How do I start living a happy life?
You want to know how to find happiness and live a happy life? We all want this but how do I start living a happy life? Sometimes we look for happiness in the wrong places or maybe approach it in the wrong way. When it comes to happiness there is not a "one-size-fits-all" that works for everybody. We are all different but what makes someone happy may not be the ideal for another person.
We could think that if people are so different the logical conclusion would be that there could be as many different approaches and paths to happiness as the number of people on this planet. This approach however is general & does not offer any help to those who are honestly seeking a clear guidance or at least a hint as to how we can find happiness in our lives. We are all looking for ways that are proven to grasp and materialize happiness in our realities, because, after all, happiness is a central purpose of human life. Aristotle once said in his life time, ‘The purpose of life is to be happy’, as His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama has pointed out.
So, how do I start living a happy life? If looking for a single universal solution for happiness seems restrictive, and thinking that there may be as many paths to happiness as the number of people on this planet seems vague and not helpful as a proposal, what could be the right, practical approach to finding happiness in our lives with the varies paths to take?
To start with life is a journey, not the destination. We could certainly be best served by embracing an approach that involves several options or avenues, much in the same way that a physical destination in our world can be accessed by different means.
Secondly, we are looking for a solid foundation that is ingrained in wisdom and science. In this regard we must acknowledge that the attainment of happiness has occupied the minds of great sages, philosophers, physicians, psychologists and scientists from time immemorial. What do they all have in common in their conclusions? Is there a common pattern that we can identify and use as a blueprint for finding happiness in our lives?
Ancient cultures more than five thousand years ago had a clear cosmology that understood the basic principles of the universe and everything in it, including human behavior. One basic tenant of this cosmology was a system based on the interaction of five elements: Ether, Air, Fire, Water and Earth. The holistic systems are in fact used for healing, like Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda, are based on the interaction of five elements in the human body, mind and emotions.
Most people are fitted into five different character structures according to modern psychology, particularly after the findings of Wilhelm Reich (the father of Mind-Body psychology), as systematized by Alexander Lowen, Reich and Lowen gifted us with a very useful protocol to understand the connection between mind and body from five different perspectives.
A very clear valuable picture emerges if we put together the insights of psychology plus Eastern philosophy: there are five elements, five character structures and, as a logical consequence, five different paths to happiness. By approaching this in a holistic manner, this means taking into account the behavioral insights provided by psychology through the concept of character structures, together with the insights of the Five Element perspective gifted to us by the ancient Indian and Chinese systems, in order to identify five clear different roads or paths to happiness.
How do I start living a happy life? To positively understand the main characteristics of the five elements that work with the universe in a practical manner, plus knowing what psychologist’s have identified in people as the main traits of each of the five character structures, we should be able to describe precisely five clear main personality types with their respective different strengths, challenges and solutions when it comes to living life daily in happiness. This means that by knowing their personality type and what works for them according to their unique emotional structure, people could have the chance to follow their most joyous paths and live a happy abundant life that is consonant with their own uniqueness.
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