How baseline happiness quietly grows We often imagine happiness as something that suddenly arrives. A moment. A change. A future version of ourselves. But most of the time, happiness doesn’t arrive loudly. It grows quietly — in the background of ordinary days. Baseline happiness isn’t about feeling joyful all the time. It ’s about having a place inside ourselves we can return to . A gentle inner baseline where the body knows: I can breathe here. I don’t have to perform. I a