Happy for No Reason
Recommended Resources

Books Related to the Happy for No Reason personal learning course:

Step 1: The Foundation

Step 2: The Pillar of the Mind

Step 3: The Pillar of the Heart

Step 4: The Pillar of the Body

Step 5: The Pillar of the Soul

Step 6: The Roof

Step 7: The Garden


General Happiness Books:


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.