11 WAYS TO CULTIVATE HAPPINESS

HAPPINESS is all around us, the need is to identify it in small things and small happenings around us. We need to find and nurture ways to cultivate happiness in our lives. Everyone of us have had good and bad memories, achievements and failures in our lives whether in our profession, personal lives, peers, children or social circles around us .Often it is observed that people who have seldom, hollow and isolated behaviors lead to discontentment and unhappy living, they are engaged in evaluating their past lives, failures and bad decisions which in turn makes them unhappy and sad by over and over remembrance.

FLIPPED EMOTIONS is the concern, we live in the atmosphere which is curated around us and the emotions cultivated in this atmosphere, emotions are very weird and instant, fast and uncontrollable and eventually take a toll on us. We get affected by the global happenings for instance let’s take example of the Pandemic; this pandemic has left people in distressed emotions, signs of anxiety and depression. Actually our brains are predictive and we react in the different situations according to our sensory changes , let’s take for example you are in a situation having comfortable walk in the jungle and suddenly you see a wild animal , your brain gets in predictive mode ,analyzing the past experiences in similar or close to similar situations and signals your body to physical changes of adrenaline rush, stiff muscles and increased heart beating as the emotions here would be of fear and insecurity ,now if you are a professional hunter and you are in similar situation of spotting a wild animal your brain signals are more mature to the conditions and reactions are of happiness of finding a target. Similar physical changes will emerge but the emotions would be of excitement and achievement.

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HAPPINESS

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”……..ARISTOTLE

By the dictionary definition -feelings of joy and pleasure mingled together”. A feeling of happiness is more than just an experience of joy or pleasure. It is a state of mind where the individual feels that “life is good”.

Most of us have been taught to believe that happiness is linked to our accomplishments. We think, “I’ll be happy when I get married” or “I’ll be more satisfied at work when I get a promotion.” We are convinced we’ll find joy buy that luxury car. The truth is that we can create a feeling of happiness right now, regardless of our circumstances.

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