Hi, I have just updated the Happiness Blog on my website, here:
http://www.abc-counselling.com/2010.02.01_arch.html
This blog post contains lots of useful hints and tips on how to have a happier life. The post begins like this:
CALM, SERENE HAPPINESS IS THE PRIZE TO AIM FOR
By Dr Jim Byrne
Copyright (c) Jim Byrne, 2010
In the past, I have distinguished between calm, serene happiness, and excited, aroused happiness.
Excited, aroused happiness occurs in response to something that you strongly desired and got; or something that surprised you which was positive. It comes from outside of you.
Calm, serene happiness occurs when you are at peace with the world, and you have a positive mental attitude that is not dictated by the external world. This is what Seneca meant when he said:
"True joy is serene".
Aristotle believed that our deepest happiness comes from living a good life. What he meant was that moral functioning translates into happy functioning. That's why I always say: to live the good life, you have to be willing to live a good life.
An element of this idea is caught in the following quote from Maeterlinck:
"Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul". Count Maurice Maeterlinck
...The Happines Blog is continued here...Think your way to happiness...
Best wishes,
Jim
Dr Jim Byrne
ABC Coaching and Counselling Services
jim.byrne@abc-counselling.com/
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