Topic Meeting: Happiness is…what exactly…?

 

Tuesday December 4^th, Clem McGrath, Life Coach Associates

Our speaker has co-authored 2 books, ‘Real Life: Living Skills for the Living,’ and ‘The Way to Freedom.’
Christmas is the time of ‘good will,’ ‘good cheer’ and the expectation is that we will be happy.  These messages are promoted in a variety of ways, most of them with commercial attachments.  You will be happy because of what you receive from others and they will be happy because of what they receive from you. The more expensive the gifts the happier you’ll all be. Yet for many people Christmas is a difficult time, it doesn’t meet our inflated expectations and no amount of ‘getting’ seems to make for lasting happiness.  Perhaps however Christmas is symptomatic of something else, unease.  Clem McGrath’s colleague, Anne Harvey wrote in an article titled ‘What Are We Waiting For’ that ‘….we spend our entire day torturing ourselves, trying to make ourselves fit a story.’  Clem will address these questions: -

• What is happiness exactly?
• Is happiness overrated or an unreasonable ask?
• Can we be happy, even though we’re anxious?
• How do we ‘become happy’, or is it some else’s job to ‘make’ us happy?
• Do we need to go looking for happiness and if so where is it?
• Or, does happiness happen whilst we’re busy doing something else?

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