Calm and Cool — A Guide to Being Peaceful

Find Happiness 15: Why You Should Sit in a Park

February 14, 2010

“What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.”
— Baruch Spinoza
If you are intent on finding happiness, I would suggest that every now and then you go and sit in a park or a farm (or a similar place) where it is reasonably quiet save for the occasional call of birds or [...]

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Find Happiness 14: the Basic Game Plan

February 11, 2010

Before I state, in very simple terms, the strategy for becoming happy, one needs to define "happiness".
There are probably as many definitions for the word as there are people on the planet. But there is one definition which with small variations, has been adopted by thousands, if not millions, of people over the [...]

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Find Happiness 13: Have a Primary Happiness Teacher

January 14, 2010

The last thing you want to be in your search for happiness is CONFUSED.
It’s easy to get confused. That’s because there are many happiness teachers, and although groups of them say similar things, it is unlikely that any two teachers will say exactly the same thing.
So let us say that you are [...]

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Find Happiness 12: Anger Management and Inner Peace

November 22, 2009

One of the many great things about finding inner peace is that it has a profound effect on how often and how strongly you feel anger. It definitely should find a place in everyone’s anger management toolbox.
The mechanics of the relationship between anger and inner peace is worth understanding.
Inner peace is the state of being [...]

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Find Happiness 11: Find Inner Peace and Relieve Stress Simultaneously

November 15, 2009

As I and many others have often emphasized, there is a simple procedure that will required to reduce stress and anxiety significantly. This procedure will also lead you to great inner peace if faithfully performed.
The procedure is to spend a mere 10 minutes a day watching your thoughts, with a view to realizing that [...]

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Find Happiness 10: How to Be Peaceful No Matter What

November 6, 2009

First off, what do I mean by "Be Peaceful"? I mean a state of mind where there is no agitation, no stress, no anxiety… something analogous to the surface of a placid lake.
And by "No Matter What", I mean even in these example circumstances:

Someone is yelling and insulting you
You are confronted by an [...]

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Find Happiness 9: How to Detach Yourself from Your Thoughts

October 1, 2009

Imagine you’re sitting on a meadow looking at the sky and a flock of birds flies slowly across your field of vision.
You watch the birds enter your view, keep watching as they cross it and then exit it.
There’s you, and there’s the birds. No question about that, right? You certainly don’t feel that [...]

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Find Happiness 8: What Is It like Being Rooted in Stillness?

September 20, 2009

Inside you there is a basic stillness. So what, you may ask.
Because if you constantly reside in that place, your life will be utterly peaceful . Saints, seers and prophets have prescribed this across time and continents. It is mankind’s time-tested method for maximizing one’s happiness.

* “To be still is to be conscious [...]

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Find Happiness 7: Why Are You Unable to Schedule Time for Finding Happiness?

August 16, 2009

Let’s say you are one of the many people who feel they are not happy enough and want to get happier. You know that you can achieve this goal by spending 10 minutes a day working on it. However, you never end up getting down to it. Here are some reasons why that happens and [...]

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