The 7th May due out 2007 issue of Newsweek carried an article by Rana Foroohar to "The Joy of Economics. The writer quotes from a detailed survey on happiness, the product of research by scientists at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Ten countries each from Denmark to Mexico, Tanzania, Russia and Egypt to India have been chosen as "The happiest nations," "The Least-Happy Nations" and "countries with the largest disparities between happy and unhappy citizens' review. The happiest nation, according to the survey was Denmark with 8.2 rating in the 0 to 10 scale. Switzerland, Austria, Iceland, Finland, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Luxembourg and Mexico have not bad. They rated 8.1 to 7.6. The least happy nations of Tanzania (3.2) were, Zimbabwe, Moldova, Ukraine, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Bulgaria, Pakistan and Russia (4,4). Surprisingly, Pakistan, with political unrest and instability since its conception, does not rate very bad. At 4.3 they were only 0.1 less happy than the Russians. Now, the last category: "The countries with the largest differences between the happy and unhappy citizens "...... Egypt on top of the list, along with Nigeria and India, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey were at the end of the list. In preparing the above-mentioned special report by Rana Foroohar for the magazine, there are some interesting points that deserve some consideration: Wealth alone is not necessarily what makes us happy. After a certain income cap, we just can not get, any happier.Rather told as people to work harder, can politicians discuss work-life balance. The happiest countries cited in the report, that the Scandinavian countries, including the top of its suicide rate. Surprisingly report rating countries low on the Happiness scale, fewer suicides. So the question is: do you measure happiness and scaled? Can it be assessed? What is happiness? Can we define the word and standardize such a definition for all humanity? Prince Siddhartha leaving his palace to happiness in the solitude of the forest to find. His quest for happiness ultimately leads him to meditate, to the meditative way of life. Not so with the Prophet Muhammad, he found happiness in the service of society as a statesman and a man of God. Jesus finds happiness in the separation of the secular kingdom of Caesar from the heavenly kingdom of God. Krishna tries to create such an empire in this very world. What is happiness? A monk is looking forward to charity to live. A clergy working for a living, he can even own company, in fact companies. The Newsweek report admits shyly that "wealth alone is not necessarily what makes us happy" - prove the facts on the ground that "Wealth is not connect all that with happiness." The Buddhists, Hindus, and Christian monks and Muslim Sufi fakirs find happiness in giving up wealth. It may not be much, but when you think of their impact on society - you will be surprised! People have different standards, different paradigms, different conditioning and thinking. And they define "happiness" according to their different ways of thinking. So, it's just not possible to assess happiness. Apparently, Newsweek has deliberately. They invited the visitors to its website for either happiness could be assessed to vote or not. You could also check for "I do not know." Majority agreed that the happiness could not be rated! Yes, happiness can not be evaluated. And this explains why after a certain income level cap, we just do not get no happier. "In his second May 2007 on-line report presents BBC News Home Editor Mark Easton very interesting facts: "Britain is less happy than in the 1950s - despite the fact that we are three times richer, the share of people they say. are "very satisfied" from 52% in 1957 to almost 36% today like the stories of the wealth because they must be translated for extra luck, the history of the Western World | .. | "In almost all developed countries have happiness levels largely static over the past 50 years - despite huge profits. What happiness research suggests that once average incomes reach about £ 10,000 per year, more money does not make a country not happier. In our survey, we asked whether the government primary objective should be the "greatest happiness" or "the greatest wealth" are. A remarkable 81% wanted happiness as the goal. Only 13% wanted greatest wealth. Should students be taught how happy ?......( asked) whether they should be more emphasis on the schools teaching students how to put a happy life and achieve less in the training for them the world of work thought. A majority - 52% agreed that more emphasis should be placed on the luck - 43% disagreed with "less friendly, the survey asked whether people felt in their neighborhood was more or less friendly than it was 10 years ago 43%. ?. said less friendly, up to 22% of people said it was friendly comparison What makes us happy, almost half of the people - 48% - say that relationships are the biggest factor in making them happy is Second Health to 24%.?. . When we asked people to choose the two most important sources of happiness in her life, from 1001 people only 77 people said work performance. According to the science of happiness, friends of crucial importance for our well-being but in our opinion poll, most of us speak to only a small number of close friends every week. Six out of 10 people to five friends or less said every week. Two of 10 spoke to only one or two friends. And one person in 25 languages to any friends |. | We asked satisfaction to say people in their own words what happiness meant to them according to analysis by Ilona Boniwell, a psychologist at Oxford Brookes University, most people involved in the definition of family and friends. . But the results of a surprise, the second largest group of responses centered around threw satisfaction and inner peace | .. | It seems that many people are lucky enough to find ways out of the hustle and bustle of modern life |. | So, most of them. Linked to the people related happiness, contentment and inner peace we can safely conclude that happiness is not material well-being is the emotional and mental well-being is also when we speak of "Inner Peace" and not just "peace" .. - We are already at the periphery of Spirituality |. | .. I remember a meeting in the office of a country's senior officials, a handful of "the elect" people attended as the cream of our society of the reason yours truly has been added to the list, we were invited to find some brain-storming and They speak different solutions to problems faced by the nation, I am pleased to Indonesia | ... |. Most of the dignitaries present connected somehow all the problems with the material well-being One of them went so far as to say, "When the stomachs are full, all our problems are solved. We can do something for our people the state "|. | What a view, what a view! And no one contradicted him, with the exception of yours truly then, after I presented my ideas and offered some. Solutions - a dignified old lady, a teacher by profession, joined me for a second only two of us could really see that "luck was not material" That was a few years back - back in 2005 | .. | Interestingly, most. the dignitaries present were a record for participation at one of the nation's top motivators, which speaks to "non-material well-being" of each fact, some of them were part of the organization and training motivators What a tragedy | ..! | The Motivator himself, although speaking to non-physical, but mental well-being, obviously can not identify true joy and happiness to the mind connection. He can not distinguish them from the sensory pleasure and physical comfort. Mind you, he is not alone. With him are some of our best minds what is compared to a tragedy or Money Matter in particular a pair of shoes from my guru.! "They can not wear them if they are very loose and very dense. They should fit just the right size "just enough right is the most recent survey report, cited by BBC News Editor supports this view we come back to the most important factors associated with happiness in connection - .. everyone - relationships, happiness and inner peace . The trio each represents a layer of consciousness |. | ... Is connected to the emotional level you satisfaction is the result of rational argument, it is the flower of our faculty of discrimination, and this is part of the layer of intelligence here, I separate intelligence of intellectuality. A man of letters, a scholar with a mile long list of degrees to his name, is perhaps intellectually. But he can not know what intelligence is. Intelligence is a question of the soul. It goes beyond book knowledge, it is the inherent Knowingness It is the innate, inherent knowledge of an infant with which she takes the nipple of the mother | ... | Knowledge alone does not make you content, it is the knowledge that knowledge is not all. and that they do not do content - that is a content This is truly omniscient Intelligence | ... | Knowledge and intelligence tend to work with facts you need evidence or intelligence Knowingness works with truth - the truth it needs no proof .. . It is an end in itself proof of it is instinct in animals, and the intuition in man | .. | Third important factor in securing happiness is Inner Peace And this is an "all soul affair" This is the periphery of our .. . Spiritual Layer One step further and enter the realm of pure spirituality, in which the happiness turns into Bliss In the language of our ancient seers. - It is the Aananda Aananda This is really what we are all striving for, knowingly or unknowingly. , Knowingly or unknowingly, in fact, our relationship with the world and in our sense of contentment and inner peace - it is actually the Pure Bliss or Aananda that we can look to our search only end when we reach this highest state .. Total and Perfect Well Being - where imperfections are so perfectly imperfect, that they did not differ from perfection |. | This state of supreme bliss or Aananda can not be described in words, it can be implemented in a spirit of knowledge and how .. We can only really happy! . If a man or a woman of such knowledge comes down from his spiritual heights, we have a Gandhi, a Martin Luther King, Jr., a mother and a Theresa Sukarno Today we have as men and women around us Oh, my country, my people, my people do not recognize what greater tragedy can befall a country where the children of the spirit where people are not honored with the realization | ..! | We Newsweek and the BBC need to open our eyes. We need the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to help us out of the economic crisis of its own making. We need to teach the Middle East to us, culture, economy, even dress code. The latest is in the field of agriculture - I hear Communist China send their farmers to teach our farmers how to cultivate our land are happy nations and least satisfied nations, and there are countries with the largest disparities between happy and unhappy citizens ..... .. I went through all three lists, trying to find my country, my nation was not in any of those lists where we are where we are as we are issued |.? | Happiness can not be evaluated, Yes Luck is not even the Last Frontier, there is still the state supreme bliss or Aananda - yes but how can we ever reach this state, if we have cost less than the happiness Far from a happy nation ..? may not even my country, the importance of happiness We are delighted when a priest intimidate us with hellfire and we weep for fear, we are pleased to see a bunch of hooligans kidnapping of the entire nation in the name of religion ... |! | Wake up my country, my nation wake up my brothers, my sisters, my fellow citizens to wake up to your place in the civilization of the day you back some very happy moments in the past, but have one. much happier life awaits you in the future Wake up, that the future begins now, at this moment you fill this day with joy, so you can be happy tomorrow, | ..! | The lessons to learn the West is only coming from you. You have inherited these lessons from your ancestors, your seer and sage, from your husband and wife of wisdom, from your long history in the past, whenever you neglected these lessons, if you rejected the local wisdom - you lost your dignity .. They were shackled and enslaved by the aliens do not allow that the story of shame to repeat itself, wake up ..
