The Happy Mind
John Lennon once said, “When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me that I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
Happiness is a sense of serenity and well-being that fills your awareness, and expands outward, offering blessing and compassion to all. It is the key to physical health, emotional healing, loving relationships, and experiencing the true abundance of your life. Your happiness is your guide on your journey of spiritual awakening, and your signal that you have awakened. It is the foundation for any truly helpful social action. Ultimately, your happiness is the gateway to everything you want for yourself and others. It is the purpose and goal and motivation of everything you do.
The good news is that happiness is your natural state of mind! In your deepest truth, you are the embodiment of pure joy. That is your truth, and it never changes. Nothing that you do and nothing that happens to you can change that truth, because it is what you are.
But your experience of happiness depends on your self-awareness of that inner truth. When you feel unhappy or upset, it is always because you yourself are blocking your inner truth from expressing itself. You yourself are blocking your own deeper self-awareness.
What blocks your experience of happiness is always a certain way of thinking about yourself and the world. Ultimately, this way of thinking is based on a core belief in a separate self, and several other core beliefs that follow from that one. If you do not change this constellation of separative core beliefs, then nothing that you do or achieve or acquire can bring you deep and lasting happiness. All of the affirmations and visualizations in the world will not be enough. Your mind will keep sabotaging you behind your back, as long as you hold core beliefs that are inconsistent with peace and joy and unconditional love.
The Happy Mind offers seven simple core beliefs that can undo your current blocking beliefs, and positively open your mind to experience deeper self-awareness and joy. These beliefs aren’t the cause of your happiness. They don’t “make” you happy. The source of your happiness is your own inner truth. But these alternative core beliefs can allow you to discover and experience that inner truth.
This process of discovering your deeper truth is much more than just an intellectual exercise that you do “in your head.” It involves living these new beliefs in every area of your life, and practicing forgiveness, acceptance, appreciation and love toward everyone and everything. But for these practices to be truly effective in healing your life experience, they must be understood and practiced from a non-dualistic perspective. The Happy Mind re-defines these ideas, and gives you practical suggestions for living them in your day-to-day life.
The first page of the book A Course in Miracles says, "The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance." Similarly, the way to deep happiness is just the undoing of your own inner obstacles to your awareness of it.
Happiness is an inner state of being, rather than an outer state of affairs. Happiness is how you feel when you are not blocking the expression of your innermost nature. Ultimately, you don't really have to make yourself happy at all. You just have to stop making yourself unhappy.
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Happiness is a sense of serenity and well-being that fills your awareness, and expands outward, offering blessing and compassion to all. It is the key to physical health, emotional healing, loving relationships, and experiencing the true abundance of your life. Your happiness is your guide on your journey of spiritual awakening, and your signal that you have awakened. It is the foundation for any truly helpful social action. Ultimately, your happiness is the gateway to everything you want for yourself and others. It is the purpose and goal and motivation of everything you do.
The good news is that happiness is your natural state of mind! In your deepest truth, you are the embodiment of pure joy. That is your truth, and it never changes. Nothing that you do and nothing that happens to you can change that truth, because it is what you are.
But your experience of happiness depends on your self-awareness of that inner truth. When you feel unhappy or upset, it is always because you yourself are blocking your inner truth from expressing itself. You yourself are blocking your own deeper self-awareness.
What blocks your experience of happiness is always a certain way of thinking about yourself and the world. Ultimately, this way of thinking is based on a core belief in a separate self, and several other core beliefs that follow from that one. If you do not change this constellation of separative core beliefs, then nothing that you do or achieve or acquire can bring you deep and lasting happiness. All of the affirmations and visualizations in the world will not be enough. Your mind will keep sabotaging you behind your back, as long as you hold core beliefs that are inconsistent with peace and joy and unconditional love.
The Happy Mind offers seven simple core beliefs that can undo your current blocking beliefs, and positively open your mind to experience deeper self-awareness and joy. These beliefs aren’t the cause of your happiness. They don’t “make” you happy. The source of your happiness is your own inner truth. But these alternative core beliefs can allow you to discover and experience that inner truth.
This process of discovering your deeper truth is much more than just an intellectual exercise that you do “in your head.” It involves living these new beliefs in every area of your life, and practicing forgiveness, acceptance, appreciation and love toward everyone and everything. But for these practices to be truly effective in healing your life experience, they must be understood and practiced from a non-dualistic perspective. The Happy Mind re-defines these ideas, and gives you practical suggestions for living them in your day-to-day life.
The first page of the book A Course in Miracles says, "The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance." Similarly, the way to deep happiness is just the undoing of your own inner obstacles to your awareness of it.
Happiness is an inner state of being, rather than an outer state of affairs. Happiness is how you feel when you are not blocking the expression of your innermost nature. Ultimately, you don't really have to make yourself happy at all. You just have to stop making yourself unhappy.
The Happy Mind
John Lennon once said, “When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me that I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
Happiness is a sense of serenity and well-being that fills your awareness, and expands outward, offering blessing and compassion to all. It is the key to physical health, emotional healing, loving relationships, and experiencing the true abundance of your life. Your happiness is your guide on your journey of spiritual awakening, and your signal that you have awakened. It is the foundation for any truly helpful social action. Ultimately, your happiness is the gateway to everything you want for yourself and others. It is the purpose and goal and motivation of everything you do.
The good news is that happiness is your natural state of mind! In your deepest truth, you are the embodiment of pure joy. That is your truth, and it never changes. Nothing that you do and nothing that happens to you can change that truth, because it is what you are.
But your experience of happiness depends on your self-awareness of that inner truth. When you feel unhappy or upset, it is always because you yourself are blocking your inner truth from expressing itself. You yourself are blocking your own deeper self-awareness.
What blocks your experience of happiness is always a certain way of thinking about yourself and the world. Ultimately, this way of thinking is based on a core belief in a separate self, and several other core beliefs that follow from that one. If you do not change this constellation of separative core beliefs, then nothing that you do or achieve or acquire can bring you deep and lasting happiness. All of the affirmations and visualizations in the world will not be enough. Your mind will keep sabotaging you behind your back, as long as you hold core beliefs that are inconsistent with peace and joy and unconditional love.
The Happy Mind offers seven simple core beliefs that can undo your current blocking beliefs, and positively open your mind to experience deeper self-awareness and joy. These beliefs aren’t the cause of your happiness. They don’t “make” you happy. The source of your happiness is your own inner truth. But these alternative core beliefs can allow you to discover and experience that inner truth.
This process of discovering your deeper truth is much more than just an intellectual exercise that you do “in your head.” It involves living these new beliefs in every area of your life, and practicing forgiveness, acceptance, appreciation and love toward everyone and everything. But for these practices to be truly effective in healing your life experience, they must be understood and practiced from a non-dualistic perspective. The Happy Mind re-defines these ideas, and gives you practical suggestions for living them in your day-to-day life.
The first page of the book A Course in Miracles says, "The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance." Similarly, the way to deep happiness is just the undoing of your own inner obstacles to your awareness of it.
Happiness is an inner state of being, rather than an outer state of affairs. Happiness is how you feel when you are not blocking the expression of your innermost nature. Ultimately, you don't really have to make yourself happy at all. You just have to stop making yourself unhappy.
Happiness is a sense of serenity and well-being that fills your awareness, and expands outward, offering blessing and compassion to all. It is the key to physical health, emotional healing, loving relationships, and experiencing the true abundance of your life. Your happiness is your guide on your journey of spiritual awakening, and your signal that you have awakened. It is the foundation for any truly helpful social action. Ultimately, your happiness is the gateway to everything you want for yourself and others. It is the purpose and goal and motivation of everything you do.
The good news is that happiness is your natural state of mind! In your deepest truth, you are the embodiment of pure joy. That is your truth, and it never changes. Nothing that you do and nothing that happens to you can change that truth, because it is what you are.
But your experience of happiness depends on your self-awareness of that inner truth. When you feel unhappy or upset, it is always because you yourself are blocking your inner truth from expressing itself. You yourself are blocking your own deeper self-awareness.
What blocks your experience of happiness is always a certain way of thinking about yourself and the world. Ultimately, this way of thinking is based on a core belief in a separate self, and several other core beliefs that follow from that one. If you do not change this constellation of separative core beliefs, then nothing that you do or achieve or acquire can bring you deep and lasting happiness. All of the affirmations and visualizations in the world will not be enough. Your mind will keep sabotaging you behind your back, as long as you hold core beliefs that are inconsistent with peace and joy and unconditional love.
The Happy Mind offers seven simple core beliefs that can undo your current blocking beliefs, and positively open your mind to experience deeper self-awareness and joy. These beliefs aren’t the cause of your happiness. They don’t “make” you happy. The source of your happiness is your own inner truth. But these alternative core beliefs can allow you to discover and experience that inner truth.
This process of discovering your deeper truth is much more than just an intellectual exercise that you do “in your head.” It involves living these new beliefs in every area of your life, and practicing forgiveness, acceptance, appreciation and love toward everyone and everything. But for these practices to be truly effective in healing your life experience, they must be understood and practiced from a non-dualistic perspective. The Happy Mind re-defines these ideas, and gives you practical suggestions for living them in your day-to-day life.
The first page of the book A Course in Miracles says, "The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance." Similarly, the way to deep happiness is just the undoing of your own inner obstacles to your awareness of it.
Happiness is an inner state of being, rather than an outer state of affairs. Happiness is how you feel when you are not blocking the expression of your innermost nature. Ultimately, you don't really have to make yourself happy at all. You just have to stop making yourself unhappy.
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| BN ID: | 2940014542463 |
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| Publisher: | Alight Publications |
| Publication date: | 04/15/2012 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 216 |
| File size: | 1 MB |
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