Happy for No Reason –
Recommended Resources
Books Related to the Happy for No Reason personal learning course:
Step 1: The Foundation
- The Game of Life (Hay House Classics), by Florence Scovel Shinn (Hay House, 2006)
- How Did I Get Here? Finding Your Way to Renewed Hope and Happiness When Life and Love Take Unexpected Turns, by Barbara DeAngelis (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006)
- The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library, 2004)
- The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne (Atria Books/Beyond Words, 2006)
- The Solutions Focus: Making Coaching and Change Simple, by Paul Z. Jackson and Mark McKergow (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2007)
Step 2: The Pillar of the Mind
Step 3: The Pillar of the Heart
Step 4: The Pillar of the Body
- The Diet Cure, by Julia Ross (Penguin, 2000)
- Essential Cleansing for Perfect Health, by Brenda Watson (Renew Life Press, 2006)
- Everything You Need to Know to Feel Go(o)d, by Candace Pert and Nancy Marriott (Hay House, 2006)
- The Four-Day Win: End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Peace, by Martha Beck (Rodale, 2007)
- Good Night: The Sleep Doctor’s 4-Week Program to Better Sleep and Better Health, by Michael Breus, Ph.D. (Dutton Adult, 2006)
- Mars and Venus Diet and Exercise Solution: Create the Brain Chemistry of Health, Happiness, and Lasting Romance, by John Gray (St. Martin’s Press, 2003)
- The Mood Cure: The 4-Step Program to Take Charge of Your Emotions — Today, by Julia Ross (Penguin, 2003)
- Natural Highs: Supplements, Nutrition, and Mind-Body Techniques to Help You Feel Good All the Time, by Hyla Cass, M.D. and Patrick Holford (Avery, 2003)
- Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing, by Christiane Northrup, M.D. (Bantam, 2006)
Step 5: The Pillar of the Soul
Step 6: The Roof
- Beneath a Vedic Sun: Discover Your Life Purpose with Vedic Astrology, by William Levacy (Hay House, 2006)
- The Better World Shopping Guide, by Ellis Jones (New Society Publishers, Canada, 2006)
- Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live, by Martha Beck (Three Rivers Press, 2002)
- The Passion Test: The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Destiny, by Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood (Hudson Street Press, 2007)
- The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal, by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz (Free Press, 2004)
- Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters, by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson (Plume, 2007)
- The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, by Jack Canfield and Janet Switzer (Collins, 2006)
Step 7: The Garden
General Happiness Books:
- The Art of Happiness, by the Dalai Lama (New English Library, 1999)
- Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment, by Martin Seligman (Free Press, 2004)
- Feel Happy Now! by Michael Neill (Hay House, 2008)
- Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment, by Tal Ben Shahar (McGraw-Hill, 2007)
- Happiness: Developing Life’s Most Important Skill, by Matthieu Ricard (Little, Brown and Company, 2006)
- Happiness Makeover: How to Teach Yourself to Be Happy and Enjoy Every Day, by M. J. Ryan (Broadway, 2005)
- How We Choose to Be Happy: The 9 Choices of Extremely Happy People—Their Secrets, Their Stories, by Rick Foster and Greg Hicks (Perigee Trade, 2004)
- The Joy Diet: 10 Daily Practices for a Happier Life, by Martha Beck (Crown, 2003)
- One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way, by Robert Maurer, Ph.D. (Workman Publishing Company, 2004)
- Positivity Psychology Coaching: Putting the Science of Happiness to Work for Your Clients, by Robert Biswas-Diener and Ben Dean (Wiley, 2007)
- Stumbling on Happiness, by Dan Gilbert (Vintage, 2007)
- What Happy People Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Life for the Better, by Dan Baker and Cameron Stauth (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2004)
Tools And Techniques:
- Agape International Spiritual Center – Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith
www.agapelive.com
The Agape International Spiritual Center is a trans-denominational spiritual community whose doors are open to all seekers in search of authentic spirituality, personal transformation, and selfless service to humankind.
- The Art of Living Foundation
www.artofliving.org
This international nonprofit educational and humanitarian organization offers workshops teaching meditation and breathing techniques that calm the mind, release stress, clear the body of toxins, and energize the whole system in minutes.
- B.E.S.T. – Morter Health System
www.morter.com
Morter HealthSystem teaches the Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique – B.E.S.T. – a process by which high brain thought, emotion, and vibrational interference is updated.
- The Biocybernaut Institute – Dr. James Hardt
www.biocybernaut.com
The Biocybernaut Institute: Advanced Brain Wave Biofeedback Training using Neurofeedback offers training programs that gently guide you in your own self-discovery work and teach you how to rapidly increase your alpha brain waves.
- Canfield Training Group – Jack Canfield
www.jackcanfield.com
Jack Canfield offers life-changing courses that focus on living the success principles, self-esteem, and peak performance.
- Center for Soulful Living – Bill Bauman
www.aboutcsl.com
The Center for Soulful Living is a worldwide community of people dedicated to living in soul-centered and grace-filled ways. Their primary intention is to help people connect with their own inner wisdom, power, and brilliance.
- The Demartini Method
www.drdemartini.com
Derived from quantum physics, The Demartini Method is a predetermined set of questions and actions that neutralizes emotional charges and brings balance to your mind and body. The process allows you to break through to new levels of inspiration, creativity, and performance.
- Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
www.emofree.com
EFT uses gentle tapping on key meridian points on the body to release just about every emotional, health and performance issue you can name. At www.emofree.com you can download a free manual that will teach you how to use this technique, as well as watch a video demonstration of EFT.
- HeartMath Institute
www.heartmath.com
The HeartMath System comprises research, programs, products, and technologies to improve health and well-being, while dramatically reducing stress and boosting performance and productivity. HeartMath research has demonstrated the critical link between emotions, heart function, and cognitive performance.
- The Hendricks Institute – Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks
www.hendricks.com
The Hendricks Institute teaches core skills for conscious living. Its focus is on assisting people in opening to more creativity, love, and vitality—through the power of conscious relationship and whole-person learning.
- Holosync
www.centerpointe.com
Holosync is a sophisticated form of neuro-audio technology that produces many desirable cognitive, emotional, and spiritual states—states usually only available to experienced and dedicated practitioners of meditation.
- John Douillard’s Life Spa
www.lifespa.com
Life Spa is a Boulder, Colorado center for Ayurveda and Panchakarma, designed to rejuvenate, detoxify, and balance the deeper tissues of the body. Its aim is to transform and rejuvenate every cell in your body.
- Lefkoe Institute: Making Change Easier – Morty Lefkoe
www.lefkoeinstitute.com
The Lefkoe Institute helps individuals who want to make lasting changes in their behavior and/or emotions in a gentle yet effective way. Using the Lefkoe Method unwanted beliefs are literally unwired for good.
- Lindwall Foundation – Freedom through Releasing
www.lindwallreleasing.org
The Lindwall Releasing Process is a powerful process for letting go of negative memories or limiting thoughts. The process involves allowing a past disturbance to surface, confronting the situation as needed, then releasing the negative impact and emotional content by speaking affirmations.
- The Mood Cure Website – Julia Ross
www.moodcure.com
The Mood Cure is based on the pioneering work done at Julia’s California clinic, Recovery Systems, since 1988. This comprehensive, natural approach uses targeted brain-fueling amino acids combined with a high-protein, healthy fat, veggie-rich diet to produce improved mood in days.
- Nancy Fursetzer
www.Positician.com
Certified Positician® Coach. Positicians look for the best in everything, and teach others to do the same. Positician certification available.
- Network for Grateful Living – Brother David Steindl-Rast
www.gratefulness.org
A Network for Grateful Living (ANG*L) is a non-profit dedicated to gratefulness as the core inspiration for personal change, international cooperation, and sustainable activism in areas of universal concern.
- Option Method – Lenora Boyle
www.changelimitingbeliefs.com
Lenora Boyle has been helping people to be happier for the last 16 years through her interactive seminars, private coaching practice, and teleclasses. She teaches seminars using The Option Method that specializes in going to the root of the problem—the limiting belief or past conditioning.
- Paraliminals – Learning Strategies
www.learningstrategies.com/Paraliminal/Home.asp
Paraliminals are a neuro-linguistic programming and whole brain learning technology that increase your personal power by activating your “whole mind” with a precise blend of music and words. Each session is carefully scripted to give you life-changing results.
- The Passion Test
www.thepassiontest.com
Janet Attwood and Chris Attwood’s Passion Test is an incredibly simple yet profound tool that has been given to thousands of people all over the world. The Passion Test is the perfect way to align yourself with those things that you are most passionate about so that you can share your special gifts.
- Patanjali Kundalini Yoga Care
www.kundalinicare.com
Patanjali Kundalini Yoga Care is a spiritual guidance service for sincere seekers based on traditional kundalini science. Provides assessments, individual recommendations for spiritual practice, and follow-up support and guidance.
- Positive Psychology Services —Robert Biswas-Diener
www.intentionalhappiness.com
Positive Psychology Services offers a wide range of coaching, training, and speaking services based on the new science of positive psychology.
- Psych-K
www.psych-k.com
PSYCH-K helps you rewrite the “software” of your mind by changing beliefs that sabotage you into beliefs that support you by developing “whole brain” communication, which is ideal for changing subconscious beliefs.
- Releasing the Inner Magician (RIM) – Dr. Deborah Sandella
www.innermagician.com
The RIM Method is an advanced technique for releasing the past and rewiring sabotaging thoughts and feelings. RIM helps you tap your Inner Magician, the divine intuitive power within, that dissolves pain to reveal the natural strength and passion of your spirit.
- The Sedona Method – Hale Dwoskin
www.sedona.com
The Sedona Method is a unique program for making positive changes in your life. The technique supports you in quickly shifting your state of consciousness from one of stress and resistance to one of relaxation and allowing.
- Solutions Focus – Mark McKergow and Paul Z. Jackson
www.thesolutionsfocus.com
Solutions Focus is the new wave of positive, minimal change for people and organizations — the proven way to find what works as simply and gently as possible.
- The Soulmate Kit – Arielle Ford
www.soulmatekit.com
The Soulmate Kit is a step-by-step guide that consists of a DVD, 3 CDs and a 104-page workbook designed for both men and women. It guides users through a deep and detailed program for clearing out the emotional baggage of the past while creating and magnetizing Mr. or Ms. RIGHT into your life.
- Soul Medicine Institute – Dawson Church
www.soulmedicineinstitute.org
Soul Medicine Institute is dedicated to encouraging the understanding that a vibrant spiritual connection is essential to wellness. Soul Medicine Institute facilitates training, education, and research into the role of intention, consciousness, and energy in healing.
- Soulwave Institute – Katie Darling
www.soulwave.org
Katie Darling’s work explores the scientific and spiritual idea that everything is a wave, including you and me, existing within an oceanic field. Soulwave trainings offer a direct experience of this that clears the way for powerful healing, joy, aliveness, and a new kind of wisdom called dynamic intelligence.
- Spring Forest Qigong – Chunyi Lin
www.springforestqigong.com
Chunyi Lin is a certified international Qigong Master and founder of Spring Forest Qigong. Located in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area, he has been teaching Qigong and using Qigong techniques to help others for several decades.
- Switched-On Seminars: Brain Performance Optimization – Jerry Teplitz
www.teplitz.com
Switched-On Seminars focus on re-wiring the circuitry of your brain to create new levels of success. Seminars in Selling, Network Marketing, Golf, and Management integrate the left and right hemispheres of your brain to help stop your brain from being triggered by unpleasant past experiences, and allow you to easily adapt to new opportunities and changes.
- Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT)
www.tatlife.com
TAT is a leading-edge energy meridian healing technique to end stress, create vibrant good health, and help you live a happy life. On the www.tatlife.com website you can download a free booklet on how to do TAT on yourself.
- Vedic Behavior and Trend Analysis Systems – William R. Levacy
www.vedicsky.com
Vedic Behavior and Trend Analysis Systems helps us analyze behavior and forecast events so we can anticipate good outcomes for our actions. It provides a road map for effective living, in tune with the laws of nature.
- The Work – Byron Katie
www.thework.com
Byron Katie offers seminar participants a powerful opportunity to alter bad thinking patterns and reveal painful truths by taking them through a series of four questions that challenge their assumptions.
Additional Happiness Resources:
Happiness Websites, Newsletters, Ezines, Blogs, and Films
- www.goodmorningworld.org
Receive Good Morning World’s Idea Dream daily email messages for a better world. The daily email includes one idea dream from over 64,000 thousand Ideas and Dream’s for a Better World collected since October 2004.
- www.happinessclub.com
The Happiness Club is an organization with the mission to promote the benefits of being happy through meetings, newsletters, and an informative website—to the people in your community, and around the world.
- www.thehappinessshow.com
The Happiness Show is a website offering free happiness information, resources, and over one hundred and thirty 28 minute episodes in streaming audio and video for all Internet connections.
- www.happinessproject.typepad.com
The Happiness Project website is the blog of author Gretchen Rubin who spent a year test-driving every principle, tip, theory, and scientific study she could find on happiness. On this daily blog, she recounts some of her adventures and insights as she grapples with the challenge of being happier.
- www.happinessfilm.com
The Happiness Revolution is a full-length documentary on happiness by award-winning filmmaker Roko Belic. Filmed in over 14 countries and various locations, this film showcases amazing findings about happiness from a variety of sources, including a scientist measuring brainwaves in his lab to a rickshaw puller in the streets of Calcutta.
- www.reflectivehappiness.com
The Reflective Happiness Program gives you direct access to the minds that founded Positive Psychology. The program consists of Happiness Building Exercises, Happiness Tests and Questionnaires, access to the Positive Psychology Community Forum, Newsletter, and Book Club, as well as Questions & Answers with Dr. Martin Seligman, the father of Positive Psychology.
- www.wisebrain.org
The Wise Brain website developed by Rick Hanson, Ph.D. and Rick Mendius, M.D. provides information about the neuroscience of psychological well-being and spiritual growth. You can subscribe to the free Wise Brain Bulletin, a twice-monthly ezine that features happiness tools and methods and contemplative wisdom.
Happiness Classes and Conferences
- Awakening Joy
www.awakeningjoy.info
Awakening Joy is a ten-month experiential course led by James Baraz, founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, designed to develop your natural capacity for well-being and happiness.
- University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center
www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu
The Positive Psychology Center offers questionnaires, resources, articles and a Masters degree in Applied Positive Psychology.
- Annual Positive Psychology Summit
www.gallupippi.com
The Gallup Institute for Global Well-Being offers an annual global well-being forum featuring the International Positive Psychology Summit & New Insights from the Gallup World Poll.