You Can Choose To Be Happy

Dr. Stevens' research identifies specific learnable beliefs and skills--not general, inherited traits--that cause people to be happy and successful.

Now featuring new research and the most current information on the science of happiness, this book presents an outline of the nine choices happy people consistently make. Also included are tools for self-assessment to allow readers to measure happiness-and to find out what might be holding them back from having more of it. Insightful, intimate, and inspiring, How We Choose to Be Happy lets readers learn by example, and take substantial steps toward joining the ranks of the extremely happy.

Do you want to choose how you feel?Wayne Froggatt has already taught hundreds of people in New Zealand to do just that. Choose to Be Happy is the result of his experience. In it, he applies his methods to a comprehensive range of common human problems and areas of personal growth, including:. worry . fear . anxiety . guilt . anger . depression . unassertiveness . perfectionism . decision making . disapproval and criticism . self-motivationDo you want to be your own therapist?You can learn to help yourself - with a proven method of psychotherapy that emphasises the use of your own reasoning powers to achieve personal control and growth. this book introduces the method step by step, allowing you to understand and change the way you react to events in a rational and realistic manner. Choose of Be Happy offers more than inspiration and 'positive thinking'. It holds out the prospect of permanent change.

"Are you always looking for someone or something to make you happy? Stop wishing and hoping something good will happen and learn how to make it happen. In Choose to Be Happy, happiness coach Rima Rudner gives you the breakthrough "happiness tools" you need to overcome common causes of unhappiness and depression that we all experience from time to time."--Back cover

With Choose Happy, learn how to be happy in the present by healing your past and setting yourself up for future success and less worries.

I wrote this book because I believe I have something to offer persons who are challenged to deal with life's difficulties. Stress, unhealthy relationships, unrealistic expectations, negative self-esteem, and life's pressure of life cause our mind, body and soul to to kilter out of balance and then, our health suffers. Stress is connected to all physical and mental health complications. Given my 40 years of working with adults, teens and children, I have developed programs in schools, hospitals and my private practice that have helped individuals develop successful coping skills.Happiness is a feeling state that can be obtained if effective strategies are applied. To be successful, people must consistently work at making needed changes in their lives.My education has prepared me to contribute to helping people with replacing the sadness and discontent in their lives with happiness. My first master's degree was in behavioral science, it was a very conservative methodology; and, my second master's was in metaphysical science, a more liberal approach to mental health. My Ph.D. is in wholistic life coaching that combined the two degrees. As I examined each of the techniques and practices used to help turn negativity into happiness, I researched and tested the use of all of the different coping skills that had been developed. Throughout this book, I provide personal experiences and testimonials by individuals who have used these techniques.The result of my findings, proved to me that people who are dealing with negative thoughts or feelings can make changes that will put a smile on their face and enabled them to enjoy life. After counseling over 15,000 suicidal patients I treated in emergency rooms, I can say that if a person makes a commitment to refocus or make personal changes in his/her life, happiness can be achieved. they can be happy. So, its your choice, you can be happy or you can be sad. For me... I "Choose to Be Happy!"

Missy was one of 8 students in a prayer group who were shot by Michael Carneal on Dec. 1, 1997, in the lobby of Heath High School in Paducah, KY. Three girls were killed. Missy, a 15yearold sophomore at the time was paralyzed from the chest down. But Missy didn't see her disability as an end. Just hours after the tragedy, she forgave Carneal and took back her life. In the next decade, with no malice and a focus on her physical and mental rehabilitation, Missy would graduate from Heath, earn a bachelor's degree in social work from Murray State University, become a counselor for troubled youth, get married and give birth to a healthy son. Missy, now 26, has received numerous honors over the years for her determination and courage.

Motivational speaker and best selling author Jill Liberman shares stories and tips fro living a happy life every day. This book is lighthearted yet powerful. Filled with inspirational quotes and positivity.