Choose Happiness

”The big moment the mind is anticipating in your dreams has the same happiness potential than this very moment.”

One of the fundamental characteristics of the mind is the ability to project and exaggerate things.

In fact, most people tend to exaggerate the facts when they tell someone else to make them more vibrant, interesting and engaging for the listener. Not only that, we tend to exaggerate things even within ourselves when we project the future. Sometimes this exaggeration has to do with amplifying a fear, or a possibility of suffering, but other times we also amplify the potential for happiness that we imagine behind a desire we are pursuing.

‘Once I find the love of my life I will be happy’ ‘Once I have more money and financial peace of mind I will be so much better’

‘When I lose a few pounds I will feel much more energized’, and so on.

We believe that another "projected" moment has a greater potential for happiness than this moment.

The truth is that each moment has the same potential for happiness.

This is because happiness is not determined by external situations and the context in which you find yourself, but is determined by how you are experiencing this moment, by the quality of your consciousness at this time.

After all, one can only be happy when we make the internal decision to be so, even if that decision has nothing to do with a favorable or ideal situation.

Contemplation

In your eyes, is this moment worthy of being the happiest moment of your life? 

Or do you choose this moment to be a means to an end, pursuing a projected as ideal by the mind?

29 January 2020 • Written by Daniel Bellone.