Learn to find the happiness that is natural to you, and enjoy better relationships, better health, more success and a longer life. The peculiar thing about us humans is, we spend a lot of time working to find people and things that will make us happy. In fact, we seem to spend the majority of our time doing this. However, there is no guarantee that any of this effort will work. There are lots of people who have hordes of people around them, and who have lots of things, but have been unable to make themselves happy. The truth is, happiness can be had with little effort. Have you ever been happy for no reason at all? Of course you have. Without anything changing in life, happiness just appears. We see it in young children all the time. In fact, we expect to see it in children. If you happen to ask a smiling child why he or she is so happy, at best the answer may be, “Because.” For an adult this may be an unsatisfying answer, but for the child it is the truth -- happiness exists “just because.” As we age we seem to lose touch with happiness-for-no-reason-at-all. We see a world where everyone is striving for stuff, striving for popularity, striving, striving, striving. The natural fount of happiness we once enjoyed disappears as we join them. However, that happiness is not gone. All that happened is we lost our connection to it. This book is about recovering that connection. We all grow up believing that if we work hard, and if we are good people, we will enjoy good relationships with others, good health, success and a long life. Obviously this is not true. There are a lot of rich old people who are not happy. What we have, what we do, and the other circumstances of our lives do not provide authentic happiness. Instead, happiness comes from inside of us, and all by itself enables us to have secure relationships, good health, more success and longer lives. So, what is the secret of being happy? Being happy is a little like flipping a switch. When it’s on you are happy and when it’s off you are not. It’s so easy. How else can you explain being happy for no reason. What you need to do is learn to turn it on, and keep it turned on. This book discusses seven practices that help you do that. There is a lot of wisdom available about how to be happy. Most of it is thousands of years old, but some is quite new. The seven practices we will look at incorporate this wisdom to help you learn how to turn on happiness in your life. This kind of happiness does not require changing anything in your life. All you have to do is learn to turn it on.

How Can I Be Happy? How Can I Find Joy? How Can I Find Happiness that Lasts? This book answers these questions, and many more. This book is about learning to be happy. The good news is: everyone has the natural power to be happy, right now! Everyone wants to be happy and wants that happiness to last. This book teaches unconditional happiness. The nature of unconditional happiness is that it is lasting. In addition, you do not have to do anything to get it. It is natural, and it is already inside of you, waiting to be released. You can experience it regardless of what life does or does not hand to you. You can be lastingly happy regardless of how hard life is. You can be happy if you have a huge family and lots of friends, and you can be happy if you are alone. You can be happy regardless of whether your health is good or bad. You can be happy no matter if you are successful or unsuccessful. No matter what, you can be happy. This book explains that, to experience happiness you have to understand that the way most of us search for it does not work. Most of us sincerely believe that happiness depends on what we do and what we have. Not true! There are many people who have everything, and seem like they should be happy, but who are miserable. There are also people who should be miserable, but who live in happiness and joy. To be happy, you have to free your mind from the misconceptions about what it takes to be truly happy. That is what this book teaches. The practices in this book aim to help you understand the nature of unconditional happiness – what it is, what it is not, and where it comes from. With this knowledge, you will know where to look, and what to aim for. Then the book describes practices that help free the mind to discover the happiness within. The practices in this book come from many sources, including Buddhism, Yoga, Taoist philosophy, Christianity, and the latest findings of positive psychology. Although much of this book draws from ancient religions and belief systems, this book is not about religion or belief. It is about the experience of happiness. Learning to be happy is learning to find happiness inside of us. This book shows you how to do that.

What Influencers Are Saying About Think Yourself Happy "I want to encourage you to get this book. Why? If you don't program yourself, you will be programmed. And so this book is about taking charge of your mind, being not conformed to this world, being transformed by the renewing of your mind. Think Yourself Happy helps you to do that each and every day. So make sure you get it now. Make it important. Make it a priority because it will literally transform your life!" -- Les Brown, World's #1 Motivational Speaker, Former Congressman, and Bestselling Author "Sometimes, it's the simplest things that can make the biggest difference in our lives. Think Yourself Happy is a great little read to help you learn how to achieve happiness." -- Tom Hopkins, author, The Official Guide to Success and When Buyers Say No "Think Yourself Happy is such a powerful testament to how we can control our own happiness by training ourselves to think happily, not just in the moment, but to change our thought processes to find the clarity to pursue that which truly drives you. Greg Jacobson's clear, positive writing not only inspires the reader to want to make these changes, but breaks them down into easily understood components that removes the barriers we set up to making these changes. Think Yourself Happy should be on everyone's reading list." -- Keith Ferrazzi, Author of Two #1 NY Times Bestsellers Who's Got Your Back & Never Eat Alone

This books teaches you how to be happier in one hour, so that you can start enjoying better relationships, better health, more success and a longer life, all from learning how to be happier. This books shows you how you can be happier right now, without anything else changing in your life. This is the second book by D.E. Hardesty, author of Finding Your Power to Be Happy: Seven Practices to Bring Unconditional Happiness into Your Life. In this book, the author reduces his seven practices for happiness into a book that can read in an hour. Included in this book are simple exercises to start these practices immediately. At the end of an hour, anyone who reads this book and tries the exercises can be happier. The premise of this book, and his first book, is that happiness is natural to us. It is already inside of us waiting to be released. We only have to turn our attention to it. Like a light switch, we only have to learn to turn it on, and keep it turned on. Real happiness does not depend on the circumstances of your life. You can be happier, right now, without anything changing in your life. If everything in your life is going great, you can be happy. If everything in your life is going wrong, you can be happy. Rich, poor, old, young, male, female, blue-collar, white-collar, pink-collar, no-collar, you can be happy. Learning to be happy may be the most important thing we can do in life. It may even be the purpose in life. What psychologists have found is that compared to those who are not happy, happy people have better relationships and better health, they are more successful, and they live longer. Children are born happy, and we expect see them playing and being happy. We do not expect so much happiness when we leave childhood. However, the power to be naturally happy that we knew as children is still there; it never left. This aim of this book is to help you find it again.

Happiness is Not Around the Corner; it’s Right Here, Right now Do you find yourself waiting for the best part of your life to begin? Or those things will get better soon? Dr. Richard Carlson, author who helped millions of readers stop sweating the small stuff, reminds us all You Can Be Happy No Matter What. Interactive Edition: In this interactive edition, people can experience the book in a wholly new way with Carlson’s narration, illuminating passages about living joyfully in the present moment. This handbook for happiness is based on proven psychology, the Principles of Thought, covering thought, mood, separate realties and feelings. Every moment of every day, our minds are working to make sense out of what we see and experience; yet this is one of the least understood principles in our psychological makeup. Carlson’s breakthrough work here in understanding the nature of thought can be the foundation to a fully functional life. Dr. Richard Carlson’s wise words in his own voice bring new dimension and understanding of awakening to your own happiness. This superlative interactive book aids anyone in understanding the ups and downs of life and how to build resilience. Most importantly, Carlson reminds us to not let the downside get in the way of living joyfully, despite the daily challenges we all face. In his own words, “Happiness is a state of mind, not a set of circumstances.”

With New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Hanson's four steps, you can counterbalance your brain's negativity bias and learn to hardwire happiness in only a few minutes each day. Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated? Because your brain evolved to learn quickly from bad experiences and slowly from good ones, but you can change this. Life isn’t easy, and having a brain wired to take in the bad and ignore the good makes us worried, irritated, and stressed, instead of confident, secure, and happy. But each day is filled with opportunities to build inner strengths and Dr. Rick Hanson, an acclaimed clinical psychologist, shows what you can do to override the brain’s default pessimism. Hardwiring Happiness lays out a simple method that uses the hidden power of everyday experiences to build new neural structures full of happiness, love, confidence, and peace. You’ll learn to see through the lies your brain tells you. Dr. Hanson’s four steps build strengths into your brain to make contentment and a powerful sense of resilience the new normal. In just minutes a day, you can transform your brain into a refuge and power center of calm and happiness.

Everyone wants to be happy--yet so many people are unhappy today. What are they doing wrong? Clearly, a new approach is needed. Self-help guru Shimoff presents three new ideas and a practical program to change the way readers look at creating happiness in their lives: 1. Happiness is not an emotion, a spike of elation or euphoria, but a lasting, neuro-physiological state of peace and well-being. 2. True happiness is not based on what people do or have--it doesn't depend on external reasons or circumstances. 3. Research indicates that everyone has a happiness set-point. No matter what happens to a person, they will tend to return to a set range of happiness. This book shows how you can actually reprogram your set-point to a higher level.--From publisher description.

We can be happy in spite of hardship, heartbreak, or a job we hate. Pie-in-the-sky? This down-to-earth guy shows us how. When personal tragedy struck, Howard Cushnir already knew the Zen practice of staying in the moment. But he wasn't prepared for the gift of grace he received. One day, all but lost, he was suddenly suffused with a complete sense of well-being---not a passing experience, but one available from then on. Paying close attention to the changes in his own inner states, Howard soon realized that feeling blissful is a choice we can always make, regardless of our circumstances.

In this “powerful personal story woven with a rich analysis of what we all seek” (Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google), Mo Gawdat, Chief Business Officer at Google’s [X], applies his superior logic and problem solving skills to understand how the brain processes joy and sadness—and then he solves for happy. In 2001 Mo Gawdat realized that despite his incredible success, he was desperately unhappy. A lifelong learner, he attacked the problem as an engineer would: examining all the provable facts and scrupulously applying logic. Eventually, his countless hours of research and science proved successful, and he discovered the equation for permanent happiness. Thirteen years later, Mo’s algorithm would be put to the ultimate test. After the sudden death of his son, Ali, Mo and his family turned to his equation—and it saved them from despair. In dealing with the horrible loss, Mo found his mission: he would pull off the type of “moonshot” goal that he and his colleagues were always aiming for—he would share his equation with the world and help as many people as possible become happier. In Solve for Happy Mo questions some of the most fundamental aspects of our existence, shares the underlying reasons for suffering, and plots out a step-by-step process for achieving lifelong happiness and enduring contentment. He shows us how to view life through a clear lens, teaching us how to dispel the illusions that cloud our thinking; overcome the brain’s blind spots; and embrace five ultimate truths. No matter what obstacles we face, what burdens we bear, what trials we’ve experienced, we can all be content with our present situation and optimistic about the future.

Happiness NOW! is a truly powerful and radical exploration of one of life's most treasured goals. Packed with rich insights and practical wisdom, it offers a message of profound hope and healing for a generation that is often too busy chasing happiness to be truly happy. Robert Holden, PhD, presents a personal, warm and entertaining account of how he developed his pioneering work with The Happiness Project. Using a highly creative mix of stories, exercises, meditations, poetry and prayer, Robert shares his distinctive philosophy and practice of 'the how of happiness'. Visionary and practical, challenging and compassionate, Happiness NOW! gives you valuable keys to true self-acceptance, everyday abundance, loving relationships, inner success and lasting joy – starting NOW!