7 Steps to Happiness – Happiness Principle Number 3

7 Steps to Happiness – Here is the third happiness principle which is essential to your sense of happiness and self-fulfillment

Life happiness and self fulfillment is one of the inherent meanings or purposes of life. Over the course of my journey, I’ve come to believe that there are seven basic principles anyone can follow which will immediately lead to more happiness and a greater feeling of self fulfillment in your life. In this article, I’m going to focus on the third of these happiness principles.

Life Happiness Principle Three: Guard Your Vibration

In simplistic terms, we are energetic beings and we emit a vibration at all times. The vibration we emit is either positive or negative based on our underlying emotions and feelings.

So when we’re thinking, we’re choosing thoughts that are either positive or negative. When we’re speaking, we’re choosing language which is either positive or negative. When we are listening, we’re formulating responses in thought, words, and actions which are either positive or negative.

Because we’re energetic beings, we’re also highly responsive to the environment around us. So what do you suppose then is the typical outcome if we find ourselves continuously subjected to negative energy and messages?

It can be tough to feel Happy when Negativity is everywhere

For better or worse, our day to day environment is typically framed within a nonstop onslaught of negative messages.

The news is almost exclusively about bad and tragic things that have happened, are happening, or will happen — whether it’s crime, the economic crisis, terrorism, war, disease or death.

Commercials for most products are deliberately designed to convince you that you have a problem only this product can solve.

Talk radio airwaves are flooded with obsessive complaining and gossiping about everything that is wrong with society and the world. Headlines scream out at you.

How can any of this negative onslaught possibly help you to feel good and to find happiness?  Is it in any way supportive of you experiencing more happiness or joy or a sense of fulfillment in your life?

Of course not.

So what then is the solution? If you accept that such an ongoing bombardment of negativity is harmful to your happiness, how do you go about guarding your vibration?

To feel happy, turn off the noise

My wife and I noticed something interesting whenever we went on vacation. Typically, while on vacation we’d break from our normal routine and wouldn’t be watching or paying attention to the news. We had better things to do, like enjoying ourselves and so typically we’d spend very little time or attention on what was going on in the world. And we’d feel great.

Then, when we’d return home, we’d slowly get drawn into conversations. “Did you hear about …?”

And we’d begin to feel our vibration sliding back to negativity.  Finally, it dawned on us that it was the tone of the messages that we were hearing all the time that was having the impact on how we felt.  That’s when we realized we could break the routine by simply turning the stuff “off”.

The simplest way to guard your vibration, which will instantly help you to feel better and raise your overall happiness baseline is to turn off the pipeline of negativity around you.  Turn off the radio.  Skip the newspaper headlines.  Turn off the television.

When you take these few simple actions, you eliminate the vast majority of the toxic messaging that feeds your unhappiness. You’ll start feeling better and begin having more fun because you are effectively guarding your vibration.

Sound too simplistic?  Try it.

I’ve co-written an entire happiness program that reveals how easily you can begin guarding your vibration and find true happiness, starting today.  You can learn more about it here:  7 Steps to Happiness Program