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1. The purpose of life is happiness. 2. Happiness is determined more by the state of one’s mind than by one’s external conditions, circumstances, or events—at least once one’s basic survival needs are met. 3. Happiness can be achieved through the systematic training of our hearts and minds, through reshaping our attitudes and outlook. 4. The key to happiness is in our own hands.
The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living was a groundbreaking collaboration between H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama, and Howard C. Cutler, M.D., a Phoenix-based psychiatrist.
Happiness is determined more by the state of one’s mind than by one’s external conditions, circumstances, or events—at least once one’s basic survival needs are met.
The Art of Happiness Workshops, offered in cities throughout the US by Dr. Cutler, a Board Certified psychiatrist, are based largely on The Art of Happinessbooks, but supplemented with additional techniques and exercises drawn from recent developments in the science of human happiness, and the emerging field of Positive Psychology.
Every day after that, they were joined by a few more of the housekeeping staff at the designated time and place, until by the end of the week there were dozens of maids in their crisp gray-and-white uniforms forming a receiving line that stretched along the length of the path that led to the elevators.
Happy people, in contrast, are generally found to be more sociable, flexible, and creative and are able to tolerate life's daily frustrations more easily than unhappy people.
The investigators discovered that the subjects who were feeling happy were more likely to help someone or to lend money than another "control group" of individuals who were presented with the same opportunity to help but whose mood had not been boosted ahead of time.