Detox

Starting on a high note. The key to changing your life around is reeducating yourself and that can't start until you purge yourself of all the emotional baggage that comes with unhappiness. Many people do this many different ways. You meet tons of people with addictions that have turned to God or Buddha or fundamentalism to keep themselves grounded. It's easy to find structure in those things knowing that there's always someone (or something) there watching over you and making sure you're doing good in the world. It's an easy way to set yourself at peace but are you ever really at peace if you're always looking up? What you need to do is learn to be happy with just you. Every other idea or thought aside.

My mother always says that when i'm keeping myself busy i'm hurting myself because what i'm doing is running away. I'm running away from my problems with stuff around me. I never learn just to be by myself in silence. To face myself in the mirror and accept me for all that I truly am. I actually think thats the hardest thing to do in life. Accepting others for faults is easy but accepting yourself is down right improbable. But never impossible.

So, today find time to just try to meditate. Usually people automatically think robes and long beaded necklaces but i'm talking about the mediation that goes with silence. Right before you go to bed or when you have a free chance turn off every electronic around you. Try to keep the noise as low as possible. And just let your mind wander to a better place. Breath in. Breath out. And say hello to the silence that is you being you.

Pursuit of Happiness: Meditation is Key.