What's your formula/strategy for true happiness? What do you do on a daily basis to keep yourself happy?

Follow your passion, your joy.... to the best of your ability, at any given moment.

Kismet

I am currently trapped in a situation that is emotionally and spiritually killing me. It's hard to keep myself happy. Once I get out of here, it won't take much to keep me happy.

Freedom and peace of mind are really the only two things you need. Cut all strings and follow your own heart/call. Forget about what others want you to do. That will be me at some point, if we survive past the new year all.

Race and income do not mean anything when it comes to happiness.

My strategy was putting up with the bad years well enough to enjoy my good ones, now I'm in a great spot and getting better every moment.
I think suffering is important in life and even it should make you happy having overcome it.

I don't know if this is meditation, but I leave my body often and enjoy the world I find.

Goodluck.

The Art of Power by hich than naht (totally butchered the name.. like.. yea no where close probably)

Read it dude.

MEDS.

Some people have had a fucked up life and don't want to talk about it, some people have chemical imbalances, some people have both.

Clinical depression is a beast on my back and I've had a FUCKED UP childhood, I don't talk about it. If it weren't for my kids and my meds, I would have been gone a long time ago.

I try to psych myself up with the music that I love and right now I love dubstep...it's upbeat and it keeps me going and it makes me feel like a badass.

Other people have other strategies, like exercise, but I have Lupus and COPD (all at the age of 38)...so my exercise is limited to walking my dog, yet, I've lost 40 pounds in the last six months because my depression is back in full force and I can't eat.

A lot of people judge people who have commited suicide or have though about it...but they've never felt the intensesadness that never leaves.

Meds work to a point, but if their is stress in my life...the meds can only do so much and after what's been done to me as a child...uhggg.

I wish I could have my memories erased, like "Sunshine of the Spotless Mind".

I envy happy people...sometimes I hate them.
I don't believe that I'll ever successfully kill myself...I tried as a young child...but i have kids now and I need to be there for them.

Meditation. I use center pointe. It's used with headphones, amazing.

Do what you have to do...it took me 15 yrs to leave a bastard and I had a fucked up childhood to boot. When I left, things got better...but be prepared...it will creep up on you again.

:hiya:

I liked the astrology thread a lot:)

Good advice friend. I would like to add "live for the moment". As in, be safe but live like today may be your last every day. I know it can be tricky and don't forget about moralit and humility.

Well, that's basicly how it's achieved. Practice, practice, practice : D

With Love, DH

WEED and MUSIC

Happiness is a choice. Outside things can't make you happy. If you aren't happy before you win the lottery, you won't be happy afterwards.

Change your perspective on life. It's a simple choice.

There is no formula, instead it is

Worthy of Remembering...
In the true order of things one does not do something in order to be happy—one is happy
and, hence, does something. One does not do some things in order to be compassionate,
one is compassionate and, hence, acts in a certain way. The soul’s decision precedes the
body’s action in a highly conscious person. Only an unconscious person attempts to produce
a state of the soul through something the body is doing.

Its not real•••so why not be happy! No one gets out alive anyway

Figure out what you enjoy and do that. Don't worry about all the other stuff. If spending every night with your $15k amateur telescope means you can't own a new brick house then who cares, so long as you can do what makes you happy and provide for the basic needs (food, shelter, clothing) of your family.