If You Feel Trapped, Do These 9 Things To Take Your Life Back

Are you happy with your life? Many people are unhappy or dissatisfied with their lives, and a lot of these people think that they have no control over their life or what happens in it. However, you have the power to change your own life for the better using your mind and your actions.

Check out 9 ways you can take your life back and find happiness here.

1. Live A Lifestyle You Can Afford

One of the most stressful ways to live your life is to live above your means. Many people spend more than they earn and get stressed on a daily basis about their financial situation. It is important to treat yourself, but the treat shouldn’t be a big expense. Ask yourself these questions; what do I truly need to survive? Do I need this, or do I want it? Will it bring happiness into my life?

2. Be Aware Of Your Power And Take Responsibility

Many people blame others and the world around them for the bad things in their life, but the truth is you have full control of your life. Only you can change the things in your life that you are unhappy about. You are in control of your life, and you hold all of the power. Seize this power and make choices that will bring happiness into your life.

3. Find A New Job If Your Job Makes You Unhappy

Your job doesn’t have to be the best part of your life, but if you dislike going into work you should look for a new job. This is how you spend 40 hours of your week, and your job should be more than just a way to pay the bills. Ask yourself these questions; what could improve my job? What am I looking for in a job? Do I need to improve my skills to find my perfect job?

4. Realize That Life Responds To You

Your outlook determines the way you see the world, so make sure you’re looking at a positive view of the world. Your mind has the power to make you see life negatively, or it has the power to inject positivity into every day. Start to think more positive thoughts and you will notice both your mind set and your life changing and improving.

5. Start To Live A Healthy Life

For many people, being healthy is a big part of their happiness. Respect your body and drink lots of water, eat fruit and vegetables, exercise and get a good night’s sleep. All of these things will help you to feel happier and more pro-active.

6. Follow Your Passion

You know yourself better than anyone else, so you know what direction your life should be following. Listen to your heart and pick up hobbies that make your soul sing.

7. Be Honest And Learn To Say No

A big part of having self-respect is being able to say no to others. While it is a great feeling to help others out, it is important you are not being a push over. Say yes to others when you genuinely want to help, but don’t put your own life on hold.

8. Throw Away Social Norms

Many people live their life following social standards because they believe it is the safest choice, but they are unhappy. Take command of your life by doing whatever makes you happy, rather than doing what you feel like you should be doing. Be proud of yourself and stand out!

9. Do What Makes You Happy

If you want to do something that you think will make you happy, do it – don’t let fear of failure put you off. Fear can be a prison that stops you finding happiness, so take a chance and see what happens without worrying too much about the outcome. Life is for living!

What did you think of this list? Did you agree with it? Share this list with your happiest friends and see if they agree!

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Let Gratitude Bring Back Your Smile

Every so often, gratitude and love become a challenge.  We want to smile at the one we love, but we just cannot seem to find our smile.  We want to look lovingly at the special person in our life, but he has hurt us.  Or perhaps we have inadvertently hurt him and we can feel the tension because instead of talking about the problem, he is off sulking or has simply shut down. 

This can also happen with friends, colleagues, and family.

Sometimes just a hug can be the ice breaker.  But what happens when sadness or anger linger too long and you just cannot muster up those loving feelings? What happens when anxiety and depression set in?

This is the time when Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at University of California at Davis, would be reminding me, as he did in an interview last year:

"Gratitude is an attitude, not a feeling that can be easily willed." Even if you are not satisfied with your life as it is today, he pointed out, "if you go through grateful motions, the emotion of gratitude should be triggered. It is like improving your posture and as a result becoming more energetic and self-confident."

Dr. Emmons added: "Attitude change often follows behavior change. By living the gratitude that we do not necessarily feel, we can begin to feel that gratitude that we live."

Smiling, saying "thank you," sending thank-you notes, and making gratitude visits are attitude boosters.

Gratitude benefits

Grateful people are found to be generally happier, with more social connections and fewer bouts of depression, which affects 20.9 million American adults. The National Institute of Mental Health reports that about 9.5 percent of the U.S. population 18 and older has a mood disorder in a given year.

Jeffrey J. Froh, Psy.D., assistant professor of psychology at Hofstra University says:

Children as well as adults benefit from gratitude. Jeffrey J. Froh, Psy.D., assistant professor of psychology at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, N.Y., says his findings indicate that grateful children do better in school, have fewer headaches and stomach aches, get better test scores and may be more community minded.

Dr. Froh is practicing what he preaches with his own four-year-old son, whom he asks each night: "What was your favorite part of school today?" He is also helping him to be appreciative of nature, and related this vignette: "We were outside the other day, and out of the blue my " son said, 'Look at how red those leaves are. Aren't they beautiful?'

He commented: "A lot of these findings are things we learned in kindergarten or things our grandmothers told us, but we now have scientific evidence to prove them."

Scientific observation

I asked Dr. Emmons if the purpose of his work was to convince others that gratitude can be measured from a scientific perspective, not just religious.

He pointed out that through their research they have "replaced armchair philosophy and moral and religious rhetoric regarding gratitude with empirical observation of what gratitude is and what it does in people's lives."

Developing the gratitude attitude -- try the basket method

Find a place in your home to turn a table into a gratitude desk. 

• Fill a basket with stationary, note cards, and even birthday cards.
• Make certain to have at least two working pens in the basket.
• Add at least one book of stamps.
• Buy a journal in which you make a note to yourself of someone who deserves a thank you note and date it. When you send out that note, add that date as well. What you will often see is that too much time elapses from the day in which you said to yourself "I should write that person a note" and the day you actually get to write it, stamp it, and get it into the mail .And "No" email does not have the same power.

As you begin writing to others, you will feel your smile return.  That heaviness in your heart will begin to dissipate. When that happens, write to the love in your life and speak from your heart.

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