Happiness in Your Hands

Happiness in Your Hands When you call a problem a problem, it seems to be an evil, but when you cal it a chalenge, it becomes a useful part of life, something that spurs your intelectual development. A report published in a US journal, the Journal of Positive Psychology, gives details of experiments conducted on ‘trying to become happier’. The participants were made to listen to ‘happy music’, and those who actively tried to feel happier subsequently reported the highest levels of positive mood. (December 19, 2012) Such happiness is certainly of an artificial kind. Life is full of problems. When one is living with the so-called ‘feel-good’ factor brought on by ‘happy music’, problems still exist all around you. It is but natural for your mind to keep on reacting to these problems, as you cannot stop the thinking process of your mind. Therefore, this happiness through music will be artificial and unrelated to reality. It is not possible to achieve absolute happiness by using this procedure. It is like wearing an artificial smile on your face while you are sad within. And anything less than real happiness cannot satisfy you. What is achieved by this method is only a temporary state of