The Secret to Happiness: Stop Thinking

2bebetter
4 min readMay 1, 2024

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“The secret to making yourself happy is to stop thinking. The best way to heal yourself is to be busy and go to bed early. Don’t let five minutes of unhappiness affect your happiness throughout the day. People, think about it. It’s happiness, but it’s pain if you can’t think about it. Most of the time, it’s not something you can’t deal with, but your heart.

All pain in life is essentially anger at one’s incompetence. Some things cannot be solved, and you have to think about them wildly, and you can’t let them go for a long time, causing you serious mental internal friction.

If you are depressed and depressed by various things every day, then no matter how many achievements you have, or how much wealth and resources you have, you cannot be happy.

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Don’t think about the past

Things in the past have happened and the facts have been created. Whether you like it or not, you have to get over it. If you can’t turn a page in your heart and are always immersed in the pain of the past, it will be like walking with heavy baggage. You will never be able to travel lightly and embrace the life you want.

The resentments of the past must be let go, the entanglements of the past must be let go, and the glory of the past must be cleared away. There is no way to go back in life, but many people like to go back in their thoughts. Learn to turn over the past, focus all your time and energy on the present, live the present life well, and accumulate more energy for a better future.

The world is like a book. As we turn the pages, we have to look forward. Don’t go through history.

Don’t think about the future

A team of psychology experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology conducted an experiment in which they randomly found one hundred people and asked them to write down their most anxious things on slips of paper and seal them in a box. A year later, when I opened the box and inspected it, I found that almost none of the issues that everyone was worried about had happened.

Conclusion: 99% of the things we worry about will not happen.

We should not be anxious in advance. How the future develops is not at all dependent on human will. We can only do our best in the present and let the future results take their course.

We should not be anxious in advance. How the future develops is not at all dependent on human will. We can only do our best in the present and let the future results take their course.

In life, I often make myself miserable because of anxiety about advance payments. Parents who are worried that their children will not be admitted to college worried that they are unemployed, and worried about getting older will suffer from all sorts of problems. All kinds of random thoughts make you feel suffocated.

Don’t think about the future. When soldiers come, the water will come and the earth will cover it up. You just need to manage the present well.

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Don’t think about helpless things

How can it not be as satisfying as everyone wants, I just want it to be worthy of my heart.

A person’s power is too small, and we are powerless and helpless about many things, but we must adjust our mentality, calmly accept everything that happens in life, and treat the ups and downs of life with optimism and openness.

If fate gives you a chance, just use your power to send me to the blue clouds. If fate doesn’t give you any favors, just do things within your ability without complaining about God or others.

If your ability can only make you poor, then poor is your value. If your conditions can only allow you to die alone, then being alone is your life.

We must work hard but don’t compete with fate in terms of results.

Since you can’t get what you want, don’t let go. Since there is no pure land, it is better to purify the mind. Since there is nowhere to escape, it is better to be happy.

Don’t think about helpless things, work hard on things that can be solved, and God can freely arrange things that cannot be solved. Everything is arranged for the best.

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