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Dick Sutphen
Date: 11-15-07
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HAPPINESS
Happiness is an interesting trap.
"FLOW" author Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says, "More than anything else, people
seek happiness." He then adds, "Happiness is sought for its own sake, but all
our other goals -- health, beauty, money or power -- are valued because we
expect they will make us happy."
In "The Path to Love," Deepak Chopra says, "... happiness too often means a
'pleasure response.' But this means there must be a stimulus attached to it.
"There can be no sense of security in your existence when it depends upon
outside factors, for the unpredictable changes of reality can never be
controlled."
So to be happy, we need to find a source of happiness beyond pleasure. Yet
biochemists have proven that pleasure can release serotonin and beta-endorphins
-- brain mind opiates that are chemically almost identical to opium. The more
you release the happier you feel. And the opiates are addictive.
So is a pleasure stimulus to the brain the same as happiness? It feels that way.
But the problem is a stimulus wears out. Deepak says, "Over time our responses
weaken if the same stimulus keeps getting repeated. The taste that was once so
sweet grows stale and cloying; the face that once enchanted becomes ordinary;
the most exciting vision becomes just part of the scenery.
"It is all important to found our happiness upon a basis that doesn't change."
In his book, "Actualizations," Stewart Emery says, "We have the implicit belief
in goals the same way we have the implicit belief in Santa Claus. It is the
continuing saga of our addiction to form. We still firmly believe that something
outside of ourselves is going to make us happy."
"If I get a million dollars, I'll be happy."
"If I get a new car, then I'll be happy."
"If I get a new job, then I'll be happy."
"If I get straight A's in school, then I'll be happy."
"If I get my Ph.D., then I'll be happy."
"If only __________, then I'll be happy." You fill in the blank.
"Goals have become part of that whole happiness-through-acquisition belief
program that everybody has bought. It works this way: For most of us, life
floats between terrible and bearable, but there is hope -- hope that life will
be more bearable if we achieve a goal exterior to ourselves. As if the
destination itself will have any effect upon the traveler.
"The fact is that goals do not deliver what we are asking and expecting them to
deliver. That has become a source of disillusionment and dissatisfaction in our
society. Every time we reach a goal, we have momentary feeling of elation
(temporary well-being) followed by a sinking realization with what we said we
wanted, but without the experience that getting what we said we wanted was going
to bring us. Ripped off again."
It seems to me that happiness has to come from within as a result of what we do
in life. If you go to
http://www.dicksutphen.com and click on the "Books, Excerpts and
Columns" button (fourth from the bottom) you will have an opportunity to choose
"How To Fix Everything In Your Life At Once." The chapters are actually the
scripts from my old "25 Best Ways" CD series. Chapter 15 is "Create Happiness."
Almost all 25 suggestions need to be manifested from within. My favorite
happiness suggestion is "Develop Detached Mind," followed by "Accept that what
is, is," "Live in the present," and "Choose a positive viewpoint."
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CONVENTION. Dick is president of the organization and more information will be
released soon.
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CONFERENCE. More information soon.
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Location: The Sedona Creative Life Center.
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