The “answer” to happiness has been outlined the following excellent article I read today at LiveScience.com. I fowarded this article to some friends and they found it useful.

“It requires some effort to achieve a happy outlook on life, and most people don’t make it.“
—Author and researcher Gregg Easterbrook.

From the article, “One route to more happiness is called ‘flow,’ an engrossing state that comes during creative or playful activity, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has found. Athletes, musicians, writers, gamers, and religious adherents know the feeling. It comes less from what you’re doing than from how you do it.”

Last week I attended a special program from Landmark Education called “Living a Created Life.� This three hour special program focused on how much we are controlled by our bodies and lower brain functions, and how little we really are in control of our own lives. If we’re just reacting to our bodies needs for survival, hunger, and other physical stuff then who we think we are is really just mainly along for the ride. I read an article a few days ago about how when two people are attracted to each other so much of the attraction is based on physical and chemical interactions that we’re totally oblivious to. What we think when we are in love means nothing which is, of course, really not at all surprising to anyone who has been there. The psychological term for all these things we do without really understanding why is the “adaptive unconscious.�

In any event, if you haven’t attended any programs previously from Landmark Education, I highly recommend them. Landmark offers a series of group personal development and communications courses, and seminars, and a bunch of other stuff too. What to learn about yourself might surprise you.