11/23/2023 0 Comments Dalai lama happy![]() ![]() His Holiness is constantly laughing and he’s playful even when he speaks about such serious subjects. While competition and materialism can encourage those feelings to go “dormant,” he said, playfulness can bring those feelings back. “They don’t care what’s their religion, what’s their nationality, they don’t care what sort of family background” they have, he said. AFP PHOTO/Mayela LOPEZ (Photo credit should read MAYELA LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images) Mayela Lopez/AFP/Getty Images Goodall, best-known for her studies on chimpanzees, visits Costa Rica to see the course of her program "Roots & Shoots" involving children and young people with projects related with animals, the enviromental and the human community. “It is not like they deny their suffering, they are open to it, but they hold those feelings with love and compassion,” she said.Īnother key to happiness, His Holiness suggests, is to “try to be of some service to others.” If you can help others, then “no matter what (the) surrounding situation, you can keep (up your) self-confidence and happiness.”īritish primatologist Jane Goodall looks at a tree 02 September, 2007, at La Selva Biological Station in Sarapiqui, 80kms noreast from San Jose. ![]() Working with Tibetan teachers over the years, she said, she has been impressed that despite their difficult circumstances of having to flee their country and live as refugees, as the Dalai Lama has since 1959, many people seem to be happy. “If you can think about wrapping your suffering and anger in a kind of care and compassion and concern, it can activate the reward center of the brain.” “If a glass is half full, you can’t pretend it’s full,” Neff said. Do that and your health will be “much better.”Ī lot of negative thought is rooted in perception, studies show, but that doesn’t have to mean you become a Pollyanna about negative experiences. “I try to keep compassion” constantly in mind and then stay “surrounded by (other) compassionate people” that can reduce your anger. “Constant anger is very bad for our health,” His Holiness said. Neff is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s department of educational psychology and an expert on self-compassion. Instead, it’s when “in instances of pain or failure, rather than being harshly self-critical perceiving one’s experiences as part of the larger human experience rather than seeing them as isolating and holding painful thoughts and feelings in mindful awareness rather than over-identifying with them,” writes scholar Kristin Neff in Self-Compassion and Pscyhological Well-Being. Self-compassion, then, is when you are kind, rather than critical, toward yourself, even when you mess up or when you are in some form of emotional pain.ĭon’t confuse this with self-pity, when you dwell on that pain. You develop concern for their general well-being. ![]() Psychologists have shown when you do that, you automatically develop feelings of kindness and caring for that person. When you have compassion for someone, typically that means you are recognizing and validating someone’s pain. He believes we’d all be happier people if we learned more about our own selves and embraced who we are, flaws and all. His Holiness is talking, in part, about the Buddhist concept of self-compassion. If you remain someone who is “honest, truthful,” about how you feel, you can find happiness “no matter what (the) surrounding situation.” “Mainly,” he said, feeling happy is largely about “your own mental attitude.” If, however, someone’s confidence in the country’s checks and balances is still failing them, His Holiness has some additional advice to help you stay happy, no matter what happens in the world around you.įirst step, work on compassion and start by developing it for yourself. In an earlier interview he said he plans to meet with President-elect Trump after his inauguration and added that once in power, all presidents are forced to work with “reality,” and “so I have no worries.”Īmerica will always keep an “emphasis on liberty, democracy, rule of law,” he said, and “the people elected now have the responsibility” to work together and will have to use “team work,” since “America is a democracy and the power is divided.” “America, I consider the leading nation of the free world,” His Holiness said. Republicans, enjoy this week's party, but remember 2009 ![]()
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