(review)
“ZEN and the Art of Happiness” is a short read with many valuable lessons for mind and soul. It is an inspiring book to live a better life as it is the way you help yourself and others, too.
Events we live on our life path are simply events, nothing more. Everything comes at the right time and happens to you for a reason. Even a bad event can turn out to be the best thing that happened to you.
When you believe that the disease you suffer from can be cured, your whole body-mind, immune system – will respond to the treatment with positive energy, capable of healing you.
However, we decide on how we respond to the events. What you think, and how you feel will directly affect your body in some way, whether positive or negative, and your response to the situation will determine whether you will be happy or unhappy. This is what shapes our life because the Universe doesn’t make mistakes.
If you are depressed for an hour, your body will give birth to approximately 18 million cells that will have more receptors for “peptides of sadness” and fewer for “peptides of happiness”… grumpiness can offer only a body that feels rather sadness than joy. In addition, it creates the need for gloomy thoughts and you become addicted to anger.
Furthermore, there is no use in blaming and lamenting over those events. By changing your thoughts, you change the outcome, as your attitude defines it.
Happiness/unhappiness, just like beauty, is “in the eye and the hands of the beholder” and it comes from within. You can ask yourself which one has become your habit.
True happiness is the happiness gained through an accurate understanding of both universal laws and our relationship with the Universe. Here is a type of happiness that endures and does not fade with time.
Even if “ZEN and the Art of Happiness” is a short book it is a good read and an inspirational book (for those who read to find something useful and not to criticize others’ work)…
Love, Manuela
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