Happiness is the spiritual existence of living through the minutes of life with love, grace and gratitude. Life is a journey in search of happiness. We search for happiness and it still evades us. Our positions, titles, money, mansions, cars and trips to foreign nations do not bring in the whole hearted happiness we are looking out. Happiness is a state of mind.  Well, here we are compiling a dozen strategies to tune happiness into our life.

• Finding the sweet spot of life.

Find out your strengths or passion. Nurture your passion, build upon your strengths, grind and polish them. Map out a profession which is your passion. When your passion meets your profession, you find the sweet spot of your life, which can be source of incessant happiness

• Exercise and outdoor games

Flex your body and muscles, and sweat a lot.  A 30 minute workout a day ensures the release of enough endorphins to keep you happy.

• Time and Space for dear and near

Spend quality time with your dear and near ones with care and compassion. The love, bonding, hugs and coddles within your family, releases the oxytocins, the cuddle hormones for your happiness.

• Quality sleep

Sleep is the best meditation. Sleep is the natural call for rest to repair and recover from a day’s toil. Quality and longevity of sleep brushes away all the tiredness and promises a day of happiness and energy to begin with.

• Get connected with nature

Go out and get connected with nature. Feel the breeze of the beach, realise the visual treat of colours in flowers, hear the chirping birds , sense the fragrance of the florets in the morn, chase a butterfly in your garden, throw a pebble into a nearby lake to see the waves in the pool. Happiness is in the little, we tend to ignore.

• Enriching others

Help others and make a positive difference in the life of people around. Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of the people. Happiness is found by helping. In fact, happy people are more willing to help others.  Hence, get happy in life by practicing the art of giving and helping.

• Get rewarded and appreciated

The hard work and good work you do never goes unrewarded and unnoticed. People will shower you with their good words and appreciations. Recognitions given to you by the society enhance your self esteem and happiness.

•  Comedy time

Have a good time to laugh and smile in your day. Watch comedy shows, crack and hear jokes. The more you laugh and smile the more you stay happy in the day. Laughing leads you to long happy life.

• Gratitude

An expression of gratitude says that you are happy for what you have and happy for what you have been given. Echoing gratitude in your prayers to god will dismiss the elements of greed from your mind, further enhancing your happiness quotient.

• Meditate

Mindfulness through meditation is an excellent act to put an end to the chatter of your mind. The meditation brings your mind to utmost calmness and serenity. Your mind in its pristine form, sans worries, fears, anxieties, envies, egos and judgement is a pool of happiness.

•   Recollect

Walk down your memory lane and recollect those memorable moments that made you really happy. Relive those moments and feel the happiness.

• Alter your mindset

By altering your beliefs, values and mindset, you will get a different perception of the world. You will see a world of love, happiness and abundance, by altering your paradigms. Just change your world of reality to see true happiness.