Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
AVAILABLE HERE
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Occupational happiness
Dr Happy of The Happiness Institute says that 'Happiness is the ultimate goal'. And I tend to agree, but it's not an end in itself.
Happiness is what happens often when we're occupied in activities that are slightly demanding, artistic and requiring creativity and we probably only know we've happy afterwards because we've been so busy doing the thing that makes us happy. Creative pursuits and challenging activities such as gardening, sport, painting, crotchet, skiing, lampshade making and anything you like can occupy us to such an extent that we're lost in our occupation. It takes us out of ourselves, so to speak and as long as the challenge isn't so great that it's unattainable, we're likely to enjoy a sense of fulfillment during the process.
But there again, we don't need any occupation to make us happy if we just choose to be so. We can just BE happy. That's a darn sight more fundamental and wholehearted than trying to find something outside of us that will bring us happiness.
