Finding happiness from within

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To often do we strive to find peace and happieness from the wrong places.  We seek it from everywhere and this is part of human nature, to seek pleasure.  Money, power, professional success.  Things that we think will impress others and convince them that we are happy.  But that doesn’t actually make us happy.  To find true happieness we need to look inside ourselves.  Because true power and true happieness can only come from within ourselves, from understanding who we are, understanding why we feel that way we do and practicing self love and self care.
In this era of stress and always running, political division, and mass media it is very important for us to learn to love ourselves. But the truth is loving yourself is a hard thing to do. We beat ourselves up constantly. Whether we are complaining about our looks, our intelligence, our mental state…many of us put ourselves down daily. I know I’m guilty of it. “You’re so fat, that was so dumb, you are messing up as a father as a husband, You. Do. Not. Matter….”
So what can be done? Where do we go or who do we go to? What is the saving grace when we find ourselves down in the valley and about to deal ourselves that final blow with our negative thoughts and words?  Well first we remember that we are at the starting point for the rest of our lives, we have created the foundation and will continue to build the wonder that is us.
Self-love also goes beyond treating yourself with kind words. Find time to do and enjoy the things you love. Do not force yourself to do things you do not want to (unless it is necessary of course). Get rid of toxic people and surround yourselves with positive ones. Read that book, go on that vacation, watch that movie…whatever you have been putting off because you are either too busy or do not have the will to do, do these things for yourself.