It's all of them. Together.

Jenny Thrasher – International Keynote Speaker and Author. Talks about #living a life you love #fulfillment #success #wellness #mentalhealth #suicideprevention #endingstigma – writes:

My heart wants to help, my ego wants to be right, and my soul wants to be set free. ?? I have spent over half of my life consciously aware of extreme heartache and learning what is required to move through it. I've spent the last three years intentionally focused on understanding myself and what living my best life means to me. What I've learned… https://linkedin.com/posts/jenny-thrasher-all-that-we-are_ilovemylife-awareness-soul-activity-7075430979019931648-RN-d

THANK YOU, Jenny. WHAT a testament to the direction and purpose of your life. And just reposted it here with the ending of Hector and the Search for Happiness https://lnkd.in/dPvN7TM4 . Be sure to rent and watch it, if you haven't so far already. You'll love it, I think, and hope you will always be right with that wonderful ego of yours. ?

Professor Coreman: Everything in this world is going up. Yet happiness is going down. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. How many of us, I wonder, can recall a childhood moment when we experienced happiness as a state of being? That single moment of untarnished joy. That moment when everything in our world, inside and out, was alright. Everything was alright.

But now we've become a colony of adults and everything is all wrong. All the time! It's as if we were on a quest to get it back, and yet the more we focus on our own personal happiness, the more it eludes us. In fact, it's only when we are otherwise engaged – you know, focused, absorbed, inspired, communicating, discovering, learning, dancing, for heaven's sake – that we experience happiness as a by-product, a side effect. Oh no. We should concern ourselves not so much with the pursuit of happiness but with the happiness of pursuit.

But how do we measure happiness? Emotions are like colors, you know? Difficult to explain once, but not now. Not anymore. All those who read auras, step aside. This is science! A new frontier in its infancy, but not for long. Functional electrical impedance tomography by evoked response. Or as I call it, "Peeping Tom." My portal into the mysterious minutiae of human emotions. Emotions that, for the very first time, we can separate, specify and quantify in actual units.

Now, this male subject is Japanese. Look at the abundance of bright orange around the happiness area, verging on ecstasy. It's as if the brain was smiling. Cause: Half a liter of warm sake. And here we go again, same Japanese gentleman, eleven hours later. The color of grim despondency, verging on suicide, otherwise known as an excruciating hangover. Ask yourselves: Is this worth that? (…)

By way of identifying the emotions, I've assigned a color to each corresponding part of the brain. It's pretty obvious, really. Sunny yellow: happy. Ice blue: sad. Battery-acid green: fear. It corrodes you, you know. (…)

Hector's girlfriend, Clara: Is this call as good as I think it is?

Hector: Yeah, I think it is. Um, scary, but... Yeah!

Professor Coreman: That's strange.

Hector's ex-girlfriend, Agnes: Which is it? Which one is it?

Buddhist monk: It's all of them.

Professor Coreman: It's all of them It's the Aurora Borealis. It's the Northern Lights. It's all of them! And isn't that the point?

Clara: Okay. I love you.

Hector: I love you, too.

Professor Coreman: Oh, Hector. You're a warrior! (…)

Buddhist monk: Hector! How was your journey? What did you learn?

Hector: It was amazing. Amazing. I'm so ready to go home, to get back to my girl, my work. Can't wait to tell my patients.

Buddhist monk: Tell them what?

Hector: That we all, all of us, have the capacity to be happy.

Buddhist monk (pointing upwards): Higher than that, Hector!

Hector: That we all have a right to be happy?

Buddhist monk emphatically signals higher.

Hector: Oh, I see. We all have an obligation to be happy.

Buddhist monk folds his hands and bows.

Narrator: Once upon a time there was a young psychiatrist called Hector, who was very satisfied with his life. His world was complex, sometimes even chaotic, and he liked it that way. He took comfort in the rich, random patterns of his life. He listened to his patients with real patience. Sometimes with surprising results. Everything was up for change, including Hector. And he learned to love like he'd never loved before.

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