Atmachetna - a journey into Happiness! June 12, 2016, Amsterdam

In most societies the pressure on people is increasing and their challenges and issues are becoming more complex. This leads to stress and many relationship issues with people; this impacts them; their families; their colleagues in work place and impacts the society and organizations where they work. The positive things of life are all looking as negative. What is needed that everyone manages their mental and physical wellness leading to a happy self and happiness for others! Happy people make happy society and a happy nation!

Atmachetna- means Self Awakening in Hindi. The journey of happiness begins and ends with self-awakening. This program is designed to invoke the self-awakening which is the beginning and end towards happiness.

What is Happiness?

What is happiness? Happiness is a state of mind where the feeling is pleasant. You eat something good which you love and it brings a pleasant sensation to your mind. You listen to a good music that you like. This brings a pleasant sensation in mind. This can be called as happiness. When, again, you eat the same food, and hear the same music when a tragedy has occurred in your life, you don’t enjoy it.

So happiness is something which is personal—which is totally dependent on the person concerned. That is, happiness is subjective and not objective. The same person, place or thing that brought happiness at one time, may bring sadness at another. Why does this happen? This happens because we are responsible for our happiness or sorrow, and not the external objects of the world. We think that somebody brings joy, this person brings misery, etc. All this is not true. The external persons, places, and things are only stimuli. These stimuli affect the brain and bring joy or sorrow in us, depending upon our state of mind. Thus, all our so-called loves, hates, ambitions, dislikes, successes, failures, and so on are for our own sake, created by us. When we say we love or hate others, it is for our own sake. It is a truth according to Hinduism that all that we do is for acquiring bliss for ourselves.

This happiness programs of Self-Awakening brings you to yourself and helps you look inside and create a sense of happiness which is lasting and which will help you manage self in times of external sorrow and spring back to sense of happiness soon.

It uses the basic principles of Gita and Vedas from Hinduism (but it’s completely different from a religious program). The principles are designed on spirituality and meditation and it takes the basic principles of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) to help you reach a state of Atmachetna.

Some of the concepts and techniques which are used in this program are:

·         Concept of Happiness and “Ananda” (true happiness) – what truly is happiness and eternal true happiness

·         Introduction to Bliss – as per the Gita and how do you find it for yourself and where do you find

·         External vs Internal happiness – is happiness an internal journey or an external fulfilment

·         Stages of happiness – Physical, Emotional and Spiritual – stages in which you currently are and where you wish to go in the happiness journey and the path to be taken

·         Path to Bliss – how to move to the path of the eternal happiness and the bliss and create a positive self  

·         Life Map – the map of life till now in your journey of life and how do you wish it to be in future

·         Positive self – how do you create a positive self and build a connect to self within

·         Positive core – where is the positive core for you and how do you maintain it on a continuous basis

·         Mind map – on the five senses and their linkage to happiness

This is a wonderful program and uses simple language and ideas and helps to bring a sense of positivity and happiness! 

Trainers:

Puneet Rathi - Happiness Coach!

Puneet is a happiness coach and certified Life Coach and Parenting Coach. Though he is a mechanical engineer with double post graduation in  International Marketing and MBA, his passion lies in bringing positive changes to people. 

He has been working with teens, adults and couples in conducting workshops and seminars on parenting, life skills and happiness. He also coaches people on one-to-one basis.

He has more than 25 years experience in India and outside India in making positive changes to organizations through people. He has worked with some of the best brands in multiple industries. In addition he has worked on developing leaders across India and South Asia. He is a certified NLP Practitioner, SHRM-SCP and Hogan certified coach (all from USA).

Joost van der Leij

  Licensed NLP Master Trainer™ Joost van der Leij is one of the very best NLP trainers in the world.  As the creator of NLP, Richard Bandler, says: “NLP is very easy to do, but hard to fathom.” Joost van der Leij is one of a very select group of NLP trainers who actually fathoms NLP.  Helped by his background as an academic philosopher he is like no other, able to clearly explain how NLP really works.

Joost van der Leij has written more than fourteen books, including the Dutch standard reference on NLP, "Brain Training: Handbook of Modern NLP".  Besides the fact that Joost van der Leij is the Dutch expert in the field of NLP and the Enneagram, Joost van Leij is also initiated in three different mystery schools, in North America, in South America and in Germany.  Since his teens Joost van der Leij has worked hard for his own self-development. This development runs via a two-pronged way: philosophy and spirituality.  As a philosopher Joost van der Leij taught at the University of Utrecht while he investigated numerous spiritual training schools and lifestyles.

This unique combination delivers a training program that is unparalleled.  New insights, techniques and considerable personal growth are guaranteed.  More important is the ability of Joost van der Leij like no other to train your subconscious mind.  Knowledge transfer and learning consciously are very valuable. At the same time most of what you learn is practical and of use in real life.  NLP is especially best learned through the unconscious mind so that you do it automatically.

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