Living Like the Happiest Person in the World for 1 Week 

What’s your experience with meditation?

Happiness happens when you accept your life.

*Don't expect anything. Just accept everything.*

meditation isn’t where happiness is- the happiness exists within you, meditation helps dig it out

"I hope everybody could get rich and famous and will have everything they ever dreamed of so they will know that is not the answer to happiness." Jim Carrey

from my experience in life, I came to realize 1.the less you need the happier you get. 2.learn to find joy in the smallest of things.

God,I love how soothing and relaxing your voice is.

If you are a beginner, you can't meditate for 30 minutes straight. It's better to try something like 5 - 15 minutes of guided meditation, and then build up dedicated time gradually.

"The shape of happiness might resemble glass. Even though you don't usually notice it, it's still definitely there. You merely have to change your point of view slightly, and then that glass will sparkle when it reflects the light. I doubt that anything else could argue its existence more eloquently."- Lelouch Vi Britannia

*_I dislike when someone asks how are you_* and the response is always I'm good, i'm fine even when you're feeling crummy inside

*"and they were thought to be insane by those who couldn't hear the music"* Peace of mind is where you are ok, regardless the type of thoughts you have.

"Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive. Inner peace does not." - Eckhart Tolle

8:04 “How many of you take your phone into the bathroom.....” me: “😳🤳🏻🚽”

Happiness is having a desire to live, being motivated and having hopes and dreams.

You are the kind of person I wanna spend my life with. So much calm and peace

As Muslims we do meditation in the form of praying 5 times a day but what sets our praying technique from all other kinds of meditation is the body postures we make, I hope you could take sometime to search " Muslims prayer" and try it out using the same love and happy thoughts you already do. I believe you are going to be fascinated by the results. I also recommend that you do it wearing a very modest comfy loose clothing and also covering your hair to get more focus. Love you ♥️

happiness for me is taking care of myself, doing things i enjoy, taking life slow, not thinking or being negative, not caring what others think or what others have, its improving myself while I'm on this amazing journey, and the best part is I'm learning new things about myself everyday.

I think true happiness is allowing yourself to feel sadness when it comes over you. Everything shall come to pass. Idk just my take on it.

This video came at a really good time. I’ve been thinking about ways to make myself happier for the past couple weeks, but it’s been a struggle. Thank you for this!

Such a peaceful, calm, & intelligent vibe from you; glad I stumbled upon your channel

Real happiness is in the ability to overcome your own evil, your own hardships, your own selfishness.

Happiness is fully loving and accepting yourself for who you are, being grateful, and living in each moment you are in from moment to moment, never looking either backwards or forwards for your happiness or in regret.

i could listen to you speak all day, so calm

The quality of the video is literally amazing.

Inner happiness is something that I've struggled with for many years, finding a happy place and just sit and loose myself with my thoughts is something I have tried a few times. It's hard to explain, but after my thoughts "take over" I feel a lot more connected with myself and a new perspective on not only myself, but others around me. Give it a try, it actually works wonders.

Can you make a video on self-love/acceptance?

"Happiness is a choice, but whoever told you it's easy lied." -Prince Ea

I believe happiness is a state of mind! Decide to perceive everything positively and decide that every tiny experience or acquired thing would bring joy , satisfaction and opportunity ...

My friend once asked me: “how are you?”. I responded: “I’m fine. Wait. I’m far from fine!”. I was so used to saying I’m fine even when I wasn’t, that it became an automatic response. Just wanted to share.

What has made me happy today, is this video. So glad you have found this direction. You are so smart, I thought you would. Loving kindness mindfulness, is why I am alive, and everyone else also. Love you, and what you are sharing. Ty, Lana. 💓🙏

Happiness comes from within, happiness is being at peace, showing positivity towards life, having positive thoughts, having love from within for yourself and others. Happiness is enjoying life and doing things that bring you joy and serves you, happinesses is constant growth becoming the best you you can be.

I’ve never meditated before, but am looking forward to watching the video!! Your content is consistently amazing and you deserve a lot more subs ❤️

your videos helps me to feel happy again after hard emotional trauma and i feel i dont wanna die. just thank u for all great things u do..its amazing

Being the perfect version of my self is the happiness

It's so beautiful to watch how you grow to become a healer. Don't stop, what you do is very important. Follow the path of your heart. Thank you for an inspiration.

I believe happiness is a must temporary feeling that we go through from time to time like the many other feelings we experience in our life.

I’ve been meditation daily for over a month for at least 20 mins or more and I feel my awareness has expanded and am more centered. I just follow my breathe and become aware of my 8 chakras. I will try to incorporate the loving- kindness into my daily practice. Thanks for sharing!

Recently I’ve been feeling much lighter with meditation. Before my subconscious mind was filled with negativity and doubt and I focused on everything I could have done and everything that went wrong. Truly focusing on positivity and bringing myself back to a place of hope when I felt dark has helped me react much more rationally than before. My overall perspective on life has begun to change- I don’t fear confrontation because I know how to acknowledge my thoughts without letting them consume me. Meditation has been the most positive change I have made in my life. It isn’t always easy to get up or push away the obsessive thoughts, but I have learned to respond in a way that helps me heal much faster

We have been trained to outsource our happiness. Its our individual journey to explore and learn how we can create this for ourselves and along the way be/offer that example or perspective to the world (the importance of being yourself perhaps) ✨

Your videos always relax me and trust me its a big deal for me ! So thank you for existing in my life.

This color grading is breathtaking

Idk if it's the clouds or the room design combined with the way you discuss the topics but your place seems peaceful for just sitting and thinking meditating in peace.

The cinematography is amazing

so stoked that i intersected your video since i have been practicing mindfulness meditation. And before i begin mindfulness meditation, i begin with 5-10 minutes of forgiving and spreading loving kindness meditation to earthlings and from my closed ones to people i don't know. That helps clear all doubts and strengthen my compassion which allows me to tap into mindfulness better without thought intervention. Thank you for the inspiration and happy practicing the Way!

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”............ Albus Dumbledore, JK Rowling

Your videos are so aesthetic

The script and the videography is quiet awesome as always ! GJ!!

Just came across this channel via this video. Your voice is sooooo soothing and relaxing.

8:18 who else thinks that time in the bathroom is the extra of life especially at school , i go to the bathroom and meditate it sounds weird but i mean try it yourself it recharges me from school and i'm more productive in class

You are so mysterious. I love it!

Actually just started a 30 day meditation challenge. I have meditated before, but never for a consistently long period of time. I’m on day 3 and really enjoying it. I tend to do focused attention meditation. Thank you for this video! I enjoyed it. I didn’t know about loving kindness meditation or Matthieu Ricard, so now I get to look into them :)

Your production quality is going up tons every video. Awesome work!

Your videos and voice does feel like meditation . Very calming and serene. 🌸

I started meditation months ago, and I could sense the difference, and I still doing it, it keeps the mind at peace, thank u Lana for this video

Andrei Tarkovsky the great Russian filmmaker said something I follow: "Happy is not the right word. This world is not a place where we can be happy. It wasn't created for man's happiness, though many believe this is the reason of our existence. I think we are here to fight, so that good and evil can clash within us, and good may prevail, thus enriching us spiritually." This is how I live. Sometimes I am happy sometimes I am not. When I am not I realize that that is the world we live in. Rather than happiness I seek joy. Joy is not the same thing. Joy is the deep emotion to be found in the darkest sorrow. Joy is found in relationships, which always cause pain. I don't meditate in the sense you are describing. Because it seems too self focused. I seek true relationships with others, with the world around me, with God. These things bring joy in the darkness. And I have indeed experienced darkness.

This was meditative. You have a lot more calmness to you than you think. I enjoyed your video though I have no idea how I got here lol, but I would like to add that one thing I noticed was that you (like me) said something contradictory to yourself. You informed us that you did not feel much difference from the exercises you conducted but then you proceeded to say that you felt calm and felt really good. I will speak for myself but I find this as a result of inconsistency. I encourage you to go in to it a little more open minded and practice self-love, heck, I too. Thank you for your video. I hope my advise helps and not taken wrong. You are on the right path. Much love and light your way.

Thank You Lana

I enjoyed watching this video. I know she was not expecting a big change at the end of the week and that makes sense. Our minds are very habitual and it takes a while to break certain patterns of thinking that impact how we feel. I think meditation helps with acceptance and learning to be more in the moment which all helps with whatever you consider to be happiness.

Love this video - so cinematic!✨

I hope you enjoy your holiday lana

I have done several forms of meditation/yoga, for a total of about 500 hours (estimate), most of it in the last 2 years, which includes: 1 Mindfulness of breathing (370 hours) 2 Loving kindness (100 hours) 3 Yoga (postures + breathing, Hatha/Ashtanga Yoga). (30 hours) I have found that the first gives a clear, transparent sense of peace, over time. But it can give a deep sense of unease as well (which one can push through) often referred to as a "Dark night of the soul". It gives you a sense of equanimity almost unattainable in any other way. And over time it changes from a temporary state (of mind) to a (more) permanent trait. The second, Loving kindness, I tend to do when I enter this "Dark night" realm, since it make me feel radiant with warmth and light, which seems to dissolve the darkness. I also do it when I have to be in a social environment. This makes me more calm around people, and it makes other people more calm around me. In addition, social interactions seem easier in general. Stage fright is gone, any other social anxiety seems almost silly in this state of mind. This practice really resonates with me, it had a big effect after having only practised it for 30 minutes. But having practised it for about 100 hours, it has transformed my life. I can now get to this state of mind in a few seconds, which helps me through life very well. The third, yoga, is a more recent thing. I have done that for about 30 hours. I started doing it because I realized that I wanted to feel more embodied (literally), and that this can be helped by posture+breathing yoga types. It is more a "fire"/hot/active practice (using Tao language fire/water), providing balance to the more "water"/cold/passive practice called mindfulness of breathing. It also helps me get out of bed in the morning, it is really a warming up. The upcoming Christmas holiday, I was planning a big trip, but due to anxiety I decided not to move forward with that. Now my intention is to practice the above 3 things. I am really curious to see how much transformation can occur in the upcoming weeks. It is important to note that the type of meditation really has to fit the person. Some types of mediation don't fit a person, or do fit. But with practice, this can change. So something that worked, does not work any more. Or, something that did not work starts the work really well. This is a point made by Jeffrey A Martin in smileu.finderscourse.com/How-To-Ebook, which can be found through a link on www.nonsymbolic.org/publications.

I find it nourishing to start the day sitting in nature listening to uplifting news stories from podcasts like The Positive Truth and Proof Positive. These not only keep me aware of fresh and current information, they fill my mind with happy thoughts and show me new beauty regularly.

I love your videos.. I love that for a girl my age you have dedicated your time and energy into creating content dedicated to our inner beings and mental health and peace. I meditate (still beginner) but when it comes to affirmations and thinking happy thoughts I have learnt (from Abraham Hicks) that unless you are in a high vibration, thinking even the happiest of thoughts sends negative energy if you truly aren't feeling them. My focus is always to calm my mind, do gratitude and well wishing for others, which raises my vibration truly, and then to send out my happy thoughts and manifest, so that its energy that will bounce back into me is a positive one.

I'm trying to enjoy my job instead of seeing it as something i have to do, sometimes i did, but mostly not. i think in order to be truly happy we have to change the way we see everyday things, and things that we don't necessarily classify as enjoyable

Meditation is a great thing for sure! I've tried it on various apps and from different sources and I find the guided ones are the best! Those where you visualize yourself doing certain things are amazing, as well as love and kindness ones. Btw, Jay Shetty (great content creator and who used to be a monk) has around 20 days of free guided meditations on RU-vid and those are definitely worth checking out 👌🏼

Your channel is just amazing! Regardless of the subject, it holds our attention with the richness of detail and insight into introvertion. I'm glad I found it!

I've been meditating every morning using the stop breathe and think app for about a year, it helps to keep me grounded and composed throughout my day I notice I react to things much calmer than I did before I started meditating

Happiness is doing what you love and not working so hard. Budgeting and having amazing friends. Focus on yourself and family

I practice some meditation in the mornings. I focus on the present moment and just be aware of the things around me. This does help me start up my day being productive and being less destructive.

I started meditating and fell out of the routine after only a few days, but I’m going to give it another go after watching this video - thanks so much for the tips!

I went through a 4 year period where I was mentored by a man who taught the monastic tradition of Lectio Devina. I was very committed for that four year period. Practiced about 250 days of the year consistently outdoor on a hill near my home. The hardest period of year was winter as I got up at 5 o’clock to meditate in the winter I shrouded my body with a blanket over my head which was very monk looking or a homeless guys. Being in a gated community created some interest interactions with our paid security and my neighbors. Like you I found peace in the time spent for each morning. But entering into each day life carried on as usual with all it challenges. I used this time to try look for answers in scripture. In last 3 months I completely stopped and I am realize now that I have stop that there was definitive benefits to meditating and need to get back into the rhythm.

i got familiar with meditation almost 2years ago on my trip to India. since then i have started meditating almost every day (missing some days), it s really changed my life as u mentioned more calm & peaceful. i do believe that it is necessary for everyone doing it regularly and sitting with themselves with everything materialistic (even ego and negative thoughts) away.. mind needs to be quite for some minutes in a day. meditation and doing exercise is as important as eating and breathing wish u all peace and happiness ,🌱💜

YOU ARE UNDERRATED!

Happiness is different for everyone. I like the way you speak and what you speak about. I am on a waiting list for the book.... I went to the library.

This kind of meditation helped me to forgive my father his mistakes he did with me in my childhood. I am still happy and wish you all guys have a good time and get calm with this meditation. VThank you for these kind of videos I really appreciate it. Greetings Mick

your hair is gorgeous omg

(Happiness is exist, however it's not all what we needed). Think about it! In my 2.. years now, i've passed though most of ever terrified experiences exist that you would imagine Lana. Happiness is not the goal, it comes though those moments in between, were you run, listen to a song or walking in the street..ect At those moments, i try to grip it (happiness) and feel it genuinely. Thanks for your contents!

OMG, the visuals and audio are top notch. I love the video and the meaning behind it. I personally feel biggest joy and peace through being with Jesus Christ.

"I'm filled with a sense of joy today" that's my answer. Cuz even when I'm filling exhausted, I know He's gonna light my yoke|burden||situation.

I really like your video editing, Lana!

I love this video, you literally explained exactly how I've been feeling trying out meditation for the first time. thank you for the tips.

Wow .. u really emanate a zen like presence

This is my favorite youtube channel❤️

Hey Lana, I would love to see you react to “ The meaning of life - muslim spoken word “ . Maybe you will like it :) Thumbs up so she can see Kind regards

As an introvert myself also Every video I watch from u is WOW U are brilliant 💗

“do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

Similar to Lana, before going to bed each night for the past 3 months I express why I'm grateful for at least 3 people, experiences or things. On top of twice daily affirmations. With occasional 20 minuet afternoon mediation. It has been fundamental to eradicating negative thought patterns and reducing stress. And it strengthens my discipline as a bonus. What she says works. Thank you Lana.

Happiness is contentment and living life to it's fullest ❤️

As long as you are not afraid to be yourself. And you accept yourself for who you TRULY are. And accept and own your flaws. And celebrate your talents. And don't ever forget to count your blessings... You will be a content person. I say content, instead of happy, because "happiness" is a fleeting temporary moment in time. It is a temporary emotion that you feel in that moment or ardour...That moment can be short, or long. But it is not physically possible to always be "happy"...However, you CAN always be content. To understand true happiness, you must first find contentment. Keep searching Lana, and you will find the peace, happiness, and contentment that you seek. I have faith in you. 👍🏻 - A Misfit Soul

I can't remember last time I was really happy Your videos and messages has helped me a lot in many ways One day you'll have millions of subscribers!!♥️♥️♥️♥️

I love your outlook and how you explained this beautiful lesson

your videos are beautifully made

That little smile at 4:00 warms my heart

I love this. I just got back to my meditation practice, and it helps so much! It’s a struggle sometimes, but at least I know that I will be starting the day on a positive, and calm note. I feel like that carries through the rest of the day, even if you are not aware of it. Repeated practice starts to retrain your brainwaves, and helps you develop a more healthy perspective on your life.

Your voice is soothing..

Can’t sleep, this video is really relaxing.

You look angel when you happy

Lana Blakely , i always repeat all of your videos until i understand . And your voice is ... make me calm , and that i have a friend to listen with how we feel together when i feel alone at home . Keep it up Lana Blakely ♡ LUV from Malaysia

Ur voice gives me peace and I feel like meditating everytym I watch ur video u r really amazing ❣️

I think being happy is being at peace!