Channel: A.S.

My dearest brothers and sisters,

This is Hakann speaking. I greet you in peace and love.

Many people take the following approach:
– First make sure you have a functional life, where your needs are met and all major problems are taken care of.
– Then try to find happiness.

But the problem is that when people directly aim for happiness, typically that leads to them consuming things, or pursuing short-term pleasure, or collecting physical things or money, or just repeatedly doing what is comfortable or fun or dopamine-providing in the moment. Which doesn’t provide inherent, lasting happiness.

Instead, the way to truly become happy is to not aim for happiness.

What I suggest that you do instead is:
– First make sure you have a functional life, where your needs are met and all major problems are taken care of.
– Then focus on improving yourself or on contributing.

So the first point is unchanged.

The second point can be anything from meditating, to going to a psychologist, to learning a new skill, to getting better at an existing skill, to creating something, to doing volunteer work, to doing a small act of kindness, to improving one of your routines, to observing whatever arises.

You absolutely don’t need to do all of these, but it’s a good idea to do one or two of these.

You also don’t need to go overboard and spend huge amounts of time and energy on improving yourself or contributing. The base of the pyramid is still making sure you have a functional life and your needs are taken care of. Likely that will take most of your time and energy (and in certain periods, possibly even all of your time and energy). That’s okay.

Also, self-improvement takes time. If you feel you progress slowly, well, you’re still progressing. You’re still investing in yourself. Not everyone is.

If you focus on improving yourself or contributing, then in time you will find happiness, rooted in the excellence of the skills you’ve built, rooted in your feeling of competence and agency, rooted in the contributions you’ve made.

Which is a much more lasting, inherent, enduring, meaningful kind of happiness than the kind of “happiness” you get from consumption or just by constantly focusing on doing fun things.

Plus it’s much better for the world if people focus on self-improvement and contribution, rather than on consumption.

I hope this was helpful.

With all my love,

Your star brother,
Hakann

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