Should We Pursue Happiness?
Juan Campoo
Helping create emotionally intelligent teams, organizations, and leaders, through transformational coaching, training, and keynotes (TEDx Speaker | Award-winning Coach | Amazon Best-Selling Author)
March 20 was a special day for humanity.
It is the International Day of Happiness, a day dedicated to spreading joy, positivity, and inspiration around the world.
And while the pursuit of happiness is a human right, and most of us are cought up in this noble pursuit, it is also something we should be careful of, as it doesn't come without its risks .
The Risks of Happiness
Happiness is—in a way—a self-oriented emotion. It keeps us focusing on ourselves, which is part of the reason why pour world is so polluted and in need of our help. And happiness is addictive; as is caffeine or heroin.
So what if there was something like happines, but better? And by better I mean more sustainable for our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of everyone else around us (including the planet)?
After every happiness comes misery. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both are chains—one iron, one gold; These are states, and states must ever change; but yor true nature is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it; only wash away the dross and see it." ~ Swami Vivekananda
In the next video, taken from one of my e-courses, you will discover together the three main parts of the journey we call life (based on Richard Barrett 's 7 Levels of Consciousness model), how they create the pursuit of happiness, and what we can do to go beyond it. ?
About the author
Juan Campoo is a seasoned transformational coach and behavioral expert facilitating personal and organizational evolution. Creator of the?Mind Canvas?model for personal mastery and writer of the Amazon Best-Selling?book?under the same name. In the last 10+ years, he has coached, trained, and taught more than 12.000 people either 1-on-1, in groups, or through online courses. Check out the free resources ???here.