10 Steps To Happiness
Anything that you could ever desire, any aspect you might deem contributory to your happiness, can be found in one of ten ingredients. These ten categories of Happiness are congruent with everything ever associated with success and happiness. They typify the life and accomplishments of all successful and happy men and women and include everything you might ever want.
Incorporating these ten ingredients in your efforts will maximise your chances of securing happiness in your life. By clarifying your requirements of success and happiness relative to one or more of these elements will create a clearer target for you to aim at. You will then be able to measure your performance and identify the areas where changes will bring about improvement in your life.
Start with your vision of a perfect future. You will begin to unleash the powers contained in these pages, to clarify the important elements of your life and visualise them exactly as if they were already perfect for you. Your vision will act as a point of reference, against which you can measure and evaluate everything you do in the process of turning it into your reality of happiness.
THE 10 STEPS
PEACE OF MIND
POSITIVE PERCEPTION AND PERSPECTIVE
HIGH SELF ESTEEM & GOOD ATTITUDE
ENHANCED SELF KNOWLEDGE & AWARENESS
VIBRANT HEALTH AND ENERGY
LOVING CONNECTION FROM WARM RELATIONSHIPS
FINANCIAL FREEDOM
SATISFYING WORK
WORTHY GOALS & INSPIRING DREAMS
PERSONAL FULFILLMENT
1. Peace of mind
Without peace of mind, nothing else has much value and will adversely affect the performance you achieve in all other areas, including your relationships with loved ones and friends to your business associations. You will usually reflect on how well you are doing at any given time by how much inner peace you enjoy.
In its simplest terms, you experience happiness and peace of mind to the degree that you are living in sync with your values and free from the destructive emotions of fear, anger, doubt, guilt, resentment, anger and worry. The key to peace of mind and happiness minimise the parts of your life that cause you to feel you are comprising your values.
YOUR peace of mind is your normal, natural condition. If your time is spent solely making others happy, you are at the mercy of the feelings of those others, whoever they might be. Organising your life around making others happy is a never ending exercise in frustration and disappointment, because it just isn't possible. You can't give away what you don't have. You can't make someone else happy whilst being miserable yourself. You can't make others happy unless you can make yourself happy first.
2. Positive perception and perspective
This is the way we look at everything, filtered through a screen of the beliefs we hold about it in our minds. The beliefs we hold will affect the thoughts we have about anything. When mixed with emotion, those thoughts can dramatically affect the way we behave and act and will be reflected in the results we achieve. The perception we allow to reside in our belief system creates our perspective about that subject, person or experience. If follows that if the original belief is distorted, erroneous or out-of-date, this can have a dramatic effect, good or bad, on the happiness we experience. Your perceptions are such an important and influencing factor in your ultimate happiness that a whole article is devoted to it later in the project, where we will learn how to create improved perceptions to increase the amount of happiness you attract. (see the Perception Cycle).
3. High self-esteem and good attitude
Adults with high self-esteem are characterised by considering themselves worthy to love and to be loved and respected by others. Their true perception of themselves is in harmony with the picture they portray to the outside world.
When you have healthy self-esteem you accept yourself for who you are, recognising and appreciating yourself for your high self-worth by acknowledging your competency, skills, intellect, talent, abilities and good qualities. The importance of high self-esteem should not be underestimated. It is the foundation of your happiness and positively or negatively affects every area of your human existence.
What is needed is a positive attitude - an attitude of being tolerant towards people, events and circumstances and not being a stickler or a perfectionist.
It means not to getting upset just because the world is not the way you want it. Your approach to situations is more important than the situation itself.
4. Enhanced self-knowledge and awareness
Since time began self-knowledge and awareness has been synonymous with happiness and achievement. To perform at your optimum level, you will need to discover who you truly are beneath the masks you wear, and why you believe, think, feel and act the way you do. You need to identify and understand the influencing events, choices and people that have shaped your character from earliest days of childhood. You need to discover why you react and respond the way you do to people and situations around you. As you become more aware and accept yourself, you will begin moving toward more happiness in all the areas of your life.
5. Health and energy
Radiant health implies freedom from illnesses, pain or disease that can destroy our zest for life. Good health results in vitality which can make living much more enjoyable.
Your body is constructed in such a way that if you just stop doing certain things to it, it often recovers and becomes healthy and energetic all by itself.
Whatever achievements you may experience in the material world, if you lose your health or your peace of mind, you get little or no pleasure from your other accomplishments.
6. Loving and connecting relationships
As humans we are social animals. We need other people to communicate and share experiences with. We need other people who can help to make us feel we are OK. It is important to have at least one person whose affection you enjoy. This need not be a romantic relationship. A family member or a friend can also fill this need.
We are talking about the relationships with the people you love and care about, and the people who love and care about you. Most of our happiness and unhappiness in life comes from our relationships with others, and it is our relationships with others that make us truly human.
7. Financial freedom
Financial freedom means that having enough money so that you don’t have to worry about money. Achieving financial independence or freedom is one of the most important goals and responsibilities of your life.
Basic needs vary from individual to individual. For somebody even an old car is a luxury while for another even a Mercedes is not enough. The minimum we would want to start with would be sufficient income to provide for reasonable food, shelter and clothing. What is reasonable will depend a lot upon attitude.
Having more wealth or income than this reasonable amount may improve the level of happiness for some people, but it is not a prerequisite for happiness. On the other hand, excessive wealth may cause problems of its own making.
An increasingly large percentage of the population are plagued with money problems. Many wind-up miserable and broke, having spent 40 years working long hard hours only to end up with insufficient money to keep them in their retirement. They worry about money when they wake up in the morning, while they’re having breakfast and during the day. They become overwhelmed with it to the point where it severely impairs their happiness in all areas of their lives. This is an unhappy, unhealthy way to exist. This is not contributing to being the best you can be.
Peace of mind is affected by money. Most worry, stress and anxiety are caused by money worries. Money, or rather the lack of it is a cause of many health and relationship problems. One of the main causes for divorce is arguments over money. You therefore owe it to yourself to develop your talents and abilities to the point where you know that you can earn enough money so that you don’t have to worry about it. For some people £10,000 will be right, for others £100,000 wouldn’t be enough. You cannot be free until and unless you have enough money so that you are no longer preoccupied with it.
8. Satisfying and fulfilling work
"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die". Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962, American First Lady,
People need satisfying or fulfilling work to experience a feeling of being productive and of making a difference to the world. This should not be drudgery. Doing it should give the individual a sense of achievement and contributes towards high self esteem and self worth. It has been shown that an absence of fulfilling, rewarding work is a major factor affecting the long term self-worth of the individual.
Fulfilling work helps us feel we are moving towards realising our potential in life. A lack of work erodes our confidence, and makes us feel, even at a subconscious level, that we are making a valid contribution to our lives and the lives of those important to us.
A recent Japanese study of the relationship between work hours and heart attack risk revealed that men who worked less than 7 hours a day in an emotionally unfulfilling job, were at increased risk of heart attack, and those who, on average worked 11 hours or more a day had twice the risk of heart attack.
The number of hours you are working might translate into poorer health over a long period of time. Clearly it’s a matter of getting the balance right. If you are overworking, try to take steps to cut back or find time during the day for meaningful breaks.
The key needs of every human being are influenced by the existence or lack of satisfying work in the lives of us all.
"The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something". Henry Ford 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company
9. Worthy goals and ideals
Concentration camp survivor, psychologist and author Dr Viktor E Frankl, (author of Man’s Search for Meaning), said that our deepest subconscious drive is to identify and pursue our meaning and purpose in life. Frankl spent the war years confined to Auchwitz concentration camp where he observed that only 1 in 28 of the inmates survived the ordeal.
Those that survived were no fitter, no healthier and no more intelligent than those that did not survive. What they did possess though was a strong and definite purpose in life, a reason to live. To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of purpose in life.
The key to any progress on the path to increased happiness is having a set of defined goals. These goals would be for all the major aspects of your life - health, financial, relationships etc. and would be for various time periods i.e. you need to have a goals about where you see yourself at the end of your life and then develop a set of intermediate goals. True happiness comes from steady progress towards your meaningful goals.
You need to feel that your life has purpose and meaning, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to the world around you.
10. Personal fulfillment
This is the certain knowledge that you are moving your life towards the realisation of your full potential as a human being. This is called "self-actualisation" which is characterised as the primary attribute of the healthiest, happiest and most successful men and women.
A major benefit of studying yourself and your own path to success and happiness is that it will show you how to become your own psychologist. You will learn how to achieve and maintain a positive, optimistic and happy mental attitude and how to develop a fully performing, mature personality.
You can’t hit a target you can’t see. Defining the ten ingredients of happiness helps you identify what to aim for. Defining your life in ideal terms, you will develop the courage to decide exactly what you want and begin the process of removing the obstacles to your success and happiness. Later, you will learn a proven process of thought and planning to achieve whatever goals you want.
When you begin to practice what we will learn here, you should enjoy greater peace of mind, improve your perceptions, elevate your self-esteem, benefit from enhanced self-knowledge and increased awareness, enjoy better health and energy, more and better loving relationships, greater financial freedom through more fulfilling work, construct exciting goals and ideals to which you can commit yourself, and savor a wonderful feeling of personal fulfillment and personal achievement.
While admiring or helping others, our focus is on appreciating and serving, instead of on monitoring our own personal, momentary experiences of happiness. Provided you achieve the right balance of selfless giving and selfish taking, by putting effort into helping others, happiness will appear in your life.
Types of Happiness
Whilst there are as many descriptions of happiness as there are people on the planet, happiness itself falls into one of six broad categories:
Physical Happiness: Physical happiness means having the basics that will allow you to survive and thrive, such as food, water, shelter, and air.
Emotional Happiness: Emotional happiness comes from feelings of love, belonging, and having a sense of family or community.
Mental Happiness: Mental happiness comes with a positive self-image, and includes making good use of your mind's ability to continually improve and grow in your understanding and appreciation of life.
Creative Happiness: Creative happiness blossoms forth when you are expressing your excellence as whatever you are meant to be - being the best artist, manager, cook, friend, mother, or worker that you can be - offering your creative efforts to benefit society and those you love.
Spiritual Happiness: Spiritual happiness fills you with the peacefulness of unshakable faith, as you rest in your higher self -- while giving and serving with universal love and a vision of the bigger picture of your soul's journey.
Eternal Bliss: Eternal bliss is a realm of unearthly ecstasy and oneness with all. We'll know it when we see it!
Happiness is a state of mind
What an amazing instrument the human mind is.
When we truly learn to make full use of our mind's potential, we can harness the tremendous power of our thoughts and intentions to inspire and empower all of our actions, and to create ongoing happiness in our lives.
You will know that the entire universe is made up of energy. Everything you can see, touch, hear, taste, sense and imagine is represented by energy vibrating at different frequencies.
Our minds affect the world around us because thoughts have energy too. Our minds affect the world through our thoughts, feelings, and actions, in obvious and subtle ways. To state it simply: Happy thoughts equal a happy world; sad thoughts equal a sad world. Fearful thoughts equal a fearsome world; angry thoughts equal an angry world. Benevolent thoughts equal a benevolent world; generous thoughts equal a generous world. Simply, the more we give of something, the more of it we will receive.
What we think literally reflects in the world around us because of certain logical, scientific, and philosophical connections that may not be fully described or studied in today's school classrooms, but which are nevertheless fundamental elements of this experience we call human life.
Ultimately, our happiness depends not on what we have, but on how we think and feel about what we have. Although this is an obvious fact of life, few people truly harness the power of their minds to practice intentional happiness.
Once you understand that your mind is the source of happiness, you have an opportunity to consciously take back the control of your experience of life.
You can look at anything that happens, and think, "How can I grow from this? How can I interpret this in a positive way? How can I love, embrace, and make the best of this situation?" You can enjoy the many benefits that come from intelligent, intentional optimism, including the wonder of spiritual happiness. With the miracle of your mind, you can approach life with excitement, willingness, inspiration, and joy. Happiness will then follow you automatically.
“A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be”. Abraham Lincoln - 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Happiness is acceptance
All issues, all turmoil, all conflicts can be handled by understanding what the problem is and accepting it, then changing it. We are either part of the problem or part of the solution. When we are disturbed about something or someone, it is because we do not understand on a higher level but view it through our personality which is attached to our need to control things and see ourselves in a positive light.
“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent”. – Eleanor Roosevelt - 1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian
“Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of misfortune”. William James
If some part of our life is unacceptable, and we have been unsuccessful in dealing with it, sometimes the only way through is to accept that this is so.
We cannot find serenity when we are at war with someone or with ourselves. Nothing happens in this wonderful Universe by mistake or accident. Unless we accept our situation and learn from it, we cannot be happy. If we learn from it, then we need not suffer unnecessarily.
Nor do we need to hurt others with words of blame.
We need only concentrate on our part of the situation; what needs to be changed is our way of thinking and having done so, happiness will follow.
Happiness and self-acceptance
A little bit of pleasure, an occasional sixty seconds of joy, is for most of us, quite acceptable and very much appreciated. It goes some way to making up for the work, the stress, the suffering and the sacrifice that came before it. Whilst we may be comfortable with life’s little pleasures; our conditioning makes us feel less comfortable with prolonged happiness, full blown JOY and everlasting bliss.
Ask yourself.. how much happiness can you really handle? One hour? A week? A month? A year? A lifetime? How long can you live with happiness and joy before you begin to question and doubt what is happening?
How long can you accept being peaceful, or blissfully happy before you become restless and anxious? How long can you enjoy someone’s love and attention, accept their genuine affection, appreciation and admiration before you grow uncomfortable or even guilty, believing that you are receiving more bliss than you deserve? How long can you accept and trust the feeling of complete freedom a person or an experience offers, before you sabotage it?
Acceptance rather than time is the real issue, and in particular, self-acceptance.
Happiness and self-acceptance go hand in hand. In fact :
“Your level of happiness is directly determined by your level of self acceptance”
The more self acceptance you have, the more happiness you will allow yourself to accept, receive and enjoy. In other words:
“You enjoy as much happiness as you believe you are worthy of”.
Happiness comes easily when your level of self-acceptance level is high, but happiness seems so distant when your self acceptance is low. When you feel low, you can’t help but dream of being happy once more, but you may secretly fear that you’re just not deserving of happiness, and so you question, doubt, resist, test, deny, defend against, overlook and push away invitations to be happy.
To deny your self acceptance is to believe you are not worthy of happiness. You cannot have a low level of self acceptance AND happiness. To persist with a feeling of unworthiness and also accept happiness is too much of a conflict – a conflict that will leave you feeling guilty. How can you accept happiness and also believe you do not deserve it?
You attract what you believe you deserve.
Self-acceptance and your self-worth are the key to both your happiness and unhappiness. If you can accept yourself as you are, happiness is natural and acceptable to you. If, however, you allow yourself to believe you are “not good enough”, then you send out energy vibrations, albeit some of them subconsciously that you are not good enough for happiness. Indeed, for as long as you perpetuate this belief you will always deny yourself complete happiness, for fear of the guilt you will feel.
Happiness and guilt
The greatest obstacle to our facing the truths of what we really want, what makes us truly happy and to finally accepting the happiness intended for us, is our guilt, and we have plenty of it.
Guilt in this sense, is the belief that you do not deserve all the happiness that activity or person will bring you. It is the belief that you are ‘not good enough’, ‘wrong’, ‘bad’ and ‘nothing’. This belief is learned. It is not your natural state. All thoughts of lack such as this are born in the ego, that part of you that hopes for happiness but ultimately has “learned to believe” that you are not really deserving of it.
We long for happiness, but we may also believe we are too guilty to accept it. We love the idea of happiness. It feels so good. But what holds us back is our fear that maybe it’s selfish, wrong, inappropriate, and that it comes with a price. Out-of-date conditioning has taught us to believe that happiness demands compensation of some sort – in the form of suffering, labour or sacrifice. Guilt doesn’t just rear it’s head to obstruct our happiness, however.
Have you noticed, for example, how :
“That which you desire is what you feel most guilty about!”
This is the ego at work again! In spiritual circles, a tremendous amount of emphasis is placed on releasing our ego’s for the purpose of achieving true inner peace.
The ego creates guilty feelings everywhere it can, especially where happiness is to be found. The ego tries to make us feel guilty about anything and everything, particularly nice, pleasurable things. Take pleasure for example. Pleasure is a happiness of the body, an enjoyment of the senses. Pleasure is about beautiful colours, scented aromas, wonderful music, a healing touch and exotic tastes. We have also wrongly been taught to believe however, that pleasure is wicked. What nonsense!
Somehow we’ve picked up the erroneous belief that ‘pleasure is so good it must be a sin’. We hear that too much pleasure can kill off our morals, destroy our virtues and ruin all values. All by itself apparently, pleasure can lead to laziness, selfishness, anarchy, war, damnation, the end of the world and the downfall of the human race!
Sex is pleasure. Sex is natural, good fun and healthy. That sounds like a really great, very logical, objective and mature approach, but most of us still feel guilt-ridden talking about it. Remember the childhood gems of wisdom ‘play with it and it will fall off’ and ‘Do that again and you’ll go blind’ ‘That’s dirty, don’t do it?’
Examples are plenty of how, through conditioning with irrational beliefs, we have been taught to feel guilty about everything we like. Chocolate is ‘naughty but nice’, money is ‘the root of all evil’, peace and rest is re-written as ‘the devil making use of idle hands’, laughter ‘will end in tears’, success ‘will ruin you’. Until those beliefs are examined and seen for what they are, irrational and no longer serving us, guilt will remain a way of life for so many, reinforcing those thoughts of unworthiness.
For as long as you accept yourself to be unworthy, you will never be able to freely accept happiness when it presents itself. Show me someone who suffers with guilt and I’ll wager that you’ll see someone, who may on the surface appears confident and self assured, but has suffered, or continues to suffer with a disguised sense of unworthiness and the associated need for approval.
Self acceptance and true happiness are both impossible while you believe that guilt plays a valid part in your life. Whilst you continue to believe that guilt is valid, you will, deep down, have a subconscious belief that you do not deserve happiness.
If you replace the phrase ‘self-acceptance and happiness’ with SELF-ACCEPTANCE IS HAPPINESS , then maybe you will start to see more clearly how important it is to let go of guilt. Letting go of guilt is releasing the ego.
Letting Go Of Your Ego
The world is littered with man-made myths, superstitions and stories that tell of our descent from heaven, falling from grace and our separation from God.
Christianity reflects contradictions that are common to all organised religions of the world. On one hand there are Christians who believe in a loving, forgiving God and believe in the general goodness of mankind, that God wants unlimited happiness for each and every one of us, and then there are others who ask God to bless their bombs, who speak of the fear we should feel through God’s vengeance, believing in original sin i.e. that you and I are guilty.
Guilt is not exclusive to Catholicism, contrary to what many may think, they do not have the monopoly on guilt. The Jewish faith is riddled with guilt. Hindu’s have their ‘karma’, Muslims are permanently atoning. Guilt is clearly non-denominational.
From an early age, we are taught strange ideas such as :
Guilt is our natural state
Guilt is good for our morality
It is bad NOT to feel guilty
Anarchy rules if there is no guilt
Guilt makes you behave better
Guilt shows you care
Guilt shows you are sorry
Guilt stops you sinning
Of course, the reason we feel we are sinful is because we are conditioned to feel so guilty in the first place. Guilt begets more guilt. Guilt serves no useful practical purpose and will never take you to love, peace or happiness.
For centuries the organised religions have capitalised on our guilt, using fear of the wrath of God to cling on to their followers. These methods are outdated in this new world of ours. Whatever your beliefs, be it an organised religion or an individual spiritual path, a “Creator” that wields the enormous power to create and snuff out everything in this universe of ours, has no need to utilise fear or guilt.
I remember the “guilt trips” my parents perpetuated :
You should be ashamed of yourself
We are very disappointed in you
How could you do this to us?
You just don’t care
How selfish can you get?
You’ll be the death of me
You’ll send me to my grave
Children learn quickly, and we created our own guilt trips too :
My mate’s dad always lets him . . .
Why can’t I have one too?
We never go anywhere
Please Dad, just this once . . .
If you loved me you would/wouldn’t
And, all too often, love gives way to guilt.
And our teachers did their bit too . . .
What would your mom say?
Then our bosses joined in with . . . .
“Whatever you do don’t screw this one up” …
And then, our significant other chips in with . . .
“If you loved me, you would” . . . .
“I’d love you more if” . . . . .
Guilt is learned. Anything that can be learned can be un-learned. You can let go of your conditioning right here and now if you can accept and adhere to a most fundamental key to happiness :
I am not advocating anarchy, extending criticism of organised religion, or suggesting that socially unacceptable behaviour become the norm. Far from it. Peaceful enjoyment of life, without socially unacceptable or criminal behaviour is an essential pre-requisite for global happiness. A correct level of social conscience and values that do not contravene the law of the land, are far more appropriate and positive, whereas guilt is a negative emotion that serves no useful purpose to anyone.
“You cannot teach anyone they are guilty, if you are to be free of guilt yourself.”
Thoughts are never given away, they are always shared. If you teach someone they should feel guilty, you simultaneously teach yourself that you should feel guilty too. Also, when you judge someone as being unworthy of happiness you are, in that very same instant, telling yourself you are also unworthy.
The reverse of this principle is that every time you affirm another person’s goodness, you affirm these qualities for yourself. Either we are all free or none of us are. Happiness would have you commit to the idea that you are in essence, not guilty, and neither is anyone else.
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with their best song still in them”. Henry David Thoreau - 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Happiness is an intentional choice. Choose happiness, it is your birth right.
JUST HOW HAPPY ARE YOU? FIND OUT BELOW
Referring to the ten steps of happiness at the start of this article, plot your score on each scale of the wheel of happiness below.
Print this page or copy the image onto a blank piece of paper,
Give yourself a score for how satisfied you feel in each area out of ten. Zero or 1 is dire, suggesting you have a lot of work to do to arrive at a happier state.
Ten is perhaps a little optimistic. If you score yourself ten in every area and mean it sincerely, I congratulate you on achieving such an incredible state of self-satisfaction.
However, I would suggest there is little more these pages can add to your current state of euphoric bliss!
Seriously though, be realistic in your rating of each area. The GAP between where you are and where you would like to be, summarises where you need to focus to bring a balanced level of happiness and fulfillment to your life.
This article extracted from my publication "The Truth Will Set You Free", a twenty year research project available free to download as a pdf on this site or by following this link for the flip-view version:
Look out for more articles on these pages including:-
1. WHAT IS HAPPINESS?
Happiness is the primary goal of all human beings, but how can we hope to uncover it if we haven’t defined what happiness means to each of us? In this article we explore what happiness means, different levels of happiness and a universal meaning of happiness.
2. STEPS TO HAPPINESS
Ten key areas where you can dramatically improve the levels of your happiness, how to create happiness in one step, where to look for happiness, choosing happiness, what happiness is and what obstructs it.
3. THE REAL YOU
Discovering the authentic you that makes you most happy, reclaiming your authentic self, avoiding the negative influence of others, concluding with your authenticity self analysis.
4. HUMAN NEEDS
We learn about the basic human needs we all must satisfy to allow true happiness to return to our lives. We will explore the key roles you occupy within the main areas of your life that combine to influence your levels of happiness. Discover how to assess your overall level of happiness in roles and areas of your life, pinpointing specific areas to change that will bring you increased happiness.
5. HOW DID I GET HERE?
Learn about the eights stages of human development and how your childhood conditioning and emotional programming could be affecting your happiness quotient. We will identify the influential events, choices
and people in your life up to this point, that had a positive or negative effect on your happiness now.
6. YOUR BELIEF SYSTEMS
Discover how the beliefs that reside in your mind dramatically improve or impair your experience of happiness. We will learn how to improve our belief systems and how to eliminate self limiting, destructive and
negative beliefs.
7. YOUR CORE VALUES
What are your values and why are they so important to your happiness? Identify the core values of importance to you and where they come from.
8. KNOW THYSELF
Understand the role played by your self concept and self esteem in your search for inner happiness. Learn how to recover from low self esteem and create techniques for building higher self esteem. Assess your level of self esteem to identify where you can make adjustments.
9. PERCEPTION AND THOUGHTS
Introducing the perception cycle, a powerful tool to improve then quality of your beliefs and thoughts to increase the levels of happiness you enjoy. Discover the power behind your thoughts and how they attract positive and negative circumstances and people that affect your
happiness.
10. FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS
Understand how your feelings and emotions colour the thoughts you have and affect the decisions you make and the outcomes you achieve. Discover how to use your emotions to generate energy and improve the quality and quantity of happiness you attract.
11. THE POWER OF YOUR BRAIN
Understand, in simple terms how your wonderful brain is constructed and can be made to work for you, how your every thought leaves an impression and how changing your thoughts will change your experiences of happiness. Discover what parts of the brain have an impact on your emotional state of happiness.
12. THE POWER OF YOUR MIND
How to interpret the instruction manual of your mind and unleash your phenomenal power to change your circumstances through an understanding of your levels of consciousness. How thoughts are transferred and attracted and their related influence on the happiness you experience in life.
13. THE POWER OF ENERGY
Realising the importance of the role that energy plays in attracting more happiness into your life. Through examples you will learn how thought energy is scientifically recognised throughout the modern world as a powerful means of attracting more of the happiness you want.
14. THE POWER OF AWARENESS
By developing self awareness of your thoughts, beliefs and actions, you will be able to identify the changes you need to make to attract and reveal more happiness. This chapter will help you explore and increase your self awareness that will lead to self acceptance.
15. THE POWER OF ACCEPTANCE
Discover how acceptance and in particular, self acceptance, can transform your life and directly improve your experience of happiness in life. Learn how to increase your acceptance, the greater your acceptance the happier you will become. Acceptance leads naturally into the immensely powerful trait of appreciation.
16. THE POWER OF APPRECIATION
Focused attention on your powerful energy of appreciation, of self, others and the world around you, will take you to new levels of happiness beyond your current experience.
17. THE POWER OF ATTRACTION
Armed with the immense combined powers up to this point, you are now ready to understand the greatest life changer of them all, the power of attraction. Learn how to attract more states of happiness and repel states that have led to all of your unhappiness.
18. THE POWER OF GOALS
Harness the combined powers to focus in on what you really want to be, have and do in your life, with the incredible power of goal setting. Release your fears and set goals to turn your dreams of happiness into reality.
19. THE POWER OF RELATIONSHIPS
Your relationships with other people undoubtedly contribute the majority of happiness or unhappiness you will experience in life. Understand the vital role of healthy personalities, combining the knowledge of the forgoing chapters to create wonderful, healthy relationships that will contribute immensely to your growth and happiness.
20. THE POWER OF LOVE
If the first nineteen elements contain the building blocks of happiness, learn how love, the greatest power of all is the cement that holds them all together. The phenomenal healing power of love is the strongest and most intense power of them all.