Happiness Activities​

Lesson 5

As we know by now, 50% of happiness is in our genes, 10% depends on the circumstances of life and the rest 40% can be cultivated by us by taking up activities, intentionally and voluntarily, that bring joy and happiness.

These intentional activities we call Happiness Activities.

You can find activities that fit your interests, your values and your needs.

Let us classify and list a few activities to make it clear:

Everyone needs to spare time regularly for at least one activity to take care of the body, mind and soul. It may be aerobics, yoga, meditation, walking, or any of the physical exercises.

Stress is the major concern in modern life. One needs to learn how to cope with stress, trauma, and hardships of life.

Finding flow and living in the present is the surest path to authentic happiness. You can choose a happiness activity that helps you enhance flow experience.

You can enrich your life by developing positive relationships and by broadening social connections.

Committing to your goals and a committed goal pursuit leads to accomplishments, thus enhancing your happiness quotient.

You may want to enhance your positive emotions about the past by practicing gratitude or your positive emotions about the future by practicing optimism.

We will be taking up some proven happiness activities from each of these sections in our subsequent lessons.

(I will be away for about a month. So, the next lesson may appear after some gap. Be happy!)

Jagat Singh Bisht

Master Teacher

Happiness & Well-Being

coolbisht@hotmail.com

+91 7389938255

Flow

Lesson 4

One thing I can say for sure – flow brings real happiness!

Flow is a state of joy, creativity and total involvement, in which problems seem to disappear and there is an exhilarating feeling of transcendence.

According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, flow is what we feel when we are fully alive, involved with what we do, and in harmony with the environment around us. It is something that happens most easily when we sing, dance, do sports – but it can happen when we work, read a good book, or have a good conversation.

Engagement, or flow, is one of the strongest pillars around which Positive Psychology is built. Here, one is fully in the present, immersed in something worthwhile. For an auto-telic person, the experience becomes its own reward.

We each have the potential to experience flow, whether at work, at play or in our relationships.

Jagat Singh Bisht

Founder: LifeSkills

Happiness and Well-Being

Lesson 1

What is happiness?

Happiness is the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.

Five Elements of Well-Being

Positive Emotions

Engagement

Relationships

Meaning

Accomplishment

Each of these five elements will be discussed in our next lesson.

Jagat Singh Bisht

Founder: LifeSkills

lifeskills.happiness@gmail.com; +917389938255

Happiness Lessons for Little Kids

Children need lessons on happiness and well-being along with classroom teaching.

Feeling fulfilled after having shared tiny tips with the little ones in a park in Indore on the auspicious occasion of Mahashivratri.

There is nothing more sublime than doing happiness activities with childre.

Jagat Singh Bisht
     Master Teacher
Happiness & Well-Being

coolbisht@hotmail.com
+91 7389938255

A True Life Changing Program

The Wheel of Happiness and Well-Being

It's not just one of those programs. It's a life changing program!

Not one of the usual life changing programs. A real game changer!

There are no sermons. You get to be part of real activities that take care of your body, mind and soul!

The program doesn't end at the venue. It has a lot of back home utility!

We don't believe in monisms. It's a complete and wholesome program!

It's not narrow and shallow in approach. It includes the best of Positive Psychology, Yoga, Meditation, Laughter Yoga and Spirituality!

We don't believe in dilution or adulteration. Every word and activity comes in pristine form from authentic sources!

It's not just science or just metaphysics. It blends the best of modern science with ancient wisdom of sages!

It's not a program assembled in a hurry. It has fructified after more than ten years of sincere and dedicated research!

The facilitators are not oven fresh. They have gone through the furnace of deep study and life experiences!

It's not a course designed for commercial gains, name or fame. It's a Divine gift for the happiness of all beings!

The initial module of the intervention has been named as 'The Wheel of Happiness and Well-Being'.

It can be conducted practically anywhere for all types of audiences. The program was launched at Hotel Sayaji, Indore on the 26th of January 2017.

Two more programs are scheduled for tomorrow and the day after at the Man Pasand Park and the Acropolis Institute of Technology and Research, Indore.

We are adding some pictures here providing a glimpse of our program.

Feel free to get in touch with us.

Call/ WhatsApp: +917389938255

Email: lifeskills.happiness@gmail.com

Jagat Singh Bisht

Founder: LifeSkills

Happiness Coach, Yoga Teacher & Laughter Yoga Master Trainer

Four life skills that you must learn are:

·       Happiness and Well-being

·       Laughter Yoga

·       Meditation

·       Yoga

LifeSkills provides you all the four at one place.

Between them, the founders of LifeSkills, Jagat Singh Bisht and Radhika Bisht, have a rich experience of life, yoga, meditation, laughter yoga, behavioural science and positive psychology; established numerous laughter clubs and served as Skype laughter club leaders.

Jagat Singh Bisht is a happiness coach, laughter yoga master trainer, author, blogger, keynote speaker and behavioural science trainer. He was a corporate trainer with a Fortune 500 company and laughter professor at the Laughter Yoga University. His areas of specialization are behavioural science, positive psychology and laughter yoga.

Radhika Bisht is yoga teacher and laughter yoga master trainer. She was associated with the Laughter Yoga University as a yoga teacher and laughter yoga master trainer. Her areas of specialization are yoga, meditation, laughter yoga and fun games.

Email: lifeskills.happiness@gmail.com

Phones:+91 7389938255/9893262333/7314062333

Website: https://lifeskillsforhappiness.wordpress.com/

The Art and Science of Happiness

I teach what everyone seeks but finds it difficult to achieve. It remains more and more elusive as one chases it. Everyone believes he knows everything about it but is, in fact, ignorant and often misguided. I am talking about happiness and well-being.

According to Sonja Lyubomirsky, Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, “One of the greatest obstacles to attaining happiness is that most of our beliefs about what will make us happy are in fact erroneous. Yet they have been drummed into us, socialized by peers and families and role models and reinforced by the stories and images ever present in our culture. Many of the presumed sources of happiness seem so intuitive and commonsensical that all of us – even happiness researchers! – are prone to fall under their spell.”

The happiness myths need to be understood and overcome. You can teach yourself to be happy. The art and science of happiness and well-being can be learned and taught.

At LifeSkills, we have gone deep to blend the best of the modern science of Positive Psychology with the ancient wisdom of Yoga and Meditation. We have added a dash of Laughter Yoga into the cask to make it sparkle. Our programmes show the pathway to authentic happiness, well-being and fulfilment. We help you to flourish!

Jagat Singh Bisht

Founder – LifeSkills

coolbisht@hotmail.com

+917389938255

Happy@Work

My Sanika Cancer Care Society organized an event ‘Happy@Work’ for the office-goers at Jaal Auditorium, Indore recently.

We were happy to conduct a session on happiness at work with inputs from Positive Psychology, Yoga, Meditation, Laughter Yoga and Behavioural Science. Due emphasis was laid on happiness activities, flow and use of signature strengths. The session was well received by the audience.

It was nice to see a youngster come up to us and tell how much he loved the session. He said, he had attended talks of almost all the motivational and spiritual gurus who had come to town but it was only here that he could find a glimpse of what he had been searching for. 

Jagat Singh Bisht

Happiness Coach and Laughter Yoga Master Trainer

Exuberance, Happiness and Serenity

Goa, April 8 and 9, 2016.

Locale: exotic – the Lalit golf and spa resort. Team: thirty top officials, including the CEO and the CFO, of one of the busiest airports of India. Objective: goal setting.

Day: one.

Time: sunrise. Venue: an exclusive sea beach. Activity: laughter yoga, body percussion and mind-body synergy. Feedback: feeling exuberant!

Time: sunset. Venue: closed hall. Activity: guided relaxation, yoga nidra. Feedback: feeling serene!!

Day: two.

Time: just before sunrise. Venue: golf course on one side and swimming pool on the other. Activity: breath shower, three deep breaths, gentle laughs and dynamic meditation. Feedback: feeling calm and happy!

Facilitators:

Radhika Bisht - yoga teacher & laughter yoga master trainer.

Jagat Singh Bisht – happiness coach & laughter yoga master trainer.

East Meets West

On this holy day of Holi, i announce the birth of the Indore Gharana* of Happiness..

It is a blend of the best of the ancient east with the modern west, after years of maturing in deep, seasoned, human casks..

Here, the wisdom of the sages from the Tantras adds value and depth to the scientific concepts of Positive Psychology..

It is proposed to be imparted in the traditional guru-shishya parampara** wherein the teacher is more of a friend-philosopher-guide..

Looking forward to early birds, seekers, and happiness-dilittantes willing to travel all the way to Indore, India for a holistic well-being sojourn..

Jagat Singh Bisht

Happiness Coach and Laughter Yoga Master Trainer

coolbisht@hotmail.com

+91 73899 38255

*’families’ or places where a musical style originated.

**teacher-pupil relationship/ tradition.

i teach happiness

my quest for happiness has been fun..

i read Confucius, Buddha, and Aristotle..

savoured chocolate, wine and good company..

was a laughter professor for some time..

dug deep into behavioural science to discover myself..

had a long lasting affair with Positive Psychology, Seligman, Csikszentmihalyi and Lyubomirsky..

tried learning a few trade secrets from the happy monks Matthieu Ricard and Dalai Lama..

did research on yoga nidra and discovered the wonder world of Swami Satyananda Saraswati..

all these streams continue to trickle in the background..

i continue to learn, but it’s high time now to give back..

i, therefore, teach happiness..

~ Jagat Singh Bisht

Happiness Coach & Laughter Yoga Master Trainer

coolbisht@hotmail.com

+91 7389938255