83. The Art of Finding Joy: 6 Ways to Live Happier
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Rav Ashlag said, “The difference between someone who is tremendously fulfilled and someone who is unfulfilled is their ability to see.” We all have moments when illusion blurs our vision of the opportunities for joy before us. So, how can we learn to sustain happiness every single day of our lives? Listen to this live-recorded episode with Monica and Michael Berg as they discuss pursuing happiness authentically and finding joy internally.
“One of the greatest ways to achieve happiness is not by attaining the next thing, but by having greater appreciation for what we currently have.” — Michael Berg
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, by Bronnie Ware
Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment, by Tal Ben-Shahar
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| 0:00.0 | Happiness is not an effect of external stimuli. |
| 0:13.0 | It is an effect of an internal being. |
| 0:16.0 | And the internal state that we are in is completely dependent on our actions, on our behavior. |
| 0:24.6 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. |
| 0:26.6 | Live from New York, it's Spiritually Hungry Episode 83. |
| 0:30.6 | Yes. |
| 0:31.6 | So it's super great just to be together in a room with some sense of normalcy again on this |
| 0:42.1 | powerful night, which is also the new moon of Pisces, Take Two. |
| 0:46.4 | Take two. |
| 0:47.4 | So we are going to talk about how to live happier tonight. |
| 0:52.3 | In eighth grade, my teacher said to me, or she asked me what I wanted to do |
| 0:57.9 | when I grew up. I wrote down happy. And she told me I didn't understand the assignment. Now older, |
| 1:05.3 | I wish I told her she didn't understand the answer. Even the Declaration of Independence lays out an alienable right to pursuit of happiness, |
| 1:15.6 | and we haven't stopped looking for it. |
| 1:17.6 | Throughout life as a child, as a teenager, as an adult, when we're even older, we are in that pursuit of what makes us happy, |
| 1:26.6 | how can we thrive, and how can we be happy |
| 1:30.9 | every day. It's not those moments of happiness because we have those, right? We have those milestone |
| 1:34.8 | moments, weddings, birthdays, but how do we sustain happiness every day of our lives? |
| 1:42.9 | So a few facts for where we are now. The National Opinion |
| 1:46.7 | Research Center conducted a 2020 study and the news isn't that happy. In fact, in 2020, only 14% |
| 1:54.8 | of adult Americans reported that they were very happy down from 31% in 2018. |
| 2:02.0 | I don't think that's surprising. |
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