Your personal board of directors. I’m going to base on what the aforementioned Google worker understands that are the goals of the director of happiness: “enlighten minds, open hearts and create world peace.” How do I get an enlightened mind? For this, the first thing is to know myself, to know what I really am.
The starting point is always to realize, to increase my self-awareness; and for this, to continuously practice self-observation (personally or through meditation): the course of my thoughts and beliefs, my emotions, my sensations and moods, my corporality. To understand them, sustaining them, eliminating them or integrating them. So, looking at me with compassion, I can keep my mind clean and clear.
How do I get my heart opened? I will open my heart when I become aware that I am already, among other qualities, happiness; that is, to be aware that every human being is a divine being. And so I made the decision to show myself in that more authentic that I am (that’s for me to open my heart), to give myself from there, to communicate with understanding and compassion to the other hand, from there, to establish the bases of my relationships. And understand that I am already happiness that this is already in me.
Imagine for a moment that you want to be rich
Who does not want to be rich?
What happens is that I am sure that your definition of rich is different from mine.
For me to be rich means having enough money and regular income so that I can do anything, at any time, without having to think about whether or not I can spend that money. Living in inner harmony is a consequence of practicing the two previous points. Live from within, with the conscious acceptance of my limitations that accompany me in my work of improvement and personal improvement; and it keeps me in self-control of conscious responses to what Life brings me.
In the end, to manage my own happiness I have to recognize myself and live from the beliefs of what I really am and be able to maintain a higher frequency of positive than negative emotions. Because, as the experts say, there are three causes that influence the degree of happiness we can display:
Own genetics
- The circumstances and situations that we live
- The personal conscious responses! That is the beliefs that we sustain and what we do intend to be happy.
- If the first factor is the one that has less relative relevance, the third factor (observing our mind, becoming aware) is four times more important than the second.
It makes me happy if you have reached the end of this reading and it has given you something for your own reflection and, in any case, I am happy to have been able to write these lines. And I finish by way of the summary with a well-known phrase: it is not the success that leads to happiness, but happiness that leads to success.