Everyday Lifestyle Hacks For Finding Happiness

'I am still not satisfied.' Isn't this sentence heard too often these days? The growing business of a psychiatrist, the increasing stress, anger, and frustration amongst the general public was not a common thing earlier, as these are now. What are the reasons behind such an impatient and wrathful behavior? In Spite of a lot of wealth and accomplishment, the yearning of the man never ceases. In the race for achievements and ambitions, people are not paying attention to their mental and emotional quotient. They don't have time for their family and the near and dear ones. The point is that there is hardly any time to relax and rejuvenate oneself and let the chords of one's mind unwind for some time to ponder on their deeds. The lack of introspection is leading to an aggravating problem of depression, insomnia, deteriorating relations with others, and above all, the lack of charm to living life. 

Happiness Routes

Many people who come to realize their situation even consult a psychiatrist, get therapy, or join some personality development courses. But the happiness that they are looking for can't be found within some classrooms or by spending huge amounts of money. Instead, the time has come to change our lifestyle. Till now, humans have lived only with the itch to advance, and now there is an appalling need to balance the advancements along with self-management time. The glee is actually hidden somewhere within us, within each living being. 

Activities to make one ecstatic

Yoga and meditation

Yoga and meditation are the best routes to soothe your mind, body, and soul. It is an age-old practice and was popularised recently even by India's honorable prime minister. When practiced regularly, it positively impacts not just our physique but also our mental and emotional health. Meditation is, in fact, the path to attain salvation and one of the best ways to intro-verse ourselves. A yoga practitioner is the gainer of positive energy from his surroundings and making the person pacified, peaceful, and exultant. It helps one find divinity in each living creature. Many people prefer to do it in the morning in the gardens, especially women and old people who make clubs and then collectively go for morning walks, running, and yoga practice. 

Listening to music and dancing

For teenagers, yoga may not sound very exuberant as they feel it is a very spiritual kind of thing. So, listening to music or dancing are more suitable alternatives. Nevertheless, teenagers, due to their vulnerable age, are often caught in the trap of emotional outbursts. Thus, they should spend quality time to de-stress themselves, making the traditional practices all the more significant. 

Parents and teachers role

The parents and teachers play a very vital role here. They should talk consistently with their child and try to befriend them by counterfeiting to be of their age. In fact, talking with one's family members is a very good way to pour out one's heart and make some beautiful memories with each other. The quality time we give to our family and friends adds strength to our bond, and this strong bond is sometimes the key to a blissful life. 

Making friends and socializing 

Making friends and socializing at our study place, workplace, and in our neighborhood is good but making new friends on social networking sites is not so fruitful in the long run. It makes one happy initially, but gradually, it becomes the main reason for melancholy and enraged attitude. It makes one famous but adversely affects our emotional sentiments and our physical as well as mental health.

Reading novels and writing one's daily diary.

For those people who prefer their own company more, reading novels, writing one's daily diary or short notes on any topic is a very good way for mental repose. It has multiple benefits, like it makes the person more proficient in a particular language. Those who are bibliophiles can even open a library from their book collection or even participate in reading clubs, authors' clubs, and literary societies. Some people even write their autobiography in old age, telling the world the story of unsung heroes who did not succumb to this ever-challenging life. 

Cooking

Another possible gateway is trying out new recipes, baking definitely soothes both tummy and mind.

Painting

Paintings help people to bring out their inner feelings without saying, and letting the people figure out what they actually meant.

Gardening

Gardening is always beneficial not just for the selfish mortals like us, but also for the Earth as we all know 'GO GREEN' is the need of the hour. A person can even create one's own mini garden in the balcony or lawn, open a nursery, grow some daily plants at home like oranges, tulsi, moong, curry leaves, etc. 

Sports

Sports is not just for the national level players as thought by many in our country, but it is a good recline, and we all must indulge in it proactively. It makes you physically fit, relaxes your mind, makes you emotionally strong by teaching some simple lessons on teamwork, discipline, and acceptance of failure. So, it is one of the best ways to find happiness in. 

Why not try uploading your creative accomplishments and tell the world about your rapturous life key. In fact, many women who are good at cooking start their own cookery classes or upload videos of their recipes with some special tips. We can always make pages on youtube or get DVDs for our dance, yoga, singing, cooking, comedy shows, etc.

Watching stand-up comedy shows

Watching stand-up comedy is an awesome way to have some good laughs alone, with family or with friends. 

Traveling

Traveling is the most vivacious hobby. Unleashing the hidden places and corners of the world, visiting the temples, monuments, etc., the mysterious and haunted places, and finding out about it's past, traditions, the food, the dresses, etc. is a good pastime. Wallowing in knowing the history and traditional folklore is a good way to undo the past, a huge source of information and exciting for many.

Artwork

Making lucrative wall hangings, cups, designing your house walls is a good fuel for the creative part mind. As we all know, knitting sweaters is a source of happiness for the granny, knitting other woolen clothes, embroidery on a piece of cloth, wall hanging, or painting the daily wear clothes, doodling on clothes and papers can't be forgotten.

However, busy one is with their studies and job work but never let the inherent skill in you fade away. One should always take out hobby time or vacation time to travel and laze. Hobbies are variables like collecting stamps, drawing, painting, gardening, cooking, clicking photographs, etc. These activities won't let the creativity in you, the real you, to get buried somewhere deep under pressure and stress. If we properly tranquilize ourselves, then we are satisfied and more actuated, thus enhancing our performance even at work.

There are many options that we can try and include in our daily planner to make our lives smooth and happy. These simple lifestyle changes don't need many monetary inputs but just the will to do them, rekindling the blown-out lamp of elation and glimmer from our lives. 

Nature's blissful reserves

We can't say that only money, high status in society, or being famous can make us light-hearted. Even the little things that we often forget to pay attention to like, the radiance on seeing a peacock's dance, hearing the koel's song, the light of the glimmering sun at the time of daybreak, the cool breeze brushing past one's cheeks, dancing in the first rain of the season, walking among the woods, blossoming of a flower, the heart filling aroma of flowers in the spring, watching the tall mountains reaching the sky, the baby's smile, seeing an animal feed it's little ones, seeing the moon and a thousand stars high up in the dark and clear sky and many more. 

Nature's bounties are endless, and even a single life is not sufficient to cherish them all. Nature itself teaches us many lessons on how to stay happy, and her arms are always open to all those who seek contentment in her. It provides us with bewitching moments in whose charisma one can get lost and let the strings of their heart and mind dance to the rhythm of her blessings. 

Conclusion

The lifestyle one adopts a decisive factor, but some beautiful moments are given to us all. The happiness can be felt when you see your parents and teachers proud of your accomplishments, your friend for your support, your life partner at your trust and love, your grandparents at your mischievous tactics, and many more. These little moments of mirth are provided to all without any partiality, and though we may try to change our lifestyle patterns or inculcate new habits yet, we often forget to live in these ticks to the fullest. These are like the magnificence of life in disguise, and we should always remember to live in them as they are the elixir of life.

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Co-author: Paridhi Singhal

Paridhi is a budding doctor. Apart from studying medicine, she is a keen writer who believes in the thought that pen is mightier than the sword.