Changer sa vision du monde pour être heureux
Tout dépend de notre état d’esprit. Du filtre avec lequel on va voir le monde, de nos Perspectives. On peut être heureux dans n’importe quelle situation si on le décide. On s’en fiche complètement du contrôle que l’on a sur son univers ou l’environnement.
How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depend directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.
The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.
If a person learns to enjoy and find meaning in the ongoing stream of experience, in the process of living itself, the burden of social controls automatically falls from one’s shoulders.
“Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them,” said Epictetus
Marcus Aurelius wrote: “If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.”
Se concentrer sur ce qui est pertinent dans L’instant présent rend heureux
Les personnes autotéliques, qui arrivent à transformer des conditions externes objectives en une expérience contrôlable intérieurement sont plus heureuses.
people might vary in the number of external cues they need to accomplish the same mental task. Individuals who require a great deal of outside information to form representations of reality in consciousness may become more dependent on the external environment for using their minds. They would have less control over their thoughts, which in turn would make it more difficult for them to enjoy experience. By contrast, people who need only a few external cues to represent events in consciousness are more autonomous from the environment. They have a more flexible attention that allows them to restructure experience more easily, and therefore to achieve optimal experiences more frequently.
This in turn suggests that people who can enjoy themselves in a variety of situations have the ability to screen out stimulation and to focus only on what they decide is relevant for the moment.
The traits that mark an autotelic personality are most clearly revealed by people who seem to enjoy situations that ordinary persons would find unbearable.
Richard Logan, who has studied the accounts of many people in difficult situations, concludes that they survived by finding ways to turn the bleak objective conditions into subjectively controllable experience.
—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Auteur : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Eliott Meunier - https://notes.eliottmeunier.com/Archive/Changer+sa+vision+du+monde+pour+%C3%AAtre+heureux