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True happiness comes from steady progress towards your meaningful goals.
You need to feel that your life has purpose and meaning, that you are somehow making a
valuable contribution to the world around you.
10. Personal Fulfilment This is the certain knowledge that you are moving your life towards the
realisation of your full potential as a human being. This is called "self-actualisation" which is
characterised as the primary attribute of the healthiest, happiest and most successful men and
women.
A major benefit of studying yourself and your own path to success and happiness is that it will
show you how to become your own psychologist. You will learn how to achieve and maintain a
positive, optimistic and happy mental attitude and how to develop a fully performing, mature
personality.
You can’t hit a target you can’t see. Defining the ten ingredients of happiness helps you identify
what to aim for. Defining your life in ideal terms, you will develop the courage to decide exactly
what you want and begin the process of removing the obstacles to your success and
happiness. Later, you will learn a proven process of thought and planning to achieve whatever
goals you want.
When you begin to practice what we will learn in these sessions, you should enjoy greater
peace of mind, improve your perceptions, elevate your self-esteem, benefit from enhanced self
-knowledge and increased awareness, enjoy better health and energy, more and better loving
relationships, greater financial freedom through more fulfilling work, construct exciting goals and
ideals to which you can commit yourself, and savour a wonderful feeling of personal fulfilment
and personal achievement.
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:
1. Physical Happiness: Physical happiness means having the basics that will allow you to
survive and thrive, such as food, water, shelter, and air.
2. Emotional Happiness: Emotional happiness comes from feelings of love, belonging, and
having a sense of family or community.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Eternal Bliss: Eternal bliss is a realm of unearthly ecstasy and oneness with all. We'll know it
when we see it!