The Happiness Secret
How to Rediscover Lost Happiness
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Presented as a concise analysis of its subject, but written in a manner easily comprehended by readers of all levels of understanding, this work dispels the mysteries so often encountered within the teachings of the Gurus and Sages, the so called, Spiritual leaders of the Eastern cultures. And it blows away the camouflaging smoke and mirrors of human psychology that so often disguise what are really fundamental facts of life. So without having to research and define the meaning behind unfamiliar spiritual expressions, and the psycho-babble and jargon normally associated with such literature, here you will find easily understood and meaningful insights, and practical lessons too, lessons that you can apply immediately towards your quest for enduring happiness. On the one hand the author provides solid reasoning why un-happiness is so widespread in our world today, and on the other, identifies just how close we already are to unveiling our only true source of happiness without actually knowing it. The Happiness Secret is perhaps life’s greatest secret. Just like healthy eating and exercise habits, developing healthy ‘happiness’ habits surely is a good thing to do, but what golden key unlocks the door to a deeper understanding of the human psyche? What key that costs nothing and yet provides an effective and do-able solution? What key could become an integral part of your everyday life? Like breathing. Conscious Awareness, is the one and only key that will open the door to your enduring happiness. And it’s proven that developing your conscious awareness is a do-able achievement and will lead you to Self Realization. It requires no effort, yet is the only truly effective and lasting solution, and is fundamental to a life of peace, inner happiness and meaningful fulfillment. Here you will learn how to end this energy sapping state of affairs, to conquer your previously unknown, uncontrolled subconscious mind activity and bring intellectual, conscious awareness into your mental field of view. By replacing old, entrenched, destructive life traits and resulting debilitating emotional reactions, with new conscious choices for calm and contentment, enduring happiness will soon prevail. You’ll soon discover that your therapist, your own inner guide to a life of enduring happiness, is already within you. That because both happiness and unhappiness are, in effect, matters of your own making and the manifestation of either condition in your life, is entirely in your own hands. Even more precisely, entirely in your own head. For those of us living within societies with a perceived comfortable lifestyle, without personal threat or urgent need, we can tend to become terrible procrastinators. It can take us an eternity to stop doing things we’ve done habitually all our lives, even after we’ve determined that those things no longer serve us. But when we finally take the plunge, to set out to acquire new knowledge and positive change, to finally do something about a personal goal that’s been a long time dream to achieve, we want to feel assured that the road we eventually take will in fact lead us directly to the results we desire. Reader, you may rest, assured. If true and authentic inner happiness is your destination, your journey should begin here, because at last, and in simple language, here’s everything you need to know about how to get destructive thoughts and life restricting emotions out of your head, and enduring happiness back where it belongs, in your heart. And to keep it there.
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As with healthy eating and exercise habits, developing healthy happiness habits is something we should all be doing. But what golden key unlocks the door to a deeper understanding of the human psyche? What key costs nothing and yet provides an effective and doable solution? What key could become as integral a part of your everyday life as breathing?
In The Happiness Secret, author Steve Wood gives you the tools required for discovering and eradicating the causes of your unhappiness. He reveals one of life’s most profound secrets, the secret to uncovering what’s already within you, the ultimate state of being, that, which in itself, is all empowering, and facilitates the only enduring solution to your personal inner happiness. He teaches you to learn to control your subconscious mind, enabling you to recover your personal power, restore your emotional equilibrium and to move forward with greater vigilance to a future of peaceful understanding in life and relationships, to authentic and enduring inner happiness.
Based on his personal journey to happiness, Wood shares tips for eliminating destructive thoughts and life-restricting emotions and for replacing those with lasting happiness in your heart. The Happiness Secret provides an easy-to-follow and inclusive discussion on the merits of happiness in the modern world.
About the Author
Born in New Zealand in 1949, Stephen moved to Australia in 1985 in search of a fresh start after a series of personal life calamities. Not until ten further unhappy years elapsed and a ‘final straw’ disaster struck, did his awakening to truth unfold. But ultimately, it was through dealing with the fallout of a devastating personal relationship event, that lead him to the discovery of ‘The Happiness Secret’, the secret to enduring happiness. Using understandable language, he brings together the wisdom of the Gurus of spiritual awakening and the capacity that ordinary people possess to understand it by offering so much more than chicken soup comfort in his true and very personal account of life experience and Self-discovery. His book is an effective learning instrument and perhaps the catalyst you needed, to create your own better, happier life.
Stephen shows how seemingly insurmountable, emotionally challenging events can be hugely diminished, even instantly disintegrated, into nothing more than they really are; uncontrolled thoughts. His work displays a clear understanding about the most prevalent, detrimental human condition of all, the suffering of unhappiness, and it will open the door to happiness for millions, a door they never knew existed, nor possibly would ever have dared to open without such sincere, down to earth guidance.
After re-discovering his inner happiness, Stephen has also re-discovered his ideal living environment, in peaceful surroundings by the beach again. Together with his wife, June, Stephen enjoys life, traveling, writing, and sailing boats. As he says; “Ours’ is now a life of enduring happiness acquired through Self-awareness and by applying conscious intelligence, vigilance, to all of our life decisions. That’s what gives us a sharper view of the world from a calmer and happier perspective.”
“Living life ‘in the dark’, in an unconscious state ruled by the subconscious mind, is like having to shop for your favourite food in a foreign supermarket. Nothing offered on the shelves ever seems quite what you want, but, because you can’t read the labels, you never really know why. Conversely, like a home cooked meal, life’s all the tastier when you’ve imagined it, selected the ingredients, and baked it yourself. Then you know; Ah, yes, that’s how my meals should taste”
“Isn’t that how you want your life to be?”.