The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

by Kevin Horsley

The heaviest load to carry is a grudge. Holding onto hurt is a habit that buckles the spirit. If

Forgiveness is soothing. The act has very little to do with the culprit, or with condoning wrong behaviour. It’s a habit of allowing yourself a life of liberty.

Stress results from living a life in your head that’s not compatible with the one under your feet. You actually choose to live in conflict with reality – and then have to cope with the strain of the paradox you create.

You can never be better off by concerning yourself with analyzing someone else’s life, or finding other people guilty or inferior. Stop judging people; it’s energy spent in vain.

Our mental pleasure centre adapts very quickly to new experiences; when you are a pleasure hunter, your quest is about improving on the previous experience.

Don’t entertain all the ‘threats out there’ in your conversations. Stop placing life in good and bad categories. Shut down the ‘they win, I lose’ program.

you are serious about your happiness, you will gradually replace the components of this fear-based script with subject matter that represent abundance, self-acceptance, and rational solutions.

List what needs to be changed, those elements that cause more damage than good – in whatever domain of your life, however small or prominent.

Learn to embrace every moment as a hand-crafted present. Slow down to allow the marvels of life to present themselves.