Most of us believe that the key to happiness lies in the emotional sphere, so the search for positive emotions becomes the meaning of our whole lives. For the sake of receiving emotions, we work, earn and spend, communicate, create families, etc. Everything in our lives revolves and revolves around the pursuit of pleasant impressions. But the author of this book is convinced that happiness “grown on emotional soil” is short-lived . He claims that there is another happiness that does not depend on the quality of emotions and, accordingly, is more stable - spiritual happiness, which gives complete relief from pressing problems. And in this book he tells how to find it. The author proposes this method: to recognize those situations in which our mind begins to “grab” at problems and analyze them, and think whether they have a direct relation to us - maybe they are someone else’s problems imposed on us from outside? The author also provides a set of mental exercises that can help us in this work on ourselves. He also tells funny stories from the life of the fictional characters Vasya and Masha Pupkin; By analyzing these stories, it will be easier for us to understand the real cause of our own problems and find ways to solve them.