Happiness as a Skill

Modern brain research confirms millennia-old insights from spiritual practices that happiness is not a coincidence of external circumstances that can be achieved and obtained, but rather happiness is a skill, a set of abilities. The idea is very simple: study the brain activity of happy people and determine how those who are not-yet-so-happy can achieve the same effect in their own brains — and be happy. It turns out that happiness is a set of skills that can be learned and mastered. And it’s not that complicated.

Here a quote from actor Jim Carrey is fitting:

I wish everyone could become rich and famous and get everything they ever wished for — so they could realize that’s not what they’re looking for.

It is clear that happiness is an internal state that we try to obtain by satisfying external needs. Most likely, we have all tried doing this. But if you look deeper, then perhaps it is possible to seek this internal state directly, rather than through external things — money, fame, the fulfillment of desires. And if it is an internal state, then obviously the skills to be acquired are not something done with our hands, in the external world, but much more internally, by choosing the “right” attitudes — attitudes that increase happiness. Likewise, mindfulness is essential here — a skill that each of us possesses but is usually not sufficiently developed. Although I have devoted separate classes to it, in this class as well I will explain that mindfulness is the fundamental skill on the path to happiness.

Interestingly, as a result of these classes, after just 2 hours, people usually become happier. Simply by listening to what is presented. Registration: Stay tuned… Lecture times and venue