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310: How to Live with Happiness Daily with Monique Rhodes

Published: April 14, 2022, 8 a.m.

If you\\u2019ve been around The Adult Chair\\xae for a minute, you\\u2019ve heard me say that happiness is an inside job. We are so prone to believe that joy comes from our external circumstances, which leads us to strive and strive for what we think will finally make us happy and blame others for our unhappiness. But the reality is that nothing outside of us will be able to make us happy if we don\\u2019t first cultivate a sense of joy and peace within.

My guest today, Monique Rhodes, discovered this truth when she went on her own journey of understanding what makes some people happy in life while others suffer. Though today she works as a happiness strategist and calls herself \\u201cannoyingly happy,\\u201d this wasn\\u2019t always the case. After a difficult childhood and a number of tragedies, she ended up in the hospital after attempting to take her own life, which led her to explore a wide range of cultures, philosophies and practices to figure out if happiness was something she could actually create in her life. And it turns out, she could!\\xa0

In this episode, Monique shares the practical habits she uses every day to cultivate a sense of happiness in her life and why they make such a difference in our mental state. These are all simple, free and fast practices that work by shifting our minds towards the positive and helping us see the good that already exists in our world.\\xa0

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Listen to discover:

The strategies that helped her go from depression to daily happiness\\xa0
Practical tools to increase happiness\\xa0
What meditation is and what it isn\\u2019t\\xa0
The cause of suffering
How taking responsibility for our lives changes everything\\xa0
Building healthy social connections for happiness\\xa0
How to get out of a funk or take steps toward happiness if you\\u2019re feeling depressed

We\\u2019ve all had that experience where we finally get the job, the house, the relationship, the body or whatever it is we\\u2019ve been wanting only to find that nothing about our lives really changes; we still feel sad, depressed or lonely. This is proof that our mental state is what drives our happiness, not things!\\xa0

Using the practices in this episode, you can turn up the positive in your life, which will help you find joy no matter your circumstances and help you be more present with the good things that do happen in your life \\u2013 the icing on the cake of an already happy and peaceful life.

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\\u201cWhere we live is in our mind, and when was the last time that we cleaned out our mind?\\u201d - Monique Rhodes

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\\u201cWe believe that happiness and suffering comes from our external circumstances. But it doesn\\u2019t. It comes from that mind that we just do not take care of.\\u201d - Monique Rhodes

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\\u201cWe have emotional reactions that are triggered usually by things that happened in the past.\\u201d - Monique Rhodes

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\\u201cA meditation practice every day is a game changer.\\u201d - Monique Rhodes

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\\u201cWith meditation, consistency is way more important than intensity.\\u201d - Monique Rhodes

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\\u201cCommit to something that you\\u2019re willing to commit to, and if you don\\u2019t have 10 minutes out of a whole day, you really gotta think about your life.\\u201d - Michelle Chalfant

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\\u201cI think being happy is our birthright.\\u201d - Monique Rhodes

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\\u201cYou can find gratitude in anything. You just have to look.\\u201d - Michelle Chalfant\\xa0

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LINKS & RESOURCES\\xa0

Monique Rhodes Website

https://moniquerhodes.com/\\xa0

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The Adult Chair\\xae Membership (April Theme: Emotional Regulation)

https://theadultchair.com/membership/

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