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The
Happiness Formula Newsletter July
12th, 2005
If
you’re careful, and don’t do more than your physician advises, you’ll have a
barrel of fun and feel better than you’ve felt in years. Check out Kim
Corbin’s www.iskip.com. There you’ll
learn what you once knew as a kid...it’s fun and invigorating to be playful,
and to stop acting so dang grown up all the time. If
you think that site is fun, you’ll like Kim’s other passion. She’s a “hooper”
too! This isn’t Kim’s site, but it will connect you to another dimension in
sheer let-loose fun if you actually try it. Get off the sidelines of life and
try it: www.hooping.org. Pssst! Want a (Good) F’ree Happiness eBook? There
are lots of good souls out there helping build a happier world one person at a
time. I encourage you to go get your copy of Michael Anthony’s happiness
ebook, “How to be Happy And Have Fun
Changing the World.” It’s yours without obligation. Just visit Michael’s
site and learn how to be happier. www.howtobehappy.org Thank
you Michael for keeping your vision steadfastly on the goal of building a
happier world. Apparently
a guy lying in
bed really can touch the world in a spiritual and positive way. In June
2005, Happiness:
The Highest Gift CD collection won the prestigious
“Audio-of-the-month” award. At
first I didn’t realize just how significant this was. It turns out that previous
winners this year include: Nelson Mandela, Wayne
Dyer, and Marc Allen!!! I
was truly astounded, honored, and humbled. The
Audio Book News Service (which
bestows this coveted award) is an influential resource to over 2,200 book
stores, reviewers, journalists, book publishers and audio companies. So if
you’ve wondered whether Happiness:
The Highest Gift is worth ordering…wonder no more. As
always, if there is anything I can do to facilitate your journey to
happiness, please write. Kindest
wishes, Julian
Kalmar jkalmar@thehappinessformula.com Contents > The Gardening Of The Soul by Julian Kalmar > Spontaneous Happiness by Pragito Dove > Zelig’s Happiness Corner - Gratitude tip #4 by Zelig Pliskin. > As A Man Thinketh – Chapter Four – Thought and Purpose by James Allen >
Happiness
Products New!!! Conversations
with Bernie – DVD – Dr.
Bernie Siegel and Lionel Ketchian.
Aired on PBS in
Copyright 2005 by Julian
Kalmar. All rights reserved. Happiness actions are the physical and mental actions
that naturally and automatically create a sense of well-being in us. They
work because there is a certain something within us—our internal wiring—that
responds to these actions. Although there is some variation between people,
many happiness actions are shared with just about everyone. For
example, most people will feel good after doing physical exercise. Likewise,
the mental activity of learning a new skill can be tremendously gratifying. The
most powerful happiness actions
involve both mental and physical activities, and have astounding personal
effects. Gardening is an excellent example. Providing it’s not overly
strenuous, quietly tending a garden can create an enormous sense of
tranquility. You get in touch with the soil and plants, and most importantly,
your own thoughts. To
get your hands in good soil, quickly puts you in communion with nature. There
is nothing like filling a pot with soil, and patting it down with your hands.
Making a little hole, putting a seed in it, and covering it over, brings an
excited sense of anticipation. The magic of a little water and some time
brings forth new life in a way that never gets old. Every day thereafter,
there are visible changes in your little plant that are captivating. With
a larger garden, there is even greater involvement. You quickly become part
of the soil and plants. All your stresses melt away, and you lose yourself in
the quietude of the experience. (When was the last time you got so carried
away?) Suddenly you’ll completely lose awareness of your problems with
family, work, or the economy. Your biggest concern becomes, finding the
critter responsible for eating the leaves of your tomato plant. Getting lost
in “bug hunting” takes you back to earlier days when you were completely in
touch with your real life. Then
there’s that good tired feeling you get after spending hours in the garden.
You sleep more soundly that night, since…you can’t remember when. A day or
two later you start discovering muscles you never knew you had! Every
movement brings with it an ache that reminds you of your gardening accomplishments
and you feel good as you relive your experience communing with the spirit of
your garden. Next
comes the impossibility of passing by your garden without stopping to admire
it. With that comes one of the highest things you can do for your sense of well-being.
You bathe in the appreciation of beauty. It
is any wonder that centuries ago it was discovered that people recovering
from illness and injury recovered faster if they tended a garden? You cannot
help but put something of yourself into the soil, the plants and the
environment. As you cultivate your garden, so it cultivates a certain
something upon your soul. Indeed,
gardening is a spiritual experience. It connects us to the One-ness that is,
to the oneness of where we truly are. We lose our I-ness, and unconsciously
integrate into the flow of the universe. We fall into perfect harmony and
finally arrive home. More
happiness actions—like gardening—can be found in the award-winning
Copyright 2005
by Pragito Dove. All rights
reserved. Reprinted with
kind permission. We usually think we need a reason to be joyful: We've bought a new house, we have a new love relationship, our son or daughter has just graduated from college. But these joys are momentary. They are dependent on the outside. When happiness is caused by something it will always be momentary, transitory. And after the high, you will often experience a lower low, a deep sadness.
The happiness that comes from meditation is a different kind of happiness altogether. You are suddenly filled with joy for no reason at all and you cannot pinpoint why. If someone were to ask you why you are so happy you would not have a reason.
The marvelous thing about this kind of happiness is that it cannot be disturbed. Whatever happens, it will continue.
This happiness remains like a thread woven into the fabric of your day.
When outer circumstances change but the joy abides, then you know you have found your own inner joy, which no one can take away from you.
Bring your awareness more and more to these moments of spontaneous happiness. Become familiar with them, savor them - and by and by they will grow and become a constant source of inexplicable joy. 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. View yourself as being a person who is grateful
and fervently wants to keep upgrading his level of gratitude. Your self-image
creates you. Who are you? "I am a person who is full of gratitude for
all that I can be grateful for." When this is how you consider yourself,
you will say and do more things that will be an expression of gratitude. 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 10% online discount offer of only $8.99
from ArtScroll. “Thank You!” was ArtScroll’s best-selling
book in May 2005.
As A Man
Thinketh – Chapter Four “Thought
and Purpose” by James
Allen Until
thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment. With
the majority the bark of thought is allowed to "drift" upon the
ocean of life. Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for
him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction. They
who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to worries,
fears, troubles, and self-pityings, all of which are indications of weakness,
which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a
different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot
persist in a power-evolving universe. A man
should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to
accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his
thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly
object, according to his nature at the time being. But whichever it is, he
should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set
before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote
himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into
ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to
self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and
again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is
overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his
true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power
and triumph. Those
who are not prepared for the apprehension of a great purpose, should
fix the thoughts upon the faultless performance of their duty, no matter how
insignificant their task may appear. Only in this way can the thoughts be
gathered and focused, and resolution and energy be developed, which being
done, there is nothing which may not be accomplished. The
weakest soul, knowing its own weakness, and believing this truth - that
strength can only be developed by effort and practice, will at once begin
to exert itself, and adding effort to effort, patience to patience, and
strength to strength, will never cease to develop, and will at last grow
divinely strong. As the
physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training,
so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in
right thinking. To put
away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to
enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the
pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them, and who think
strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully. Having
conceived of his purpose, a man should mentally mark out a straight
pathway to its achievement, looking neither to the right nor to the left.
Doubts and fears should be rigorously excluded; they are disintegrating
elements which break up the straight line of effort, rendering it crooked,
ineffectual, useless. Thoughts of doubt and fear never accomplish anything,
and never can. They always lead to failure. Purpose, energy, power to do, and
all strong thoughts cease when doubt and fear creep in. The
will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. Doubt and fear
are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not
slay them, thwarts himself at every step. He who
has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. His every thought is
allied with power, and all difficulties are bravely met and wisely overcome.
His purposes are seasonably planted, and they bloom and bring forth fruit
which does not fall prematurely to the ground. Thought
allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force. He who knows this
is ready to become something higher and stronger than a mere bundle of
wavering thoughts and fluctuating sensations. He who does this has
become the conscious and intelligent wielder of his mental powers. In the next issue,
you’ll find chapter five – “The Thought-Factor In Achievement”
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speaker, Dr. Bernie Siegel presents his considerable experience on happiness
from his years of working with people in difficult circumstances. This
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However, several people have
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information that they just couldn’t take it all in the first time they
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