You are not too busy for self care. You just need to view your emotional well-being as something that needs training... as much training as your physical fitness.
Women tend to identify happiness based on external sources. Is your partner happy? Are your kids happy? Does that new handbag equal happiness? If you aren’t emotionally, psychologically, spiritually and physically fit, then happiness is going to be challenging.
You have to locate and release your emotional blocks to receiving happiness. Finding something positive to fill that space will lead you to a place of joy.
It’s not what other people think about you that determines your level of happiness. What stories do you tell yourself about yourself? If you’ve suffered abuse or feel bad about parts of your appearance, you’re telling yourself you don’t have value or deserve to be happy.
The good news is you can rewrite your own story.
Tips for Finding Happiness
- Life is tough. You will endure pain. Suffering is optional.
- You can be your own guru. Trust your inner voice.
- Westerners are mass media marketing junkies. The message is that more is better. That’s not true. Reframe your relationship to "stuff."
- Most of us are ruled by a desire for control. The only thing you can control is yourself.
- Speak with someone to get your traumas heard and acknowledged.
You don’t like to feel negative emotions like grief, fear and anger. These emotions tell you that something is no longer working as well as it could be or should be. You want to turn the emotions off. However, if you look at the adversity, you can start to take control.
Extending kindness and empathy in someone’s hour of darkness increases our humanity.
Listen in as Lisa Cypers Kamen shares her best advice for finding happiness within yourself.
Through her wide-ranging decades-long career, Lisa Cypers Kamen, MA, has redefined — for herself and for many others, worldwide — the pursuit of happiness. Documentary filmmaker, positive psychology coach, author, syndicated radio show host, and lecturer, Lisa is, first and foremost, an expert in the skill of "harvesting happiness," even under life's most challenging circumstances.