How to get drunk off of happiness?

1.    Stop dwelling.

Past is precious. Learn from your mistakes. Learn from others’ mistakes. Remember the good times. Remember the people.

Forget the pain and the tears.

Let the heartaches heal.

The pain is just training; it doesn’t define you. Think about what went wrong but only in terms of how you will make sure that, next time, you and the people around you will make sure that it goes right.

2.   Stop buying possession, start buying experiences.

Instead of buying that extravagant piece of diamond, why not go on a trip to that little hill station?

No doubt buying things makes us feel better immediately, but at the end of the day it’s the experiences that count.

They enrich us in more ways than one could imagine.

3.     Pay compliments.

Start paying compliments. If you like someone’s hairdo or their shoes or their smile, go ahead, tell them. Tell them you find them beautiful, with a smile. And the moment you do that, you will feel better about yourself. The idea behind this is when you know you can make someone feel better about themselves, you automatically feel good about yourself too.

Believe me, this works.

4.   Stop blaming, Foster forgiveness.

When you blame others for a mistake they did, you yourself carry half a burden of their faults on your shoulders.

If the loss is too big you can be mad at them for awhile as it is inevitable but in the end let go of it. Holding onto grudges will only increase your pain.

5.   The gratitude diary

Maintain a gratitude diary. Write down all the things you are grateful for.

A baby looked at you and smiled in the morning. You felt nice about it, write it down in your diary.

Doing this exercise kills the bitterness and despair and promotes happiness.

6.   Do what you like. Live your dreams.

This is a very simple and easy thing to do.

But we rarely we do it, screw anything that doesn’t make you happy.

You like eating ice creams?

Well go out and eat as much you want, all that you want.

You like reading?

Sit all day at home and read all that you love.

You like dancing but due to something or the other you never got a chance to take your dancing onto another level.

I say, do it right now. Go get yourself enrolled into a dance school or become a dance teacher, go and try your luck in a reality show. Do it! Curbing our desires for the sake of fitting in the society or under any other pressure is no good. Do what you really want to.

7.   Learn something new.

Think of a subject that you wish you knew more about and spend 15 minutes on the Internet reading about it, or go to a bookstore and buy a book about it. But be honest! Pick up a topic that really interests you, not something that you think you 'should' know or 'need to' learn about.

8.   Smile!

 Indeed the simplest step to happiness.

 Even if you don’t feel like it, fake it! Research shows that even a fake smile induces harmones that make you feel better instantly. 

According to Henry David Thoreau: "Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder."

With all due respect to the author of Walden, that just isn't so, according to a growing number of psychologists, you can choose to be happy, they say. You can chase down that elusive butterfly and get it to sit on your shoulder by taking time to reflect, and making conscious steps to make your life happier. It really does work!