The Happiness You Get From a Promotion Is the Same as Eating a Piece of Cake.

Just think for a minute. During the last 24 hours, for how many minutes were you truly happy? If anyone honestly thinks about this, they will likely recollect incidents lasting only a few minutes. For some people, no such incident would have happened for years.

This is a critical issue, because the time during which our mind is happy is our true human power. When our mind is happy, all the body parts will function properly and work with their full potential. They will also cure all diseases, and we can remain healthy. But most of us are postponing our happiness, and in doing so, we are postponing our health.

The Great Happiness Misconception

If you call a hundred people and ask them, “If your mind is to be happy, what should happen?” many will give replies like this: “I should become the Chief Minister, only then I will be happy.” “I should get first rank in the exam.” “We should buy a very big bungalow.” “I should marry my lover.”

If you think about it, none of the things these people say will happen in the immediate future. They may take several years. Some of these wishes may even go unfulfilled. So are these people going to remain sad until those wishes are fulfilled? This is the trap we fall into: we postpone our happiness in view of some big event that may happen someday in the future.

My advice is to please change your view that happiness will be obtained only if your goals and objectives are fulfilled. Here is the secret: there is no difference between the happiness one gets by assuming charge as Chief Minister after waiting for 50 years and the happiness the same person gets by eating a sweet he likes. The same happiness we get when we enter a newly built house is obtained when we play with a child. There is no difference between the two. Our mind will not analyze and see from where it gets the happiness. It will be happy if it just gets happiness by any means.

The Wisdom of a Child

Some children will keep on listening to the same song again and again. The parents who see this will get bored, but that child will not. This is because children always do a thing only if their mind likes it. But once we grow up, we are doing only such things which are not liked by our mind. Children are always cheerful because they do what their mind likes. So, they sleep immediately when they go to bed and are always peaceful.

Happiness can come when we listen to our favorite song, see a movie we like, fondle a child, see natural scenery, or eat our favorite food. Happiness is always near us, at all times. Without understanding this, we are always searching for happiness elsewhere.

Protecting Your Happiness at All Costs

Once the mind gets happiness, it will not analyze how or from where it came. So, it is enough if we get happiness somehow, from somewhere. We need not wait for it only from the accomplishment of big wishes. When you are getting happiness easily from somewhere at this moment, please do not come out of that happy feeling.

For example, our mind is happy when we are listening to our favorite song. At that time, our cell phone rings. What do we do? We immediately stop the happy thing and start speaking over the phone. The words coming from the cell phone may or may not give us happiness. But we always give importance to our work, facilities, and financial gain. We do not give importance to happiness. That is why we do not have happiness with us.

If someone calls me on my cell phone when I am listening to my favorite song, I will not respond to that call. I will take the cell phone only after that song is over. We should never attempt to quickly come out of the thing which gives happiness to our mind. Even if some material or monetary benefits are reduced for this, we should not mind it. This is because no one can measure the value of happiness. Health is the property of our body. Happiness is the property of our mind.

I have seen some films more than 100 times. I have listened to some songs hundreds of times. Why? Because I feel happy when I experience them. I will not analyze why I am happy. Please do not analyze good things. If you analyze them, you cannot enjoy them, and your mind will not be happy.

The Golden Rule for Doing What You Like

So, my advice is to please do the things liked by your mind again and again. But there is one very important point to remember. When you do things liked by your mind, it should not cause any harm to any other person’s body or mind.

If you keep this in mind, your body will be healthy and your mind will be peaceful. If you think that being nude in a closed room gives you happiness, you can definitely do so. But if you think walking nude in the middle of the road gives you happiness, you should not do it, because it will affect other people.

There are thousands of things that you like to do which can be done without spending any money and without harming others. But many people do not enjoy such things. When so many things are available to make us happy, we keep on searching for happiness everywhere for a long time. By understanding these simple truths, we can begin to live a life filled with joy, peace, and radiant health.