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Can we learn to be happy?

Can we learn to be happy?

"Happiness is to be happy, This is not to make others believe "

Jules Renard

" Being happy is to always be happy anyway "

Clément Rosset

Sometimes I wonder what is happiness except feel miserable for not being happy. Might there be a tyranny of small happiness that disqualify joys, laughter and suspended the fleeting pleasures? Happiness is probably an idea self and the world has no place in the imagination. In the reality of our bodies and our relationships, we have to deal with the stresses of everyday life: time, average mood. Being happy is probably the least unhappy as possible.

And if happiness was a learned skill without too much difficulty but with a bit of lucidity and method? One might smile but it's true that is, it works.

I have for you a synthesized models exposed by Tal Ben Shahar (Professor of Psychology positive at Harvard) in his book "Happier." This reduction has the merit of illuminating the four archetypal behavior for most of us and point their limits.

The rat race slave future

Earnings are still expected in the future. The present moment can never be appreciated. The relief takes the place of happiness.

nihilism of the slave past

There is never any winnings. The past resembles the present and future. There is nothing to expect. We must resign ourselves. Happiness does not exist.

The hedonism of the slave of this

The needs lieu of happiness is envisaged that in the present. The lack of goals and challenges of life empty of meaning.

HAPPINESS

We win every time because we have identified the goal that makes sense for you. The purpose of our lives is the goal of goals, one goal "unifying" one who enlightens us in our choice and we actually prefer activities that bring us benefits present and future. Happiness is a compromise between idealism and realism.

In summary, to be happy, you must have identified the goal box, realistic and depends on us. That goal gives meaning to the direction in which our lives. Since we know where to go, we lose more time for hesitation on our decisions: they are or are not consistent with our goal.

Being pragmatic does not mean the spiritual void. It is always possible to read Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, St. Thomas Aquinas, or Spinoza Manavadharmasastra. The joy of living is combined with the joy of thinking.


Nathalie Martinez-Vogelsinger