12  The joy of living

12.1 Meditation: unlocking the secret and science of happiness

The Joy of Living is a path of meditation1 practice that is very easily to follow by you and focus in explaining it to modern world.

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Meditation is a key-tool to master emotions, to understand negative and positive emotions, it empower and sharpen your real intelligence. Ultimatly, it is an esencial tool to understand your own mind.

Meditation deals with basic functions of the mind and the movements toward inner peace and away from suffering.2

12.2 Goals

The Joy of Living method contains three goals:

  • Calming the Mind
  • Opening the Heart
  • Awakening Wisdom

First, calming the mind, in this level you will use any situation or experience, included negative emotions and painbody, as a gateway to inner peace.

Second, you are meditating how to open your heart to the world around you and decrease the self-fixation that lies at the root of negative emotions.

Third, in this level you will practise the insight meditation, a profound form of meditation that uproots the causes of negative emotions.

The goals of this tool included:

  • How to rest in a state of spacious and alert presence using visual objects, sounds, tastes as support to transform negative emotions and painbody.
  • How to deal with distractions and understand daily meditation, postures, lenght and to define a session.
  • How negative emotions relate to fixate just in your wellbeing and positive mental states can grow.
  • How to see beyond superficial thoughts and emotions and see things as they actually are, rather the mistaken version of reality that we project onto the world.