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One fast way to become and feel happy is to infect yourself with a virus, that's happiness virus. Happiness is a virus but a good one which spreads readily with almost no efforts. This revolutionary idea is supported by a Harvard University research published in British Medial Journal (online). A study for over 20 years was conducted among 4,700 individuals which supports the following assertions;
1. Happiness transfers from one person to another person or group.
However, it lingers for about one year. It is rather a common observation supported by a wide array of research that people's emotions influence each other. For instance, when someone smiles at you, you generally smile back or when you see your friends are laughing you tend to laugh as well, sometimes not knowing the reason behind their laughter. However, to learn that happiness lingers and continues for about one year, it's an amazing research finding. Consider how happy your life can be if you associate yourself with all of your happy friends and people you know. Doing so on a routine basis should bring you a happy life!
2. Happiness has a ripple effect.
Good virus of happiness can travel from one person to others. In other words, when you are happy, your family and friends who are at immediate contact with you become happy too. Furthermore, people who are in contact with your family and their friends become happy as well. According to the research findings, the members of your immediate network could increase their happiness between 8 percent and 34 percent. This effect continues up to three levels, degree of separation of your friendship networks. However, it drops to 10 percent and 6 percent before it disappears. This ripple effect characteristic of happiness is known in economy as a multiplier.
The value of a happy time or event is much more than it could be observed since it influences many circles of people who are in contact with you. It's interesting to know that the Harvard University research indicates unhappiness could be spread from one person to another as well. However, it has less ripple effect. Happiness is much powerful multiplier than sadness and unhappiness. In other words, contrary to the popular beliefs doom and gloom is less infectious than happiness. This should give you a great advantage and much easier path to become and stay happy. Furthermore, any effort you spend on being happy is much more valuable and effective than being sad.
3. Exogenous factors could be catalyst for your happiness.
As much as your personal feelings and emotions can be determined by your mere choices, external factors and environment can also influence your happiness. In other words, how you feel and react to your life issues could determine how happy you are. Conversely, the external factors like your friends and surrounding can effect your happiness as well. You should decide and think happy to become happy. However, by arranging your living environment and decorations, listening to happy songs, watching happy movies, and being around happy people help you become and stay happy too. Accordingly, by creating a habitual happy life style you could welcome happiness to your life forever.
4. If You don't belong to a happy network, create one.
People prefer happiness over sadness. If you do not belong to a happy and upbeat network of friends, why not create your own. There are many support groups for different causes and issues, you could develop your own happiness support group. You'd be amazed to see how fast your group becomes popular and expands. Since happiness virus spreads faster and stays longer than unhappiness virus, your network could expand much faster than you think. Doing so not only brings you happiness, it also makes your friends and other people happy as well. Considering happy events have multiplier effect, this may be one of the noble contributions you can offer to your family, friends, and community.
Happiness is contagious and spreads like a virus. It has a ripple effect and multiplies its value through your immediate family and friends and continues beyond two more circles of your friends. As much as happiness is a choice that you make how to deal with your life issues, your surrounding and environment play an important role in keeping you happy as well. If you don't belong to a happy network of friends, move away from them and create your own. By doing so, you make every one who gets in contact with you and your friends a happy person!
In future articles, I review further different aspects of happiness while proving you practical strategies to become and feel happy. Live happy!
Dr. Ned Gandevani is a professional trader and developer of the Winning Edge Systems, formed based on Chaos Theory. He earned his MBA and PhD in finance and has trained and coached many professional traders. For the first time in financial industry, he has introduced a quantitative method for matching traders and fund managers with their best trading and asset management styles using his Trading Personality Profile test (TPP).
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Buddhas' First Nobel Truth
The word Dhukka suffering. In The Buddhas' teachings he taught the Four Noble Truths, The first of the Noble truths is that Life is suffering. Buddha spoke of how to live is to suffer in countless forms of pain, anguish, fear, and physical torments,as well as psychological maladies and emotional discomforts. There is no way to over come the outer causes of suffering but we can over come our internal suffering by following the Buddhas' teachings.
The main reasons for the suffering in the world is the nature of incarnate life, it is not perfect and neither is the planet we live on. During all of our lives, we will be unable to avoid physical suffering like bodily pain, sicknesses, injuries, fatigue, old age, and eventually death. There are all kinds disagreeable psychological forms of Suffering, including Sadness, Fear, Frustration, Disappointment, and Depression, that we all must endure.
Every unpleasant experience we have in this life time has an equal and pleasurable reaction. All the different levels of Dhukka will pass and be replaced by pleasurable experiences while we are still living. We generally like to think of suffering as the opposite of pleasure, but in fact it is the opposite.
Ease, Comfort and Happiness, are thought of as being the opposite extreme to displeasure. Life is complex but in order to make it tolerable for the masses there must be ease and pleasure to look forward to. Complexity is simply imperfect and incomplete, because humans, plants and every living being in this world are subject to impermanence, there is a means to an end.
Impermanence means that we will never be able to keep permanent hold of the things that we strive for, including our homes, cloths and jobs. Even though we are able to enjoy pleasurable moments, sadness and reality of misfortune to come are always looming. Eventually we ourselves and our loved ones will have to pass on and leave this body and life behind.
Suffering is the first noble truth. We must come to terms with this reality, learn from our misfortunes and let them pass. Every experience we have in this life is an opportunity to take wisdom with us as we pass through on our journey to enlightenment.
About the Author
Janis resides in western Canada, among the mountains where she studies the Buddhist religion and practices reiki healing. Janis loves making Buddhist t-shirts, gifts and apparel to spread the knowledge of enlightenment. All of the images used on the products are hand drawn with high quality graphics and historical accuracy a priority. Visit her website at http://buddhistbackground.blogspot.com
What did the Buddha mean when he said that all that we are arises with our thoughts?
Is this another way of saying that if we want to be happy then we must think positively and think happy?
The Buddha gave this teaching in many different ways, in various contexts. For example, in the Hua Yen (Avatamsaka) Sutra, he said:
"If you wish to thoroughly understand all the Buddhas of the past, present and future, then you should view the nature of the whole universe as being created by mind alone."
This teaching means that we produce, in response to causes and conditions, all mental phenomena. The Buddha characterized these phenomena as form, feeling, perceptions, impulses, and consciousness (the five skandhas).
The five skandhas define our experience of the world, but they do not define the self. Through dedicated meditation practice, we can perceive the five skandhas as empty of self-nature and always in flux.
This teaching has nothing to do with "positive thinking" or other new-age ideas. But it does mean that we are responsible for our experience, as it manifests in form, feelings, perceptions, impulses, and consciousness.
If we seek genuine happiness - and the cessation of suffering - then we can actively direct our lives in the direction of happiness and away from suffering.
The Buddha taught that there are two requirements to turn our lives in the direction of happiness:
1. Ethical living
2. Meditation
The Eightfold Path expands upon these two requirements. If we sincerely walk this path, then we will get genuine happiness. But thinking, by itself, will never get us there. Belief, by itself, will never get us there. We must *do* something.
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