Welcome to the Happ-E-Newsletter. If you live on the East coast than you may be singing: It's beginning to look a lot like...............................SUMMER? The temperature has been in the 60's with the nights in the 50's. It sure does not feel like the holidays.
We can't give you happiness, so we are doing the next best thing, and that is bringing you the decision to find happiness within yourself, with this newsletter as your reminder.
"You are positive, creative and happy to the degree to which you eliminate negative emotions from your life." - Brian Tracy
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This is a biweekly newsletter whose purpose is to remind you to make the "Happiness Decision." You will also find our meetings dates, happiness information, and a copy of the Be Happy Zone Articles published twice a month in the Fairfield Citizen-News.
Read today's article called: THE POWER OF CHOICE!
Happ-E-Quotes:) These are a few quotes on gratitude. Without gratitude it is impossible to become happy.
"When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude." - Elie Wiesel
"What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it—would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have."
- Ralph Marston
"In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
- Marcel Proust
Happ-E-Mail:) This e-mail was sent by Dolly Curtis who attended our last meeting.
Thank you, Lionel, for some of the good ideas you presented at the Fairfield Library meeting for finding happiness. I plan to come again and share in the next or January meeting. I cannot think of a more challenging time than now for keeping the happiness level going since 9/11 and the economic miseries that have followed. Very challenging time...... Some of the guests in the room were as good as the topic!
Dolly Curtis, TV producer and host
Happ-E-Cookie:) Got this Fortune Cookie that I want to share with you that said: The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. I think HAPPINESS will become common sense.
Peace Meditation:) Pamala Clark would like to invite anyone interested in taking part in our peace meditation to do the following:
Attend the meditation in person on Tuesday, December 18, from 6:30 - 8:30 PM at 63 Unquowa Road, in Fairfield, CT. Please call Pamela for details at home: 203 221-1507 or cell: 856-6624.
Here is her Peace Meditation Vision: The purpose of this meditation is to gather as much group energy as possible and direct it towards peace on the planet.
Here is the guidance:
1. Remove your shoes, enter silently and maintain silence during the meditation.
2. Feel free to enter and leave during the meditation, but maintain silence.
3. Relax through deep breathing or other techniques, but limit body movements so as
not to distract other meditators.
4. Focus on peace through a mantra, visualization or other techniques.
5. Feel the positive energy build.
6. Send peace through whatever techniques you know to yourself, the others in the
room, the building, the town, the country and all the creatures in the world.
7. When the energy has subsided (approximately 1/2 hour), we will signal an end.
8. Feel free to stay and chat.
If you cannot make the meeting please meditate on your own for peace.
Happ-E-Mail:) Thanks to each and every one of you for sharing your caring words and thoughts. Please let us hear from you, spread your happiness, that is the surest way of Being Happy!
Happ-E-Meeting:) Join us for our next meeting of the HAPPINESS CLUB will present: "HAPPY RESOLUTIONS" by Lionel Ketchian.
Don't miss this valuable meeting and meet wonderful people using the benefits of happiness in their lives.
Topic:) "HAPPY RESOLUTIONS"
Date:) December 13, 2001 Time:) 7:00 - 8:30 P.M. Place:) Fairfield Public Library In the:) Rotary Room Address:) 1080 Old Post Road, Fairfield, CT 06430
Open to the Public and Admission is Free
Call Lionel Ketchian (203) 258-7777 or E-mail: PrintLRK@aol.com
http://www.happinessclub.com
Directions to the Fairfield Public Library From New York - I- 95, Exit 21, Mill Plain Road. Right at bottom of ramp. Under railroad overpass make a left at light (Post Rd.), 1/2 mile on right at the corner. From New Haven - I- 95, Exit 22, North Benson Road. Left at bottom of ramp. Under railroad overpass make a left at light (Post Rd.), 1/2 mile on right at the corner.
BE HAPPY ZONE
Fairfield Citizen-News
THE POWER OF CHOICE!
By Lionel Ketchian
You do not have to face your problems if.... If you learn to face your choices. That is how powerful choices are. Animals operate on something we call instinct. Human beings have been supplied with what we refer to as "choice." Knowing you have a choice gives you power, and it's power is far more important than you may realize.
Have you ever realized how powerful your ability to make a choice can be? Making a choice creates your reality. Reality can be looked at as a chain of events, a cause-effect progression of events. What you do in this moment causes the action that takes place in the next moment. Another way of saying the same thing is that the next moment is the effect of the moment before it.
We live in a cause-effect universe. An important dynamic to become aware of is that we hold the power, through choice, to create more favorable effects. If you don't like what you're getting in life -- change something. If you do not change something or act differently, you will end up with the same results. You must change something in order to change the outcome. That is because it is a cause-effect link. It has been said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting different results. That would be like seeing the same movie over and over again because you did not like the ending and you were hoping it would be different this time around.
I have mentioned we live in a cause-effect universe. This is true. It is also true that some of us are living at the effect of everything and are reacting to everything. By making the right choices we can get closer to being the cause of what we want in our world, rather than be at the effects. The key is to come to the realization that we have the choice to decide what to do in every situation. When we exercise our choice to decide what to do in every situation we are acting from our POWER OF CHOICE.
When we can cause what we want to happen as a result of making choices we create a magnet of positive events. They start flowing toward us in our life. Our ability to make a choice, or better yet, the right choice in every situation gives us a step up into the reality of the next moment.
The next time you face a problem, ask yourself what choices you have available. Mentally or with pen and paper, list all possibilities regarding your choices. Look at the two best choices in this particular situation, and then choose the best one of all in this moment. Once you have uncovered this choice, make that choice, go with it and let go of the entire situation. You have done everything you can do for now. If you find some other things you can do about twenty minutes later, than do it then. In the meantime, your power to choose has accomplished many positive things. You have now chosen not to worry about a situation, but to see what choices you have and act on them.
When you come up against a situation that you cannot change, for example finding out you have cancer, do not let the situation change you. If you let it change you, then you will lose your power to deal with it or change it. The way to deal with an unchangeable or unbearable situation is in totally accepting it, after you have done everything to change it or get rid of it. The trick is accepting it only for the moment. What this gives you is the tremendous power and control of not being at the effect of something you do not like.
"The next moment will come, of that you have no choice. Your choice is what you will create with that moment." This is a quote from the book Food for Thought, by Lionel Ketchian
When you stop being at the effect of your circumstances, you begin to be at the cause of them. Without any effort you slowly dissolve the barrier that stopped you before. You're choice not to let this situation change you, works to change the situation. It is one of the laws of cause and effect. When life deals you an effect -- deal with the cause, and you become a master of the situation.
Some situations have no choice. Take death for instance, you have no choice regarding the fact that someday you will die. If you have no choice -- then you have no problem. Not liking it makes it a problem for you. Remember that, and you will get rid of many of the problems that you think you may have.
You can't -- choose not to make a choice. Let's say you are standing on a railroad track and the train is coming and you cannot make up your mind to move off the tracks. The train finally runs you over and you die. You made a choice not to move.
Can you see that fear leads you to make the wrong choices every time? When we listen to other people, and follow them, we are allowing them to make our choices for us. Do you really believe they always know what is best for you? When a doctor says you have a 30% survival rate because of the cancer they have just discovered, you allow the doctor to make the choice for your survival. Depending on the choices you make, you and you alone will determine how long your existence will be.
You can choose the way you will act. You can choose what you will read, listen to, and what you will believe. You can choose what you will eat and drink, and what you will say and do. You can even choose to let go of fear, hatred, unhappiness, depression and self-pity. You can choose the best for yourself and choose the best in yourself. Finally, you can choose the best in everyone else as well. You can choose to see someone as a "teacher" rather than as an enemy. Your choice becomes your reality.
Reality is the way it is! The power of choice allows us to create reality. God has given us the power to CO-create when we use the POWER OF CHOICE.
Ultimately, and most importantly, making the right choices leads you to peace, peace of mind, peace in your heart and a very real spiritual peace. Peace is the most important choice of all. With peace comes a life of great abundance, and a spiritually satisfying life. With peace you have a life filled with happiness and power over yourself. Your next choice will create your next experience in reality. Choose well my friend!
Lionel Ketchian is the founder of the Happiness Club. He can be reached at PrintLRK@aol.com. The Web site is www.HappinessClub.com
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Happ-E-Words:) "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." - Chinese Epigram
"Whatever you do or dream you can do— begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it." - Johann Goethe
Don't give your power away -- Happiness is power! Stand strong, be strong, be happy -- it's our freedom! Keep America Beautiful - Be happy:)
Lionel
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