The "Happiness" Workout Part 2
Have you already listened to the first parts of the topic "Happiness" in the last editions of the podcast?
C. What are you grateful for?
Are you even aware of your good fortune? Do you know how many people die every day, fall seriously ill, lose a loved one, or face other, serious problems? Just today? It's in the millions, it's not a matter of course to be alive, to wake up healthy, to talk to your loved ones on the phone, or to eat. We have a nice home, heated and dry, enough to eat, a social system, we have health insurance. Be grateful, recognize your "good" situation.
Set the timer again for five minutes, write down (again on the first page, otherwise on a new one) what came into your head during that time. Try to divide the events, opportunities, and encounters into "categories," such as "personal" and "professional," then further into subgroups to gain more clarity. If you practice daily (or weekly), then go further and further into details, visualize the circumstances, what did fate assign you, what part did your own efforts have?
Through this exercise you lighten your mood, you put yourself in a contented cloud that carries you, helps you glide through life.
D. The Post-Its Meditation
Read here about the Post-Its meditation, then start distributing some of the sticky notes around your home, on which you write in bullet points the things for which you are especially grateful, but also the special events that you wish for yourself in the future (Although according to Buddha we should not "wish" and not "want", but this must be understood first. Until then, it is simply a matter of making life easier for yourself).
E. The "I-love-myself" letter
Now that you have used up some notes (I also advise you to collect all notes) you should write a letter to yourself in another stage. Again, the timer comes to five minutes, in which you think about everything. Then get going, just imagine that such a letter would do "good" to your own, best friend, write about all the feelings and thoughts that move you. It is important that you do not judge at all, because as Buddhists we "know" that everything comes as it should, we can change little or nothing about it. Therefore, we are not to blame (at least not from this life) and we can be more benevolent towards matters.
If you don't know what to do, then put everything aside, continue next time.
With points A. to E. you can achieve a better quality of life. It doesn't always have to be a workout for the body, the soul belongs to be cared for as well.
The way is the goal!

There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the way
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero

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