out of those dark times, and I blog freely about the different aspects of healing so that you too can find little ways to grow towards being happier.

If you’re struggling with the whole concept of happiness and feeling it’s just eluding you, please don’t think you are doomed or cursed, or that it happens for everyone else except for you!

Happiness is a byproduct of healing one’s spirit, removing the inner blockages, or teaching ourselves a new way of speaking to ourselves and of seeing our lives!

It is possible for you too to do this for yourself, believe it or not. We each have this inner power, an inner ability, even if we’re so downtrodden that we don’t feel we have the energy to!

Listed below is my “on repeat” list of posts where I speak about these beginning steps.

You aren’t obliged to try to tackle it all at once, that would be exhausting and you may not have the energy for that right now, so try just one small thing!

So, on International Happiness Day, I’m speaking to those who may feel left out from it all, who struggle to feel there’s anything positive in their life… I want you to know I haven’t forgotten you!

You are important. You are worthy of developing happiness too, by working on healing those inner barriers that are blocking those feelings.

You aren’t a hopeless case! You have so much potential! I believe in you!

I hope you’ll poke around my Archived Posts to find a wonderful trove of supportive and encouraging posts! Don’t forget to Like, Comment, and Follow my blog! If you want to become a Guest writer, please contact me and we’ll work out the details!

I’m sharing more posts that may be helpful for you:

• 10 Steps to Owning Our Happiness
• Setting “Boundaries with consequences”
• Making a change… “How do I take that first step?”
• Affirmation: Today is a new day! I can do this!
• As we practice being gentle and kind with ourselves, we actually help to speed the process of helping our lives become more positive!
• Always believe that wonderful things can happen!
• A healthy outside starts from the inside!
• Brain Rewiring

More good stuff:

• Teaching ourselves to like, even to love ourselves
• By changing our inner dialogue, we change EVERYTHING!
• Challenge: When a negative thought enters your mind, think three positive ones. Train yourself to flip the script!
• Red Ocean or Blue Ocean? How do you think?
• An answer to dealing with the Inner Critic!
• My top 10 most viewed posts, plus a few bonuses!
• A helpful trick to be able to overcome negatively Comparing Ourselves to others…
• Do you only accept yourself if you look a certain way?
• A new you! Is this possible?
• Start today, start tomorrow, just start!
• There is no enlightenment outside of daily life – Thich Nhat Hanh

Blessings!
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Tamara
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