Happ-E-Newsletter for September 15, 2006

Welcome My Dear Friend!

Stamford Advocate - Stamford,CT,USA by Alexandra Fenwick

We have a new Happiness Club for you in Madison, Connecticut.

Let me introduce you to the outstanding woman who will facilitate the meetings. Her name is Tina N. Garrity and she lives in Madison, Connecticut with husband, Kevin and is the mother of five daughters.

A volunteer like Tina Garrity cannot help but be happy. The reason for this is the volunteer work she does for others. When you are as busy as Tina is spreading happiness, you can't help but find happiness for yourself. Thank you Tina for making this a much better world because you choose to make a difference.

She is a Connecticut certified teacher and has a Master's degree in Education. Tina is a board member of The Children's Center, in Hamden, CT. as well as Madison's Selectmen's Council on Youth Substance Abuse.

Tina is a volunteer at Yale-New Haven Hospital for "Circle of Care" which providing respite care for pediatric oncology patients. Tina is also a volunteer at St. Raphael's Hospital for the program: "Read to Grow," which involves Tina reading to children in the pediatric out-patient clinic.

Tina has organized and runs a knitting group at The Hearth at Tuxis Pond in Madison, CT. knitting Caps for chemotherapy patients. Tina's future goals are to run the Happiness Club in Madison, and eventually do workshops on happiness with Middle school and High school students.

"Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose." - William Cowper (1731-1800)
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Happiness Sold Separately

You can buy an education, but happiness is sold separately. You can buy a new car or you can buy a new house, but happiness is sold separately. You can go shopping and buy everything you want, but happiness is sold separately. You can get married or you can get divorced, but happiness is sold separately. You can make a lot of money, but happiness is sold separately. You can win the Lottery, but happiness is sold separately.

You think you will be happy when you buy the new car or the larger house, and you will, but not for very long. Money can buy you a new car or a larger house. Money can buy you many things, but money can't buy you happiness. Happiness is sold separately and it cannot be bought with money. Money buys things, and happiness is not a "thing." Happiness is an inner state of mind.

We all want happiness. People want to be happy. This is the basic reason we do everything that we do. We may think we are trying to get things; so we can feel more secure, be more loved, or maybe feel more important. The truth is that we do everything we do to derive happiness. If we learned that the main reason we desire the things we seek is to experience happiness, we would value happiness more than just "things."

Aristotle so apply stated: "Happiness, therefore, being found to be something final and self-sufficient, is the End at which all actions aim. A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else."

In other words what Aristotle was saying is that all things are a means to an end except one thing. That one thing is happiness, which is an end in itself. So we might say, "Our search has ended," we have found the thing we most wanted, but did not know what it was until now.

Happiness is something that you must keep choosing by the practice of being happy. Stop letting go of your happiness every time something happens that you don't particularly like. Happiness is a skill that you learn by doing it. Happiness happens by acting as if you are happy, until you actually start being happy for longer intervals of time. Happiness is also an emotion that you learn to control for your best state of well being. Why let yourself be ruled by your negative emotions.

Being unhappy because someone else is unhappy makes as much sense as finishing the food on your plate when you're not hungry just because other people are hungry. Years ago, parents would tell their children to finish the food on their plate because people were starving in other countries.

Happiness cannot be bought or sold. Happiness must be a decision that you have made because you want it and value the importance of it. It's true that you can share happiness. What you experience is someone else being happy within themselves, just like you. We can share what we have, if we have it. You can share happiness only if you have happiness yourself. If you don't have happiness, how can you possibly share it with others?

Happiness is sold separately because it is not found outside yourself. Even if something wonderful happens to someone you love, the happiness you feel is based on a direct experience you have within yourself. Happiness cannot happen outside of you.

This is a good time to purchase happiness for yourself. Don't forget that: "Happiness Is Sold Separately." Money can't buy it, but you can have it. It is yours for the taking.

BE HAPPY ZONE by Lionel Ketchian

Published in the Fairfield Citizen-News - September 6, 2006

Life is complicated, happiness is simple! LIVE RICHLY...PRACTICE HAPPINESS!

Everything we do in life is for the purpose of obtaining happiness!

Happiness Empowerment to You! Reminding you to make the "Happiness Decision."

Think Smart, Look Smart, Be Smart...Be Happy!

Sharing Love, Peace and Happiness with you,
Lionel Ketchian

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...recognize that if you don't like your life and if you can't change your external circumstances at this point, you can change your attitude toward your life. You can say, "I choose to be happy. I choose to view what I do every day as a way of contributing love." When you go about your life with this attitude, you'll find that your circumstances do begin to change. - Bernie Siegel, MD

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The Art Of Healing by Dr. Bernie Siegel

Sunday, October 29, 2006 from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Bernie will be outlining survivor behavior patterns. There will be discussions of love, humor, hope, spirituality, desire and intention and how it all has a role in our lives and our health.

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." - George Washington Carver

Happ-E-Book Recommendation :)

I have read and recommend a wonderful book to you. It is Your Like Manual, Practical Steps to Genuine Happiness by David Ambrose. I have spoken to David who is doing an important job in spreading a better understanding of happiness to everyone. David is a unique person that will be formally teaching happiness in the near future.

This book will help you learn to stop sabotaging yourself. David will introduce you to a practical philosophy for living. You will find out how a solid foundation guides you towards happiness. David will show you the difference between transitory and real happiness. He will help you discover the things that make you really happy. So take charge of your mind and your life and change the world around you. Why not be happy! Read this book.

The following quotes are from Your Like Manual, Practical Steps to Genuine Happiness by David Ambrose

"Taking the first step -- making the decision to improve your lot is hugely important and sets you on the road to the happiness you desire."

"Don't waste time allowing things to frustrate you. Your energy is better spent on something more constructive. Remember, accepting reality does not mean condoning it."

"It all boils down to choices. What matters most at this moment takes priority. To take complete responsibility for our lives requires taking responsibility for all our choices, even those we prefer to disown."

"Your response to each thing that happens in your life determines whether you grow and flourish, or decline and flounder. Whether perceived as good or bad, each thing that happens in our lives is important, necessary, and provides lessons for us. We choose whether learn from each experience or not. We further choose whether it will have a positive or negative effect on the rest of our lives."

"Love is crucial to happiness. Without the giving component of love, any feeling of happiness will be a shallow imitation of true happiness. Giving love makes us happy. It is by giving love that we receive love. Receiving love makes us feel complete."

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"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances." - Martha Washington

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"There is a fountain of youth; it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you will learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age." - Sophia Loren

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"The great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child." - Mencius (c. 371-289 B.C.)

Happ-E-Poem :)

Blessings in Time
May this day be filled with love
And the week with happiness and joy
And the month with harmony and understanding
And the year with good health and prosperity
And a lifetime filled with more life and eternal blessings
Thank you God for the blessings you give daily,
weekly, monthly, yearly and eternally.

This wonderful poem sent us from our friend David Lazar

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"To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything." - Thomas Merton

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When you come into contact with another person, make a special effort to see their virtues.
Not only look for good points, but try to genuinely feel pleasure in discovering a new virtue in someone. A person who masters this trait lives in an entirely different world than someone who lacks it. Everyone he meets has positive elements that he notices, and hence he will show honor and respect to everyone.

From Rabbi Zelig Pliskin’s new book: Gateway to Happiness, p. 139.

Rabbi Pliskin is The Self-image Builder and Happiness Teacher

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"Really great people always see the best in others; it is the little man who looks for the worst--and finds it." - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) Composer and conductor

... same human beings. We all seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. We have the same basic human needs and concerns. All of us ...

A new paradigm and approach to health and healing. Understanding and using the mind-body connection. Exploring how biography becomes biology and illness as opportunity. "When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change." Cultivating healing attitudes and qualities of being. "Healing is not a matter of setting the molecules straight, it is a matter of helping the one in need of healing into an experience of wholeness" Larry Dossey, MD

Date :) Thursday, September 21, 2006

Time :) 7:00 - 9:00 P.M.
Place :) At the Fairfield Public Library, in the Rotary Room

Address :) 1080 Old Post Road, Fairfield, CT 06824

Everyone is welcome; admission is free. Meet some wonderful people using happiness in their lives. Future meetings at the Fairfield Library will be: Thursday, October 12, Thursday, November 16, Thursday, December 7, 2006.

Directions to Fairfield Public Library: (movie theatre is diagonally across the street)

From the west (Westport) on Connecticut Turnpike (I-95) Take Exit 22 (Round Hill Road) Take a right at the bottom of the ramp.Go straight, under the railroad tracks. Take a right at the light onto Post Road (Rt. 1). Take a left at the first through street. Library is on your left at the corner of Post Road and Old Post Road.
From the east (Bridgeport) on Connecticut Turnpike (I-95) Take Exit 22 (North Benson Road) Take a left at the bottom of the ramp. Go straight under thruway and railroad tracks. Take a right at the light onto the Post Road. Take a left at the second through street. The Library is on your left at the corner of the Post Road and the Old Post Road.

WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT SMILING SINGLE SENIORS HAPPINESS CLUB :)

Our next meeting will be: "An Interesting Discussion on Happiness." The meeting will be held Thursday, September 28, 6:30 - 8:30 PM at the Westport Senior Center, 21 Imperial Ave., Westport CT 06880. Admission is free and you can meet some wonderful people using happiness in their lives. Stay happy and healthy - get well connected. Stacy Enyeart is the group facilitator. For further information, www.happinessclub.com or call Lionel Ketchian at 203 258-7777. Future meetings: Thursday, October 19, Thursday, November 30, 2006.

Thursday, December 7, 2006 a joint meeting with Happiness Club at Fairfield Public Library.

NEW! - MADISON CONNECTICUT HAPPINESS CLUB :)

First meeting will be Wednesday, October 25th, 2006.

Tina Garrity is the group facilitator.

"How To Find Happiness!," by Lionel Ketchian

Find out what happiness is and what it takes to achieve it!

We will have three wonderful books for you to win as door prizes.

Date :) Wednesday, October 25th, 2006.

Time :) 7:00 - 9:00 P.M.
Place :) At the E.C. Scranton Memorial Library

Address :) 801 Boston Post Road, Madison, Ct. 06443

SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA HAPPINESS CLUB MEETING :)

DIABLO VALLEY HAPPINESS CLUB MEETING :)

WILMINGTON NORTH CAROLINA HAPPINESS CLUB :)

CANADIAN AMBASSADOR OF HAPPINESS :)

"Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

Reading this newsletter will not just make your life better; it will make the world a better place...because you have decided to be happy!

Happiness is an inner state of well being. A state that enables you to profit from your highest thoughts, intelligence, wisdom, awareness, common sense, emotions, health, and spiritual values.

Happiness is one of the most important things in your life.

Don't give away your power by being unhappy! Practice "Premeditated Happiness," because happiness is an issue of power. We give our power to others for many reasons. We mistakenly think that doing this will make us happy. The truth is that we have given others power over ourselves. We can now consciously reclaim our power and experience happiness. Happiness does wonders for your soul. Now is the time to learn to use happiness for dealing with challenges and difficult people so you can empower your life.

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