The Psychology of Joy - 3 Antidotes to Suffering 

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1. Get out in nature 2. Wonder at the mysteries of life (be a mystic) 3. Take a moral holiday

“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.” ― Antonio Gramsci, Gramsci's Prison Letters

"Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done" - Julius Evola.

“A great deal of the energy of pain is derived from the resistance offered to it” Alan Watts

Nature says, "he is my creature, and in spite of all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me". - Emerson.

When I have morbid thoughts, i do a little thought-experiment: what else can I add to this pile of misery? How can I make a mountain of madness? The posibilities seem to have no limits and shit gets really creative. Then I think: if I can create all of this, What else can I create?

I think there has never been a time in history when so many people are being constantly attacked psychologically. Advertising, Financial Pressure, Social Media, TV Media, Identity Politics, Fear Mongering, etc, etc. People need to be protected.

Best channel on RU-vid by a mile. "The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance -- by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow."

These videos are always so informative and of such a high quality.

"There's nothing worth pursuing at the cost of prolonging a life of suffering"-Dazai Osamu

I’ve been watching your psychology videos for more than a year now. I’ve journaled and did cognitive reframing because of one of your videos. It changed my life dramatically. I became an actualizer. The wisdom you share is absolutely wonderful, I’m so grateful for it.

That soothing voice that appears every few weeks in my feed bringing me synthesised wisdom and joy. Thank you Academy of Ideas. Amazing work.

“I am glad to the brink of fear.” So awesome

These videos are more effective than any anti depressant. I love you.

Thank you for this, I don't know about anyone else, but I sure didn't find this channel because my life was full of joy

You have no idea how much I needed this

I swear, every time I get in a funk, AoI uploads.

Sometimes, when you're filled with joy and are a creature of celebration, you let of a fragrance so sweet that it can attract a form of being that seeks only to steal it from you.

"To miss the joy is to miss all!" Wow, so powerful ❤️ But we can also feel into our suffering and stay in the knowing that we are the Awareness that is observing the joy and the suffering.

This video along with Matt D'Avellas and School of Life are on point today. Everything's gonna be okay!

When I listened to the part about being in nature...I was reminded of the years when we had an old boat. We lived close enough to the bay to take it out once a week or so and I remember, and always described to people a certain feeling that washed over my wife and I as soon as we left the dock....as we jogged the boat thru the no wake zone it was sort of a long doorway and when we hit the open water we literally felt the world melt away. Sitting there bobbing along with some fishing rods In the water, we had some of the best conversations ever....any trace of the day to day BS was gone. So....what Thoreau said.😁 Been thinking I’d like to get another boat.

I truly believe that to be able to find joy, or to feel joy one must be able to get out of one’s way! 🤗

Been watching for a few years and never noticed how big your channel has become. Well deserved!

Never has this message been more pertinent than now. Thank you.

These kind of videos are SOOO IMPORTANT right now. Thanks for sharing this message with the world in hard times like these. Its up to us all to keep going. I wish everyone watching this video The Best Day of Their Lives. =)

4) immediately delete instagram, facebook, reddit and the likes

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I love your content. Very informative and often times very uplifting. Thank you for giving your time to create these works of art. They're greatly appreciated.

These videos are so crisp and clear. Literally the best.

These messages are priceless Thanks for taking the time to make them

Perfect timing, for this gift of respite.

In my opinion, this is the most beautiful of your videos thus far made.

I am sharing these vids and promoting your channel because you provide so many great videos. Thank you!

I am so grateful that I found you channel, your videos make me think a little more about myself and everything around me. And your voice is beautiful.

4) Go on a news holiday, a news blackout. Things gonna be what they gonna be whether you getcher panties twisted over today's political outrage or you decide not to watch the train wreck at all.

I knew you would have a video like this!!!!! 😍 You do not disappoint.

Beautifully put ❤️🙏🏻🙌🏻 thank you and bless you

"There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well." R. Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path

I always feel a great Sense of Joy when you UP some video, I also feel amazed with the timing that It happens. Yesterday i was searching for some Mindfullness technics to live the present and stops to ruminating some things that already happens... Loved the references btw

I have screenshot the random prolific quotes throughout this short 12 minutes, and plan to actually find a place to scrapbook them all within an appropriate theme on things I'd like to leave behind for my family. Might help them understand better the joy I tried to seek in living once I'm gone. It's complicated, this life we live, but I'm grateful I exist, yet and still.

So well said. Thank you for all these elegant reminders.

Love this 😊 I’ve always picked joy, it just feels better

I'm so glad I found this channel today! I love all the content! Thank you.

I love listening to you, every sentence you say sounds like you're citing a Shakespeare play like Poetry. it's interestingly beautiful

acceptance and gratefulness of all - appreciating each events role in the cosmic swirl of life

Very important to watch this one until the end. Great video :)

Just the reaffirmation I needed to see. Thank you

Beautiful work as always

Thank you perfect timing on this video.

Watching this as I drive to my hometown where my best friend, my grandfather, is seriously ill on life support. He is the most joyful person I know, and my heart is fearful and not ready for the worst. Still I will emulate my grandfather’s joy as best I can for the remainder of life, which is always worth living. Stay close to your loved ones and hold onto them while you can.

Wonderful, thank you!

Phenomenal. Thanks Academy Of Ideas. Solid.

The final quote from Nietzsche was powerful, chilling even.

A long while ago, I asked that you consider white text on black backgrounds, which you’ve been utilizing - I thank you: it works so much better with the art. Thank you for such excellent presentations of what can be challenging material for many. I’m a philosophy major, and quite enjoy what you gentlemen are doing.

"Pain Is Inevitable, But Suffering Is A Choice." - Dacademeca

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I needed this so bad, thank you.

another great video. your content, your channel, is one of my favorites. i daresay my favorite. thank you for the work you do, i greatly enjoy and appreciate it.

Excellent video and words of wisdom. Thank you kindly 👍

Nature IS the key.🌞 If we miss the joy, what else is there? Thank you AOI.

Great video. Good timing for it too with the days getting shorter and there being less sunlight this time of year.

very good job this time,well done!

My favorite so far, I actually think I enlightened a little

beautiful and helpful as always

Please keep uploading videos every two weeks I love this channel

This channel is marvelous. Thank you.

As always your timing exposes how in tuned you are regarding the noosphere and collective unconsciousness guiding the Zeitgeist.

I always liked the paintings featured in your videos, but the ones in this video are just amazing!

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I love the holy beauty of nature and animals, they alone make life worth living.

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Wonderful video thank you

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i needed this, thank you

Such a brilliant video.

Super message!!

Perfect. Thank you!

Unfortunately, technology screens have replaced all the natural beauty we all need but don't seek. This is the worst time in history to find peace within..Our inner and outer world's are compromised daily with a vengeance.

I love all the beautiful art in these videos.

Agreed. Your videos help me tremendously in my long process of transformation. It's been almost 10 years now, since my life started to fall apart. I believe I'm the type that holds to the branch. I just got very tired of it all. There were (are) moments when I see how much bollocks were my attitudes and beliefs. I'm 37 now. I heard an eagle in the mountains, being alone there. The situation was bit dangerous. I realised how fragile the present moment is, how easy is to prick the bubble of my existence. The eagle was for me much more than an eagle. The smell of the cold air from snow.

I really needed to hear this 🥲

Love your videos guys.

I needed this. thanks

Great video…well made!

It was a Joy to watch this

"If these distress-seekers felt the power to benefit themselves, to do something for themselves from internal sources, they would also understand how to create a distress of their own, specially their own, from internal sources. Their inventions might then be more refined, and their gratifications might sound like good music: while at present they fill the world with their cries of distress, and consequently too often with the feeling of distress in the first place! They do not know what to make of themselves - and so they paint the misfortune of others on the wall; they always need others! And always again other others! - Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall." - Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

🖤 So how does RU-vid know exactly what video I (desperately) need at every given moment of my life? Thanks, algorithm. Thanks, Academy of Ideas. This is how I survive another mental breakdown. 🖤

Inspiring and awesome 💜

I resonate with this like crazy!!! Bravo

Thank you!

Love it.

THANK YOU!

I love this channel so much. Thank you for the amazing content and all the work and research you clearly put into it. Highly recommend C.S. Lewis' 'Surprised by Joy' And to seek where all the joy and beauty comes from.

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