Many lies and half-convincing truths are told in the name of such happiness.
The popular imagination believes that happiness is a kind of “Nirvana” that we can achieve. It is a state of constant fullness and happiness.
“Happiness means realizing that nothing is very important. “
? Antonio Gala?
At all times, society establishes the characteristics or conditions that we must have to enter this “paradise”. Today, the idea of happiness is based on three pillars: power, wealth and beauty.
However, the idea of nirvana and its three pillars has made people more frustrated than happy. Power, wealth and beauty do not bring as much happiness as many believe.
If these three pillars were really necessary for us to be happy, we wouldn’t see so many rich and powerful drug addicts with so many problems in their personal lives.
A study conducted at Harvard University by Professor Tal Ben-Shahar, a specialist in positive psychology, shows that we can learn to feel joy, that learning depends on technique and practice.
Here we cite the six keys of happiness according to Tal Ben-Shahar
People who are able to positively value their faults can be happier, believe that we are infallible and that we cannot be wrong can do us a lot of harm, it is an idealistic and tyrant position, because we all make mistakes.
Isn’t error our daily motivation to learn new things?Even science itself, which is a model of rigor and perfection, has made many mistakes throughout its history.
Believing we shouldn’t or can’t go wrong is an idea that only causes anxiety and depression.
You can believe that your health, your family and your work are realities that will accompany you forever and do not give them fair value, are part of your life and you forget that you can lose everything at any time.
In fact, we forget to thank you for all those everyday miracles that seem so normal, but unfortunately we realize their value when we lose them.
Endorphins are the hormones of happiness. They’re here in our brains, they’re available to us all the time, but we don’t know how to use them, a thirty-minute daily walk releases endorphins, a ten-second hug releases three minutes of endorphins and happiness.
It’s very simple, it’s just a matter of habit. Do daily practices that release endorphins and be much happier.
It is true that we only live once, but that does not mean that we should all live at the same time, one of the current diseases is wanting to do everything fast and much at the same time, our physical and mental health does not support this stressful pace of life for a long time.
Learn how to get organized. Give each activity its time and value. You probably won’t starve if you work a little less. Have time just for yourself and your loved ones.
You don’t have to become a Tibetan lama, take a moment to practice a simple meditation exercise.
Meditation can be an excellent ally for achieving inner peace and improving cognitive and creative skills and willpower.
Yes, we can cultivate resilience. It is not an innate skill, but we can develop it, it can be defined as the ability to face and strengthen adverse situations.
You have to strive to be a resilient person. We have to find the flower in the mud, learn in trouble. This is the path of wisdom and happiness understood in realistic terms: a relative inner peace and the ability to see the best in everything we live in.