Tell me how to be happy?

[Futomimi]

Happy can also mean content with yourself and with where you are. Maybe try to focus on things around you.

[Leaf]

send it then, all day everyday. I think you’re brave and wonderful for posting all these different topics with your raw emotions.

[Briteeyez]

Take one day at a time. One hour at a time. Hang in there. I’m hanging in there too

[finally]

I never met a person who is happy all the time. I go for contentment and it’s interspersed with moments of sadness, happiness, and laughter. Think that might be reality. Why else would we have all these emotions?

[anon22322466]

Before I regularly dosed B-Vitamins, I was pretty depressed / borderline suicidal, but now my mood is fairly even, without mood stabilizers or antidepressants. Low levels of B-Vitamins are associated with depression, according to numerous studies, like this one.

I’m cheerful now, even though there isn’t a lot going on in my life.

[Cici2]

Happiness, like sadness, come and go. Go out and do something selflessly. Help out in charities, soup kitchens and stuff like that. It helps release your feel good chemicals.

[labratmat]

You can’t be happy all the time. It is like having sadness makes sure you know you can be happy. they can’t live without each other.

1. Everything is temporary. Realise this. One moment can be joyous and another horrendous. Know happiness and sadness are moments and they will pass.
2. Don’t compare yourself to others.
3. Realise that you cannot control external factors, but you can control how you react to them. Internal vs external.
4. Craving and desiring things will motivate you but won’t satisfy you. Always looking for things and when you get them the joy quickly fades.
5. Artistry comes with time and patience, so take your time.

[saynow]

Smile as much as possible​:grin:

[rogueone]

Get rid of expectation. It’s hard to be disappointed when you have no expectation. You live in the moment and do things that improve you!

[keepsimple]

Try to do things that make those people closest to you feel happier… Make others happiness as or more important than your own and eventually it will boomerang back to you.

Small kindnesses arent that hard: today I brought my dad in assisted living a painting he made 30 years ago and hadn’t seen in two years… the maintenance guy hung it in his room and he loved it… I told him it was his big screen TV lol

I also took my brother to the mall after his work to try out a kindle tablet. It was a beautiful day so I drove him home which saved him a two hour commute by bus.

I also played with my cat for 20 minutes and rubbed his tummy… He’s less grumpy now.

As far as the boomerang goes… I got some nice homemade sloppy joes plus other home cooked food from my sister and I often get a free soda from the clerk’s at the corner store.

If I have an extra Dollar once in awhile I will hide it behind a trash can in a public bathroom hoping that whomever finds it will make good use of it… (Especially if it’s the person who cleans the bathroom.) I generally only do this in fairly clean bathrooms since dollar bills have a lot of germs as it is already.

Here is the painting (as you get older you can’t dance anymore but can…

…still enjoy watching the dancers)

[zeno]

Improve your inner world and live there.

[ThePickinSkunk]

Eat plenty of fish. Veggies. No joke.

I love you Spooky.

[Briteeyez]

I go through moments of sadness and happiness. Feel Blessed for the happiness and get through the sadness