Adoh - what is that? A map of happiness? Produced by the Psychology Department of the University of Leicester, and Professor Adrian White, an Analytic Social Psychologist. And Malaysia is placed pretty well at rank 17 as one of the happiest nations?
The analysis is based on the findings of over 100 different studies around the world, which questioned 80,000 people worldwide. For this study data has also been analysed in relation to health, wealth and access to education.
There is, firstly, no clear indicator in the study of what makes people happy. One time, the article states that "the frustrations of modern life, and the anxieties of the age, seem to be much less significant compared to the health, financial and educational needs in other parts of the World."
Hm - what do I think? Personally, I think that the definition of happiness varies widely across the world.
From an NLP point of view, happiness is a State of Mind. And a State of Mind can be changed, almost immediately. Initially, and if you are a person that carries a lot of sadness, or similar emotions with you, happiness might only be short lived, until you clear up issues in your emotional life. But basically, to reach a happy state is easy.
What do you need to do?
in short (very short), all you need to do is a to do a two step process:
- Change your physiology. Stand upright, and look upward. How difficult is it to be sad when you look upwards. Related to it - smile. Smile, and even if it is a faked smile. Fake it till you break it. The moment you smile, neurochemicals are released from your brain into your body and the body reacts to it, sooner or later (probably sooner). And your State of Mind changes!!
- In addition, you just need to remember a time when you where happy (or any other State that you want). Remember a specific time, focus on the positive feelings. Then float into your body, see what saw, hear what your heard and feel the feeling of happiness rising in you. You can access positive states anytime, anywhere!This is standard NLP for anyone. Remember something you like and you are back into the same state (don't try it with states you don't like, hehe!).
Now - of course, this doesn't change the fact that there are some people out there that want to be unhappy. They chose to be unhappy, with everything, and curse and swear and point the finger at others as the cause of their unhappiness - the government, the boss, the driver on the road, the unfriendly service attendant, the blogger next door, whose opinion you don't share. But, again, that is THEIR choice. And again, you can chose to be unhappy or happy, whenever you want.
Try it out, as I explained above, or also here with the Circle of Excellence!
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