Our providers offer counseling to increase happiness in Charlotte, NC

Therapy for Increasing Happiness—Counselors in Charlotte, NC

Every person has a fairly stable level of happiness they experience, but everyone can build up their emotional strength. The big question is how?

Many people are working with a mental health professional. Thriveworks Charlotte provides increasing happiness help for our clients who are ready to take on an emotional workout and build up their resilient happiness.

Combating Negative Emotional Patterns

Certain emotional patterns inhibit people’s happiness, and these patterns are within each person’s influence. There are many ways that people undercut joy in their lives. A few examples include:

• Entitlement: Feeling as if happiness is deserved instead of earned or feeling as if joy will simply appear means that people are passive about their emotional state. In contrast, happy people often actively pursue joy.
• Blame: Shifting responsibility toward other people instead of problem-solving leaves little room for working through difficulties and moving forward. Unresolved problems can stagnate happiness.
• Comparison: Scanning to see what other people are doing, feeling, buying, and thinking is a trap that leads to feelings of superiority or inferiority—not happiness.

Encouraging Positive Emotional Patterns

With old patterns gone, new ones can form. Certain mental habits create a positive environment where happiness can grow. These exercises may be difficult at first, but just like physical strength grows with time, so does emotional strength. Mental health professionals can guide people toward the exercises that work best for them, but a few examples include:

• Setting a goal – Having an achievable goal in both their professional and personal lives often means people’s days have focus, excitement, and clarity. When benchmarks are reached, people also experience reward and accomplishment.
• Changing one’s mindset – There is opportunity everywhere—even in loss, pain, and challenge. When people are open to new information, interpretations, and possibilities, they can change their mindset and often change their emotional status as well.
• Practicing mindfulness – Be in the moment and notice every thought, every feeling, and every sensation. Simply paying attention to what is happening will build up people’s self-awareness, a key element of happiness.
• Promoting thankfulness – Saying, “thank you,” or writing down something for which they are grateful, means that people are noticing what is beautiful and kind in the world along with what is difficult. The more gratitude people practice, the more they focus their attention upon the good.

So much of life is out of people’s control, but when it comes to being happier, little changes can make big differences. As people learn to build their happiness upon their own internal strength, their happiness will grow resilient. Of course, they will always feel sad or frustrated at times, but overall, their joy may remain stable.

Help for Increasing Happiness at Thriveworks Charlotte

If you want help becoming a happier person, Thriveworks Charlotte is ready. We have appointments available for increasing happiness.

When you call our office, know that you might be meeting with your therapist the following week Many new clients have their first appointment within 7 days of their first call.

Your happiness matters. Contact Thriveworks Charlotte today.