Be Happy - Shake Your Booty
If you want to be happier move your body. In fact, PE class should have been called Happiness 101! For my new book, Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happier from the Inside Out, I interviewed scores of experts, as well one hundred unconditionally happy people, and research overwhelmingly shows that people who exercise are happier. You can transform your life by making some form of exercise or movement, such as walking, running, swimming, dancing, Qigong or yoga, a regular habit.
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Be Happy For No Reason 5 Tips to Get You Started
What would it take to make you happy? A fulfilling career, a big bank account or the perfect mate? What if it didn't take anything to make you happy? What if you could experience happiness from the inside out no matter whats going on in your life?
I can tell you that this is possible. Real happiness isn't based on what we have or achieve in life it's a physiological state of lasting inner peace and well being that isn't dependent of any conditions in our day-to-day lives.
Here are a few...
Can You Forgive?
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. Robert Mueller, Former Assistant Secretary General to the United Nations
Forgiveness is one of the 21 core habits of unconditionally happy people I discovered through my research for my book, Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out. The reality is whether the trespass against you is big or small, you can't be truly happy until you forgive.
I once had a...
Can You Really Be Happy For No Reason?
What really makes people happy? It's a question I'm sure you've pondered and one that's always fascinated me. Everything we do our relationships, career, shopping, service work is aimed at making us happy. Yet I'm sure you've noticed at times, despite all you do to find happiness, you're left feeling that something vital is still missing. Or worse, if any of these things do make you happy, you find you're scared to lose them. Is there a way to cut to the chase and experience true and...
Don't Believe Everything You Think
I once heard a revered sage speak. He took a question from a man dressed in a three-thousand-dollar suit, wearing classy shoes, and dripping with gold jewelry. The man asked, "What do I need to give up to experience true happiness and inner peace?"
The sage replied, "There's good news and there's bad news. The good news is that you don't have to give up any of your stuff. Poverty isn't the way to happiness. The bad news is that you have to do something that may be even harder for you. You have...
Happiness And The Friendly Universe
Einstein once said that the most important question a person can ask himself is, "Is this a friendly universe?" As part of the research I did for my new book, Happy for No Reason, I interviewed over one hundred unconditionally happy people. What I found was that they all answered Einstein's question with a resounding Yes!
Rather than thinking the universe is out to get them, happy people believe the universe is out to support them. They see all the events in their lives through the lens of,...
Happy For No Reason
I was crammed in the back of an ancient flat-bed truck with 30 other Westerners, bumping down a rock-strewn dirt road heading toward the foothills of the Himalayas. We each had a bandanna covering our nose and mouth to keep us from choking on the dust as we made our way to a small, remote mountain village where we would provide humanitarian support for the villagers' educational, medical, and housing needs. I was tired, grumpy, and sore all over. After six hours, the driver stopped the truck,...
Plug Yourself In To Spirit
Think of a time when you felt that life was miraculous watching early-morning light fill a mountain valley, holding your newborn baby in your arms for the first time, or maybe looking up into the vast night sky ablaze with stars. Every one of us has had at least one moment when our appreciation for life was so intense, it became awe. It's at those times, when you feel both humbled and exalted, that you know you're plugged in to Spirit. Living from that place of wonder and joy is one of the...
Saying Your Thank-you's
A few years ago, at a get-together of a dozen girlfriends from college, I saw my old friend, Therese Gibson. When I told her I was writing a book called Happy for No Reason, which focuses on the 21 core habits of unconditionally happy people, she told me about the daily gratitude ritual she practices with her 95-year-old father, Charlie, that keeps them smiling and feeling good.
Therese moved in with Charlie, who's still sharp as a tack, during a bad time in both their lives. Charlie's wife...
The Myth of More
One of the biggest Happiness Blockers in today's world is what I call the Myth of More: that shared, insidious, and often unconscious belief that more toys, success and money means more happiness. In my research for my book Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out, I came upon this startling statistic: nearly 40% of the people on the Forbes list of Wealthiest Americans are less happy than the average American. Although we know deep inside that our "desire to acquire"...
Velcro Vs. Teflon
In prehistoric days, when cavemen Ugh and his wife, Mrs. Ugh were trying to survive long enough to raise the baby Ughs, they had to pay more attention to potential threats than positive events to avoid dangers like being eaten by a saber-toothed tiger.
This selective attention to negativity is what allowed Mr. and Mrs. Ugh and all the baby Ughs to survive. If you wanted to live a long life, it was better to react to every single thing that might be life-threatening, even if it turned out to be...
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