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Happiness

We all have a little idea of ?? what can make us happy. But this idea, however personal it may be, is built and enriched day after day.

We offer you a reflection on the concept of happiness, following very different guiding threads: happiness according to philosophers, religions, children, elders and even according to your cat or your dog. An unpretentious exploration, to give food for thought but also ... to make you smile 

Happiness according to children

Ask a child what makes them happy, and likely will give you answers related to the people they love and the activities they are passionate about . For example: playing soccer with dad, hugging mom, cycling with the family, playing with friends ...

What teaching for your happiness?

• put as much energy into having fun with your loved ones as you put into managing your work and daily life effectively
• Consider that family time is never lost
• Savor the little things as if you discovered them
• Move towards new learning with curiosity 

Happiness According to the Ancients

Older people take a distant look at our world. Many have witnessed the disappearance of a way of life. Their testimonies are particularly interesting when we ask the question of the material conditions of access to happiness . Now the stories of the ancients rightly show that it is possible to be happy while being constrained, in terms of comfort and satisfaction of vital needs, to great sobriety . 

What teaching for your happiness?

•     Understand where the real wealth of his existence is
•     Putting the concept of poverty into perspective
•     Live with fewer objects and more links 

Happiness according to your dog

Your dog will always follow you, anywhere and will put an enthusiasm in the measure of his confidence in you. Because he loves you? Certainly, but let's not forget that the dog is an animal that lives in a pack: what makes him happy is to feel "in his place" , in a place that is just and good for him, stable too. 

What teaching for your happiness?

•     Understand what their place is, within their family, friends, colleagues, society
•     Find the framework and the rules of life reassuring and fulfilling for oneself 

Happiness according to your cat

To find out what makes a cat happy, just look at it. Nothing satisfies him: a caress, the warmth of a cushion, the softness of a blanket in which he nestles. Her whole life is a lesson in pleasure !

What teaching for your happiness?

•     surround yourself with sweetness
•     organize your home to make it comfortable
•     sleep, hang out, "let go"
•     allow yourself to live "comfortably" 

Happiness according to philosophers

Many philosophers have attempted to define happiness. In Antiquity, two famous currents of thought delivered precepts of life, Stoicism and Epicureanism.

The Stoics advise to free yourself as much as possible from human desires in order to access happiness. 

What teaching for your happiness?

•     Step back in the face of difficulties
•     Work on his perception of events
•     Accept human destiny in its beauties as much as its tragic aspects

Happiness according to religions

Religions are concerned with defining what would be a just and good life for man. It emerges from their message, with nuances specific to each naturally, that happiness would be found in compassion for others and in contemplation, meditation.

What teaching for your happiness?

•     Discover the joy of self-giving
•     Take time to meditate
•     To be grateful to the beauty of the world
•     Register its actions over time without getting caught up in everyday life
•     Place one's own destiny in a global design