“Links to Your Happiness”, offers a simple strategy to help you identify what makes you happy. Having triumphed over adversity and trauma, Helen McKay examines happiness – and its antithesis, unhappiness – wrapped around some personal stories.
Helen discusses: lifestyle comparisons, stress, unhappiness, dissatisfaction and perfectionism, plus the need for changes to perceptions. She talks about the importance of colour and texture to an individual’s happiness, the benefits of providing a creative space to relax, synchronicity, and regularly recording simple joys of life in a Happy Book.
Helen believes we need to find a way to get off this treadmill of unhappiness and dissatisfaction. By concentrating on past hurts, people easily become trapped in a time warp: chronically focused on all the problems, unhappy experiences and traumas in their lives; so they are unable to move forward.
To become happier, they need to refocus: to appreciate the many good things that are happening right in the present and develop a positive attitude. In “Links to Your Happiness”, Helen suggests a simple strategy for a more positive existence. By following her suggestions, it’s possible to refocus: to become more optimistic and lead a happier, healthier life.
Sandwiched between every two chapters are excerpts from Helen and her friend’s Happy Books, with which, readers can identify, and she encourages readers to record daily, their happy experiences that come to mind.
“Links to Your Happiness” includes, the importance of:
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Regular daily recording of simple, everyday happy experiences, to combat blue moods.
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Reading back through the Happy Book’s pages when Blue days occur and choosing something to do.
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Eye appeal – the vibrant happy colours she uses in the fabric covers of the Happy books,
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Feel – tactile experience from handling the Happy book’s textured cover to enhance mood.
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Finding a special space that is all your own
This strategy has been used by Helen and her associate – along with their families and friends over many years and has helped develop more positive attitudes; making lives happier, despite all the challenging situations life throws at us.
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