A Life Script For Happiness

The past few days I have been reading about the things that people do that make them happy.  They are easy things that we can all practice in our daily routine and they won't cost you any money.  It will take a few minutes of your time each day and the pay off is worth it.  One of those things is writing daily about what you are grateful for.  I started doing this a couple of years ago when a social worker introduced me to the daily gratitude of Louise Hay.  It has become a daily habit and it does help fill you mind with pleasant things to get through stressful events in our life.  I am not saying that life is always going to be like a box of chocolates, but gratitude helps you focus on things that send happy thoughts to our brain.

The other thing that happy people do is rewrite their life script.  In the social world of therapy it is called cognitive behavior therapy.  You talk about those things from your past that are constantly upsetting your mind and you turn the events into a positive thought.  I realize now that my therapist was a smart lady, as she shifted all my bad and traumatic events from my childhood to all the good things about the childhood.  I won't tell you that I don't still have triggers that remind me of trauma from the past, but I stop the thought with a shift to the fun things in my life.

I need to rewrite the script from my husband's experience with cancer, and all the others in my life that have died from cancer.  I realized this the other day as I remembered that my mother had constantly told me that I too would die some day just the way she did, and so would my husband.  It sounds awful, but the fact of it is that our brain starts to believe things that we hear constantly.  We actually do control our life script.

I am about to rewrite mine.  When I think about my children, I helped write my daughter's script.  I told her all the time what a beautiful, smart and friendly person she was while  growing up.  She is grown now and every bit of the person I painted her to be.  She is very successful and loved by many people.

So how do I see myself,  I see my self as growing gracefully old and living a life filled with love.  The real me sees myself as an artist.  I have been told by many friends that I am very artistic and I am starting to see that side of myself again.  I had buried that part of my life, but I like that person and that is a very big part of me.  I have found joy again in sewing and can see myself very happily with my own boutique.  And of course my husband will be a part of the boutique, because he loves to talk to people.  Mr. Sociable loves being surrounded by people and would make an excellent sales clerk.

Okay My husband is calling for dinner and I must stop here today.  Pick up a pencil and write three things you are grateful for.  Keep doing it everyday and soon your mind will be filled with happiness.


Life is beautiful !!

Elizabeth:)