Your Journey to Happiness
Your Journey to Happiness
Sometimes life can seem tough and happiness very elusive.
‘I feel inner peace,
serenity,
contentment and
love for myself and
those around me
and fun and
bubbling joy most
of the time’
In this guide, I will share with you an understanding of just what
happiness is and how YOU can achieve it and BE HAPPY with a
moment by moment, deep and sustainable love of life that is
truly wonderful.
I’ve been thinking, reading and seeking happiness myself for
many years and what follows has worked for me and I sincerely
hope will be of help to you in your quest for lifelong happiness,
joy and contentment.
My starting point is to think about our lives on two levels – the
Emotional and the Spiritual.
‘At last, I feel my
life is fun and I
enjoy the ride and
each day feel
positive and
buoyant even when
times are tough’
‘I can really connect
with other people
and the important
relationships in my
life have improved
and are more
fulfilling’
‘I’ve swapped
anger, conflict and
upset for inner
peace, calmness
and serenity’
Emotional Intelligence (EI)
Spiritual Intelligence (SI)
Improving the skill and wisdom – or ‘Intelligence’ - with which we
live our lives at these two levels is the key to happiness. The
essence of my philosophy is that EI and SI are about you
controlling your mind rather than being controlled by it. Further,
the causes of unhappiness arise in the mind and the solutions are
also to be found in the mind.
Each of us needs to start work on our Emotional Intelligence first,
and in the guide I explain how to do this. Emotional Intelligence is
about how we handle basic, raw and instinctive emotions with
skill, maturity and perspective to enable us to avoid some or
most of the unhappiness that arises where we are at the mercy
of uncontrolled emotion. We can never be happy while we are
still under the control of our ego, and at the mercy of negative
emotions and negative energy.
How much effort you need to put into working on your EI will
depend on where you are starting from.
Only when we have learned how to behave with Emotional
Intelligence can we tackle the understanding and application of
Spiritual Intelligence. The prize and rewards for reaching some
http://www.Life-howtobehappy.com ©Bob Brown 2012
