Everything you need to know about Happiness

Yes. This article contains everything you need to know about happiness. No, you don't need to look anywhere else for definitions, or thousand ways to create happiness. This is it, everything! It's easy and simple. We can start by answering the question "what is happiness"

What is happiness?

Happiness is a feeling you get. What is a feeling? A feeling is a mental object which your mind recognizes. Just like anger, jealousy and sadness, and thousands more emotions, happiness is just one. Why is it important to objectify happiness like this? It's because once we know characteristics of a mental object, we would know how it originated, how it persists and how it is destroyed. Then the mystery of happiness everyone seeks would no longer be there, and you my friend will be able to create your own happiness.

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Study of mental objects.

We do not have to look far away when it comes to the study of mental objects. There is a great deal of written and spoken information about this subject, and it is called mindfulness. Unfortunately there is abundant miss information as well. That mindfulness is a meditation, used for its benefits to create a calm mind. But I consider mindfulness an experiment, about self. Study of mental objects in your own mind. Watching how they arise, persist and destroy.

Origin of a mental object.

Birth of a mental object happens when a consciousness meets a replica of the world. Imagine you see a large body of water. This picture you see is not the real thing. It is a replica of the world created by your mind's eye. Combined with past memories you would instantly recognise this as the "sea". And with this recognition a whole lot of arena develops. No longer you will be interacting with a real object, but the altered one your mind creates. By the time you see the waves, the sea is already gone. Now you would be thinking about the waves and sound of the waves.

As you can see, mental objects persist when you feed it with your memory. And they are destroyed when a new one takes its place in your consciousness. By this way, during so called living, we would be alternating our consciousness between various mental objects. But there are some objects which are entirely mental. And those are called emotions.

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Everything about happiness - Emotional intelligence.

The fascinating thing about emotions is although they are entirely mental they affect physically as well. Consider sadness and happiness, which is capable of forming tears. We can see that emotions are our judgements to those temporary mental objects associated with the environment. Imagine you feel the breeze while on the beach tossing your hair. And first this would only be a thing. But mind doesn't allow this to happen. And it takes a mental ride, and think "ah, such a bliss, the breeze" and there a value is created which is positive. And this creates another mental object called happiness. Yes, happiness as you see is an illusion. But did you see the problem?

The problem is there is nothing outside this process. The problems of life and the solutions we seek are entirely within this process. You can call it subjectivity, but I call it life. Once this is understood, nothing will change. You can go back to whatever stupid thing you have been doing all your life to continue its existence. But with a better chance of creating happiness. As now you know there is nothing fancy about happiness or sadness and it certainly doesn't depend on a pile of money!