3 Secrets Of Ancient Wisdom To Be Happy
Despite all the current advances, to be happy, it is better to refer to ancient wisdom, because it has more than precious teachings.
Much of the advice we are given today on how to be happy is not new, but comes from ancient wisdom.
A wisdom that seems to have been relegated to ancient times but that we continue to use today, because we have not been able to internalize all that it wanted to transmit to us.
In this article, we are going to introduce you to 3 secrets of ancient wisdom that will be very useful to you today.
If the wise do them, there is a reason, right?
Secrets of ancient wisdom to put into practice
1. Control what you can control and ignore the rest
The first of the secrets of ancient wisdom is very important. How many times have we wanted to control things that are not our responsibility?
Faced with a problem that ravages us, a worry that keeps us in suspense, it is necessary to ask ourselves if we can do something.
The stoics were saying it already: “Can I do something about this problem? If I can, then I take action. If I can’t do anything, then I accept it ”.
But, we don’t always act so wise. We bump into the same wall over and over again. But by wearing us out, undermining our self-esteem and increasing our anxiety.
We can’t always control everything. There are things that happen, because they happen, full stop. Accepting this frees us from a heavy burden because sometimes we take responsibility for things that we shouldn’t.
This is sometimes the result of fear, insecurity or some other problem that prevents us from “letting it go”.
Let’s just let it go and don’t stick so much to something we don’t know how to control. The best comes when we learn to let go.
2. Accept and stop refusing things
Accepting is one of the most difficult things in our life, because it involves stopping taking a victim role.
When we don’t accept a negative illness, situation, or period in our life, we start to reject what is happening and rebel against it.
This situation is as absurd as seeing it raining and refusing it or rebelling against it. Do we gain anything from it? Can we change the situation? The answer is no”. Because the only option we have is to accept what is happening.
Why this refusal in the face of reality? Because of our expectations, what we consider to be good luck and bad luck …
All of this leads us to suffering and to putting into practice totally unnecessary resistance. We are not victims, the world is not working against us. Things happen because they happen.
Let’s accept that we don’t have the power to change these facts. Otherwise, according to the stoics, we are wasting a lot of our energy for nothing.
3. You are responsible for your life
The third secret of ancient wisdom is very important in removing guilt from your life. Indeed, we tend to make our parents feel guilty for the way they behaved with us, but we are adults!
As Seneca said: “We say that we do not choose our parents, that they were given to us by chance, but we can choose which children we want to be.”
Looking behind and complaining about everything that has happened will not do us any good. It is a way of excusing our passivity to do something in the face of all the difficulties that are not beset us at the moment.
We are adults, we have the power to take a different path from that traced by our progenitors. Now it is we who are responsible for our life, no one else.
What can we do ?
Before you go, don’t forget to read: Haiku, Japanese poetry to release emotions
Today is the time to start letting go of what we cannot change, accept the situations as they arise, and start taking the helm of our lives.
Falling into obsession, rejection and guilt will only bring us bad luck.
