A New Take on Happiness

‘Happiness is no laughing matter.’ Bishop of Dublin, nineteenth century CE

‘The one thing people want most in life, is the one thing they know nothing about.’  Michael Fordyce, the original happiness researcher of modern times.

 Everyone knows what happiness is, don’t they?  Surely there are more important things to worry about; after all, it’s only happiness we’re talking about, isn’t it?  Or is it?

Have you any idea how much time and effort has been devoted to trying to define and understand happiness?  Over two thousand five hundred years of philosophy, spiritualism, religion, psychology, sociology, and now even science, including neurology and even cosmology. 

A huge volume and diversity of contributions goes to show that happiness is indeed a very slippery matter in itself.  It’s a fact that we are inherently poor at predicting what will actually make us happy in any case (seriously!).  So here’s the question – who’s right? Whose advice shall we follow?

Well, at this time you are left to make your choice, place your bet and hope for the best.  Oh, and , then you have to wonder where to turn?  Surely there must be another way of looking at things. 

What if there were another way of looking at all of these contributions, and seeing them as aspects of some simpler, over-arching principle?  A place where these differences fall into place as details, like branches and leaves on the same tree?  What would be that tree? What would its trunk represent, and where are its roots?

Would it not seem obvious to you that the answer should lie in the depths of our very nature; in the core of humanity and the world we spring from?  That question is what led me to what I call The Physics of Happiness.  It is more than happiness; it is a framework for thinking about life, humanity and our very evolution. 

The Physics of Happiness links You, What you care about, and your Circumstances, and Beyond, or spirit if you prefer. But don’t worry about all this yet.