The value of knowing how to enjoy life

We have all known people with an incurable desire to live. Happy, active, sociable and resilient individuals. Able to find the positive side of every event and avoid negativity with astonishing naturalness. This ability to enjoy life has an innate component, but it also depends largely on the daily decision that that person makes every day to be happy.

Therefore, even if you have never managed to identify with these lovers of life, it is in your power to change this reality. We all have the power to determine our mood and emotional experiences.We just have to take care of the thoughts we feed.

Do you know how to enjoy life?

During our growth we are taught to read, write, perform numerical calculations or list the capitals of each country. However, at no time do they teach us to live and enjoy the journey. We focus on progressing professionally and socially, we invest all our energy in trying to achieve success and comply with other people’s impositions. And we forget that the only really important thing, our true mission, is to try to be happy.

However, to achieve this we must identify the obstacles that prevent us from doing so and find a way to overcome them. First of all, we must become familiar with our thinking pattern. What are the typical cognitions you usually have? What do you think, in general, about yourself and the world? It is, in large part, those ideas that bring you closer or further away from happiness.

The way you interpret events can cause you to perceive life as a gift or as a punishment. The tendency to overlook everything positive that happens to us, and to ruminate incessantly about negative events, will inevitably lead us to dissatisfaction, frustration and sadness.

Choose your thoughts

If you want to start enjoying life, you have to change your thinking pattern. You can’t control everything that happens, but you always have the option to choose how to interpret it. Be grateful and enjoy every positive event in your life.. Appreciate the company of your loved ones, the fulfillment that your work brings you or, simply, the possibility you have of living each new day.

On the other hand, When a negative event comes before you, decide to deal with it in an adaptive way. Don’t get into a loop of thinking about your bad luck, your lack of qualities, or your inability to get ahead. On the contrary, accept the situation and try to learn from it. But, above all, mentally and constantly remind yourself that you have everything you need to emerge stronger from this event.

Put your coping skills to work, ask for help if necessary. But use your thoughts to love yourself, to encourage yourself, to motivate you and to boost you. Make your mind your greatest ally and not your worst judge. Your thoughts define the way you feel.

Life is now

Another of the main obstacles that we have to overcome is our tendency not to live in the present. It is truly difficult to enjoy life if we are constantly regretting the past or worrying about the future.. In this way we miss what is happening here and now. We do not allow ourselves to get deeply involved with the people and events around us.

Knowing how to enjoy life consists, first of all, in being present. In putting the five senses in sensations, colors, words and emotions. In investing all our mental energy in making every moment something important. We spend our lives waiting: for the weekend to arrive, for the holidays to arrive, to get a better job or to find love.

This is how we postpone happiness thinking that it will arrive at certain key moments. The reality is that happiness is built, every day, with the will to do so. You don’t need big things to happen to enjoy, you need to enjoy the small to make it memorable.

Therefore, do not walk through your life like an automaton, let go of the past, stop trying to control the future.. Pay attention to the present, life is happening now, live it.

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