tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8510309669550073229.post4349693504483886844..comments2023-10-15T03:41:46.051-06:00Comments on Extraordinary Success Education: Hooked on Happiness?Robert Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16550498203875361638noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8510309669550073229.post-58747198992461885992009-07-29T14:24:42.970-06:002009-07-29T14:24:42.970-06:00For me happiness / joy boils down to my level of n...For me happiness / joy boils down to my level of net free physical and mental energy (H=NFE!). The level and quality of our free or excess energy is the direct driver of our experience of happiness and joy. Everything/anything that bogs us down psychologically zaps our energy and our experience becomes one of non-happiness. Therefore, psychological and emotional freedom is the prerequisite for happiness.<br /><br />Things I do to free myself and therefore provide more “free energy” provides an experience of happiness. I also think happiness is a distant byproduct and can’t be obtained directly. I make a distinction between the experience of happiness and the concept of happiness. It’s much too easy to stay stuck in thinking/metallization/semantics about happiness (where I was trapped for many years) and never move to the depths where the real game goes on.<br /><br />I think that is where the “zen likeness” of happiness comes in to play—try directly for happiness and it’s impossibly elusive, focus on freeing your mind, body and spirit and happiness is a natural by product. <br /><br />David Feindfeinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11875815069254486660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8510309669550073229.post-46576979904702015202009-07-29T13:37:34.367-06:002009-07-29T13:37:34.367-06:00Or, another but similar perspective as articulated...Or, another but similar perspective as articulated by Cicero: "Happiness is peace of mind."Boris G Freesman, Q.C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14251526040537190336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8510309669550073229.post-23685184035381119412009-07-29T09:16:34.411-06:002009-07-29T09:16:34.411-06:00I pretty much resonate with what Denese said. '...I pretty much resonate with what Denese said. 'Happiness' is a word that describes a state of being, and that state is simply who you are when you are just being who you are. It is who one is when one lets go of everything that obstructed the experience; a letting go, not an adding to. If you make it a goal, you are adding something. You are saying, "I don't have this & I want it so I'll do things to get it". The key phrase in all that is "I want". The ultimate reasoning behind wanting anything is that if you have it you will be happy. Nobody ever experiences the state of happiness through the path of "I want".mkiersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10624529181268646467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8510309669550073229.post-82089736623515937202009-07-28T21:55:59.010-06:002009-07-28T21:55:59.010-06:00PS:
About being "hooked on happiness": ...PS:<br /><br />About being "hooked on happiness": I think that's an oxymoron. If you expect it or desire it it will elude you.<br /><br />I'm just sayin'.<br /><br />denesedenesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13446358076804777198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8510309669550073229.post-90215784670596001162009-07-28T21:51:58.153-06:002009-07-28T21:51:58.153-06:00Finding happiness is about living in a state of mi...Finding happiness is about living in a state of mind that suspends judgment and that waits for where the universe (God, the Divine, Fate) takes me.<br /><br />Expecting less while transcending more has given me much happiness.<br /><br />denesedenesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13446358076804777198noreply@blogger.com