7 Simple Tips on How to Be Happier

How to stop complaining and make your life more meaningful.

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I always like to explore both sides of anything. I guess that’s how I’m hard-wired.

Thus, before I give you the tips on how to be happier, I am going to explore why we suffer and struggle unnecessarily.

Let’s define suffering first. Suffering is a disruptive and at times necessary mental, emotional, psychological, and also a spiritual experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with harm or threat of harm. On the positive side, suffering can contribute to how you organize meaning in your emotional world and much more. One should never assume that all suffering is negative. The key is to understand which suffering is essential and which is a self-created illusion.

Some suffering is an expression of natural law — an essential tool for survival. For the unaware individual, it is often a negative experience, especially if this individual has made poor choices in the past.

Compassion, one of the most worthy, and admired human qualities; often comes from recognizing the suffering of others. Their suffering may present great meaning and direction…