Question: According to the Happy Planet Index, the richest countries aren’t the ones that provide the best conditions for a happy and healthy life. How do you rate your personal happiness within your country?
Answer: I fully agree with the finding. True happiness doesn’t depend on wealth, material possessions.
Of course we need the resources to secure our natural necessities, to provide a healthy, comfortable, modern life for ourselves and our family.
But beyond the basic necessities contentment, happiness depends on the positive, mutually supportive, mutually complementing – family like – relationships we build with other people.
And the most “developed”, richest countries are not particularly good at fostering such positive interconnections with people, as there is too much emphasis on “success”, “efficiency”, material worth, social status in these societies. There isn’t enough time for human connection.
My personal happiness doesn’t depend on the country I live in (and I have been moving from country to country) but on the status of my relationship to others. Since I have been studying, practicing a practical, educational method – the Wisdom of Kabbalah – that “specializes” on building the right Human interconnections, my “happiness status” is usually quite good…
Entering The Force-Field 