The live stream recording on Happiness begins now.. with Shawn Achor starts now. i.e 6pm Kenya time, Sunday time, 25 May 2014
Watch the Video on " Happiness" - Available for only one week.
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We all have the power to be Happy.
The big question?
SHAWN STUDIED - WHY WE LOVE? WHAT IS HAPPINESS, WHY WE WAKE UP IN THE MORNING, HOW WE DISCOVER MEANING AND PURPOSE - POSITIVE PSCYHOLOGY - AT HARVARD COLLEGE AUTHOR, BEFORE HAPPINESS
We are never taught how to find deep happiness. People can change thier mind set and have a different life than what they are genetically made to be.
Definition of Happiness - before you find happiness you have to be able to define it.
People are always looking for happiness but dont know how to define it.
Is the joy we feel in the up and down of life, happiness?. Happiness is not pleasure and this makes us pursue pleasure wrongly. Pleasure is feeling good for a short moment. Pleasure is short lived. eg you each chocolate and ar happy but short later you are unhappy.
People respond to happiness diferently in different cultrues but triggers for happiness are similar worldwide.
A strong sence of community brings happiness. People with nothing are joyous even in poverty. 90% of happiness is based on how our brain processes everything in the world. it is not forced by external world eg childhood or experiences, it can be a choice.
What you do matters more than the end, you may be successful but not experience happiness. People are dying of diseases and yet are not getting happier. We should in this generation be getting happier. We are chasing happiness in the wrong way. External world is great but many of us are chasing happiness in the wrong way. External world is great but there is something more of the perception and connection we make. When you are still with yourself, and when you are not there and are yearning, day to day grind, there is more to life than that.
Peole are hungry for meaning and to rise their happiness levels. Opposite of happiness is not unhappiness it is apathy. Unhappiness tell you what you need to change. People think if they work hard they will be happy. That model is now broken for 2 reason. Happiness is not a moving target and All this we acauire makes us think we will be happy, ie. if you do this and that you will be happy, we tell our kids and others, if you get that house you will be happy etc. but is is not.
Things change and grow. Your happiness level does not move as your success does. Success is not hapinness, but happiness makes you more successful. High IQ, does not make the best people for the job so it has been realised. Success is a moving target so you cant rely on it for happiness.
Positive psychology, study say that top optimistic salesmen sold better. Intelligence counts for 25% of our job success. 75 % of what causes success is how we process the world, OPTIMISM, and Social connection determines how long we live, as blood pressure, etc. Tv social media use is disconnecting people and we are becoming less happy.
We are chasing happiness in the wrong way. External world is great but there is something more of the perceptin and connection. When you are still with yourself, and when you are not there id yearning than the day to day grind. there is more.
Tech. if we use it the right way can bring happiness.
Technology if we use it the right way can bring happiness depends on how you use it.
Coming up is your glass half full or half empty...
Watch the Video on " Happiness" - Available for only one week.
Full-Episode-Oprah-and-Shawn-Achor-on-the-Secret-of-Happy-People
We all have the power to be Happy.
The big question?
SHAWN STUDIED - WHY WE LOVE? WHAT IS HAPPINESS, WHY WE WAKE UP IN THE MORNING, HOW WE DISCOVER MEANING AND PURPOSE - POSITIVE PSCYHOLOGY - AT HARVARD COLLEGE AUTHOR, BEFORE HAPPINESS
We are never taught how to find deep happiness. People can change thier mind set and have a different life than what they are genetically made to be.
Definition of Happiness - before you find happiness you have to be able to define it.
People are always looking for happiness but dont know how to define it.
Is the joy we feel in the up and down of life, happiness?. Happiness is not pleasure and this makes us pursue pleasure wrongly. Pleasure is feeling good for a short moment. Pleasure is short lived. eg you each chocolate and ar happy but short later you are unhappy.
"HAPPINESS IS THE JOY WE FEEL STRIVING FOR OUR POTENTIAL"
Joy we feel outward. We mistake happiness with pleasure and does not reach its peak when we reach a certain potential. Pleasure comes and goes but doesnt last. Joy is something you feel on your way to your potential. eg as a parent feels.People respond to happiness diferently in different cultrues but triggers for happiness are similar worldwide.
A strong sence of community brings happiness. People with nothing are joyous even in poverty. 90% of happiness is based on how our brain processes everything in the world. it is not forced by external world eg childhood or experiences, it can be a choice.
What you do matters more than the end, you may be successful but not experience happiness. People are dying of diseases and yet are not getting happier. We should in this generation be getting happier. We are chasing happiness in the wrong way. External world is great but many of us are chasing happiness in the wrong way. External world is great but there is something more of the perception and connection we make. When you are still with yourself, and when you are not there and are yearning, day to day grind, there is more to life than that.
Peole are hungry for meaning and to rise their happiness levels. Opposite of happiness is not unhappiness it is apathy. Unhappiness tell you what you need to change. People think if they work hard they will be happy. That model is now broken for 2 reason. Happiness is not a moving target and All this we acauire makes us think we will be happy, ie. if you do this and that you will be happy, we tell our kids and others, if you get that house you will be happy etc. but is is not.
Things change and grow. Your happiness level does not move as your success does. Success is not hapinness, but happiness makes you more successful. High IQ, does not make the best people for the job so it has been realised. Success is a moving target so you cant rely on it for happiness.
Positive psychology, study say that top optimistic salesmen sold better. Intelligence counts for 25% of our job success. 75 % of what causes success is how we process the world, OPTIMISM, and Social connection determines how long we live, as blood pressure, etc. Tv social media use is disconnecting people and we are becoming less happy.
We are chasing happiness in the wrong way. External world is great but there is something more of the perceptin and connection. When you are still with yourself, and when you are not there id yearning than the day to day grind. there is more.
Tech. if we use it the right way can bring happiness.
Technology if we use it the right way can bring happiness depends on how you use it.
Coming up is your glass half full or half empty...
Part 2
Are you OPTIMISTIC by nature or nurture?
Happiness is a choice and practice. As we build muscles we should practice that way.
Some people are naturally happy others not but you can change your baseline. This is how i was born, but if you choose to do simple things eg being grateful, you find the choice for happiness comes through. Being aware of the pains of the world makes us compassionate.
Does it matter if your glass is half or full?
It doesnt matter, coz wer are so focused o the glass - optimist, pessimistics. Positive psychology, teaches you can fill that glass eg. How do i connect to other people around me etc.. Look and scan the world in a different way and fill in the glass.
Happinesss and contentment are related. We want to feel that joy rather than resilience so that it flows to others.
Positive psychology; you can be happy after this show...
Five things to make you happy:
Happiness and contentment are related. You can eliminate the negative in your life but still not be happy.
Five things to make you happy:
Happiness and contentment are related. You can eliminate the negative in your life but still not be happy.
There is happiness hygiene: things to do to be happy.
1.Princples
are: create a positive change in life. like we brush teeth daily for
good health, positive pscy; you can write to your genes by a 2 minute
habit a day. powerful.. a simple SMILE changes your brain chemistry,
say HELLO to people, makes a difference in people and in your life.
2. For 2 minute - wake up and practice 3 things you are grateful for, new things, be optimistic, for 21 days. (optimism practising). You increase your optimism, however pessimistic you are. It changes your genes.
Gratiditue changes your vibration for the world, changes what you draw to yourself, you construct the world on the facts you have. HAPPINESS HABITS.
One other thing one meaniful thing happended to you and write eery detail you can rembmer. helps your mind to recall and makes a trajacory in your life
3.Say THANK you to someone, every day. write 2 min email and thank and praise a person you know, for 21 days, it makes you happy, the reason you grow more social connections, and get social support that helps your health. One positive email, call, face to face the better even.
4.Exercise 15 minutes changes your brain chemistry, eg. cardioactivity creates optimism.
5. Meditation - the more you spend in stillness, or silence with yourself you get expential experience with yourself, and the more the more the benefits. Meditate more if you can. For 2 minutes watch you breadth go in and out, your happiness level improves and it creates a chain reaction to other people..
These five habits creates a + ripple effect to other people.
Conclusions: happiness can be a choice, it makes other people happy and it is in abundance.
Happiness is a choice, its in abundance and you make a better place for other people as well.