Posts tagged Time On Earth
Inspiration For Women – You Complete You!
Sep 8th
What do you really need to be happy? Chances are, it doesn’t exists outside of yourself. As humans we often search from the earth’s core to the atmosphere for representations of happiness. We hope it will show up in the things we buy, eat, do, or drive. When, what we really want is meaning. You want your time on earth to stand for something. To mean something. It does when you remember… you complete you.
So, what does it take to make you happy? The answer is you. You are already complete. Whole. Don’t ever believe any different. You were perfect when you arrived. As you’ve grown, lived, and gained some understanding, you’ve started to find your frailties. Maybe even sharing them with others. “Look, there are things wrong with me.” Oh, if we didn’t have magazines and televisions to tell us how we should look, think, or feel. Life would be so much easier.
You are at the Heart of Your Own Happiness
There’s a great song by India Arie, entitled, “I Choose.” “I choose, to be the best that I can be… I choose. To be authentic in everything I do. My past don’t dictate who I am. I choose.”
Choose to be happy. While your life circumstances may not be. You don’t need to have everything go beautifully to feel beautiful. Just a change in perspective. Those who have the most trials, often bring the most kindness and good spirit to our lives. If you’re ever in doubt of how to feel complete, start filling you from the inside. Everything begins there.
Wishing you peace and inner happiness!
Copyright 2010. Asia Sharif-Clark. All rights reserved.
Happiness Starts at 50
Sep 7th
Lots of folks say that life ends at 50. Or maybe it’s 60 nowadays. However, the point is that people think of middle age as the peak of life, with everything after it being downhill. But it turns out people over the age of 50 are really happier than the younger folks.
A particular survey took a look at more than 300,000 people in the United State and took a look at some specific factors, for example, marriage, children, employment and the like. What came out the other end of the study was that well-being, or at least one’s determination of it, varies depending on the person’s age.
Things like how angry you are and stressfulness and other issues went down a whole lot from the time of the youth to the time of the old folks. However, things like worries stayed the same until middle age.
Another emotion, sadness, also went down after age 50, though the patter didn’t change a whole lot. In general, though, happiness tended to decline until the age of 50, after which point it seemed to increase.
The ladies had a slightly different experience. That went from higher stress levels and worries and sadness, but they also went to the happier place after the age of 50. The patterns tended to be equal across the genders which makes the genders equal no matter what the people have to say.
One of the things that the study really puts a lead pin inside of is the notion that you really have to examine your feelings, whether it is sadness, happiness, worry or stress. Also you might be happier for some reasons.
One thing they thought was that old folks have a better time of controlling their emotions, at least until a certain point. They may better understand their feelings and have more experience with being grown up.
The end result of all this is that people have a better idea of self- satisfaction. Some scientists like to argue. And that’s how they enjoy the rest of their short time on earth, rather than hiding behind a thick wall of regret.
Of course, nothing is so simple. We cannot confirm or deny that happiness starts at 50.
