7 Ancient Keys to Happiness: A 90 Day, Lesson-a-Day Guide to Achieving Inner-Bliss

322 Pages·2010·3.264 MB·English

by  S Warren

7 Ancient Keys To HAPPINESS
By: S. Warren
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(C) Copyright 2010 S. Warren
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To my dear niece, I’m writing this for you, to help you navigate your ship
through the rough waters of life and to steer you towards an island of beauty,
true happiness, fulfilment and love.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Day 1 Getting in touch
Day 2 Learning to Listen
Day 3 Keeping in touch
Day 4 Two are better than one
Day 5 Starting the Cruise
SMELL EVERY ROSE
KEY #1- SEE THE GOOD
PART 1 – SEEING THE GOOD BY LEARNING THE ROPES
Day 6 First stop
Day 7 When Good goes Stale
Day 8 It is all up to us.
Day 9 Living in the Real world
Day 10 The Energizer
Day 11 Conditional Contentment
Day 12 You owe it to yourself & others
Day 13 Making Good Better
SMELL EVERY ROSE
KEY #1- SEE THE GOOD
PART 2 - SEEING THE GOOD IN OUR PAST
Day 14 De Já Vu
Day 15 I’m Fine
Day 16 Acceptance
Day 17 Jail Break, You’ve got the power
Day 18 Work it Out!
Day 19 I Admit
Day 20 Forget It!
SMELL EVERY ROSE
KEY #1- SEE THE GOOD
PART 3 - SEEING THE GOOD IN PEOPLE
Day 21 Alternative Reality
Day 22 Understanding Gobbly-gook
Day 23 Totally Unreasonable
Day 24 All Good
Day 25 Judging Good People
Day 26 Speak it Out
Day 27 You’re doing a great job!
Day 28 Helping Others
Day 29 Yay for YOU!
Day 30 Seeing Others
SMELL EVERY ROSE
KEY #1- SEE THE GOOD
PART 4 - RIGHT NOW AND IN THE FUTURE
Day 31 It’ll be good
Day 32 I’ll be back
Day 33 Never say Never
Day 34 Living in the Present
Day 35 Awesome!
Day 36 Trace it back
Day 37 Seeing the patterns
Day 38 Ohhh Ta!
Day 39 Nobody Home
Day 40 It’s so hard
Day 41 Grumbling
Day 42 Wishing Well
Conclusion
CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN
KEY #2 - OBJECTIVITY
Day 43 You’re the Judge
Day 44 Live and let Live
CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN
KEY #2 - OBJECTIVITY
THE DYNAMICS OF JUDGING OBJECTIVELY
Day 45 Hear the charge
Day 46 DEAF
Day 47 Listen Carefully to the Prosecutor.
Day 48 You’re on trial
Day 49 Confidently Criticized
Day 50 Hear the Defence
Day 51 Talk it out
Day 52 Bribes blind the eyes of the Wise
Day 53 Misplaced idealism
Day 54 50/50
Day 55 The Verdict
Day 56 Warning Others
Day 57 Occupational Health & Safety (OHS)
Day 58 (Not so) good friends
Day 59 Lost Cause
Conclusion
LOVE EVERY DAY
KEYS #3 TO #7 - LOVE YOURSELF
Day 60 Feeling good about yourself
Day 61 Priceless
Day 62 Inner Coach
Day 63 Doing good leads to feeling good
Day 64 The Pleasure of being In-Charge
Day 65 Reflective Reality
Day 66 Projecting
Day 67 Standing up
Day 68 Becoming Acquainted
LOVE EVERY DAY
KEY #3 – COMPASSION
Day 69 Compassion
Conclusion
LOVE EVERY DAY
KEY #4 – GIVING
Day 70 Eye Opening
Day 71 Giving
Day 72 Giving in
Day 73 It’s Murder
Day 74 De-humanize
Day 75 Unselfish Giving
Day 76 Faking it until it’s real
Conclusion
LOVE EVERY DAY
KEY #5 – BONDING
Day 77 Love Me
Day 78 Love You
Day 79 Preparing
Day 80 Living it up
Day 81 His and Hers
Day 82 Withstanding temptation
Day 83 Avoiding it
Conclusion
LOVE EVERY DAY
KEY #6 – CONTENTMENT
Day 84 Too Busy
Day 85 Taking
Day 86 Taking in order to Give
Conclusion
LOVE EVERY DAY
KEY #7 – TRUTH
Day 87 Getting Deep – inner truths
Day 88 Being true unto yourself
Day 89 Partial truths
Conclusion
Day 90 Keep it Alive with Team work
Final word & summary
Tracing it all back
Acknowledgements
Note to the reader
END OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Imagine winning 1 billion dollars, an Olympic gold medal, being elected
President, becoming rich, famous, admired, loved and honoured by
everybody - all on one day. Take all that pleasure you would feel and
multiply it by every day of your life. When you master the keys to
happiness, you will be able to experience this level of pleasure – AND
MORE every day.
There are 7 ancient keys to having this level of inner-happiness. Unlock the
secrets!
People who have harnessed the power of happiness have become more
successful and motivated, achieved major goals and developed charisma. If
you can master the art of happiness you will be a more effective boss,
employee, spouse, parent and friend. You will also simultaneously acquire
more direction in life, persistence, vitality, drive, patience, enthusiasm,
magnetism, inner-greatness, distinction, confidence, courage, self-esteem and
true fulfilment. People love happy people and happy people are constantly
blessed with good things happening to them. Happiness is THE most
powerful tool for business, relationships and life!
Happiness – The Inside Story.
If we look around the world, we see a mass of humanity all searching for the
same thing – happiness. A human being seems to need to pursue happiness
as though it is a life necessity, like air, or water etc. In fact, most of society
is based on catering for this human drive. We search for it in food – looking
for new and exciting taste sensations; clothes – trying to find that outfit that
brings out the best in us; relationships, music, art, success, money, spiritual
experiences and popularity etc. We hope by fulfilling our needs, wants,
desires or even whims we will attain this ultimate goal called happiness.
This book was written as a guide for those searching for the real thing – a
long lasting, constant and continuous state of being.
But in order to get this pleasure we need to realize one important thing –
Happiness is a CHOICE. Happiness is not a happenstance, it is not
something that if the right stars move into the right alignment then boom we
will be happy, it’s not a case of meeting the right girl/boy, it’s not a case of
whether we get the promotion or anything external to us.
Happiness is NEVER dependant on other people. We may have people in
our lives that are extremely challenging and frustrate us immensely – but
they are not the ones that decide whether we are happy or not. People may
be placed in our lives to help us work on our inter-personal relationships. If
we can use challenging people and situations as a springboard for developing
ourselves into better people and bettering our personal character traits (such
as patience, unconditional love, assertiveness etc) then we will be happy to
have had the opportunity to meet these difficult people – because they would
have helped make us into better people.
Developing the inner feeling of happiness is completely up to us. Other
people cannot be the determiners of whether we are happy, it’s only how we
choose to react to or view these people that determine our state of mind. We
can choose to be upbeat and positive in the face of other’s negativity and
poor behaviour, and we can choose not to give them power over us and let
their influence undermine our peaceful, joyful outlook.
Happiness is a CHOICE, an internal choice whereby we can choose to make
the most of our lives and be proactively joyful. Passively waiting around for
happiness to descend upon us will NEVER bring lasting happiness – we have
to work for it and the harder we can work to be happy, then the more
happiness we will be able to cultivate.
So let’s choose to be happy! We can choose to be happy, we can choose to
turn our lives around and make them into joyful experiences – every day.
We can choose to live a life we love and to love the life we live – it’s all up
to us. We only live once – we can make it a great life with no regrets.
In order to get the most pleasure out of life we need to wake ourselves up.
We all fall asleep in the humdrum comings and goings of our lives. If we
can wake ourselves up and see that every second of life offers us the most
unbelievable opportunity to make it into a blissful moment – then we can
start to really taste the joy of living.
Once we are awake, trying to live life to the fullest, then we can start to think
about what we can do that will give us the greatest pleasure in that moment.
Nothing can beat a tried, tested and successful recipe. Grandma’s old
sponge recipe always tastes the best. An old good wine has nothing with
which to compare. So in our search for ultimate happiness, we can go
looking for such a recipe and if we look back far enough we will find an
ancient recipe for happiness.
Everybody has heard of the story of Noah and the Great Flood. Even
societies that were not influenced by Judaic-Christian-Muslim influences
even have old archaic versions of a story about a man who was saved from a
big flood. It is a universally known story. However, very few people know
that after the flood, Noah was given 7 Commandments (No NOT the 10
Commandments – that happened much later.) From these 7 Commandments
we can derive 7 timeless principles which are the ancient keys for achieving
happiness. Many will notice that we find some of these keys in every single
culture in one form or another, which is proof of their timeless wisdom.
These ancient keys have been used for thousands of years by all different
people. For the first time, ‘7 Ancient Keys to Happiness’ has collated all 7 of
these keys into one succinct, hands-on, do-it-yourself guide to happiness.
Using these 7 ancient keys to happiness we are going to be guided through an
exciting, pre-tested and successful path to bliss. So get ready to open your
mind to a different and ancient reality and join us on this mystical path to the
City of Happiness.
The 7 ancient keys to happiness can be divided into 3 main principles, thus
this book is divided into three main sections.
Section 1: SMELL EVERY ROSE - Key #1 (i.e. See the Good in
Everything)
Section 2: CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN - Key #2 (i.e. Judge things
Objectively); and
Section 3: LOVE EVERY DAY - Keys #3to #7 (i.e. Love Yourself)
Overall the book consists of 90 days of wisdom and growth. Each day there
is a ‘Give it a Go!’ exercise which is a practical thing for us to do to help
drive us towards attaining success and happiness.
Since it’s hard for most people to be disciplined enough to do the exercises
there is a little ‘Why should I?’ pep talk after each ‘Give it a Go!’, which
explains why we should try out the exercise and what we hope to gain by
doing it.
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Meeting the Quiet Voice
Before we begin our journey to discover the 7 keys to happiness and before
we learn how to smell every rose, climb every mountain and love every day,
we need to get in touch with that part of us that helps us reach for the stars,
follow our dreams and be the type of person we love and we’re proud of.
Let’s meet our tour guide - The Quiet Voice...
Day 1
Getting in touch
It had been a hard day: I woke up in the morning; crawled out of bed; ran
into the shower; and then sat in front of my wardrobe trying to find
something to suit the mood I was in, something that projected the image I
wanted to portray, something that would be me. I put on my makeup, eye
makeup to make my eyes look bigger, foundation to make my face look more
smooth and tanned, blush to show a little bit of youthful exuberance and
lipstick to bring out my passionate side. I rummaged around the kitchen for
something that was tasty, and would keep my body looking and feeling good.
Then I set out for the shopping centre. I talked and laughed with my friends
all day whilst shopping. 8 hours later I returned home, with some new
goodies that called out a promise of making me more fulfilled. Then I
collapsed in front of the computer looking for something light to lift my
mood, as I ate dinner. I watched a show, where the person said, “So are
you happy? Do you know what you are living for?” I thought for a little bit,
“Yeah I’m happy – I think. I don’t really know why I’m living and I don’t
care!” A few hours later I retired but I couldn’t fall asleep. All I could
think of was “Yeah I’m happy and I don’t care why I’m living.” But there
was a voice in my head that kept saying it over and over. The voice was
getting louder and more panicky. It was like I was trying to shout down an
opposing voice. I felt tense, and I was breathing quick shallow breaths. I
shouted out aloud, “Yeah, I’m happy, and I don’t care! Why are you
bothering me?” Then I heard it, it was a small voice inside my head, it was
barely audible it whispered, “No, I’m not happy. I’m completely miserable.
Help - I want to live!“
We all have times in our lives where we hear that quiet voice. Sometimes
it’s the quiet voice of wisdom and insight, whereas other times it could be the
quiet voice of discontent that tells us that we are leading futile lives. When
it’s the quiet voice of discontent we tend to ignore it or we might try to
distract ourselves. We may do this because we secretly fear that there is no
solution to our vague feelings of discontent or answers to our quest for
meaning
However, if we tune into listening to this quiet voice, we will discover that it
will lead us on paths of self-discovery and true delight. It takes courage to
not run away. It takes courage to ask ourselves questions and to hear our
inner answers.