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"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." Aristotle
“Stephen [Whiteley], congratulations, you have moved us all a step ahead in happiness” - Dr Dan Baker, Author of “What Happy People Know” and Director of the Life Enhancement Program at Canyon Ranch
To learn more about Stephen Whiteley,click here.
Before we talk about what happiness is, let’s consider what prevents us from having happiness. For many of us, what is stopping us fits into one of the four following areas:
- There is some inner conflict over a past event in our lives that continues to pop up and detract from our enjoyment of life.
- There is something about us, a habit, an ability, or our appearance that we would like to change.
- There is something in our environment that prevents our enjoyment in life. This could be another person, our job, where we live or something else.
- We either don’t know what we want to do, or we know but something is preventing us from doing it.
If this is true for you, it provides a valuable clue to what happiness really is. First, happiness is subjective. You will know this is true when recalling a time when you were very happy and others present had a lesser response, or perhaps it was others that were joyful and you felt less so.
You may also know that there are striking examples of people maintaining their happiness in appalling circumstances, Viktor Frankl being one of the more famous examples. Viktor Frankl consciously chose to maintain his cheerful and giving ways in spite of the depravation of a Nazi concentration camp. In so doing, he had a significant effect on his fellow prisoners and to a degree, his captors.
The profound implication of happiness being subjective is that it means that nothing outside of us can take happiness away unless we let it happen. It also means that we can choose to be happy no matter what the circumstances.
I am not suggesting that we should choose to be happy in all circumstances; there are certainly times and places where happiness is not the most appropriate response. What I am suggesting, is that waiting for some outside event to bring us lasting happiness will not work. Happiness is an inside job that requires us to change our minds when we are not happy.
What else is happiness? Happiness is harmony:
1. harmony with our self,
2. harmony with our environment, and
3. harmony with our purpose in life.
When we are content with ourselves, are appreciative of the people and things around us, and are positively engaged in doing something meaningful to us, we feel happy.
Stephen Whiteley and Happiness Works! have developed simple and effective tools to gain harmony with ourselves, our environments and our purposes. These tools are based on the latest findings of Quantum Physics, Cellular Biology, Neuro Science, Positive Psychology and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).
We have all experienced a time when we were increasing or decreasing our happiness, often without understanding how. With a clear understanding of what happiness is, and with Happiness Works’ effective tools to use, you can now make a decision to achieve the happiness you inwardly want. To gain the magic of happiness in your life, the first small step is to click on the link below.
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