You have learnt that events cause emotions.
You have also learnt that emotions are the building blocks of happiness.
You will have catalogued your emotions into groups: emotions that make you happy and those that do not.
Through our program, you have the ability to go through your events and emotions and determine which of these events are under your control.
You may choose an event as an event that you would like to repeat.
You then place this event onto your happiness plan.
You can then use this plan to influence your future activities.
I will illustrate this by way of an example: Carmen goes to an old-age home to visit her aunt.
Through her interaction with her aunt, she hears stories about her family and her childhood.
Carmen leaves the old-age home feeling a number of emotions that contribute to her happiness. She felt:
Compassion.
Love.
Engagement.
Connectedness..
Carmen likes the experience of these feelings as they contribute to her state of happiness.
Carmen recognizes that these feelings are under her control.
Carmen decides that she would like to repeat this experience so that she can feel these emotions again.
Carmen uses this event to create a plan.
She decides that she will visit her aunt every six weeks.
She expects that she will feel similar emotions the next time she visits with her aunt.
Happiness may not be a state that occurs randomly.
You may have a lot more control over the emotions that promote happiness than what you think.
You can plan for events that promote happiness.
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