Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life

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The How of Happiness’ reveals what happiness is (and isn’t!), and what we can do to approach the happy life we imagine for ourselves. It explains the notion of the ‘Happiness Set Point’ – i.e. the biological determinants that explain 50% of our happiness.

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These beliefs give one a sense of wellbeing and ease. Spiritual people are helpful, more productive, and loyal. The all-important truth about happiness is this: your happiness depends much more on your attitude than it does on objectives, or external circumstances. We shouldn’t be operating as an even, straight line. That’s what I’d call a robot or someone numbed out.Happiness is a psychological state of amusing emotions. It is an inside job. It relies on what you think. Why do I say that? Seligman, M. E. (2004). Authentic happiness: Using the new positive psychology to realize your potential for lasting fulfillment. Simon and Schuster.

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It can be so easy to look at our life, at all the reasons not to be happy; not enough money, no partner relationship, arguments with a family member or not where we thought we would be in our career.Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire Jenni Russell (from the Sunday Times) is quoted as saying that ‘few books change one’s life; in 48 hours this has improved mine.’ The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

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Speech that compliments is, by definition, free from derision, which clouds the mind with enemies and makes it tense. Kind speech makes the mind feel safe and also glad. [p.74]” The How of Happiness’ provides an overview of the multiple barriers to happiness, and how to utilize one’s own unique strengths to overcome such obstacles. Effort, concentration, and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to a condition of ease, clarity, and wisdom NO external action needs to happen. [p. 17]”The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.” — Brian Tracy