u/LordNoOne

Whenever I see a psychology article about happiness, it always seems to say that pursuing happiness is the easiest way to make yourself miserable. I just saw one article where a person was saying they went out with friends expecting that it would make them happy, and they instead realized it didn’t make them happy and then they became more and more miserable. This seems to have almost nothing at all to do with pursuing happiness because the person pursued a condition that may or may not cause happiness rather than pursuing happiness directly.

In my experience, pursuing happiness is a simple, straight forward skill where you just sit there and focus on trying to will yourself to be happy, and, once you've practiced for many hours, it becomes fairly easy and very effective. By just focusing on trying to will myself to be happy, I have before gotten amazing, dumbfounding amounts of good feelings so that have had trouble suppressing a huge smile and I just wanted to shout "YES!!!" at the top of my lungs. The only difficult part of my practice is keeping myself from getting distracted from it and forgetting to keep trying to will myself to feel good (to take a cue from meditation advice, if I'm getting distracted badly, I count my breaths until I find I'm calm and focused and then go back to trying to will myself to be happy).

I've taught this to other people, as well, without too much difficulty. I've found the hard part of teaching it isn't explaining to them how to do it so that they have success with the practice but is finding someone who doesn't think it's impossible and that easy and isn't too addicted to entertainment and distractions to even listen.

Is it just not known to many psychologists that willing yourself to be happy is a skill you can develop? Why was I the one who had to inform my therapists and psychiatrists about this? Is this studied under a different name or is it just not studied? I personally would love to hear about research on this topic so that my friends and I could get better at it.

I can't seem to find any.

All I will say is that a human was pranked into doing something extremely embarrassing and illegal when they were drunk, and whoever made him do it has video evidence.

People keep telling me I'm supposed to have complaints. Is yogurt a complaint? I think I can buy yogurt at the store. Also, once I get complaints, what do I do with them? Why do people want them so much?

I'm alive!!!! Holy crap!!!!

He smokes the meats.

This is all we have and all we can give you. Perhaps there will be more in the future.

Apply generously.

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You exist. You are alive. You are awake. There is no escape. There is no running. You must deal with it. There is no higher truth.

It's not much, but imagine how much worse it would be if you didn't have it. We can't afford or do much:

Have the following letters:

!!!$!!!7777Amazing😇🫠WowOwow!!!☺️Yes!!!!~

Woooooooow!!!opdoowopishahshaYEAH!!!^^^^

What do they look like? What do they feel, taste, smell, and sound like? What variations can you make? Allow this experience to somewhat nourish you today.

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How is the Eldritch government doing today? Feel free to leave a review and rating. Please don't overthrow us. We are doing our best.

I've decided that the only law we need is "Have Fun". If you don't have fun (or, especially, if you prevent others, such as me, from having fun) we will do horrible things to you and your family and friends until you start having fun again. Also, free ice cream on Wednesdays. Or else.

Note: Immediate risk. Developing new languages, even dialects, changes and messes up your genetics in unforeseeable ways.

First, what are our goals for this dialect of English? Personally, I want to heal from chronic pain due to neuropathy and some of what seems to be brain damage, I want a lot of joy, I want to be more intelligent and scientific, I want a better imagination, and I want a stronger, healthier body. What are your goals?

Second, assume these goals are able to be helped with the right linguistics and muse and research how other languages may have addressed them and how we could easily construct a dialect of English to do them. For instance, for alchemy, we can make punctuation and words and defintions for processes of using the human as laboratory. For joy and pain relief we can make a rule that it is encouraged to break rules and invent games in the manners of speech just for fun and relief. I.e. to be playful with the language while keeping it understandable. For instance, you could-o add-o sound-os and letterzizzlers just for joy. For better imagation, we can encourage the use of sparkly green and salty language or nonsense words like "u'Jonkz yellis boogo" purely for the purpose of development of a spice mélange-ful imagination. For healthy organs, we can remame the organs of the body with words activate and the organs and make them feel good (For instance, the Chinese word for heart is xin, which activates the heart when you say, hear, or think it). We can also define and use new or old symbols and use them to reference laboratory alchemy if that's what we want to do. And we can throw in notation from other languages such as music or geometry. What else can we do?

Third, let's attempt to speak in this new dialect and maybe give the dialect or variety you are trying to speak a name and definition to give it direction: Here is "Englíshibbïble", whose only rule is that it be understandable by proper English speakers but that otherwise every rule is thrown out in favor of fun and good feelings. The more you try to think and speak in your new alchemical dialect, the easier it will come. It should be easy and show immediate, lasting benefits from the start. Let's see if we can make one master dialect that is to be used for alchemy in general maybe?

Hëllø, thar!! I hópe errbœdy is guiiid todat! Lét's doowop up up up some cool and spicy alchemizzleshizzle!!!!