Have you ever stopped to think about the habits of a happy heart? What makes your heart happy?
Of course, happiness is a very relative and variable concept. For some people, having a happy heart is related to career, business, studies, travel. For others, it is something different, related to health, relationships, and things that money is not able to buy. For some, happiness involves a little of each. In any case, some habits are common to those who consider having a happy heart.
Here are some habits that can make your life and heart happier.
Smile Always
Laughing and smiling are the simplest and most powerful habits you can adopt to keep your energy up. People react positively to the smiling look ... It works like a magnetized magnet. We all want to approach smiling people and, conversely, we are repelled by a sulky or serious face. When we laugh we release toxins, relieve stress, and forget about worries. The smile creates empathy, makes you younger, and generates generosity. Open doors, move mountains. So enjoy and start training now: put on your best smile and smile for life and she will certainly smile twice for you!
Listen to your heart
We live frightfully deaf and disconnected with our inner voice! And listening to the voice of the heart is essential for you to connect with your essence, access your intuition, release powerful insights, and enlighten your spirit with new and creative ideas and projects.
I propose a simple and quick exercise that will help you to calm your mind and broaden your perception. Choose a quiet place and sit comfortably. Close your eyes, breathe calmly, and simply listen ... Listen to your breath, listen to your heart beating, listen to your thoughts slowly settling down.
Start to get in touch with these sounds that are relaxing you, relaxing and relaxing more and more. Until you feel in a state of inner stillness. Let this internal sound emerge bringing unexpected messages ... Exactly what you are ready to receive. This is a state of total presence, of full awareness.
The more we practice this “internal listening” we improve the sensitivity and the ability to hear outside sounds with more purity, wisdom, and understanding. Sharpen this sense, improve your sensitivity, and improve your relationship with the world! (Shhh) remain 10 minutes in silence ...
Staying silent also allows us to receive personal revelation and answers to our prayers. Perhaps the noise of the world is so loud, that we are unable to hear the Holy Spirit.
Sing!
After all, “whoever sings their ills is astonished”. When we sing, we release tension, express our emotions, and harmonize what is around us. When we let the sound flow freely and spontaneously, we generate “mantras” and pure and authentic sounds that reverberate changing the mood. The voice is a remarkable instrument entirely at our disposal. Singing is therapeutic, healing, liberating! And above all, music is a universal language - it connects all of humanity uniquely and spectacularly.
Anyone can sing and have fun with the sound games! Start like this: choose an easy and simple song that moves your heart. Pay attention to the melody… Listen to each word, each chord, each note… Try to play it softly, following the recording… Get familiar with this environment and practice for 5, 10 minutes a day… And that's it, that's how you start to sail the seas of the musical universe.
We can use music to praise the Lord too.
Hug!
Because hugging is energizing, it breaks barriers and connects “heart to heart”.
It is a natural and pure way to exchange energy with all beings and the planet ... A precious opportunity to share and receive great positive vibrations. The embrace generates affection, affection, respect. Sensitizes, softens, removes ice, removes hurts, forgives, calms, rejoices, motivates, inspires. So, why not? Hug a friend, the family, your dog, a tree. Embrace someone who is sad, or alone. Embrace a cause. Embrace an idea. Embrace with love, with a conscience, with your heart, and with your soul. And, feel embraced.
Season
The success of a good restaurant is the variety of the menu, the quality of the ingredients, and the affection with which the dishes are prepared and served. So it is with life! The secret lies in the correct choice of ingredients in addition to mastery in the art of quantifying and mixing flavors and aromas that make your menu more vibrant and delicious.
My tip is to start with a good cleaning in the pantry by removing products that are expired or that have a low “nutritional” value: bitter, acidic, and sour feelings need to vacate the drawers and cupboards. Pass a damp cloth through the door openings, eliminating any trace of bad thoughts, rancidity, addictions, and limiting patterns. Now that the environment is "clean" and you have freed up considerable space, including the soft, light, and energizing ingredients. To start, I suggest love, patience, joy, and compassion… As well as ethics, respect, kindness, and courage. Now just complete the list with your special and magical ingredients and soon you will be a real master chef!
Now just season and taste. “Bon appétit”!
Disconnect
Turn off, unplug the plug! We live in an age of excess! Too much information, too much audio and visual, too many people, cars, emails and advertisements, channels, antennas, series, applications… We are plugged into 220, receiving information through all pores, connected to all media and electronic channels: cell phone, microwave, tv, wifi, Bluetooth, social media, x, y, z…. (socorrooooo !!!) Result: we forgot to live with simplicity.
Wake up without haste and have a quiet snack, walk to work or take a different and beautiful path even if it's longer, read a good paper book, sit in the square and listen to the children playing, take the dog for a walk, water plants, "chatting" with plants, taking a nap after lunch, preparing an original meal for someone who deserves this affection. Live a life in color and live ... In person, in full ... Feeling smells, sounds, flavors. Perceiving the pulse and vibration of those who are by your side, reading facial expressions, feeling your heart crawl, and be moved by the life that happens here and now. For 1 hour a day, disconnect from the virtual world and excesses and enter the world of simple, tangible, and natural reality.
Be Grateful
This is a habit that we all urgently need to adopt: “gratitude, genuine and sincere”. Gratitude to life, to childhood, to our children, our parents, and ancestors. Gratitude to the masters, to our leaders, to the educators, to the planet that feeds, to the Sun that keeps life, and to plants and animals. Gratitude to collaborators, to peacemakers, to those who made history, and to those who sacrificed their lives anonymously. Gratitude to our friends and neighbors, to our partners and companions, to the street guard, to the fireman, to the school cafeteria servant. Gratitude to the bus driver, to the musician who sings in the streets, to the street sweeper who sweeps our dirt, every day. Gratitude to poets, doctors, teachers ... The list is endless! There is a sentence that says: "It's not that happy people are grateful, but grateful people are happy."
Tell me what makes your heart happy!