1 Minute Astrology - The Psychology Of Happiness: Can You Be Any Happier Or Are You Pretty Much Stuck?

7 Responses to “1 Minute Astrology - The Psychology Of Happiness: Can You Be Any Happier Or Are You Pretty Much Stuck?”

1. Kathy says on 9/11/07 at 2:36 pm:
   

   I’ve always agreed with the quote by Lincoln that people are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. I think we are born with a tendency to either be satisfied, and thus happy or not, thus unhappy. As a happy person I have problems understanding how some people can just never be satisfied. They, in return, tell me there can’t be an upside to EVERYTHING. Still, sometimes after life hands you some lemons and you make that proverbial lemonade you realize happiness is really a choice and nobody can make me happy or unhappy - I can only do that for myself. So can I be happier? I know I can because I am much happier at this point in my life than I was as a young person. And it isn’t because life is only giving me good things. It’s because I can now appreciate the good things I used to feel I deserved just for being alive. Maturity brings much contentment.

2. wyrdling says on 9/11/07 at 3:34 pm:
   

   where would you go looking for the energetics of happiness in a chart? jupiter? venus? the moon?
   is it not how you’re using what you have?

   i have to agree that my perspective on anything is the overriding factor in how it affects my state of mind. not the event but how i work with it. it’s really all in the head… but figuring out where i need to place my mind to feel better can get tricky.

3. Viv says on 9/11/07 at 5:03 pm:
   

   One thing I learned from astrology and which psychology is in constant debate about, is the cause-effect thing… which came first, the chicken or the egg. Why is someone’s personality the way it is, is it the environment or the genes, or both? astrology says it’s all the same thing. one reflects the other. you’re the only one that can really change your reality, by changing where you focus your thoughts and attention. jupiter people focus on the positive and are happy. I think that’s the only secret. I know a few people who were miserable half their lifes until they decided it was enough, and started to be happy no matter what. and that’s how they did it, focusing on good things and not taking life too seriously.

4. joana says on 9/12/07 at 3:07 pm:
   

   Yes. Maybe we start by telling happier stories to ourselves about our lives and us as people, it all starts in the colour of the glasses we’re wearing…

5. SaDiablo says on 9/29/07 at 5:24 pm:
   

   Viv, I think you hit it when you said, “… not taking life too seriously.” Cheeze knows I became lots happier when I allowed myself to be silly once in a while!

6. Jennifer says on 3/26/08 at 9:29 pm:
   

   I suppose it makes sense…I’m rarely Perky and Happy!, don’t pull that off most of the time, but am also not 100% depressed. I float around in the neutral middle. I guess that’s pretty fixed.

7. Dina says on 3/26/08 at 10:08 pm:
   

   “One thing I learned from astrology and which psychology is in constant debate about, is the cause-effect thing… which came first, the chicken or the egg. Why is someone’s personality the way it is, is it the environment or the genes, or both?”

   Oh yeah, Viv. Psychology is definitely all caught up in that. I keep thinking about it too.

   As to gratitude, it’s funny, when I was in the Art of Living ashram, the guru talked a lot about gratitude and how it makes you happy. I don’t quite remember, but he talked about the chakras and how they have positive and negative emotions connected to them. Gratitude was the positive emotion for the throat, the negative one was I think sadness or melancholy.

   I don’t quite agree that there is a ceiling to our happiness. There are, after all, different types of positive emotions. Like delight or excitement, which is a kind of pixie stick happiness I feel when preparing to go out. Or when I am walking and hear the music and noise of a party, I’m like a cartoon character following the scent of pie (Gemini). I don’t know, I’m not sure. This is a really interesting question. I’ll have to think more about it.

   Also, I think perkiness is an outward attitude. Some people think it’s a virtue and a strength to always seem happy nevermind what your problems are. As a result, they put it on. I think that kind of fortitude is crap, you don’t weigh others down that much if you tell them how you actually are. Particularly if they care. For some people, it’s not wise to hold bad emotions in.

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