If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by worry, you know how difficult it is to feel happy at the same time. Worry and happiness are by nature complete opposites; they cannot co-exist. When you worry, you’re focusing more on the negative side of a situation – wondering what might happen that will challenge your ability to cope, or otherwise dreading negative events. When you’re happy, you’re not focusing on the negative side but rather affirming all that’s good in your life.

The problem that many people face is figuring out how to minimize worry and spend more time feeling happy. Below you’ll find five easy ways to transform worry into a genuine state of happiness:

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by Gail Solish

One can never predict what will happen in life. You can embrace life and live each day to the fullest or you can keep waiting for the right set of circumstances, which of course rarely comes. You may experience disappointments, frustrations or set backs, but some how you need to keep moving forward. It is not what happens but what you make of it that will dictate how you manage. Consider what qualities and strategies you need to develop in order to live your best life.

Here are my 5 rules for living your best life.

1. Take care of your self first.

Self care is mandatory. So often people put themselves last on their to-do list. It is necessary to make sure that your needs, both physical and emotional, are being met consistently. If you are tired, run down or eating poorly, it impacts your functioning both at work and in your personal life. Have you ever noticed that when you don’t have enough sleep you can become short tempered and impatient? How do you take care of your emotional needs? It is important to build in time to do things that you enjoy and connect with friends and family.

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by Antoinette R Tate

Maintaining your inner peace and living your life full of joy is going to require that you learn practical skills that will help you to control the thoughts that you focus on. In order to master these skills you are going to have to practice, be patient and persevere. In this article you will learn two basic meditation skills that you are going to need in order to control the thoughts that you focus on. The skills are:

1. Cleansing your mind of destructive thoughts and
2. Focusing on constructive thoughts

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Peace? What with the problems every day we see in the world on the news, and with the struggle to stay ahead, and the anxiety and stress we have to deal with due to the circumstances of our lives, peace seems like a long lost wisdom for some other life.

All of these reasons, though, are exactly why we need peace in our lives. The actual experience of peace can instantly reduce stress and anxiety and their aftereffects. Peace can instantly add to the quality of our current experience and to our well being. It can allow us to enjoy the struggle and flow of life, rather than stress over it.

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