What is happiness?
It is quite an old question but till now it has no definite answer. But happiness is used in context of positive mental states of mind like joy, pleasant emotions, life satisfaction, great achievement , etc.
The meaning of happiness can be different for different people.
There are various things which makes a person happy like:
- Getting praised be others
- Achieving something he/she dreamt of
- Getting a gift
- Meeting with a loved one.
- Old happy memories, etc.
But now the question arises that :
where we can find happiness?
If happiness is not in wealth, not in achieving big dreams, or anything like that then where is that happiness really is?
To tell where happiness really is I would like to share a small story:
“An old man lived in the village. The whole village was tired of him; he was always gloomy, he constantly complained and was always in a bad mood. The longer he lived, the viler he became and more poisonous were his words. People did their best to avoid him because his misfortune was contagious. He created the feeling of unhappiness in others.
But one day, when he turned eighty, an incredible thing happened. Instantly everyone started hearing the rumor: ‘The old man is happy today, he doesn’t complain about anything, smiles, and even his face is freshened up.’
The whole village gathered around the man and asked him, “What happened to you?”
The old man replied, ‘Nothing special. Eighty years I’ve been chasing happiness and it was useless. And then I decided to live without happiness and just enjoy life. That’s why I’m happy now.’”
With this story it is very clear that we keep running behind happiness. We try to do each and everything possible in order to get happiness but still we never get that happiness. And the answer is because we never try to enjoy our life and that’s where the true happiness is.
Happiness comes when we enjoy our life and stay satisfied with whatever we have. We can see many rich people with all luxuries and things but still they are not happy and on the other hand there are people who earn very less and for them luxuries are something they can’t even think of, live a much happy life.
There are few things from where you can get this true happiness:
- Exercise: Lots of studies on this one. Exercising releases the good mood endorphins so that you are always in a better mood after a workout .
- Think positive: If you really want to stay happy then fill your mind with a lot and lot of positive thoughts.
- Trash your negative thoughts: Negative thoughts are the biggest hurdle in your path to happiness so is you are someone whose mind is filled with negative thoughts then just try to kill such thoughts right away.
- Take a sound sleep: Take a sound sleep. Be the one to sleep on time and wake up on time. Sleeping helps to calm down mind and helps to come out of negative thoughts.
- Help others: Have some time to help others by any means you can. Helping gives a great happiness which is unmatched. If you don’t know where you can help then join the app WeHeal and help people here.
WeHeal is the app which is created with the aim to solve those problems of the people which are generally remains unnoticed. The main motive of this app is to heal everyone and help them to lead happy life. In this app the best feature is that you can ask your problems and these problems are posted anonymously and the healers there will help you to get best solutions. Other than this there is a chat feature using which you can directly chat with the healers and get the best solution and here also you remain anonymous. If you are facing problems like stress , loneliness, heartbreak, exam tension , anxiety, etc then this app can help you out. There are many healers on this app who are ready to help people and they will understand you and will not judge you. Other than asking problems there is inspiration section where you can find inspirational stories and quotes written by different people using the app which can inspire and encourage you. The app also has three inbuilt modes which provide you with meditation sessions, happiness quiz that will detect your mood, and a mini game to improve your patience level.
The world is beautiful 