5 powerful keys to happiness

Tell Ben Shehar
Author and lecturer, he taught Harvard University’s most popular course on “Positive Psychology.” Specializes in issues of leadership, happiness, self-esteem, resilience, goal setting and awareness. His most recent book is Shortcuts to Happiness: Life-Changing Lessons from My Barber. He is the co-founder and director of learning for the Happiness Studies Academy (HSA), Potentialife, Maytiv, and Happier.TV.
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Happiness is the best investment we can make and in her research we can break it down into 5 components to make it happen.

In other words, there are 5 essential elements in the perception of happiness that we all must work on and cultivate, and today Tel Ben Shahar will tell us how to achieve it. How to open these five doors that make up universal well-being for anyone.

The Five Powerful Keys to Happiness
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Physically well (Physically well – good).
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emotional well-beingemotional wellness).

How do you work on spiritual well-being
Find purpose, meaning, meaning and value for whatever activity we start in our lives with, whether it be work, studies or projects. Aligning our actions with our purpose is a way to experience spirituality and also a source of motivation and therefore satisfaction and well-being.

Develop our ability to be present, to live out any situation in our life with full attention or alertness. This allows us to meditate on the miracle of life in every moment, and it is a way to experience spirituality.

How does physical well-being work
Be aware of the mind-body connection and how our thoughts influence and define what our body shows. Our physical wellness largely depends on our mental health.

Follow the dictates of our nature which tells us, for example, that we are beings programmed to move. This means that a sedentary lifestyle would be a way of “being in the world” that does not fit our nature as human beings. The same can be applied to food, consuming natural products instead of processed ones, resting and sleeping well at night are behaviors that respond to the dictates of our nature and will therefore contribute to our physical well-being.

There are three types of rest that must be done constantly:
microscopic: They consist of taking breaks of minutes or hours, such as walking, going to the gym, or dancing.
Miso: She rests overnight or even takes a few days off.
precise: A clear example is vacations, whether they last for weeks or even months.

How do you work on intellectual well-being
Cultivate your curiosity, be open to learning: There is a lot of research that has shown how maintaining an eternal learner’s attitude towards life contributes a lot to our well-being.

Look for Deep Learning: This method of cultivating intellectual well-being is particularly relevant to the culture of immediacy in which we live and which leads us to commit and participate in learning, many times in a superficial way. The fact that we don’t get used to training those neural connections that are involved in deep learning and we don’t commit ourselves deeply, has a relevance in other contexts of our lives such as social relationships. For example, the fact that many relationships fail is due to this lack of ability to engage, excite, and learn deeply.

How does it work on relational wellbeing
Spending physical time with the people we love and who love us: We must see the possibilities that technology offers us as a tool, but not as a substitute for face-to-face interactions. Also, it is widely known that the happiest people are those who spend more time in the company of other people, family or friends. Therefore, the development of these relationships is a sure source of well-being and happiness.

Refine Your Relationship With Ourselves: The Golden Rule: “Love others as yourself.” Implicit love of others is self-love, which is also necessary for work and the path to happiness is as interesting as others.

How it works on emotional well-being
At this point, it is necessary to understand that humans are designed to feel a wide range of emotions, not just pleasurable ones. Therefore, working on emotional well-being means:

Allowing ourselves to feel the full range of human emotions, from the most pleasant to the least pleasant. Happiness does not consist in never feeling any unpleasant emotion, but rather in learning to keep whatever we feel, whether it is pleasant or unpleasant.

This is not to say that we do not know that pleasurable emotions contribute to our well-being: that is why another way to work in this aspect is to seek or bring these positive emotions into our lives by expressing gratitude or showing empathy or kindness.

conclusion
These five dimensions form a roadmap to happiness. We can apply it personally but also at the educational level in schools or in the workplace in companies and organizations. These 5 dimensions are actually 5 different ways to reach happiness indirectly.