Do you want
to be happier? Would you like to increase your well-being and flourish?
Would you
mind exploring a happy state of mind called
flow, the feeling of complete engagement in a creative or playful activity?
Do you value
happiness, flow, meaning, love, gratitude, accomplishment, growth and better
relationships, and want an abundance of these in your life?
The good
news is that all this is possible. You can learn these skills to make your life
happier.
This road
takes you through the countryside of pleasure and gratification, up into the
high country of strength and virtue, and finally to the peaks of lasting
fulfilment: meaning and purpose.
Introduction
Twenty-three hundred years ago,
Aristotle concluded that, more than anything else, men and women seek
happiness. Much has changed since Aristotle’s time. And yet on this most
important issue very little has changed in the intervening centuries.
The earlier scientific evidence made
it seem unlikely that you could change your level of happiness in any
sustainable way. It suggested that we each have a fixed range for happiness,
sad people don’t become lastingly happy and happy people don’t become lastingly
sad.
New research into happiness, though,
suggests that it can be lastingly increased. And a new movement, Positive
Psychology, shows how you can live in the upper reaches of your set range of
happiness.
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.
What happiness is not!
Happiness is not something that
happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not
something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside
events, but, rather on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a
condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each
person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine
the quality of their lives, which is as close as any one of us can come to
being happy.
Why
Practice Happiness?
In addition to making us feel good, studies have
found that happiness actually improves other aspects of our lives. Here is an overview of some of the good stuff that
research has linked to happiness.
·
Happiness is good for our health: Happy
people are less likely to get sick, and they live longer.
·
Happiness is good
for our relationships: Happy people are more likely to get married and
have fulfilling marriages, and they have more friends.
·
Happy people make more
money and are more productive
at work.
·
Happy people
are more generous.
·
Happy people cope
better with stress and trauma.
·
Happy people are more
creative and are better able to see the big picture.
Our curriculum includes:
·
A new, scientific
understanding of Happiness and Well-being
· Flow:
The Psychology of optimal experience
· The
How of Happiness: A new approach to getting the life you want
·
The Art of
Meditation
·
Yoga for
body-mind harmony
·
Laughter Yoga for
instant joy
·
Yoga Nidra for
complete relaxation
· Surya Namaskara: A technique of solar vitalization
·
Self-Discovery and
Inter-Personal Relationships
· Creativity and developing a beautiful mind
· Stress management and Elements of Joy
·
Brain Gym, fun games and Gibberish.
Our programmes help you to
·
Dispel the myths
surrounding happiness
·
Discover your
signature strengths and virtues
·
Learn skills that make life happier,
fulfilling and worth living
·
Achieve your potential to be a winner - an authentic, alive, responsive,
fulfilled human being
·
Benefit from the
wisdom of ancient sages and research findings of modern day scientists to
transform your life.
Basic
Pillars on which our programmes are founded:
Positive Psychology
Positive Psychology is the scientific study of
the strengths that enable individuals and communities to thrive. The field is
founded on the belief that people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives,
to cultivate what is best within themselves, and to enhance their experiences
of love, work, and play.
Positive education
Positive education is defined as education for
both traditional skills and for happiness. The high prevalence worldwide of
depression among young people, the small rise in life satisfaction, and the synergy between learning and
positive emotion all argue that the skills for happiness should be taught in
school. There is substantial evidence from well controlled studies that skills
that increase resilience, positive
emotion, engagement and meaning can be taught to school children.
Positive Health
The field of medicine has long focused on the
prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure of disease. But health is more than
the mere absence of disease. The emerging concept of Positive Health takes an
innovative approach to health and well-being that focuses on promoting people’s
positive health assets, which might include biological factors, such as high
heart rate variability; subjective factors, such as optimism; and functional
factors, such as a stable marriage—strengths that can contribute to a
healthier, longer life.
Yoga
Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion.
It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential need of
today and the culture of tomorrow. All of us have potential which is beyond
even our wildest dreams, but most of this potential remains untapped. Each person
has the capacity to experience different planes of consciousness, yet most of
live in the lower planes, without experiencing higher levels of existence, or
even believing they exist.
Meditation
Meditation is a practice that
makes it possible to cultivate and develop certain basic positive human
qualities in the same way as other forms of training make it possible to play a
musical instrument or acquire any other skill. The primary goal of meditation
is to transform our experience of the world but it has also been shown that
meditation has beneficial effects on our health. Scientific experiments have
shown that twenty minutes of daily practice of meditation can contribute
significantly to the reduction of stress, whose harmful effects on health are
well established.
Laughter Yoga
Laughter
Yoga is a combination of laughter exercises and yogic breathing that
strengthens our immune system and generates feel good hormones in the body.
Laughter is triggered with the help of exercises which soon turns into real and
contagious laughter with eye contact and childlike playfulness. It is a simple
yet profound method of busting physical, mental and emotional stress in one go.
Yoga
Nidra
Yoga Nidra is a systematic method of inducing
complete physical, mental and emotional relaxation. During the practice of yoga
nidra, one appears to be asleep, but the consciousness is functioning at a
deeper level of awareness. A single hour of yoga nidra is as restful as four
hours of conventional sleep.
Surya Namaskara
Surya
Namaskara is a well-known and vital technique within the yogic repertoire. It
is almost a complete sadhana in itself, containing asana, pranayama and
meditational techniques within the main structure of the practice. Surya
namaskara can be easily integrated into our daily lives as it requires only
five to fifteen minutes’ practice daily to obtain beneficial results remarkably
quickly.
Seminars, Workshops & Retreats
Recipe for Happiness
Basic seminar-cum-workshop
of 90 minutes’ duration.
The Pursuit of Happiness
Full day workshop of 6
hours’ duration.
The Quest for Happiness
Advanced workshop of 5
days’ duration.
Pathway to Happiness
Small group and one-on-one
coaching. Tailor made.
Venue: Workplace,
Educational Institution, Neighbourhood, Club, Resort, etc.
Target Groups: Executives,
Staff, Professionals, Students, Teachers, Home Makers, Families, Club Members,
Retired Persons, etc.
Facilitators
Jagat Singh
Bisht
Happiness Coach & Laughter Yoga
Master Trainer
Past:
Corporate Trainer with a Fortune 500 company and Laughter Professor at the
Laughter Yoga University.
Areas
of specialization: Behavioural Science, Positive Psychology
and Laughter Yoga.
Radhika Bisht
Yoga Teacher & Laughter Yoga Master
Trainer
Past:
Yoga Teacher and Laughter Professor at the Laughter Yoga University.
Areas
of specialization: Yoga, Meditation and Laughter Yoga.
Contact:
244,
Suniket Apartments,
72-79,
Shrinagar Extension,
Khajrana
Road,
Indore -
452018
Madhya
Pradesh
India.
Cell: +91
7389938255 (Jagat), +91 9893262333 (Radhika).
Landline:
+91 731 4062333.
Email: coolbisht@hotmail.com
Facebook:
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Twitter:
@CoolBisht
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Skype:
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