Search Inside Yourself

What I am feeling now is . . .
• I am aware that . . .
• What motivates me is . . .
• I am inspired by . . .
• Today, I aspire to . . .
• What hurts me is . . .
• I wish . . .
• Others are . . .
• I made a happy mistake . . .
• Love is . . .

It implies that happiness is not something that you pursue; it is something you allow. Happiness is just being. That insight changed my life.

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Barbara Fredrickson, a noted pioneer in positive psychology, found that it takes three positive experiences to overcome a negative one, a 3:1 ratio.10 In general, each negative feeling is three times as powerful as a positive one.

happiness is the default state of mind. So when the mind becomes calm and clear, it returns to its default, and that default is happiness.

When the mind becomes highly relaxed and alert at the same time, three wonderful qualities of mind naturally emerge: calmness, clarity, and happiness.

its real purpose is to allow us to look inside the dark rooms of the mind and ourselves so that we can, well, search inside ourselves. And because it is ultimately about developing insight, the spirit of inquiry

Viktor Frankl, “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness.”

that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness

Goleman’s five domains of emotional intelligence map very nicely into Gardner’s personal intelligences: you can think of the first three domains of emotional intelligence as intrapersonal intelligence and the last two as interpersonal intelligence.