1. Journey to Happiness & Peace
Dr Sudhir Shah
MD DM Neurology
Your Well Wisher...
2nd June 2013

2. If you want to be
HAPPY,
THEN
BE…

3. There is no better time to be happy than…
Happiness is a Journey,
not a destination
There is no better time to be happy than…
NOW!
So be Happy Now…

4. Purpose of life Everybody wants to live
Everyone wants to be happy ( nobody wants unhappiness )
Everyone wants peace ( nobody wants otherwise )
Ultimate purpose of life is to enjoy and live happily and make others happy…

5. Disclaimer Nobody is perfect and all of us are students
Easy to Preach, but not very difficult to Practice
Happiness is not really hypothetical
Definition of Happiness varies from person to person
Also it is dynamic in the same person usually
It is journey rather than destination
But it is the dialogue we have to initiate now...

6. Plan of my talk Defining Happiness Psychology of Happiness
Neuroscience of Happiness
Measuring Happiness
How to be Happy
Philosophical and Spiritual perspective

7. Happiness Defined
Aristotle put it, “Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and the end of human existence”!

8. Happiness Redefined
Happiness is: A pleasant feeling A positive evaluation or judgment A favorable explanation after the fact An optimistic expectation A sense of inner peace A sense of connectedness A spiritual experience

9. Psychology and Evolutionary History
The Triune Brain

10. But to Cope with Urgent Needs, We Leave Home . . .
Avoid: When we feel threatened or harmed
Leads to Anxiety disorders; PTSD; panic, terror;
rage; violence → leads to insecurity & pessimism
Approach: When we can’t attain important goals
Leads to Addiction; over-drinking, -eating, -gambling; compulsion; hoarding; driving for goals at great cost→ Frustration & disappointment
Attach: When we feel isolated, disconnected, unseen, unappreciated, unloved
Leads to Borderline, narcissistic, antisocial PD;
symbiosis; folie a deux; “looking for love in all the
wrong places” → Rejection, unloved
This is the brain in its reactive mode of functioning
- a kind of inner homelessness

11. Three Levels of Happiness
Three levels of happiness : pleasure, joy and bliss
All people fall into one of three groups... those who are spiritually awake, those who are asleep and those who are somewhere in the middle.
Your own personal definition of happiness will depend on which of these groups you belong to

12. Pleasure For those who are largely asleep
Happiness is sought from outer world and is characterized by pleasure
Sensual, instinctual and physiological
Always perpetual and demand for more and more. Leads to inevitable pain
ANIMAL INSTINCT

13. Where they find pleasure
Food
Sex
Places
Listening Music
Fragrance
But does happiness reside here?

14. What does it do for you?

15. fMRI during visual imagery

17. Physical Pleasure and the Ventral Striatum
When people experience physical pleasure, the
ventral striatum is activated (George, 1995)

18. Chemicals of Pleasure

19. you’re positive, confident, flexible, and easy going
NORMAL
DEFICIENT
SEROTONIN
you’re positive, confident, flexible, and easy going
Become negative, obsessive, worried irritable, and sleepless
CATECHOLAMINE
you’re energized, upbeat, and alert
you can sink into a flat, lethargic mood
DOPAMINE
You’re more talkative and excitable. It affects brain processes ability to experience pleasure and pain
Have depression, chronic boredom, loss of satisfaction, chronic fatigue, mood swings and poor attention

20. Joy JOY is HUMAN Begin to feel happy for no particular reason
Comes from inner world (self)
More psychological
Refined Desires
Through service to mankind, success, achievements & spiritual practices like prayer, chanting , religious reading and satsang
JOY is HUMAN JO

21. Achievement

22. Engagement

23. Meaning

24. Spiritual practices

25. Abstract perception of joy

26. Neural circuitry of Joy

27. Chemicals of Joy Good social recognition, calm and relaxed mood,
NORMAL
DEFICIENCY
OXYTOCIN
Good social
recognition, calm and relaxed mood,
ego faculty
Become negative, depressed , socially withdrawn , anxious
VASOPRESSIN
Recognition, Prompt responsive , attentive for stressful situations
Socially withdrawn, feel overwhelmed in stressful situations

28. Bliss The highest state Here mind and all its activity ceases
Our consciousness becomes identified with universal consciousness
Experience of just being
Permanent meditative state
Fully awake
PIOUS PERSONS

29. Inner Peace
Inner Peace refers to a state of being “mentally” and “spiritually” at peace, with enough knowledge and understanding to keep oneself strong in the face of discord or stress.
Peace of mind is generally associated with happiness, bliss and contentment

30. Mindfulness Practice
Observing the body and mind intentionally Letting experiences unfold from moment to moment and accepting them as they are
Observing thoughts without getting caught up in them. No effort to control anything except the focus and direction of the attention. Not a passive process, yet does not involve trying to get anywhere
Eating meditation, sitting meditation, working meditation and meditation during each act is the goal of mindfulness practice

31. Meditation All methods are great Kayotsarga Patanjal Dhyana Tratak
Suryasamyam
Adarshdhyana (mirror)
Swaminarayan Dhyana
Arup Dhyana
Purnayoga Dhyana
Atit Dhyana (past)
Bhavidhyana (future)
Sarpalanchan Dhyana
Samarpana Dhyana
Tathata
Hoo-Dhyana (Dynamic Meditation)
Sahaj Dhyana
Your own system
Patanjal Dhyana
Anapan Sati
Smriti Upasthan
Vipashyana
Preksha Dhyana
Jain Dhyana
Spand Dhyana
Mantra Dhyana
Nabhi Dhyana
Swapna Dhyana
Nidra Dhyana
Yoga nidra, Nyas
Kriya Yoga
Mrutyu Dhyana
T.S Meditation
Kundalini
All methods are great

32. Vipashyana Operation of the mind, by the mind Calm and quiet mind
Awake and attentive mind
Equanimous mind

33. symbolic representation of the self

34. Neural Circuits of Meditation

35. Endorphins

36. Arcuate Nucleus of Hypothalamus+
Glutamate
Prefrontal cortex
Arcuate Nucleus of Hypothalamus
Activation by Meditation +
Endorphins +
Experience of Well being

38. GABA Experience of just being + + - + Glutamate
Reticular nucleus of Thalamus
Prefrontal cortex
Activation by Meditation +
GABA - +
Experience of just being
Inhibition of Superior
Parietal lobe

39. The process of meditation apparently increases activation in the prefrontal cortex and stimulates the reticular nucleus of the thalamus, leading to release of inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA. GABA have a central role in cortical inhibition and Cortical Silent Period, modulating cortical excitability and neural plasticity

40. Blissful chemicals
NORMAL
DEFICIENT
ENDORPHINS
you’re full of cozy feelings of comfort, pleasure, and euphoria.
you may be crying during commercials and overly sensitive to hurt.
GABA
you’re relaxed and stress-free.
you’ll be wired, stressed, and overwhelmed

41. So, in conclusion Pleasure is dependent on others, joy less so and bliss is completely independent of anything
Pleasure is animal, joy is human and bliss is next to Divine

42. Three levels of Happiness
BLISS
Being part of something
bigger than yourself
GABA, Endorphins
Happiness
JOY
Happiness within
Oxytocin, Vasopressin, Dopamine
PLEASURE
Worldly things
Serotonin, Dopamine , Catachoalmines
Time and knowledge

43. Instruments Used in the Study of the Brain and Happiness
Can we really measure happiness, and how?
Who would know better than
Neurologists and psychologists?

44. Neuropsychological testing (three level questions )
How are you feeling right now (from 1 to 7)?
Introspection
All things considered, how happy are you these days (from 1 to 7)?
Introspection, comparative judgement
On the whole, how good do you think your life is (from 1 to 7)?
Introspection, comparative judgement, relative to conception of ‘the good life’

45. Happiness ‘Continuum’
Level 2
Judgements about feelings
Net level 1 happiness
Well-being
satisfaction
Level 3
Holistic evaluation of value of life
Flourishing
Needn’t include pleasures
Level 1
Momentary feelings
Mood
Pleasures
Not suffering
More emotional, sensual, and reliable
More cognitive, moral, and easily biased

46. Electroencephalogram (EEG)

47. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) uses changes in electrically charged molecules when they are place in a magnetic field to assess differences in cerebral activity in different regions of the brain

48. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) tracks the brain’s blood flow and oxygen use -two measures of neuron activity
fMRI is useful to find out emotional processing in particular areas of brain

49. Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans are good for showing the many brain structures that may be involved in a functions like pleasure and help to examine the processing of neurotransmitters

50. The Brain and Happiness
Different components of happiness are found in different areas of the brain. That is, happiness does not seem to have a clearly defined neurobiological home

51. Happiness and the Pre-frontal Cortex
Laughter responses are generated in the prefrontal cortex. (George, 1995)
Pleasant film clips, pleasant tastes, &cash incentives increase left pre-frontal cortex activity
Unpleasant film clips, unpleasant tastes, and a threat of cash loss raise activity in the right pre-frontal cortex

52. Happiness, the Rostral Anterior Cingulate Cortex and the Amygdala
When people think about good events the rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC) and the amygdala are activated. However, the correlation with optimism was biggest with the cingulate cortex (Phelps & Sharot, 2007)

53. Happiness and the Temporal and Parietal Lobes
When people feel happy, the characteristic pattern shows a decrease of activity in the brain that are committed to forethought and planning—the temporal and parietal lobe
(George, 1995)

54. Who is more Happy?
Young, middle-aged, or old? Married or Single? Men or Women? Spirituality? Rich vs. Poor?

55. Geography of Happiness
Green = Happiest > Blue > Purple > Orange > Red = Least Happy; Grey = Data not available

56. AGE-WISE: % “Satisfied” or “Very Satisfied” with Life as a Whole
Percent
100
Age group 80 60 40 20
15- 24
25- 34
35- 44
45- 54
55- 64
65+
AGE-WISE: % “Satisfied” or “Very Satisfied” with Life as a Whole

57. Gender and Well-Being in Sixteen Nations
Percent
100
Males 80
Females 60 40 20
Satisfied
Very happy
Pooled data from 169,776 interviews.
Gender and Well-Being in Sixteen Nations

58. Married
Never married
Separated
Divorced

59. Spirituality and Happiness
Percent “very happy”
Spiritual commitment
100 80 60 40 20
Low
High
Spirituality and Happiness

60. 65 % Very Happy and Felt Closeness to God (n = 9896, NORC, 1983-1991)

61. Money and happiness Money produces short-term benefits;
More money will not raise well-being

62. Does money buy Happiness?

64. Money and happiness
Money can bring security as well as comfort & pleasure
It can bring improved standard of living and education
But
Money corrupts , success corrupts
They take away morality, relationships, health, bliss and peace

65. Understanding happiness
Happiness is not something that happens, that money or power can command
It is only by controlling our inner experience that we can become happy
Happiness cannot be reached by consciously searching for it

66. Road to Joy, Bliss and Peace Road to Success
Godhoodness
Spirituality
Philosophy
Morality
Religion
Money
Fame
Achievements
Awards
Possessions

67. What do you remember? Applause dies away! Trophies gather dust!
Winners are soon forgotten
But you remember ,the ones who take care of you & appreciate you

68. “PHYSICIAN
HEAL
THYSELF”

69. Why Doctors are not happy
Professional carrier
Teaching
Academics
Research
Administration
Family life
Children issues
Interpersonal relationships
Competition
Negative emotions like ego jealousy
Money , fame
Time management
Traffic , mobile
Staff management
Misunderstandings
Legal issues
Paper work
Demanding patients
Caregivers stress
Physical and Mental
HEALTH

70. Determinants of Happiness

71. Gene therapy VMAT : Vesicular Mono Amine Transporter gene
on chromosome 10q25
Produces the sensations of mystic experiences, including the presence of God  and spirituality as a state of mind 
MAOA :
Monoamine oxidase A on X chromosome
Low-expression is associated with higher self-reported happiness in women

72. Determinants of Happiness

73. To control your circumstances
Reduce your commitments
Reduce your interactions with persons
sanjog mula jiven pattaa dukha parmpara...
The more you have contacts with persons and situations, the more will be your unhappiness
( cascade of problems )
Lord Mahavir

74. How to enjoy journey of life ? Key to Happiness
Physical
Moral
Mental
Religious
Spiritual

75. Happiness And Peace : A Physical perspective
pahelu sukh te jate narya
Eat right
Exercise
Get enough sleep
Good excretory functions (biju sukh?!)
Learn to relax
Laugh exhaustingly
Love abundantly

76. GET ENOUGH SLEEP

77. Nix Coffee?

78. WALKING

79. RESISTANCE TRAINING

80. VENTING

81. Massage

82. YOGA

83. Laugh frequently Laugh frequently At yourself and not others
Laugh from the core of your spirit not in artificial ways
Learn to laugh out in all mistakes and bad situations

84. Smile!
Smiling is the main way to tell if someone’s happy… but only if they are real smiles
Smile solves many problems

85. Silence avoids so many problems

86. Love abundantly

87. The Rewards of Love

88. Helping Others

89. Exercise, Food & Mood (Happy Chemicals)
Dopamine
Serotonin
Oxytocin
Endorphin
Five Ways to Boost Your Natural Happy Chemicals
You can trigger more happy chemicals naturally. Here's how.
Published on December 8, 2012 by Loretta Graziano Breuning, Ph.D. in Your Neurochemical Self
You can stimulate more happy chemicals with fewer side effects when you understand the job your happy chemicals evolved to do. Here's a natural way to stimulate each, and to avoid unhappy chemicals.
 #1 Dopamine (Embrace a new goal) Approaching a reward triggers dopamine. When a lion approaches a gazelle, her dopamine surges and the energy she needs for the hunt is released. Your ancestors released dopamine when they found a water hole. The good feeling surged before they actually sipped the water. Just seeing signs of a water-hole turned on the dopamine. Just smelling a gazelle turns on dopamine. The expectation of a reward triggers a good feeling in the mammal brain, and releases the energy you need to reach the reward.
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Dopamine alerts your attention to things that meet your needs. How you define your needs depends on your unique life experience. Each time dopamine flowed in your youth, it connected neurons in your brain. Now you’re wired you to meet your needs in ways that felt good in your past.
Dopamine motivates you to seek, whether you’re seeking a medical degree or a parking spot near the donut shop. Dopamine motivates persistence in the pursuit of things that meet your needs, whether it’s a bar that’s open late, the next level in a video game, or a way to feed children. You can stimulate the good feeling of dopamine without behaviors that hurt your best interests. Embrace a new goal and take small steps toward it every day. Your brain will reward you with dopamine each time you take a step. The repetition will build a new dopamine pathway until it’s big enough to compete with the dopamine habit that you’re better off without.
#2 Serotonin (Believe in yourself) Confidence triggers serotonin. Monkeys try to one-up each other because it stimulates their serotonin. People often do the same. This brain we’ve inherited rewards social dominance because that promotes your genes in the state of nature. As much as you may dislike this, you enjoy the good feeling of serotonin when you feel respected by others. Your brain seeks more of that feeling by repeating behaviors that triggered it in your past. The respect you got in your youth paved neural pathways that tell your brain how to get respect today. Sometimes people seek it in ways that undermine their long-term well-being. The solution is not to dismiss your natural urge for status, because you need the serotonin. Instead, you can develop your belief in your own worth. People are probably respecting you behind your back right now. Focus on that instead of scanning for disrespect. Everyone has wins and losses. If you focus on your losses you will depress your serotonin, even if you’re a rock star or a CEO. You can build the habit of focusing on your wins. You may think it’s cocky or risky or lame, but your serotonin will suffer if you don’t.
#3 Oxytocin (Build trust consciously) Trust triggers oxytocin. Mammals stick with a herd because they inherited a brain that releases oxytocin when they do. Reptiles cannot stand the company of other reptiles, so it’s not surprising that they only release oxytocin duringsex. Social bonds help mammals protect their young from predators, and natural selection built a brain that rewards us with a good feeling when we strengthen those bonds. Sometimes your trust is betrayed. Trusting someone who is not trustworthy is bad for your survival. Your brain releases unhappy chemicals when your trust is betrayed. That paves neural pathways which tell you when to withhold trust in the future. But if you withhold trust all the time, you deprive yourself of oxytocin. You can stimulate it by building trust consciously. Create realistic expectations that both parties can meet. Each time your expectations are met, your brain rewards you with a good feeling. Continual small steps will build your oxytocin circuits. Trust, verify, and repeat. You will grow to trust yourself as well as others.
#4 Endorphin (Make time to stretch and laugh) Pain causes endorphin. That’s not what you expect when you hear about the “endorphin high.” But runners don’t get that high unless they push past their limits to the point of distress. Endorphin causes a brief euphoria that masks pain. In the state of nature, it helps an injured animal escape from a predator. It helped our ancestors run for help when injured. Endorphin evolved for survival, not for partying. If you were high on endorphin all the time, you would touch hot stoves and walk on broken legs. Endorphin was meant for emergencies. Inflicting harm on yourself to stimulate endorphin is a bad survival strategy. Fortunately, there are better ways: laughing and stretching. Both of these jiggle your innards in irregular ways, causing moderate wear and tear and moderate endorphin flow. This strategy has its limits. A genuine laugh cannot be produced on demand. A genuine stretch requires a little skill. But when you believe in the power of laughing and stretching, you create opportunities to trigger your endorphin in these ways.
#5 Cortisol (Survive, then thrive) Cortisol feels bad. It alerts animals to urgent survival threats. Our big brain alerts us to subtle threats as well as urgent ones. The bad feeling of cortisol will always be part of life because your survival is threatened as long as you’re alive. Cortisol especially grabs your attention when it’s not being masked by happy chemicals. You might have a sudden bad feeling when your happy chemicals dip, even though there’s no predator at your door. If you can’t get comfortable with that, you might rush to mask it with any happy-chemical stimulant you’re familiar with. Your well-being will suffer. You will lose the information the cortisol is trying to give you, and your happy habit will have side effects. More cortisol will flow, thus increasing the temptation to over-stimulate your happy chemicals. This vicious cycle can be avoided if you learn to accept the bad feeling you get when a happy chemical surge is over. It doesn’t mean something is wrong. Cortisol is part of your mammalian steering mechanism, which motivates an organism to approach rewards and avoid threats. You need unhappy chemicals to warn you of potential harm as much as you need happy chemicals to alert you to potential rewards. If you learn to accept your cortisol, you will be free from the rush to mask it in ways that don’t serve you. You will make better decisions and end up with more happy chemicals.
Building New Happy Habits Your brain got wired from past experience. Each time your neurochemicals surged, your neurons built connections. Experience wired you to turn on your brain chemicals in the ways they turned on in the past.
When you're young, your neurons build new connections easily. After eighteen, it's not easy to build new circuits to turn on in new ways. It takes a lot of repetition. So pick a new happy habit and start repeating it. Over time, your new happy habits will feel as natural as your old ones, and you won't have the unfortunate side effects.
Lots more on rewiring your happy chemical circuits in my new book, Meet Your Happy Chemicals.
Exercise, Food & Mood (Happy Chemicals)

90. Dopamine
The omega-3 fatty acids are proven to create dopamine. Kauncha like seeds also.
Useful sources of building blocks for dopamine:
Apples
Beet
Cucumber
Green leafy vegetables
Honey
Cheese
Sweet peppers
Watermelon

91. Serotonin
To create serotonin eat low sugar carbohydrates such as fruits and vegetables
Bananas are especially powerful serotonin inducers and bring on an immediate calming effect because of the complex B vitamins they have
Try some light stretching or breathing exercises along with some soothing music to complete the mood.

92. Oxytocin
Eating comfort foods: Eating your favorite food such as chocolate, ice-cream or any meal that you really enjoy will release oxytocin

93. How Chocolate Could Influence Brain and Behavior

94. Endorphin
Complex carbs like pasta, breads, and foods with natural glucose, like grapes make the perfect mixture for creating endorphins
Eating spicy food like hot chili pepper
A routine of aerobic activity: brisk walking, biking, or swimming or massage

95. Medical management
If happiness has a biological cause in the brain, then we will be able to influence it with drugs, surgery, bionics etc… but should we?
If our brains show equal ‘happiness activity’, then are we equally happy? How can we know this?

96. Psychological counselling

97. Mood elevators

98. Future of Happiness

99. The God Gene

100. Building on Strengths Key to Engagement and Meaning
Gratification and satisfaction

101. Six Virtues for Gratification
From the great philosophies and religions of the world:
wisdom and knowledge
courage
love and humanity
justice
temperance
spirituality and transcendence

102. Six Areas of Strength Wisdom & Knowledge Temperance Transcendence
Leadership ,Justice
Wisdom & Knowledge
Courage, firmness
Love, warmth

103. KNOWLEDGE & WISDOM
1. Creativity
2. Curiosity
3. Love of learning
4. Wisdom / perspective
5. Open-mindedness
LEADERSHIP & JUSTICE
13. Citizenship
14. Fairness
15. Leadership
TEMPERANCE
16. Forgiveness / mercy
17. Modesty / humility
18. Prudence
19. Self-regulation
COURAGE & FIRMNESS
6. Bravery
7. Persistence
8. Integrity
9. Vitality
TRANSCENDENCE / SPIRITUAL
20. Appreciation of excellence and beauty
21. Gratitude
22. Hope
23. Humor
24 Spirituality
HUMANITY & LOVE
10. Give & receive love
11. Kindness
12. Social intelligence

104. Dr. Andrea Dinardo, C. Psych.
3 “C’s” of Happiness
Control
Commitment
Challenge

105. Openness Expanding *Challenge* To New Experiences Social Support
Network

106. Self Awareness and Reflection *Commitment*

107. Self Discipline
and
Self
*Control*

108. Happiness and friendship
A person doesn’t need a large number of friends to be happy – he needs one the best friend

109. Learning from Children
Spend time with children. Learn more about laughter, spontaneity, curiosity, acceptance, resilience, trust, determination, and your imagination
They are here to teach us!

110. Happiness for children
By giving them
Your Time
Education and knowledge
Culture and attitude
Wisdom and art

111. How to enjoy journey of life ? Key to Happiness
Physical
Moral
Mental
Religious
Philosophical
Spiritual

112. Happiness : religious, philosophical and spiritual key

113. Address of Happiness
At some stage you realize that peace and happiness are not outside
The root cause of miseries : thoughts, desires, emotions , ego, attitude , mind wondering between past & future, raga and dwesha ( anger, greed, deceit and passion) …etc all functions of mind

114. Thoughts... We are what we think
All that we are arises with our thoughts
With our thoughts we make the world
Speak or act with an impure mind and trouble will follow you, as the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded

115. Attitude
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference

116. Attitude
“ The Longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company…….. a church…. a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We can not change our past..... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is to play on the only string we have, and that is our attitude……. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you….. We are in charge of our Attitudes ”.
- Charles Swindoll

117. Forgiveness REACH (Everett Worthington) Use wisdom and discretion:
Recall the hurt
Empathize with the perpetrator
Altruistic gift of forgiveness
Certify you forgive
Hold on to the forgiveness
Use wisdom and discretion:
Typically you do NOT tell the perpetrator that you have forgiven him/her
GHALIB…..hum ne jindgi ko aasan kar diya…..

118. Interpersonal relationships
1. Altruism & Friendship ( Maitri) 2. Appreciation & Respect ( Pramod ) 3. Equanimity & Guidance ( Madhyastha ) 4. Forgiveness, Compassion & Prayers (Karunya )

119. Acceptance
“ God grant me the courage to change the things I can, the serenity to accept the things I cannot, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
Cultivating an attitude of non-judgment Acceptance is not resignation
It is a realization and appreciation of the inherent imperfections of life

120. Buddhism on Happiness
There is no fire like desire. There is no weakness like anger. There is no suffering like the khandhas. There is no happiness greater than peace (Dhammapada, 202 & 208)

121. Mathematics of happiness
Happiness = 2 x happiness 2
Happiness = Objects
Desires
Total units of Happiness remains same

122. Ambitions Where Ambitions end, Happiness begins
Amount of balance in the bank at the time of your death is the extra work that you have done, which you should not have done

123. ichao rahi jaya Ane swas KhutiI jaya tene Mrutyu kahevay,
ichao pauri thai jaya Ane swas rahi jaya tene Moksha kahevay.

124. Vaishnavajan Eyes : compassion and satisfaction
and not reflecting greed or jealousy ( lobha )
Words : forgiveness , appreciation and care
and not anger or criticism ( krodha)
Mind : equanimous and fair
and not having raga (attachment) or dwesha(disliking )
Emotions : calm and passionless
and not having perversions or aspirations ( kama )
Nature : gentle , humble and reliable
and not fraudulent or hippocrate ( maya )
Behaviour : Loveful and kind
and not hatred or discard

125. Religion Opens Doors of Happiness
Religion confers upon man eternal life and guides his footsteps in the world of morality
It opens the doors of unending happiness and bestows everlasting honor upon the human kingdom
It has been the basis of all civilization and progress in the history of mankind

126. Ethics

127. Spiritual reading
Philosophy of Karma

128. Satsang

129. Chanting

130. Prayer : four steps...

131. Comparison of Baseline to Prayer :
Limbic inhibition
Baseline Scan
Prayer Scan
LIMBIC
LIMBIC

132. Lead to eternal happiness
Ratnatrayi
Righteous knowledge
Righteous perspective
Righteous conduct
Lead to eternal happiness

133. PATANJAL RAJ YOGA Yama : Nonviolence, truth, non-stealing
celibacy and aparigriha
(Non-collectiveness)
Niyama : Purity, Penance (Austerity)
Satisfaction
Spiritual learning
Worship & dedication
Asana :
Pranayama :
Pratyaahar :
Dharna :
Dhyana :
Samadhi :

134. T.S.MEDITATION

135. SPECT Images at Baseline and During Meditation
Prefrontal Cortex
Prefrontal Cortex
Meditation
Baseline

136. SPECT Images at Baseline and
During Meditation
Meditation
Baseline
Superior
Parietal Lobe
Superior
Parietal Lobe

137. Christian Nuns, Recalling Profound Spiritual Experiences
Beauregard, et al., Neuroscience Letters, 9/25/06

138. Lazar, et al
Meditation
experience is
associated
with increased
cortical thickness.
Neuroreport, 16,

139. Set Peace of mind and Happiness, your highest goal and organize your life around it
Ask yourself before each thought, action and speech… whether this will bring happiness and peace

140. 12 Secrets of Happiness
Accept What You Have : NOBODY GETS MORE OR BEFORE
Enjoy What You Do and without expectations
Live For Today and in this present moment
Choose Happiness
Improve Relationships… Always appreciate, never criticize
Don't Compare, but Be Yourself
Preserve health and monitor it
Stop Worrying : THIS WILL ALSO GO AWAY
Get Organized and financial management
Think Positive
Moral values : DO ONLY THOSE THINGS TO OTHERS, WHICH…
Spiritual practices
12 secrets of being happy: Using research from 100 world experts, a new book shows how to look on the bright side
By LINDA KELSEY Every time I saw my father in the couple of years before he died, he would say: ‘Tell me Linda, are you happy?’ 
I think he knew he was coming to the end of his life and wanted to reassure himself of my well-being. 
Maybe it would have been kinder to reply: ‘Yes, Dad, I’m happy.’ But my relationship had come to an end after more than 20 years and the future looked bleak. 
Value happiness: Happiness can be learned, but finding meaning and a purpose in life is what leads to it, not the other way around
I found myself saying: ‘Right now, no, but I will be again, I’m pretty sure of that. And you’re not to worry. No one can expect to be happy all the time.’ And yet it seems the pursuit of happiness has become a national preoccupation. 
Eminent economists, politicians and psychologists debate endlessly about the best way to create a happy society, while David Cameron’s ‘happiness index’ aims to pin down just how content we are. 
Plenty of woolly self-help books exist which promise to unlock the secret of happiness. Just last week, the Institute of Economic Affairs concluded rather prosaically that money had a large part to play. 
But I’ve found, when my life isn’t going to plan, there are plenty of simple things that help — for starters, my friends, my son and my dog. Then there’s walking in the countryside, getting lost in a good book, learning something new, still being a size 10 as I approach 60, a new recipe that turns out well. The list is endless.
But a new book tries to probe deeper. In it, you won’t find spiritual philosophy, but evidence-based material that aims to unlock the secrets of happy people. In the World Book Of Happiness, Leo Bormans has drawn together the research and discoveries of the world’s leading experts on the psychology of happiness. Researchers have questioned thousands of people and what he has discovered is as surprising as it is inspiring.
ACCEPT WHAT YOU HAVE
Research shows that happy people have modest levels of expectation and aspirations — they want what they can get — while unhappy people never seem to get what they want. They also know how to avoid disappointments and how to generate pleasant surprises. This is because they strive for realistic goals and are happy with their lot. As Dr Jose de Jesus Garcia Vega, of the University of Monterrey, Mexico, confirms, we must accept things as they come. 
‘We spend a lot of time complaining about the things that happen to us, but this is a waste of time and effort,’ he says. ‘To be happy, we need to enjoy what we have.’
ENJOY WHAT YOU DO
Happy people do what they enjoy and enjoy what they do — and don’t do it for the money  or glory. There’s no point being stuck in a job you hate, surrounded by unfriendly colleagues just because the money is good — people forget that they are allowed to be happy at work, too. Many spend the best years of their lives trying to make money, sacrificing their health and family in the process, says Dr Garcia Vega. Later, they spend the same money they made working trying to recover their lost health and estranged family. 
LIVE FOR TODAY
Don’t dwell on the past, on things that went wrong or previous failures. Similarly, don’t dream about an idealised future that doesn’t exist or worry about what hasn’t happened yet. Happy people live for the now; they have positive mind sets. If you can’t be happy today, what makes you think tomorrow will be different?
CHOOSE HAPPINESS
Don’t be afraid to step back and re-evaluate your goals. Imagine your life as a story that you can edit and revise as you  go along. This kind of flexible approach requires positive thinking and an open mind — you need to actively choose to be happy.
NICELAND Iceland has the happiestpopulation, while Britain came ninth in a world survey
‘You always have the freedom to choose the manner in which you wish to approach any given situation,’ says Dr Garcia Vega.This theory is backed up by Ingrida Geciene of Vilnius University, Lithuania, who researched the happiness of people in 31 European countries. 
She found that ‘voluntarists’ (people who feel they have free choice and complete control over their life) were happier than fatalists (people who think little can be changed by personal intervention).  Luckily for us, Northern European countries contain more voluntarists while Latin European countries such as Spain and Italy have a higher percentage of fatalists.  
RELATIONSHIPS
We get our happiness from other people, and from supporting other people. Remember that just as other people can make us happy, we are all ‘other people’ to someone else. And cherish people who are important to you. Research also shows that married people are happier than single people.
STAY BUSY
If you want to be happier, develop an outgoing, social personality — accept that drinks invitation, join the walking club, book group or choir. The best way to savour pleasure is in the company of others. Build a rich social life, says Eunkook M. Suh, a psychology professor at Yonsei University in Seoul, not as an obligation, but because it is rewarding, meaningful and fun.
Active, busy, social people are the healthiest and happiest, in society. Get involved: make your motto ‘use it or lose it.’ 
In the World Book Of Happiness, Leo Bormans has drawn together research from the world's leading experts on the psychology of happiness
DON'T COMPARE
Ambition is healthy and makes people happy, explains Claudia Senik, a professor  at the University of  Paris-Sorbonne, but envy makes them unhappy. Yet comparisons with others can spoil the benefits of ambition and are only useful if you learn something from them. Focus on your goals and dreams  so you can enjoy  your ambition and achievements.
BE YOURSELF
Just as you shouldn’t compare yourself with others, it’s important not to worry about what others think about you — then you can truly be yourself.  Happy people are spontaneous, natural and real; they  say what they think and  feel, and aren’t concerned what others think of them. Being oneself makes one feel free  and authentic.
STOP WORRYING
Don’t take yourself too seriously. Happy people don’t worry  and they recognise that 90 per cent of worries never come true.
GET ORGANISED
You might envy those laid-back bohemian types who just do things on the spur of the moment, but don’t be fooled. Happy people plan and organise, they have goals and a purpose. You can only get what you want or desire if you know what it is you want or desire in the first place. So while those chilled-out friends might seem happy, they’re actually just drifting along. 
THINK POSITIVE
Bottling up emotions and bad feelings creates psychological distress and physical discomfort. Happy people get things off their chest, their motto is: get rid of it, or it will get rid of you. Similarly, work at developing optimistic thinking; happy people always look on the  bright side. 
Successful athletes know to focus on winning, not losing, explains Miriam Akhtar, one of the first positive psychologists in the UK. We need to switch from a negative, glass-half-empty outlook to a glass-half-full and put optimism into practice to be happiest. Optimism is the mind’s natural self-defence mechanism against depression.
VALUE HAPPINESS
Happiness can be learned, but finding meaning and a purpose in life is what leads to it, not the other way around. The happiest people appreciate and realise that being happy adds years to their life, and life to their years

141. Address of Happiness
1, Spiritual mansion , Meditation hall , Self realization lane, Philosophy society, Charity chowk, Morality area , PIN : Religion station

142. Happiness is inside you

143. So Remember...
Its not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere
The road to success is different from highway to peace, bliss and longevity

144. If you want to be
HAPPY,
THEN
BE…

145. Do you want to be
HAPPY,
THEN
JUST
BE…

146. Great Books
Holy vedas, jain aagam, tripitak, patanjal yog sutra, sukh sadhak vidya
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Begley. S Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain. Ballantine.
Carter, C Raising Happiness. Ballantine.
Hanson, R. (with R. Mendius) Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom. New Harbinger.
Johnson, S Mind Wide Open. Scribner.
Keltner, D Born to Be Good. Norton.
Kornfield, J The Wise Heart. Bantam.
LeDoux, J Synaptic Self. Penguin.
Linden, D The Accidental Mind. Belknap.
Sapolsky, R Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers. Holt.
Siegel, D The Mindful Brain. Norton.
Thompson, E Mind in Life. Belknap.

147. Key Papers - 1
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Lazar, S., Kerr, C., Wasserman, R., Gray, J., Greve, D., Treadway, M., McGarvey, M., Quinn, B., Dusek, J., Benson, H., Rauch, S., Moore, C., & Fischl, B Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness. Neuroreport. 16:
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151. Gratitude Dr. Shailesh Darji Dr. Hansal Bhachech
Mr. Chintan Bavishi Dr. Shehnaz Chinwala
Dr. Prakash Chauhan Dr. Pratik Shashtri
Dr. Amit Bhatt