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The
Happiness Formula Newsletter June
27th, 2005
That’s
the only word I can use to describe what happened to me last night as I
started to explore what my two new friends are doing to help motivate and
inspire people. Josh
Hinds and Andy O’Brian are interviewing top people in the personal
development, success, and motivation fields and making the recordings available
over the internet. Their material is exceptional! I’ve
heard so-called “interviews” before by other companies claiming to give you
access to the thoughts of top experts, but those recordings are often poorly
done phone interviews that lack content and focus. Not so with Josh’s and
Andy’s site. In fact, I got so wrapped up listening to the interviews last
night, that this newsletter ended up being delivered a day late…sorry. While
there is some variation in the audio quality between recordings, ignore that.
The content of the recordings I heard is great stuff. I was, however,
disappointed in one aspect. The audio excerpts they offer on their main webpage
don’t do justice to the quality of the material in the member area. I
listened to those sample excerpts and wasn’t impressed. The good stuff is
behind the scenes after you sign up for their service. My suggestion…ignore the sales page and
just order their service. If you order before midnight on June 30th,
they’re offering a pile of bonus products, and there’s a full money-back
refund if you’re not satisfied. There’s no risk involved and a heck of a lot
to gain by listening to the inspiring thoughts of the world’s top
motivational and success experts. Skip
their main sales page and go directly here to Andy
and Josh’s current special offer page. Sign up and try it. You’ll like
it. Also, don’t forget that the
Graduation Special I’m offering on all Happiness Kits
expires in two
days (midnight June 30th) along with the 20% discount. Please note: The introductory price of $39.95 for the “Happiness: The Highest Gift” collection
is ending. The 20% discount available on the introductory price as part of
the Happiness Kit Graduation Special is the lowest you’ll see. So if you’ve
been sitting on the fence, your time is running out to get the best deal. Offer expires June 30th. Be
well and be happy, Julian
Kalmar jkalmar@thehappinessformula.com Contents > The Happy Hungarian Watchmaker – Part 5 – “Pain vs. Suffering” > Lunchtime – Eating with Awareness by Pragito Dove > Zelig’s Happiness Corner - Gratitude tip #3 by Zelig Pliskin. > As A Man Thinketh – Chapter Three – Effect of Thought on Health and Body >
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The Happy Hungarian
Watchmaker – Part 5 “Pain vs. Suffering” Copyright 2005 by Julian
Kalmar. All rights reserved. Happiness lessons weren’t restricted to the master’s workshop. Once as we drove to a store, a three-legged dog limped by trying to keep up with two other dogs. As a six-year-old I became terribly sad for the poor dog. When the master asked what was wrong, I told him. He said, “Oh, don’t worry about him, he’s perfectly happy. Don’t you see his wagging tail and happy smile?” “Yes,” I said, “but he’s lost a leg. I feel so sorry for him.” “Julian, that dog was probably hit by a car and was in terrible pain. A vet amputated his leg to save his life,” said the master. I got a lump in my throat and started tearing up. “Julian, if that dog felt sorry for himself, he’d be hiding somewhere with his tail down. Look at him. He’s playing with his friends, tail in the air, sniffing things, and exploring. He’s too involved to care about his missing leg.” “People mope around for months if they lose a leg. They keep thinking about all the things they can’t do. They ‘suffer’ more pain by keeping it going in their minds.” “So that dog is smarter than most people. He’s doing what he’s always done, and he probably doesn’t even think about his leg.” “Pain can’t be avoided sometimes, but suffering is a choice. We suffer when we dwell on past pain. So always try to be like that dog: Focus on what you want to do, and do it.” More
happiness actions—like avoiding suffering—can be found in
Lunchtime –
Eating With Awareness Copyright 2005
by Pragito Dove. All rights
reserved. Reprinted with
kind permission. Happiness is greatly dependent on our ability
to remain aware. Here guest author Pragito Dove shows us how we can practice
awareness while eating. In doing so, we gain awareness, enjoy our food to the
fullest and become more peaceful. Thanks Pragito! —Julian Kalmar Close your office door or find another place where you can eat your lunch without being disturbed. Eat slowly and deliberately enjoying each flavor and sensation that arises, the crisp and juicy sweetness of an apple, the salty crunch of a chip, the fragrant steaming of a cup of tea. Chew slowly and feel your body receiving the food. Eat what your stomach wants and only as much as it wants, not what your eyes want.
Let your stomach decide what you drink. Drink slowly, enjoying the taste, temperature, and aroma of your favorite beverage. Breathe. Be with yourself.
Be fully present and only do what you are doing - eating your lunch.
The quality of your presence is more important than the amount of time you spend.
You might also find this useful when traveling or "on the road", for example at airports, on airplanes, car trips, picnics, at bus depots or a busy restaurant.
It will enhance your self-awareness and help you relax into the absolute serenity of each moment. Pragito
Dove M.A., C.C.H. is an author, speaker and teacher in the areas of
laughter, tears, creativity, stress-management and meditation. Her
book "Lunchtime Enlightenment: Meditations to Transform Your Life NOW –
at Work, at Home, at Play" (Penguin) is available here: http://www.pragito.com/products.html
Copyright 2005 by Zelig Pliskin. All rights reserved. Reprinted with kind permission. You will notice what you are looking
for. Someone who loves birds will notice them, even though others would not.
Someone who loves flowers notices them even though others would just pass
them by. Someone who is looking for things to complain about will notice what
he is looking for. And someone who hates litter will see the litter rather
than seeing the birds and the flowers. Consider it important to be grateful.
Then you will notice more and more kind things that others do for you. And
you will remember more kind things that others have done for you in the past.
These will serve as reminders for you to do similar things for others. Rabbi Zelig Pliskin, one
of the foremost experts on happiness, is graciously allowing a reprint of
some of his techniques for improving happiness using gratitude. If his
methods appeal to you, please buy his book, “Thank You!” It is very
reasonably priced at only $9.99, but there’s currently a 20% online discount
offer of only $7.99 from ArtScroll. “Thank You!” was ArtScroll’s best-selling
book in May 2005.
As A Man
Thinketh – Chapter Three “Effect of
Thought on Health and Body” by James
Allen The body is the servant of the
mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately
chosen or automatically expressed. At the bidding of unlawful thoughts the
body sinks rapidly into disease and decay; at the command of glad and
beautiful thoughts it becomes clothed with youthfulness and beauty. Disease and health, like
circumstances, are rooted in thought. Sickly thoughts will express themselves
through a sickly body. Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a man as
speedily as a bullet, and they are continually killing thousands of people
just as surely though less rapidly. The people who live in fear of disease
are the people who get it. Anxiety quickly demoralizes the whole body, and
lays it open to the entrance of disease; while impure thoughts, even if not
physically indulged, will soon shatter the nervous system. Strong, pure, and happy thoughts
build up the body in vigor and grace. The body is a delicate and plastic
instrument, which responds readily to the thoughts by which it is impressed,
and habits of thought will produce their own effects, good or bad, upon it. Men will continue to have impure
and poisoned blood so long as they propagate unclean thoughts. Out of a clean
heart comes a clean life and a clean body. Out of a defiled mind proceeds a
defiled life and corrupt body. Thought is the fountain of action, life and
manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure. Change of diet will not help a
man who will not change his thoughts. When a man makes his thoughts pure, he
no longer desires impure food. If you would perfect your body,
guard your mind. If you would renew your body, beautify your mind. Thoughts
of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and
grace. A sour face does not come by chance; it is made by sour thoughts.
Wrinkles that mar are drawn by folly, passion, pride. I know a woman of ninety-six who
has the bright, innocent face of a girl. I know a man well under middle age
whose face is drawn into inharmonious contours. The one is the result of a
sweet and sunny disposition; the other is the outcome of passion and
discontent. As you cannot have a sweet and
wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms,
so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result
from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and good will and
serenity. On the faces of the aged there
are wrinkles made by sympathy, others by strong and pure thought, others are
carved by passion. Who cannot distinguish them? With those who have lived
righteously, age is calm, peaceful, and softly mellowed, like the setting
sun. I have recently seen a philosopher on his deathbed. He was not old
except in years. He died as sweetly and peacefully as he had lived. There is no physician like
cheerful thought for dissipating the ills of the body; there is no comforter
to compare with good will for dispersing the shadows of grief and sorrow. To
live continually in thoughts of ill will, cynicism, suspicion, and envy, is
to be confined in a self-made prison hole. But to think well of all, to be
cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the good in all - such
unselfish thoughts are the very portals of heaven; and to dwell day to day in
thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring abounding peace to their
possessor. In the next
issue, you’ll find chapter four – “Thought and Purpose”
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