Shri Jagat Singh Bisht
(Master Teacher: Happiness & Well-Being, Laughter Yoga Master Trainer, Author, Blogger, Educator, and Speaker.)
Authored six books on happiness: Cultivating Happiness, Nirvana – The Highest Happiness, Meditate Like the Buddha, Mission Happiness, A Flourishing Life, and The Little Book of Happiness. He served in a bank for thirty-five years and has been propagating happiness and well-being among people for the past twenty years. He is on a mission – Mission Happiness!
☆ Positive Education # 15: Summary and Conclusion ☆
A Flourishing Life
“You have to do your own work,
those who have reached the goal will only show the way.”
Buddha
Children and parents need to learn and understand the fundamentals of happiness and well-being to flourish in life.
Positive Psychology is the modern science of happiness and well-being. It provides a new understanding of happiness and well-being and how to achieve them.
Positive Education is the combination of traditional education with the study of happiness and well-being. It is an approach to education that blends academic learning with character and well-being.
Positive Education focuses on specific skills that assist students to strengthen their relationships, build positive emotions, enhance personal resilience, promote mindfulness and encourage a healthy lifestyle.
Happiness is the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.
The five elements of well-being are positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment.
Flow is what we feel when we are fully alive, involved with what we do, and in harmony with the environment around us.
It is something that happens most easily when we sing, dance, or do sports – but it can happen when we work, read a good book, or have a good conversation.
Happy people are good at their friendships, families, and intimate relationships.
You can be happier if you cultivate good relationships with your family, friends and even strangers whom you meet in your day-to-day life.
Meaning, or purpose, is an important element of happiness and well-being.
We derive meaning by developing the best within us and serving something beyond ourselves.
Achieving your goals in life brings happiness. Deep absorption in an activity brings achievement.
Grit is defined as perseverance and passion for long-term goals. Components of grit include self-regulation, discipline, and sacrificing short-term results for long-term gain.
Exercises are not only good for your body. They bring happiness and well-being.
Along with sports and games, the practice of yoga, tai chi, and martial arts sharpens the mind and reflexes, and enhances concentration and patience.
One of the greatest obstacles to attaining happiness is that most of our beliefs about what will make us happy are in fact erroneous.
There are several myths surrounding happiness. The most common myth about happiness is: “I will be happy when I am rich.”
The Happiness Formula:
H = S + C + V
where H represents the enduring level of happiness, S is the set range, C is the circumstances of life, and V represents the variables under our voluntary control.
Every major religious and cultural tradition endorses six virtues: Wisdom and knowledge, Courage, Love and humanity, Justice, Temperance, and Spirituality and transcendence.
Signature strengths are the routes – the strengths of character – by which we achieve the virtues. If you want to be happy, you have to discover your signature strengths and put them into action.
50% of happiness is in our genes, 10% depends on the circumstances of life, and the rest 40% can be cultivated by us by taking up activities, intentionally and voluntarily, that bring joy and happiness.
You can create your own happiness by engaging in exercise, yoga, meditation, helping someone, being kind, expressing gratitude, and savouring life’s little pleasures.
The practice of meditation is especially useful for children in developing concentration and focusing on their studies. It improves memory and makes them more creative.
Nurturing and developing your spirituality may be just as important as eating a healthy diet, exercising, and building strong relationships.
Flourishing is the experience of life going well – a combination of feeling good and functioning effectively. It is the opposite of languishing – living a life that feels hollow and empty.
People flourish when they experience a balance of positive emotions, engagement with the world, good relationships with others, a sense of meaning and moral purpose, and the accomplishment of valued goals.
May you flourish in life!
“Do not accept something:
because you have heard it many times,
because it has been believed traditionally for generations,
because it is believed by a large number of people,
because it is in accordance with your scriptures,
because it seems logical,
because it is in line with your own beliefs,
because it is proclaimed by your teacher, who has an attractive personality and for whom you have great respect.
“Accept it only after you have realized it yourself at the experiential level and have found it to be wholesome and beneficial to one and all. Then, not only accept it but also live up to it.”
Buddha
Reference Books
Flourish: A New Understanding of HAPPINESS AND WELL-BEING – and How to Achieve Them – By Martin Seligman
Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfilment – By Martin Seligman
Flow: The Classic work on How to Achieve Happiness – By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want – By Lyubomirsky
The Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy, but Doesn’t, What Should Make You Happy, but Does – By Sonja Lyubomirsky
Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment – By Tal Ben-Shahar
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom – By Jonathan Haidt
The Art of Meditation – By Matthieu Ricard
The Dhammapada: Wisdom of the Buddha – Translated by F. Max Muller
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