There are four wrong inputs that we constantly allow into our brains. These trigger three exaggerated defences. As we navigate life, we suffer an imbalance between two polarities in our approach to life. A downward spiral to unhappiness, then, is triggered by one type of malicious thought.

4 (wrong) Inputs that distort our perception of the truth. 3 (exaggerated) Defences that keep us safe but make us suffer. 2 (opposite) Polarities failing to stay in balance. 1 (harmful) Thought that causes all the unhappiness you have ever

Happiness happens when life seems to be going our way. We feel happy when the events of our life match our expectations, our hopes and wishes of how life should be.

Nothing is real until your brain decides that it is.

These are to fully experience life as it is, to solve problems, to flow and to give.

No event in your life ever has the power to make you unhappy until you choose to grant it that power by turning it into a thought and ruminating on the negative side of it to torture yourself with unhappiness.

No event, I dare say, in your entire life ever had the power to make you unhappy unless you granted it that power by turning it into a thought and running it through your head over and over to make yourself miserable.

In my research I found that thoughts, and only thoughts, have the single biggest impact on our state of happiness.

Your happiness is greater than or equal to the difference between the perception of the events of your life and your hopes and expectations of how life should behave.