You may be cured within fourteen days if you follow this prescription:

Try to think about a way to brighten someone's day every day.

This is part of the proposal of the psychiatrist Dr. Alfred Adler for treatment of patients with melancholy presented in his work: What life should mean to you.

He says that when patients tell him: I would never be able to do it because I live very worried, he says: Be sure to worry about yourself, but at the same time, you should think about others from time to time.

The scholar also says:

I always drive the interest of my patients toward other people. Many say: "In exchange for what should I please others? The others do not try to please me! "

"You should think about your health". - I tell them. "The others will suffer later".

All my efforts are dedicated to increasing the social interest of my patients. I know the real reason for their illness is the lack of cooperation and I want them to understand that.

Once they can join others, on equal footing and cooperation, they are cured...

Dr. Adler also ends by saying that the most important task mandated by religion has always been "love thy neighbor".

The individual who is not interested in others is the one who has the greatest difficulties in life and who causes further damage to others.

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The idea of ​​a good deed every day is a wonderful start to a larger plan of happiness in life.

Those who have a goal to give someone some kind of joy every day, no matter how small, will have their lives changed completely.

The joy we bring to others floods us with such a great and refreshing force that it makes us always want more.

Unlike the destructive habit of drug dependence, we can create a healthy habit, a mental discipline and a behavior by adopting simple ideas like this.

Think for a moment: have you already brightened someone's day today, like a little praise, a favor, a help? Anything?

If not, there is still time. Test it. Consider the reactions in yourself.

Do not expect retribution, since this is not the goal. Unfortunately not everyone is receptive to the heart with good deeds and love, but we are - and that's what matters.

Wake up every morning with this pleasant mission - to brighten someone's day, even if just one person.

You'll find out that when a lamp iluminates, the first surface to be iluminated is the lamp itself.

Others may even close their eyes and not see it, but when you set out to be the lamp, the candle, the star, you will always be flooded with unique brightness.

Always remember the recommendation of Dr. Adler and try to think every day in a way to make someone happy.