num_pages: 420
description: What would it take to make you happy? A fulfilling career a big bank account or the perfect mate? What if it didn't take anything to make you happy? What if you could experience happiness from the inside out -- no matter what's going on in your life? In Happy for No 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out  transformational expert Marci Shimoff offers a breakthrough approach to being happy one that doesn't depend on achievements goals money relationships or anything else out there. Most books on happiness tell you to find the things that make you happy and do more of them. Although there's nothing wrong with that it won't bring you the kind of deep and lasting happiness most people long for -- the kind you'll never lose no matter what happens in your life. Based on cutting-edge research and knowledge from the world's leading experts in the fields of positive psychology and neurophysiology plus interviews with 100 truly happy people this life-changing book provides a powerful proven 7-step program that will enable you to be happier right now -- no matter where you start. Studies show that each of us has a happiness setpoint -- a fixed range of happiness we tend to return to throughout our life -- that's approximately 50 percent genetic and 50 percent learned. In the same way you'd crank up the thermostat to get comfortable on a chilly day you can actually raise your happiness set-point! The holistic 7-step program at the heart of Happy for No Reason encompasses Happiness Habits for all areas of personal power mind heart body soul purpose and relationships. In these pages you'll discover moving and remarkable first-person stories of people who have applied these steps to their own lives and have become Happy for No Reason. You'll read phenomenal tales from a former drug dealer turned minister a hit filmmaker and a famous actress who escaped a family curse as well as stories from doctors mothers teachers and business executives. You'll learn practical strategies that will help you experience happiness from the inside out. You don't have to have happy genes win the lottery or lose twenty pounds. By the time you finish this book you will know how to experience sustained happiness for the rest of your life.
language: English
title: Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out
publisher: Free Press