The Happy Book

I've been reading David Matthews' Being Happy for the past week.



It's a great follow-up read to Dr. Joseph Murphy's The Power of Your Subsconscious Mind.

Happiness has always been a personal choice and a state of mind.

The most successful and happiest people learned the art of choosing happiness over angst or sorrow in the most challenging and difficult situations.

And I'm just a newbie learning the how-tos.

As they say, the pursuit of happiness begins with learning to live "in the now," rather than drive ourselves nuts worrying about what the future will bring.

Sharing some excerpts from the book about Living in the Now:

"Living in the now is expanding our awareness to make the current moment more delicious rather than shutting off. Each of us has the choice, moment by moment, as to whether we really live and absorb and allow ourselves to be touched and affected.

Whenever we are living in the present moment, we drive fear from our mind. Essentially, fear is concern over events which might happen sometime in the future. This concern can be paralyzing to the point where we find it impossible to do anything constructive.

However, you are only open to intense fear when you are being inactive. The minute you start to take action and actually DO SOMETHING, fear subsides. Living in the now is about taking action without fear of the consequences. It is about putting in the effort for the sake of the involvement, without worry as to whether we will get our just rewards."

Note to self: Buy Boyfriend a copy of the book. 'Might just do some tricks in allaying fears of things that may not even be there or events that may not even happen.