Creating roadmap to happiness and healthy life!

The benefits include health, happiness, and peace for individuals; stress relief, team building, higher productivity, leadership and positivity at workplaces; health, bonding and integration in communities; and creativity, better concentration, emotional intelligence, spiritual growth, strong immune system and all-round personality development of youngsters

Mumbai: THE book 'Mission HAPPINESS: My Idyllic Life' describes happiness and well-being interventions at the corporates – Nestle, Airports Authority of India (Mumbai International Airport), Abercrombie & Kent, State Bank of India, and various IT companies. The author introduced laughter yoga in the State Bank of India on a large scale and conducted sessions on a regular basis.

The interventions help reduce stress, inculcating positivity, and improving team work with exercises of yoga, meditation, and laughter yoga. The exercises generate feel good hormones, known as endorphins, and bring down the levels of stress hormones, known as cortisol. A happy workplace is more vibrant and productive.

The benefits include health, happiness, and peace for individuals; stress relief, team building, higher productivity, leadership and positivity at workplaces; health, bonding and integration in communities; and creativity, better concentration, emotional intelligence, spiritual growth, strong immune system and all-round personality development of youngsters.

The practice of yoga, meditation, and laughter yoga, along with a fundamental understanding of positive psychology and spirituality, leads you to lasting happiness and peace. The author joined the State Bank of India as a probationary officer and retired as an assistant general manager. The book gives a view about various roles and challenges in the bank. Especially, the robust training system of the bank is covered in great detail. He has written about the mass communication programs – Parivartan, Citizen-SBI, Udaan, and Aarohan – undertaken by the bank to awaken its employees to face the competition faced from new private banks, especially the ICICI bank.

This is a book on happiness, an autobiography, and a memoir that takes you for a journey on the pathway of authentic happiness, well-being, and a meaningful life. It gives you a new understanding of happiness and well-being and how to achieve them.

"It takes a peek at my formative years, my work life, and my experiments with happiness. You will find, inside, a roadmap for a fruitful and fulfilling life, based on years of deep study and practical experience. It blends the best of positive psychology, meditation, yoga, laughter yoga, and spirituality," the author Jagat Singh Bisht told Bizz Buzz.

The book will enable you to discover new ways to flourish in life, find inner peace, and contribute towards enhancing well-being on this planet. You will gain tremendous insight into life and happiness. The new learning, investigation, and wisdom can catapult you into higher realms of existence, he said.

Let's have a look at some excerpts of the book

During this period, we were invited by Nestle to conduct a laughter yoga session during their zone Asia-Oceania-Africa safety, health, and environmental sustainability workshop at the Marriott Resort and Spa,Goa.

The participants included the executive vice president from Nestle headquarters at Vevey, Switzerland and market corporate safety managers from 20 countries including Australia, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Turkey, along with the factory safety heads from Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka.

After some time, Nestle India invited us to conduct sessions for the staff working at their factory in Samalkha, Haryana with a view to enhance employee wellness and build a more cheerful work environment.

We conducted laughter yoga for senior level executives of Abercrombie & Kent - the world's leading authority on luxury and experiential travel - at the picturesque city of Udaipur, where twenty-six delegates had gathered at Hotel Leela Palace Kempinski, on the beautiful Pichola Lake, for their cruise conference 2013.

Their global cruise ambassador, David Vass, expressed, "Thank you, both of you, for excellent energy, understanding of our group time constraints, and the delicious outcome you brought to us.

"Everybody truly enjoyed this session, especially in the middle of 'budget day'. We referenced the Laughter yoga techniques throughout the remainder of the conference – making milkshakes, being an elephant, and so many of the other happy little bits you supplied us with."

Bisht is an author, blogger, laughter yoga master trainer, behavioural science trainer, and Founder: Life Skills. He has authored six books on happiness during the pandemic for the welfare of all: Cultivating Happiness, Nirvana – The Highest Happiness, Meditate Like the Buddha, Mission Happiness, A Flourishing Life, and The Little Book of Happiness. Bisht has served in a bank for thirty-five years and has been propagating happiness and well-being among people for the past twenty years.

He is on a mission – Mission Happiness!