How to Achieve Happiness through Meditation

There is only one way to achieve happiness. The means is to simply be happy. You are probably thinking right now, how do I achieve happiness?" "Things just don't work like that, it doesn't take into consideration the times that I am wretchedly unhappy because of difficulties or mishaps that arise in my everyday life, not to mention the tragedies." At this stage I have to stop and meditate. Meditation can be done several different ways, just find the one that works best for your purposes.

Being happy more often than you have been is an extremely difficult task to accomplish-not in the doing of it once you know how and then in keeping conscious of what you have learned. Yet, I still say that with meditation it can be accomplished. The path that you have chose that brought you to your current situation was not a few days or months in the making, but a long and arduous path that has spanned through many years.

In truth of it is it has taken you a life-time to become the way you are today. It has also taken you that long to gain what you have achieved, to possess, and to arrive at your present condition. By taking the time to meditate and contemplate who you are, and whether what you have in your life is truly what you desire, If you are completely satisfied with the way your life is going, congratulations-do more of what you have been doing and you will acquire more of what you already have in your life.

But if who you are, what you have, and your present situation are below what you want or perhaps varies from what you long for, you have to start meditating about some basic alterations you will need to make in your life. Failure to make those alterations will find you continuing to seek the things you really would like in your life as the years fly past.

Because some of this that you are reading will seem impossible, ridiculous, or to you maybe even foolish and it may in the beginning offend you, causing you to ridicule what you are reading and maybe even make you feel you need to reject what you have read. I really must suggest to you that prior to rejecting how meditation can assist you through your life, ask yourself whether or not you want it to be true-then for your benefit please give yourself the opportunity to see it as true.

In this day and time with all the things we have to deal with in our lives it is very hard to stay on a positive level and be happy all the time, But just by taking a few moments a day just meditating by yourself will help you keep things in perspective where instead of being unhappy about the circumstances you are in, you can find a way to find the happy part of being unhappy.

Dick Ingersoll is an eternal student, and is excited to share what he is learning with others. He has pulled it all together for you at: Simplemeditation.com