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While admiring or helping others, our focus is on appreciating and serving, instead of on monitoring our own personal, momentary experiences of happiness.
Provided you achieve the right balance of selfless giving and selfish taking, by putting effort into helping others, happiness will appear in your life.

Types of Happiness

Whilst there are as many descriptions of happiness as there are people on the planet, happiness itself falls into one of six broad categories :-

Physical Happiness: Physical happiness means having the basics that will allow you to survive and thrive, such as food, water, shelter, and air.

Emotional Happiness: Emotional happiness comes from feelings of love, belonging, and having a sense of family or community.

Mental Happiness: Mental happiness comes with a positive self-image, and includes making good use of your mind's ability to continually improve and grow
in your understanding and appreciation of life.

Creative Happiness: Creative happiness blossoms forth when you are expressing your excellence as whatever you are meant to be - being the best artist,
manager, cook, friend, mother, or worker that you can be - offering your creative efforts to benefit society and those you love.

Spiritual Happiness: Spiritual happiness fills you with the peacefulness of unshakable faith, as you rest in your higher self -- while giving and serving with
universal love and a vision of the bigger picture of your soul's journey.

Eternal Bliss: Eternal bliss is a realm of unearthly ecstasy and oneness with all. We'll know it when we see it!

There is a direct comparison with the structure of the types of happiness and the human needs hierarchy described in chapter 3.

Happiness is a state of mind

What an amazing instrument the mind is!

When we truly learn to make full use of our mind's potential, we can harness the tremendous power of our thoughts and intentions to inspire and empower all
of our actions, and to create ongoing happiness in our lives.

You will know that the entire universe is made up of energy. Everything you can see, touch, hear, taste, sense and imagine is represented by energy vibrating
at different frequencies. Our minds affect the world around us because thoughts have energy too. Our minds affect the world through our thoughts, feelings,
and actions, in obvious and subtle ways. To state it simply: Happy thoughts equal a happy world; sad thoughts equal a sad world. Fearful thoughts equal a Page32