Philosophers tell us that free will of a human being gives an individual the power to determine not only his actions, feelings and thoughts, but whether we will choose to assume an attitude to life that determines our future happiness.
If we are patient and relaxed enough to admit to ourselves the reasons for any unhappiness it will cause an unravelling of any negative knot or stranglehold within our psyche. This can refer to either emotional issues or to mental problems that preoccupy our thoughts and disturb our mental fitness. Even if the cause is not immediately apparent, we really may know the answer, although it may be at present buried in our deeper unconscious mind waiting for us to discover the key.
So sometimes we must be patient, and keep searching for the answer so we can dissolve our dissatisfaction or unhappiness and transform it into positive energy. This may results in a more relaxed state, a general acceptance of things we can’t change or improve, feeling of contentment, or better still, just the feeling of joy and happiness in being alive.
It is also a case that we can choose to remain or even to wallow in negative states or to take an emotionally positive attitude using our freedom of choice and free will to focus upon being cheerful.
The latter may start with an effort to look cheerful, and to smile or laugh but as we all know, this will encourage our mood to follow. So we do have a measure of control over our emotions, moods and expressions. Soon the habit will feel natural and we’ll be pleased we made the effort.
However in our personal search and desire to feel happy we are reminded of the simple wisdom claiming that happiness is generated spontaneously when we are actively creative in some worthwhile endeavour.
So we can learn to enjoy doing the dutiful work we have to do or we can seek work that suits our nature and talents to make happiness easier.
But choose we must – and our mental fitness and happiness depends upon our selection of the ‘Happiness’ programme to download into our brains.
Sally Janssen’s wonderful book Mental health and Fitness: A Simple Self-help Guide, offers simple and timely solutions.
