The Art of Happy Living:a Simple Guide to Effortless Happiness: Right Perspective and Choices Lead to a Happy and Fulfilled...
- ISBN-10
- 1072644703
- ISBN-13
- 9781072644705
- Pages
- 228
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-06-07
- Author
- Abrar AHMAD
Description
How many people would define 'happiness' if you ask them? People would have different answers and viewpoints about it. Some would refer it with sensual satisfactions; others would attribute it to fulfilling desires. Some would say that socialization gives happiness; others would find it in meaningful activities. Everyone has his own definition and interpretation, as each person has his own paradigm or perspective under which he sees the world. Everyone's thoughts, feelings, and behavioral choices work under his paradigm or perspective. He perceives things as per his paradigm. How we see determines what we perceive, and what we perceive determines how we act. For example, if we perceive danger around the environment, we feel anxious and get ready to fight or flight. If we perceive the surrounding safe, we will be peaceful. Our perspective and interpretation determine our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. If a person perceives things rightly, he will act rightly, and if he perceives wrongly, he will act wrongly. For happiness, right perspective is crucial, as it is paradigm or a perspective that controls our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Emotions, feelings, and behaviors are just reflections. For long-lasting happiness, a person will have to make changes in his perspective.Some people would believe that conditions are more powerful than perspective. They might say that no doubt, perspective makes things colorful, but it cannot change reality. They might say that they cannot live happily by just being positive, as sufferings, ailments, accidents, and deaths make lenses of perspective fuzzy and cause unhappiness. For these people, the answer is simple: If a person keeps the foundation of his happiness on external conditions, then these conditions are always changing. Some changes may be pleasant whereas others may be unpleasant and will affect a person in the way they are. However, if the foundation of his happiness is based on his internal conditions, he can seek happiness in any environment and situation. Pleasant internal conditions depend on how you see the world and events. If you see positively, you perceive positive, and your internal conditions will be pleasant. If you see negatively, you perceive negative, and your internal conditions will be unpleasant. How you see, it matters, and it matters most. Actions and choices of a person depend on his perception, and his perception depends upon his perspective.A person has two powers. One is the power of perspective (How does he see?), second is the power to choose (How does he respond to stimulus or conditions?). If a person uses these two powers rightly, he can live a peaceful, fulfilled and happy life in any condition. This book will help you to see things, people, circumstances and conditions with the right perspective. Right perspective leads to the right choices. You will have happy, fulfilled and meaningful life by right perspective and choices. Life is nothing but a matter of choices. This book is based on the idea that that happiness is a choice and a human being has the freedom to choose in any situation. Right choices lead to a successful and happy life. Wrong choices lead to an unsuccessful and unhappy life.
