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The 21 Paths to Happiness
The 21 Paths to Happiness
The 21 Paths to Happiness
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Happiness is you decision. Dare to make the first step on the paths that lead to it...


The pursuit of happiness is an existential necessity, which is fulfilled only through society.


The 21 paths of happiness is 21 ways and examples to be happy.


The 21 paths say yes to life and give hope for a better tomorrow.


The hopeful voice you must hear. Win the knowledge that leads to happiness. Conquer the harmony of your inner and outer world. Learn to experience life positively to feel fullness and satisfaction. This is the happiness you are seeking for. The 21 paths presented in this book consist of 21 keywords that are analyzed based on the teachings of contemporary psychology to function as basic principles which can assist the reader to pursue a personal path to happiness. Read the 21 paths of happiness and give copies to those you love.


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Aggil Loupescou is a psychologist, clinical hypnotherapist (National Guild of Hypnotists, USA) and life councelor. She is known worldwide for her two new methods of therapeutic hypnosis: intuitive hypnosis through which she locates and identifies future diseases as well as details about the lives of third parties; regression to past lives through which she proved that the psychosomatic pathology of a person can be due to facts acted out in one of his past lives. She has offices in Cyprus and since 2012, in London, UK.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 20, 2014
ISBN9781909884823
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    The 21 Paths to Happiness - Aggil Loupescou

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    CONTENTS

    Author’s preface

    Introduction

    Path 1 : Self-knowledge

    Path 2 : Excess, the enemy of happiness

    Path 3 : The decision to live happily

    Path 4 : Live the day

    Path 5 : Rejection of negative self-suggestions

    Path 6 : Be yourself

    Path 7 : Say no to the role of the victim

    Path 8 : Rid yourself of greed and consumerism

    Path 9 : Say no to comparing yourself to others

    Path 10 : The principle of mutual respect

    Path 11 : Do not put off for tomorrow what you can do today

    Path 12 : Action! Move fast from thought to action

    Path 13 : See only the positive side of things

    Path 14 : Show your best self in whatever you do

    Path 15 : At the right place, in the right time

    Path 16 : Determining and evaluating targets

    Path 17 : Action and reaction

    Path 18 : Happiness is shared

    Path 19 : Learn how to forgive others

    Path 20 : Faith is the weapon against the fear of death

    Path 21 : Premonition

    EPILOGUE : In the end, are there happy people?

    Notes

    Author’s preface

    Happiness is defined in the dictionary as good luck, a fortunate development of things, success in achieving a goal, full or perfect pleasure one gets from his life. Obviously, the definition is very simple. It becomes however problematic if one asks, for example, which is the goal the achievement of which should lead to happiness, what abilities or capacities are required, what precedes happiness, how long should the effort towards happiness last, and finally, how long this happiness lasts? We could say that even the sound of the word ‘happiness’ could create an infinite number of problems, scepticism and unending concern. The cause of all that is that man and happiness belong to two different categories of existence. As a type of existence, man is characterised by the temporary, the ephemeral, the limited psychosomatic powers and abilities, while happiness belongs to the realm of the ideal and the eternal. We should therefore think of it as a reward of the struggling man and not as a god-sent gift. But man is a chaser of the good and beautiful but never its achiever because, due to his nature, he is in need according to Plato and incomplete according to Aristotle. He has a void in him, in other words, while happiness is absolute completeness. Achieving happiness is an existential need and its fulfilment to the extent this is humanly possible can be achieved only within and not without society. It is perhaps romantic for someone to sequester himself from ‘worldly affairs’, to isolate himself to his thoughts and turn his back to the problems that harass his fellow human beings. But then why should he seek the help of his fellow human beings if something unpleasant happens to him, something that is certain to happen since there is no such thing as life without sorrows? Will it then bear it alone and helpless? What kind of happiness will he have gained if he leaves this life in pain and psychological and physical duress? Happiness, according to Confucius is the daughter of man and is next to him, at the height of his heart. Small and big acts fill people’s hearts with joy when they are actively ethical and characterised by a wish for unselfish contribution to mankind, love for ourselves and therefore for others. Do you think this is strange? Yet, how do you think one can love others if his behaviour is harmful to himself? Leibnitz claims that there is no such thing as a ‘happy life’, just ‘days of happiness’. He might be right. When Croesus was displeased because Solon did not consider him a happy man despite all his power and wealth, Solon explained to him, as excerpted for us by Herodotus, that no single day in a man’s life is the same as the previous one and that was the reason why he could not say if Croesus was happy before seeing his end. Croesus then sent Solon away but eventually remembered his words when he was vanquished by the Cyrus, the King of the Persians. Are therefore happy people around or not? I am not going to give you the answer. We said above that happiness is the reward of a struggle and you would like to know the answer to that question without even getting into the trouble of reading through the few pages of this book?

    Introduction

    Writing a book on such a wide and subjectively interpreted subject constitutes of course a daring effort the success of which will be up to the reader to judge, when he will have applied the principles that we refer to below. It is quite natural for someone to ask whether happiness has the same meaning for all people. Of course not. They say that at the start of the last century, a very rich Englishman had achieved it all, whatever a man could have possibly coveted, and yet he felt unhappy. He could not understand why. He therefore tried to talk to the most well-known thinkers of his time to get to the secret to happiness but he was not satisfied from their answers. He even talked to Indian chiefs, Arab tribe leaders, and so on. They all talked about happiness but none of them said that he was happy. Two years later, after feeling utterly disappointed, he learned that there was a very wise man who lived in India. That man was an over a hundred-year old yogi who lived by himself in a forest at the foot of the Himalayas. He decided to go and see him as well. After many days of travel and a walk of many kilometres, he found him sitting on a rock and looking at the water of a river. The Englishman approached respectfully and asked him what happiness was in his opinion. The yogi showed the river with his hand. Surprised, the Englishman asked him: ‘What happiness is it to just look at that river?’ A question formed on the face of the yogi who then asked the Englishman in turn: ‘Do you think this might not be it?’

    Happiness therefore is not the same for everyone and neither are the means for its achievement similar. Yet, over the centuries, human wisdom was crystallised in certain short key phrases that might prove helpful in searching for it. They are the ones that mark the paths to happiness. We analyse them of course on the basis of the findings of modern psychology so that they can be functional as basic principles. We however refer to ‘paths’ because there is not only one such. Every person has his own special path that leads him to the serenity of happiness. The reader would therefore have to interpret the analysis of every phrase we present subjectively, in order to identify his personal road in the existential labyrinth of his everyday life. This book aspires to act like Ariadne’s thread out of the labyrinth and help all those who wish to see reality with clarity. Searching for the lost paradise is a myth present in almost all the religions of the world and should be conceived as a search for existential completion, the type of happiness that has unfortunately been achieved only by very few. Mainstream religions, philosophical schools, old and new religious cults, all promise achievement of happiness, offering hope to modern man who is stymied by anxiety.

    Modern man, now more than ever, is easily disappointed even by trivial events and turn a blind eye when he refuses to recognise the fact that for millennia, people have been facing the same problems. Whether they represent distilled popular wisdom and cannot be traced to a particular person or they were expressed by widely-known wise men, the phrases we have selected are not haphazard. We should not seek a modern guru, or a pseudo-prophet promising personal happiness to his disaffected students. The paths we refer to can lead you to the conquest of paradise and the achievement of happiness, provided you perceive them in the proper manner.

    Path 1

    Self-knowledge

    ‘Know thyself’

    Chilon

    A necessary condition for the searching for happiness is undoubtedly self-knowledge. It is for this purpose that the well-known saying had been inscribed on a prominent spot at the entrance of the Delphi oracle, so whoever entered it to seek the advice of the god Apollo, would keep in mind that interpreting the prophecy would be totally dependent on the level of his self-knowledge. Precisely the same is the case with

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