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Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good FAST
Happiness NOW!
is a truly powerful and radical exploration of one of life’s most treasured goals. Packed with rich insights and practical wisdom, It offers a message of profound hope and healing for a generation that is often too busy chasing happiness to be truly happy.
Robert Holden, Ph.D., presents a personal, warm, and entertaining account of how he developed his pione...more
Robert Holden, Ph.D., presents a personal, warm, and entertaining account of how he developed his pione...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
October 15th 2007
by Hay House
(first published August 6th 1998)
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I've just returned from Chiang Mai, Thailand where an American lady by the name of Amy Miller foisted a book called, "The Happiness Project ' on me.
I enjoyed the book as a, "how to" type book. It has lots of merits and it is definitely worth reading as an account of someone who is searching for happiness.
"Happiness Now" , on the other hand, has depth and delves into the underbelly why people are not happy and what they need to change within themselves to be happy where as ,"The Happiness Proje...more
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Children are born with only an awareness of now-past and future is meaningless at first. In the beginning, now is the whole world to children. It is entirely natural; it is neither learned nor fabricated.
Why do people have the fixation on heaven when the possibility for heaven exists right here and now?
Today is brand new. Today is not yet finished. Give today another chance. The world has finished with yesterday if you have. And the world can’t tarnish your future if you do not. Be gratef...more
Children are born with only an awareness of now-past and future is meaningless at first. In the beginning, now is the whole world to children. It is entirely natural; it is neither learned nor fabricated.
Why do people have the fixation on heaven when the possibility for heaven exists right here and now?
Today is brand new. Today is not yet finished. Give today another chance. The world has finished with yesterday if you have. And the world can’t tarnish your future if you do not. Be gratef...more
I've always looked at self-help books with a bit of suspicion. Either they are blindingly obvious and don't deserve their asking price, or they are useless to anyone other than the person who wrote it, in which case we end up with the same result: you spent money, and quite a bit of time, for something that is definitely not helpful.
Robert Holden avoids both pitfalls with Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good FAST... if you're ready to listen to its message.
The book's core idea is mo...more
Robert Holden avoids both pitfalls with Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good FAST... if you're ready to listen to its message.
The book's core idea is mo...more
This author is the director/founder of The Happiness Project which is apparently very well-known in England. I bought this book before I realized that I am going to like every book I find on the subject of happiness (and I can't buy them all - that's what libraries are for!).
I am now reading a second book by this author and I really like his upbeat attitude and the introspective "exercises" he has the reader do.
I read this book twice and I feel sure I'll read the current one twice as well.
In a...more
I am now reading a second book by this author and I really like his upbeat attitude and the introspective "exercises" he has the reader do.
I read this book twice and I feel sure I'll read the current one twice as well.
In a...more
This is an excellent book. If you read it with your mind open to his very simplistic message. I read it really slowly sort of like a work-book without pressuring myself to get it finished like I usually do. I just took my time and thought about each chapter or sometimes each page. There are lots of pages that are dog-earred now for me to go back and re-read when I feel like I need to.
Holden's message basically is that you don't have to search or work for or over think happiness or other things y...more
Holden's message basically is that you don't have to search or work for or over think happiness or other things y...more
I was only 19 when I saw Robert Holden on The Oprah Winfrey Show, spouting the idea that happiness is already inside each of us. This blew my 19 year old mind and I bought this book immediately. Twenty years later, I still count Happiness Now! as one of the most influential nonfiction books in my life. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to create more joy!Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast
Generally, I don't choose to read many "self help" type books, although maybe I should read more of them! Because this was a gift, it kind of fell into my lap so I figured I'd read it. Often psychology books don't interest me because sometimes the philosophies of the author are at odds with my own spiritual beliefs. In a nutshell, I was impressed with the book and found it to be very much in harmony with my belief system. Although terminology was different, I felt like the author was quite aware...more
As the old cliche goes, "practice what you preach", Robert Holden seems to understand profoundly what he is talking about, not just because his work contains spiritual teachings that evoke universal truths but more so, his voice in this book sounds so very happy, you can almost hear him inside your head, laughing and smiling from ear to ear, in a nutshell, its so infectious. It would be impossible for someone to read it without having their own moments to smile and laugh between the pages.
Little too much psychobabble - made me feel like I was in college back in the 70's. I skimmed more than read. Didn't get much from it . . .
Want to feel good fast read this book! Refer to it often. I have read this book many times and still find something new.
I loved this book. My husband & I saw him on Oprah one day and really liked his way of thinking. We had to really search to find his book about a year ago & ended up ordering it from a publisher in England. Now it is available with a new updated cover from most booksellers. Well worth your time to read. Here's an excerpt:
Happiness NOW! is a truly powerful and radical exploration of one of life’s most treasured goals. Packed with rich insights and practical wisdom, It offers a message of...more
Happiness NOW! is a truly powerful and radical exploration of one of life’s most treasured goals. Packed with rich insights and practical wisdom, It offers a message of...more
This book is good. I read it whenever I feel down, it keeps me positive and makes me think different.
This book had some worthwhile concepts about being happy, being nice to yourself, and how those outlooks relate to others. It was rather spiritual and veered off into being "prayerful" at times, which doesn't always click with me, but overall it was fine.
This is a great book! It sounds corny, but really puts a lot of ideas into perspective.
Holden's books are very inspiring with fresh ideas. I plan to read it again and again.
I'm a sucker for self-helps and 'wisdom' books -- this was one of my fav.'s!
Apr 02, 2013
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Robert Holden is an amazing and inspiring author. I love the book!
Love it! A truly very positive, uplifting, feel good fast book!
A few good nuggets, but I had to force myself to finish this one as it was very repetitive and disjointed. The book seemed to consist of a lot of platitudes strung together with very little analysis or depth.
Great book to help remind you that happiness is not a thing, event, person, or place. Happiness is a thought an emotion. You can gain happiness by smiling and thinking about wonderful things...
Try being happy and enjoy d life!!
Uplifting.
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