One of the steppingstones to happiness is deciding to be grateful. Every Sunday evening list five things you will be grateful for the entire upcoming week.
By Mala Daggett
Enjoyment. Satisfaction. Purpose. Gratitude. Arthur C. Brooks’ recipe for happiness.
Enjoyment is the full consumption and appreciation of a pleasure. Being aware in the moment of a pleasure allows you to take it in fully. Conscious pleasure not only allows us to replay the experience of positive thoughts and feel-good dopamine, but it trains us to seek enjoyment again and again.
Satisfaction, the second ingredient, requires conscious awareness of what you are seeking, your goals. The magnificence of the goal is unimportant. Understanding and clarity of why you seek that goal is important. Satisfaction and joy will manifest with your mindful recognition of having reached your goal. Two ironies ride the back of satisfaction: one, it does not last; and two, it is strongest when we want less, not more.
Purpose, the third ingredient of happiness, can be morphic yet defined at any given time by answering these two questions:
why am I alive? and for what would I be willing to die?
Simple yet insidiously avoided by most of us, these questions take you into areas of your being and life with which you are unfamiliar. More than a nonchalant glance of what currently occupies life opens unexpected gifts.
Finally, decide to be grateful. Every Sunday evening list five things you will be grateful for the entire upcoming week. Review your list nightly. Update your gratitude list every Sunday evening. Your attitude, humility, power, and connection to others will improve.
Master Mala Daggett’s 27 years of qi cleansing and weaving energetic health culminate into her passion to help people rediscover their true human capacity for power, strength, and joy. For more information, email daggettmala@gmail.com, IG: @qi_master_daggett, or call 501.626.2720.
