HAPPY FOR NO REASON

Hello.
I am the Friggin' Happiness Fairy.
I've sprinkled happy dust on you.
So Smile, dammit.

I often receive very

interesting emails from my

friend Jacque. In fact, she

IS one of the most

interesting people I know.

I have some comments to

make about that email

which I have following here.

I'll save my comments for below hers.
DVD based upon a book Happy for No Reason:
7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out .
Available in paperback at Amazon.com, by
Marci Shimoff (Author), Carol Kline (Contributor)
Because the author's position is that happiness is
a self-help, bootstrap, inside job, my attention

was captured immediately. The author's position

is not based upon "airy fairy" supposition, but is

based upon current scientific thought and

experiementation with interviews with various

scientist who are experimenting with ways to

change the brain. As one scientist put it, the

brain is plastic and can continue to change up to

the day we die. How we feel, what we think

about changes the brain chemistry. Good

thoughts and emotions give us beneficial

chemistry and visa versa. This is all very much

in sync with what Abraham teachesSo,

I love it,natch!
Yes, I sent my money in and will receive the DVD
in time. Cost a lot because it's a contribution to
PBS. Well, that's as good a way to spend money
as anything else I've bought lately,

like that vacuum cleaner.

Jacque's reference to happiness and brain

chemistry reminded me of a day many years

ago when I was a young housewife and not

a particularly happy person. I remember

being in my livingroom doing some chore

when suddenly I was 'flooded' with happiness

of such great magnitude that I told myself

that I should always remember this moment

as it was unusually significant. I probably had

a surge of estrogen! None the less it was a

wonderful moment for me.I have for most of my

life chased a disire for happiness. At one time, like

most girls, I thought it would be when I met Prince

Charming.Well when HE didn't work out, I thought

happiness would come from being self sufficient and

self supporting. That actually helped, but it didn't bring

the real thing.Getting nearer to God came the closest

at one time. I think it was that God and graditude go

hand in hand. It really is hard to be self centered and

grateful at the same time. But He didn't really work out

either.After time, I managed to get things that I truly

wanted. A house, a new car, a little financial security,

really good friends,loving grandchildren, my daughters

forgiveness, 6 cats, 2rats,and decent neighbors.

Finally, after about 60 or so years I found

out in group therapy that I wasn't really

EVIL inside

(now at the same time it was outwardly news to me that I

believed such a thing) it was then as time passed I

gained the contentment that I now have inside

and I can honestly say that I am a happy

person.So does this mean that happiness can

be ours with a little help from internal drugs

and having a good self image?I guess so

except that for me, the estrogen is gone and

I REALLY saw myself in the mirror yesterday

so the good self image is shot!I think that the

therapy thing and God worked the best as vehicles to

allow me to appreciate my other gifts, oh and it does

really really help to have a GOOD vaccuum with 6 cats.