The rational person’s path to happiness
Fulfillment doesn’t just knock the door down and take over your life. It taps lightly at the door, then runs off, like a kid playing games. This audio course by Libby Seery teaches you how to unlock and open that door. Seery is a psychotherapist as well as a life coach, and it’s evident in her manner. But there is no dragged out process of examining your past here. Seery isn’t leading you into figuring out things for yourself. She provides simple, practical methods for getting to the bottom of why you’re not happy.
Of course, knowing why some things bring happiness doesn’t make you happy. But I’ve always been the kind of person that needs to know why I’m doing something, so it helped me. Seery explained that hugging releases a hormone that causes us to feel calm and relaxed, and I understood at that moment that I hadn’t given hugging a chance.
It was like a lightbulb went off. I followed deeper into the course and realized that my pursuit of happiness had always been fruitless because I was focused only on myself. I had a relentless drive toward self-satisfaction, but couldn’t find it. My own personal transformation didn’t happen until I started trying to make the people around me happy.
As Seery explained the scientifically provable benefits to things like random acts of kindness and helping others, I could no longer argue the point. I began feeling a little better as I started putting things into practice, and then noticed that a positive attitude is contagious. Tapping the hormones of happiness becomes addictive, as does spreading a little joy instead of misery.
This is one seriously comprehensive course, but I worked my way through it gradually and carefully. I’m glad I did because I don’t think I would have been as receptive to the 10 Principles of Happiness if I had skipped to the end. Having been a healthy eater in the past, I was cognizant of the sense of well-being that comes from a natural and healthy diet. I now realize that the contentment I felt at those times was happiness.
It was a smart decision for Seery to end on “Embracing Yourself” and “Reason”. I have always been my own worst critic, and since childhood, I’ve harbored this unnerving sense that life is meaningless. I didn’t discover some purpose to existence that I’d never knew existed in this course. I just learned that once I accept and embrace being myself and start making that existence purposeful, happiness is inevitable. I’m still working on that part.
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Content Review by Rebeca Davenport