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In Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out, transformational expert Marci Shimoff offers a breakthrough approach to being happy, one that doesn't depend on achievements, goals, money, relationships, or anything else "out there." Most books on happiness tell you to find the things that make you happy and do more of them. Although there's nothing wrong with that, it won't bring you the kind of deep and lasting happiness most people long for -- the kind you'll never lose, no matter what happens in your life. Based on cutting-edge research and knowledge from the world's leading experts in the fields of positive psychology and neurophysiology, plus interviews with 100 truly happy people, this life-changing book provides a powerful, proven 7-step program that will enable you to be happier right now -- no matter where you start.

Studies show that each of us has a "happiness setpoint" -- a fixed range of happiness we tend to return to throughout our life -- that's approximately 50 percent genetic and 50 percent learned. In the same way you'd crank up the thermostat to get comfortable on a chilly day, you can actually raise your happiness set-point! The holistic 7-step program at the heart of Happy for No Reason encompasses Happiness Habits for all areas of life: personal power, mind, heart, body, soul, purpose, and relationships.

In these pages you'll discover moving and remarkable first-person stories of people who have applied these steps to their own lives and have become Happy for No Reason. You'll read phenomenal tales from a former drug dealer turned minister, a hit filmmaker, and a famous actress who escaped a "family curse," as well as stories from doctors, mothers, teachers, and business executives. You'll learn practical strategies that will help you experience happiness from the inside out.

You don't have to have happy genes, win the lottery, or lose twenty pounds. By the time you finish this book, you will know how to experience sustained happiness for the rest of your life.

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A very nice treat

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Happiness of course is something we could all use much more of, but lets not confuse "happiness" with ecstasy or excitement alone. I think that Ms. Shimoff has eloquently reminded the reader to keep those less flashy aspects of life and happiness closer to our thoughts. Happiness is as much a sense of contentment as it is stimulation, or stimulating. She presents these thoughts with convincing practicality. We were more than satisfied with her wonderful work. I would also highly recommend an equally practical lady's book, Sarah Shikitao-Brown's Tao Cycle Therapy: Natural Happiness via Self Directed Cure for Chronic Anxiety & Depression [Updated 2008 3nd Edition]

Happiness Commonalities

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Write down everything about yourself that could potentially be helping you to feel happier, then have your friends do the same, and then have thousands of other people do it too. Compile these thousands of lists and cross-reference them to see how often the most common answers overlap and what are you left with? That particular aspect was the magic of this book for me. All of us can make a guess as to our commonalities, but this book does the work to provide those answers in a more scientifically accurate and compelling fashion. Looking at it in this way allows you to see the mathematical, or statistical value of her offering. I've never been one to steer my ship too far from the numbers. I'm not a fan of the mystical or the unpredictable. Practicality, like nature, will show you what is already known to work. Leaving that box is certainly honorable and often very advisable, but having a firm grasp of what we already know can only add to the value of any new perspectives. This book accomplishes that task stupendously, offering the reader a baseline for further reaching. I am very delighted to have had the opportunity to read this wonderfully informative and valuable book and do, highly recommend it. I can't imagine a single person that couldn't benefit from anything that might offer them further opportunity for more happiness in their lives. -Sarah Shikitao-Brown, Tao Cycle Therapy: Natural Happiness via Self Directed Cure for Chronic Anxiety & Depression [Updated 2008 3nd Edition]

Happy I Read It!

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Read almost any book on how to live a fulfilling life--including my own book--and you will be told that happiness is something that comes from within. It is basically a choice, and that choice is not dependent upon outside circumstances. Making that choice can be a challenge, however. There are many things that can inhibit your ability to choose happiness. And that's where HAPPY FOR NO REASON can help. In this remarkable book, Marci Shimoff not only spells out all the traits that happy people have in common, but she also provides some very specific techniques and exercises to help you get over anything that may standing in the way of your happiness. I highly recommend this wonderful and helpful book. Steven Lane Taylor, author of Row, Row, Row Your Boat: A Guide For Living Life In The Divine Flow

All you need to discover the cause of happiness	Customer Rating:
As a professional coach, helping people address issues that affect their health, being happy is an essential ingredient to their success. Thanks Marci for saving all that hard work in researching how i could help them (and myself) achieve and remain happy foro no reason. Great book!!

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I cannot review this item since it was a gift. The person who received it never told me if he liked it or not.