Inner-happiness can't be outsourced
Prashant Panigrahi at TCS
Cloud Digital Delivery Director II Business Excellence Assessor II 6-Sigma Black-Belt II Author II Self Actualization Coach II
One of the aberration and mistake of 21st century is, in the obsession of growth and desire to move ahead of the curve, inner happiness has become less celebrated virtue. The primary focus of most people today is on outer-happiness; which we derive from comfort, convenience with pleasure at physical and psychological level.
For example, if you get a promotion, your happiness will stay for some time till the moment you get a extremely bad news to bother you. Hence the outer happiness is not the real sustainable happiness. It is just a psychological excitation at surface level which is very temporary, ephemeral, and non-elevating in nature. The true and inner happiness is sources from beyond body-mind; i.e., sourced from within.
Inner happiness is Vedanta is called ANANDA (i.e., bliss and joy) and this state which:
Hence, it is not just a feel-good emotion. It’s a state of being that positively affects all aspects of our lives. In summary, it expands our life-span with high-resolution life-style with fulfilment, meaning of life satisfaction.
Unless we have this inner-happiness all our product as achievements or success carries a by-product of regret; which gets recorded inside us and get replayed again and again causing suffering. ?
Also, inner happiness is intrinsic, which neither can be outsourced to God, parents, spouse, boss , society nor can be outsourced to object/situation with comfort and convenience. This needs a self-discovery by each one of us and an approach/technique to source it from within in every life-situation; i.e., choosing inner happiness within the space between stimulus and response. As - Viktor E. Frankl Says;
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
To cultivate inner happiness within he spaces between stimulus & response, kindly read the book “Smart-Sage”.???
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1 年External factors are just like an addiction, can give you the high only till a time and then you need a bigger dose, and in the process you are completely addicted. Inner peace can come only from knowing and designing your life as per your priorities, giving back to the society selflessly and not being in the material rat race.
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1 年I think it's really difficult to address inner happiness with the kind of environment we are in currently; continuously chasing goals and aspirations while balancing life with a get away attitude also known as escapism. Inner happiness is a profound sense of contentment and fulfillment that comes from within, independent of external circumstances. Achieving it involves cultivating self-awareness, practicing gratitude, fostering meaningful relationships, embracing life's challenges with resilience, and nurturing a positive mindset through mindfulness and self-compassion. Not all of us are John Rambo and we do have our times of breaking down given the choices we need to make, the amount of time we can put in and the pressure of a society that expects you to be somebody. I have faced this in my personal life, me restarting life all over again after experiencing sight loss, followed by job loss and a marriage that ended abruptly. It was an uphill task putting myself together again but I honestly cannot tell you what it was that helped me through that time to be where I am now. My brother is still struggling with his demons and challenges unfortunately, I have no advice to give him but ask him to keep the faith in a better tomorro
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1 年I totally echo with your articulation on inner happiness (Blissful state) which cannot buy or taken from any source. It has to be achieved by self.