Happy Talks - Let's question

Happy Talks -

Let’s Question everything we know

That seems surprising! Isn’t it?

Why question what we already know?

We are not trained to do this because even in exams, more we knew more marks we got. At job or work, we got initial success because of the things we knew. Then why question it?

This is what people say, when they first come to know about Happy Talks. These are very appropriate questions. But by asking this question, people shift from “I know zone” to “I don’t know zone” because when I don’t know, I ask questions.

Happy Talks are informal talk sessions for all kind of audiences created to make people question their limited ideas, beliefs and philosophies around life.

The idea behind happy talks is that it's always better to look within to question our own limitations rather than settling for senseless conclusions about people and circumstances around us. When we look deeply, we realize that “I know” is nothing but a conclusion about something. When we conclude, our intellect freezes and stops to work further in that area.

 Why we love “I Know”

“I Know” leads to confidence and of course that is the major ingredient of success. Lot of people wants their children to be confident. So does an employer who is looking to hire someone for sales profile.

 But what we forget most of the time is that confidence without clarity is a disaster. A person who is extremely confident but has no clarity can go and blow up the whole world in order to look confident or at least blow up his/her own life or lives of people around.

So does that mean confidence is not good? Of course not! That leads to another question why look at good or bad of everything, why not look at workability of things? Does this work all the time?

Happy Talks - Let’s question is a series of talks designed to question our beliefs, which limit our performance in many areas of life, but we are not aware of this. Once we reach at the core, we clearly see cyclical patterns of life and we get the power to break those patterns and move forward in life.

This is like you realize that how you were actually running on the treadmill and waiting to reach somewhere. Suddenly, you get the power to stop the treadmill and get down.

This 2-hours fun filled, interactive and thought provoking session on variety of topics are more like a wake up call which gives a clear understanding that how happiness is not just about laughing, smiling and having positive emotions all the time. Happiness is way beyond that and becoming bigger than life challenges is definitely one of them.

Our Speakers have inspired thousands of people on how to maximize the current individual and business potential using principles of happiness. It is a great opportunity for you to bring a profound shift in the way we work, think and live?

Happy Talks can be your first step to enhance overall Happiness of your happiness.

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Happiness and Well Being

Happiness and Well Being

Just thought of sharing a small piece of information with you. On 2^nd April, 2012 United Nation convened a High Level meeting at it’s HQ New york which was attended by 700 enthusiast participants from all over the world including many high-level government officials, representatives for all United Nations Member States, leading economists, scientists, spiritual and faith leaders, scholars, civil society experts, business leaders, and media. The agenda of the meeting was strange just like the variety of audience.

Agenda was “Happiness and Well Being: Defining a New Economic Paradigm”

Why strange, because in the race of being economic power, how all these nations were coming together with scientists and spiritual leaders to discuss about something which is actually at the core of every human aspiration. This definitely created curiosity and hope for the world.

As a result of these efforts, United Nation published the first Global Happiness Report in same year 2012 at Rome. There were 156 countries participated in this survey and of course India was also part of this.

India ranked 111 in this list (which has further dropped to 118 in 2016), which was way below our neighboring countries China (83) Pakistan (92) or Bangladesh (110). For most of the people, it was just a news (or for many it was not even a news) but for us it was a shock.

India, a land of celebrations, where 150 days in a year are packed with festivals, a country where family bonding is strongest, world’s oldest culture and youngest country ranked at the lowest pyramid. How can that be and what can we do?

(source: The Hindu 17^th March, 2016)

This inspired us to take our first step and thus, Happiitude was born. We collaborated with Berkeley Method of Well Being, California to systematically enhance happiness index using scientific tools of happiness. 

Last 3 years journey has been very rewarding. Happiitude has touched thousands of lives through Science of Happiness audits, school curriculums, board games, workshops and many other tools to enhance happiness Index of Individuals, schools, corporates and government agencies as well.

One of the most the important accomplishments of Happiness movement is that UAE government has announced a Happiness ministry and soon after, M.P. Government has also started a Happiness department aimed at enhancing overall happiness of people in state of M.P.

Someone said "People do not care how much you know, they just want to know how much you care".

What started as an idea is turning into a strong movement that by the time India enters 2020, it would be below 100 on the Global Happiness index. It's quite evident when people attending happiness workshops or using tools given by Happiitude tell their tales in the videos below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLrJVd4arj8

After spreading it's wings in Mumbai and Ahmedabad, Happiitude is looking to spring up at other cities.

This is an opportunity for those who want to enhance their own happiness or who want to join us in this amazing journey to enhance Happiness of others.

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It’s my Trump Card

It’s my Trump Card

My Trump Cards:

• I was stuck in traffic
• My family don’t support me
• I want to do it but not this time
• I will do this once I have money
• It’s not my kind of thing                                                                       list goes on and on….

A papplu or trump card is my very “GENUINE” reason for not doing something. 

It is so very genuine that I have started believing it to be real but somewhere deep down, I know whenever I use trump card, I feel disempowered. Although it seems to work in every situation but some how it limits my growth in many other areas of life.  And you know what, I don’t have just one but many. In fact last time I counted; it was around 167. How about you?

What’s your trump card for not being Happy?

With Love,

One of you (Who…How does that matter?)

Why Happiness Practitioner workshop?

Why Happiness Practitioner workshop?

If one is capable of creating Anger, Stress and depression, one should also be capable of creating happiness.

Why is it that only unwanted things are happening at your choice but most wanted things are not happening?

If things were really happening the way you want it, you would definitely choose Happiness but it is not happening. Fortunately, after decades of research, science has now discovered the secret elements of happiness.

In 2 days of experiential Happiness workshop, participants get a choice to create their own Happiness. In this workshop, there are 4 main things that happen:

1. Live from the Growth Zone: In paradox of happiness, there are 4 different zones.

·      First zone is Survival Zone. Most of the people live in this particular zone. In this zone, there are few positive experiences or emotions on day-to-day basis and there is no big future vision as well. Many people in this zone have a glorious past and they start living on the glory of their past and stop accepting the now or looking forward to the future. For example, mid age government officer, mediocre student in class, unpopular kid in the neighborhood etc.

·      Second zone is Avoidance Zone, where one experience lot of positive emotions (mostly derived from instant pleasures) on daily basis but there is no future vision. For example, extrovert college students, high earning youngsters with no responsibility, people who are into drugs, alcohol or smoking etc.

·      Third zone is Anxiety Zone, where one has big future plans but hardly any positive emotions and experiences on daily basis. Many people keep juggling between Avoidance and Anxiety. Whenever people in avoidance get lot of responsibilities, they shift to anxiety zone and once it is over, they go back to avoidance zone. For example, someone with big and overwhelming goals etc.

·      Fourth zone is Growth Zone, where one has complete acceptance of the NOW and big future vision as well. So happiness is independent of the goals. 97% of the people hardly experience this zone because they are either in the glory of the past or in the hope of the future. In this process, they miss the now which is the present moment. This is where the real success happens.

 2.    Dealing with “Negative”:

People are hoping to get in to growth zone using positive thinking but this is taking people to the avoidance zone.

Do you really know what is positive and negative? Please pick up positive and negative words from the list below:

1. Anger          &         Bliss

2. Up               &         Down

3. Life              &         Death

If you are authentic enough, you have surely chosen death as negative and life as positive but positive thinkers know that they should think and choose positive (which also means ignore negative), does that mean death will ignore you?

You may choose to ignore negative but does that mean that negative will also ignore you? 

So why positive thinking books, workshops and seminars are training people to look at only the positive side and indirectly training them to ignore the negative? This is becoming major reason of unhappiness in the followers of positive thinking movement. In a recent study, most of the people attending positive thinking seminars or reading positive thinking self help books were found to be extremely unhappy after few weeks of the workshop. Many of them started to avoid so called negative thinking and felt guilty when they could focus their mind on “positive thinking”.

The irony is people don’t even know what is positive and what is negative because they never have the complete picture. Each one of us has an experience in life where something, which looks very positive, turns out to be the most negative experience of life and vice versa.

Happiness Practitioner is the only place where one learns to deal with negatives rather than avoiding it. This develops an ability and courage to deal with every negative situation in life like failures, emotional trash, and negative emotion handling etc using scientific tools. 

  3.    Living Consciously rather than unconsciously: 

Most of the people are living unconscious life. They are constantly struggling to live more unconsciously by forming more habits, training their subconscious minds and by getting involved in excessive eating, drinking and smoking.  Living an unconscious life is the lowest form of human life. Today, modern science has lot of evidence that living with awareness enhance our overall wellbeing and health. This workshop is designed in a way that one effortlessly moves to higher level of awareness using scientific tools and techniques. 

  4.    Discovering One’s Orbit of Life

Our whole life revolves around set of beliefs that were unconsciously set when we were growing up. When we start living with awareness, many of such beliefs become clear to us. Although, it is very difficult to be aware of all of our beliefs and not required as well because there is one major beliefs which drives majority of decisions in our life. Be it our goals, our preferences, the way we dress, the kind of friends we have and most of our liking and disliking are independent on this particular belief. This is called Orbit of Life. Once it is discovered, every disempowering beliefs collapse and we get an opportunity to create a new life.

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Are you still hoping to live life with positive thinking?

Are you still hoping to live life using positive thinking?

Let us see what is positive thinking?

Do you really know what is positive and negative? Please pick up positive and negative words from the list below:

1. Anger          &         Bliss

2. Up               &         Down

3. Life              &         Death

If you are authentic enough, you have surely chosen death as negative and life as positive but positive thinkers know that they should think and choose positive (which also means ignore negative), does that mean death will ignore you?

You may choose to ignore negative but does that mean that negative will also ignore you? 

So why positive thinking books, workshops and seminars are training people to look at only the positive side and indirectly training them to ignore the negative? This is becoming major reason of unhappiness in the followers of positive thinking movement. In a recent study, most of the people attending positive thinking seminars or reading positive thinking self help books were found to be extremely unhappy after few weeks of the workshop. Many of them started to avoid so called negative thinking and felt guilty when they could focus their mind on “positive thinking”.

The irony is people don’t even know what is positive and what is negative because they never have the complete picture. Each one of us has an experience in life where something, which looks very positive, turns out to be the most negative experience of life and vice versa.

I attended a 2 days workshop last weekend called Happiness Practitioner Workshop. It was an eye opener for a positive thinker like me. The best thing I found out in this workshop is that they train people to deal with the so-called negative things. It is very confronting workshop but designed in an experiential and activity based way. They don’t give solution but give us tools to deal with the trash inside us. It gives us the ability and courage to deal with every negative situation in life like failures, emotional trash, and negative emotion handling etc using scientific tools. 

I have never felt so light and empowered in my whole life. I realized how I was living in an avoidance or survival zone my whole life, waiting for things to happen. When things were not happening the way I wanted, I was looking for everyone and any one to blame. Looking back now, it seems I never wanted to get out of these zone. I was so very comfortable in that but Thank God, I attended this workshop. I realized what it means to be in a growth zone and take responsibility of my life. Now, no more running away or avoiding things, TIME IS NOW! LIFE IS NOW! HAPPINESS IS NOW!

Something very beautiful that I learnt there, I want to share:

If you want to be Angry, this should happen but if you want to be at peace, this should happen too. 

If you want to be unpleasant, this should happen but if you want to pleasant, this should happen too.

If you want to be depressed, this should happen but if you want to be happy, this should happen too.

Why is it that only unwanted things are happening at your choice but most wanted things are not happening?

Is your life happening by choice or by chance?

Happiitude – Happy by Choice

For more details, visit www.happiitude.com/hp

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Why we need to learn “Happiness”

Why we need to learn “Happiness”

When we utter the word Happiness, everyone think of it as a state of mind, feeling or an emotion derived from some outside experience but when asked where is happiness, every one points inside. Thanks to Self-help books, people know happiness is an inside job but still everyone is endlessly looking for it outside. So instead of happiness, this basic conflict is causing more confusion and thus more unhappiness in everyone’s life.

If we simply look at happiness, it means that when things happen as one expects or better than expected, one feels happy. The problem is that most of our expectations are unconsciously set and we are not even aware of it. So meeting such expectations all the time is out of question.

The only thing that is in our control is our ability to handle our own self. What we call as self is nothing but set of expectations, beliefs and values that are not even created by us, so we are not even aware of most of these but this is what that is driving our life.

So people have no choice to create their own happiness. Due to this, most of the people today are easily angry, frustrated or irritated. They are constantly under stress and anxiety that is leading to lot of health problems like Blood pressure, cardiac problems, diabetes and all other kind of lifestyle dis-eases.

There is lot of medical evidence to prove that when one is under constant fight or flight state. Due to this, blood start flowing toward arms and legs, so vital organs don’t get enough blood supply that causes all health related problems. This fight and flight is not because of some real external threat but small events of day-to-day life. For example, getting late for work, traffic, being impatient while waiting for elevator etc.

Earlier, this aspect of lives was taken care by religion but it is not happening with the current generations. In fact current generations are the most comfortable and technologically advanced so far but are they the happier ones?

Happiness Practitioner workshop is a 2 days experiential workshop on Science of Happiness which looks at this in a very scientific yet very experiential way. Science and Happiness seems like 2 words from different dimensions, one representing mind and other heart. One represents logic and other emotion; one is based on evidence and other on experience. So Science of Happiness is best of both the worlds.

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