Happiness. An emotion, a state of mind, and a state of being.
We can choose to live this moment in happiness. That doesn’t mean ignore the difficult emotions. But the stronger our base of happiness, the less we are rocked by difficulty and the easier it is to get through tough times. Attending a retreat designed to build happiness can help elevate your happiness levels to new heights, building a strong happiness base, and help you experience more joy in your daily life. Here are five reasons to come to a happiness retreat like Paradise Found.
1. Nourish your Soul Immersed in Mother Nature
The first thing we need to establish for a happiness retreat is the proper environment. We have a need for nature in order to be healthy and well. Immersion in a thriving natural environment nourishes our soul. This fulfillment brings happiness. And we have just the perfect spot. It’s far away from the crowds and crime, a pristine beach off the beaten track. Quiet. Serene. Warm. Perfect.
2. Enjoy the Moment
Many “happiness retreats” are essentially meditation or mindfulness retreats aimed to train your mind to stay in the present moment and choose happiness. Ours does that too! But rather than make mindfulness our only focus, we bounce through all of our day’s abundant activities through a mindfulness lens. This helps us stay in the moment and enjoy the full beauty of what each moment brings. And here in Costa Rica, each moment brings much beauty. This focus alone builds happiness! But we’re just getting started.
3. Ride a Wave to Ecstasy
An important part of happiness is having fun! And exercise is important to a well-balanced day. So we have fun exercise in our full surf camp embedded in our happiness retreat! Talk about enjoying the moment! To surf is to enter the sublime. To reach ecstasy in a life experience. Not a lot of regular life experiences can offer you that. That ecstasy, that immersion in the divine for the few seconds it takes to ride that wave, drives the stoke of surfing – and the addiction. Finding the sublime and ecstasy in a life experience is going to bring you happiness!
4. Have More Fun with Stronger Self-Esteem
Self-esteem, self-confidence, self-respect. Each is part of an inextricably intertwined trio. When one area is weak, the other two can only be so strong. But when you strengthen one, the other two come up along with it. Strong self-esteem leads to increased happiness and enjoyment of life.
This retreat enhances your self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-respect in powerful ways. It improves your self-esteem by strengthening your relationship with yourself, the essence of what self-esteem is. We work to improve this self-relationship through mindfulness, positive interactions with others, and happiness workshops to help guide self-esteem strengthening. Self-confidence develops through our incredibly empowering activities and the overall highly empowering vibe of this retreat. Learning mixed martial arts – knowing you can defend yourself and even hurt someone if necessary – that’s a very powerful feeling. Learning new sports, also with surfing, helps build self-confidence. Stronger emotional intelligence and assertiveness skills also strengthen self-confidence. Build self-respect first of all by paying acute attention to what you put into your body. Our internal strengthening helps us better manage ourselves, improving self-respect, and our workshops reinforce awareness of healthy behavior.
Fun fact – people with high self-esteem have more fun in life! They better know how to appreciate and find satisfaction in what they have achieved. All of this increases your happiness.
5. Learn Tools for Lasting Happiness
Paradise Found retreats give you explicit tools for cultivating more happiness in your life. This knowledge is based in scientific research and will benefit you and your loved ones for your entire lifetime. You can draw from it over and over to lead a more content, more fulfilled, happier life, for all of your days to come. This knowledge can help you straighten out bad ancestral habits and move your family line forward in a healthier path.
These are just five reasons to come to a happiness retreat. We could come up with a few more if you wanted us to. Like learning to enjoy the company of others more because we set those interactions on mindfulness, self-peace and a strong happiness foundation. And making new friends that will make you laugh until you pee! And having the best naps ever swinging in the hammock, tropical birds and howler monkeys flitting overhead. And raising your vibration in just one week with the abundance of powerful positive energy and clean living. The entire experience is one beautifully wrapped package with a great big red fluffy bow that you give to yourself. The gift of a better you, and a better life.
Join us!