People are perpetually seeking happiness, but few have been able to find it. This is perhaps because we tend to look for happiness in things that we believe will bring us happiness, but in actuality do not. Happiness is a flash that lights up our lives. It is indefinable emotion that comes and goes. The feeling we experience when we receive something we long for: a prize, great news, or when something moves us by taking our breath. However, it comes with such force that in the blink of an eye it fades, leaving a large empty space and disappointment.

True happiness is the inner sense of freedom, peace, security and satisfaction we feel when we decide to live our life fully; to give and make every moment count. Happiness is more than just living a special moment, it is what we feel as a result of how we see life. It's a state of consciousness that inspires us, gives us balance, and generates a pleasure within us that acts out with a smiling face.

"If you want to understand the meaning of happiness, you must see it as a reward and not as a goal." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The real secret of happy people is that they have the ability to add and multiply, rather than divide or subtract. It's a transformation from the seemingly negative into the positive, or of the impossible to the possible.

We will usually take away the importance of "being," by the desire of "owning," and to "own something" is to lose happiness. We think that once we get what we want, we will have the happiness we have never had before. However, when we do get what we want, we experience such an enormous sense of happiness that it actually vanishes as soon as we set our eyes on our next goal; believing that it is this goal that will make us truly happy forever, and so it goes on.

Ask yourself where your unhappiness comes from? Most of us are addicted to negative thoughts and feelings that we have had for years. These turn into chronic habits that have a chemical effect on our bodies and end up ruining our emotional life. It is therefore vital to manage the thoughts that cause these changes, and let go of the negativism game. Believing that external changes will automatically bring one happiness is a very dangerous trap that actually prevents us from being happy.

Why should we only be happy "IF" we get a new car, job, baby, marriage, divorce, new relationship, home, or the ideal body? If we are not happy now, none of these other things will make us happy unless we stop the addiction to negativity. Let's stop postponing our happiness and start being consciously happy now.

"It is an illusion to think that more comfort means more happiness. Happiness comes from being able to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed". Storm Jameson