{"id":7679,"date":"2011-08-20T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145696.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=7679"},"modified":"2011-08-20T01:00:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T08:00:41","slug":"choosing-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/choosing-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Feelgood Quickie: Choosing Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7473\" title=\"feelgood quickie\" src=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/quickie.png\" alt=\"feelgood quickie header logo\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/quickie.png 500w, https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/quickie-300x60.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tibetan monk Matthieu Ricard makes the interesting distinction between happiness and pleasure. He says that pleasure is a fickle emotion, and real happiness is more a sense of well-being. Check out his thoughts on happiness in this lighthearted TED talk.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"499\" height=\"284\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vbLEf4HR74E?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The way he talks about happiness is very in line with something that&#8217;s been on my mind for a while. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glueandglitter.com\/main\/2011\/07\/20\/keeping-busy-and-choosing-happiness-lml\" target=\"_blank\">Is happiness a choice<\/a>? What do you guys think? <strong>Can we transform our own minds and choose happiness? <\/strong>I believe that we can!<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tibetan monk Matthieu Ricard makes the interesting distinction between happiness and pleasure. He says that pleasure is more of a fickle emotion, and real happiness is more a sense of well-being. Check out his thoughts on happiness in this lighthearted TED talk. <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/choosing-happiness\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false},"categories":[5642,661],"tags":[5836,5837,2510,5116,5675],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/quickie.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}