How Come I’m Not as Happy as I Am Rich?

I found this at JoyfulHope.org while sipping my coffee this morning. This is a great site on hope, healing and mental well-being. I came across an article written by my dear friend Dr. George Pransky titled How Come I’m Not as Happy as I Am Rich. This powerful article touches upon mental well being and happiness. It explains why people who live in meager circumstances but have high levels of well-being live fuller, richer, happier lives and why people who look to external circumstances, situations our outside of themselves for happiness often feel very disconnected, lonely, unhappy and live over all less fulfilling lives. There exists a gap between ones standard of living and internal well being.

I find this article to be relevant to my life as I have spent the majority of my life believing that if I could just accomplish this, find my dream mate, make so much money or whatever it was that I placed a high amount of value on,  I would finally be happy. I had no idea that I could be happy right then and right there regardless of my external circumstances. As Dr. Pransky explains in this article:

To close the gap between standard of living and your internal quality of life, you must understand internal quality of life at least as well as you understand how to be successful in the external world. You must understand that your internal quality of life is generated within your own mind. Internal quality of life is produced by the mind and not received through external circumstances. Your internal quality of life will go up as you understand how the mind works and as you understand where well-being truly comes from.

Happiness eluded me until I met George and I started learning about Mind, Consciousness and Thought and that ultimately I determine my reality via my thoughts that happiness is an inside out job regardless of my financial situation, my current circumstances, or my past.

This is in my opinion an excellent article! Please share.