If there’s one thing that human beings share in common, it’s that we all just want to be happy. Seems simple enough, doesn’t it?
But what if happiness isn’t what we think it is? What if we’re all chasing, seeking the wrong thing in the wrong places, and making ourselves stressed, sick and very very unhappy in the process?
According to Melli O’Brien, a mindfulness & meditation teacher from Australia, it’s a core mistaken belief about just what happiness is and where it comes from that keeps so many of us locked in an endless cycle of doing, working, seeking and over-consuming. Research study after research study tells us what we are already know at a gut level; we are not getting happier.
Instead, we are becoming sadder, sicker and ever more self-destructive. The loneliness epidemic, rising levels of depression, anxiety and addictions, and a planet on the brink of a severe environmental crisis as a result of our consumerist ways – if we in the developed world have so much access to happiness, why aren’t we doing better?
Perhaps we need to first clarify what happiness is before we can fully understand the most effective ways to manifest it in our lives.
O’Brien believes we are confusing two very different kinds of happiness when we use the word, and that by understanding the difference between the two, we can discern which actions and activities will bring about lasting, meaningful happiness.
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