Where Your Happiness Hides

Mark Worthington

Description

If, despite all your hard work and commitment, happiness still eludes you, and you can't quite work out why, this book will show you how close to you it really is. Lose your worries and discover how to enjoy life so much more, by exploring the insights in this wonderful book.

Where Your Happiness Hides gives readers real hope for a happier life. Even before the pandemic, many people struggled to find consistent fulfillment. This has been exaggerated in the turbulent times we have been witness to in recent years. This book shines a light on why happiness is so elusive for many of us and shows you where to find your greatest joy.

The book doesn’t just leave you guessing as to what may be blocking your happiness. It spells out the 22 core limiting beliefs that most people are likely to be struggling with and shows them how to undertake a wonderful and natural journey of personal transformation. It also includes a simple code of happiness that is not widely understood, yet is so core to us all finding joy.

This book is practical and simple, and your author has been there done that, paving the way for you to do the same far more easily and without the need for extra cost. You already have all you need to apply the book’s natural guidance. What have you got to lose, other than worry! Why not replace worry with wonder? It’s much more fun!

This book is about finding personal happiness In 2023 your author will be releasing a follow up book designed to assist organisations to find collective joy and greater success. You won’t want to miss either of these exciting and life changing books.

Be true to you and let Where Your Happiness Hides light up your life. You deserve that!

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Bien-être émotionnel
• Bien-être émotionnel
• Mental Health
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Help! (película)
• Struggle
• Depression (mood)
• Depression
• Psychology
• Help
• Freedom
• Happiness

Informations

• Publié par: Balboa Press AU
• Date de parution: 05 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781982294571
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

WHERE YOUR HAPPINESS HIDES
22 Beliefs and 1 simple code that will transform your life
Mark Worthington


Copyright © 2022 Mark Worthington.
 
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
 
 
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The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.
 
Cover and Illustrations by Azari da Roza | Diagrams and Pictures by Bill Shapter
Edited by Zena Shapter
 
Prepared for publication by Andrea Gussy.
 
ISBN: 978-1-9822-9456-4 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-9822-9457-1 (e)
 
 
 
Balboa Press rev. date: 12/14/2022
CONTENTS
Introduction: Happiness is Your Choice
Chapter 1 We Are What We Think We Are
Chapter 2 The Code of Happiness
2.1 Happiness is a habit and a choice
2.2 The current illusion of happiness
Chapter 3 Is This the Normal We Really Want?
3.1 The pathway to pain
3.2 The maze of misery
3.3 Our choice of operating systems
3.4 We think not feel
3.5 We live from fear not love
3.6 The reason we become conditioned
3.7 What is our ego and why is it important?
3.8 What is self-esteem and why is it important?
3.9 How does our conditioning show itself?
Chapter 4 Decoding Our Unhappiness
4.1 Acknowledging our true selves
4.2 Expressing your truth with others
Chapter 5 Our Shared Limiting Beliefs
5.1 We are unworthy of love
5.2 We deserve to suffer
5.3 There is a lack of resources
5.4 We are alone, not all-one
5.5 My truth is the truth
5.6 We have the right to judge others
5.7 We live in the past or future
5.8 Money matters more than love
5.9 We don’t own our own lives
5.10 Our bodies don’t matter
5.11 Change is bad and must be avoided
5.12 We are humans doing not being
5.13 We must reject and fear the feminine
5.14 Men and women are totally different
5.15 We love with a checklist
5.16 Leadership is only about getting results
5.17 Everything that matters is matter
5.18 Death is the end
5.19 Life is a random event
5.20 We are separate from nature
5.21 Technology is critical for our happiness
5.22 Money is always real and unlimited
Chapter 6 The Impacts of Our Limiting Beliefs on our Financial and Social Interactions and Structures
6.1 Common threads of discontent
6.2 Social interactions
6.3 Economic behaviours and structural concerns
6.4 World order is out of order
6.5 Environmental mess
Chapter 7 How to Find Your Greatest Happiness
7.1 Own your own transformation
7.2 Wholeness is the key
7.3 My experience with knowing myself
Chapter 8 Our New Wonderful Belief Structures
8.1 A natural, wonder-full life
8.2 Equality for all
8.3 All truths are respected
8.4 Emotions for everybody
8.5 Well-balanced leadership with wisdom
8.6 Authentic leadership in all walks of life
8.7 Collaboration replaces competition
8.8 Time no longer ticks us off
Chapter 9 The Structures and Interactions Possible in a Transformed World
9.1 Economic
9.2 Social
9.3 Environmental
9.4 World order
Chapter 10 Concluding Remarks for Your Reflection
Appendix I
Acknowledgements
About Mark Worthington (author)

This book is dedicated to those who have taught me much about life and myself and helped me escape the unhappy trance in which I once languished. They include:
• Charles Kovess, Australia’s passion provocateur, who taught me the power of beliefs and how to be a stronger man.
• Paul Joseph, a Sydney-based teacher, who challenged my mind to understand the truths of the universe that I was ready to hear.
• Ava Leonard, a Sydney-based holistic wellness specialist, who helped me see, and release, hundreds of personal limiting beliefs through her amazing intuition.
• Lucy Phillips, an extraordinary woman, who showed me the power of feelings and forgiveness, and how to ground them into everyday life.
• Mark Hunter, a coach and communications specialist, who taught me the power of authentic self-expression and self-belief.
• Sue Thompson, who brought me access to new ideas, beyond my consciousness at the time, allowing me to apply these to my life to great effect.
In all this, the greatest teachers in my life were my parents. Their loving kindness, devotion and imperfections, which we all possess, allowed me to see mine and, at the same time, witness the perfection of love and the power of knowing that I was always enough, regardless of what I achieved or owned.
Mark Worthington


INTRODUCTION: HAPPINESS IS YOUR CHOICE
If anyone ever asked me what I wanted in life, for me or my family, I always responded with ‘to be happy’. Isn’t that what life’s all about?
At least this is what I told myself, but for most of my life I was pretty unhappy. At best my life was mediocre, until a few years ago. To the outside world I was regarded as a success on many measures – I had two properties, five wonderful children, a good income, a professional profile, a 21-year relationship and, from the outside, what appeared to be a fit, healthy body. So why did I feel so unfulfilled and dull?
In my 50s, I worked out the answer and it was simple: I had chosen a life that in many ways I didn’t want, but felt I needed to endure to satisfy others. It took me a long time to see that there was a better way to exist, one that would bring me joy and fun, one I now find blissful every waking hour of the day.
My life has gone from awful to awesome, and all it took was a choice – a choice to no longer suffer, to no longer settle for mediocrity, and to no longer live my life for the sake of others. I also allow others to live their lives without my judgement or control, because I have learnt that there is no love in controlling or judging another’s life. I now live for me, and it is so exciting and relaxing at the same time. I’m not selfish, just self-centred – in a good way! Whereas life once felt like I was stuck in a field of prickles and weeds, it now feels like I’m skipping through a field of sunflowers under a big, beautiful blue sky.
I wonder if you can relate to any of these situations in your life?
• I had a string of busy jobs that always seemed to demand more and more from me. I worked long hours out of obligation.
• I had mortgages that kept me awake at night in a state of worry.
• I felt time poor and never seemed to have time for myself, unless I got up early and sacrificed sleep to exercise. I was fit but not fun.
• I was consistently busy looking after my house in Sydney and driving kids to their activities, such as dance lessons and sports.
• I cared about my job title and how big my house was, yet I said money didn’t matter to me. I was in a weird state of denial about my priorities.
• I limited my life to safe activities with people I trusted because I didn’t fully trust people until I got to know them well.
• I had two messy divorces, and my wives and I lost significant wealth as a result.
• I experienced multiple ailments, including a significant muscle disorder and a bad back for over 30 years, which saw me constantly visiting doctors. These expensive visits helped but never solved my pain, because at the end of the day they were caused by stress – yes, by me. I learned to disown my pain, and as a result I kind of disembodied myself. So I felt fit but fatigued and unwell.
• I didn’t see enough of my friends, and they complained that I was somewhat antisocial. They were right, because I believed I was too busy to have fun, and that I had to be serious to be successful.
• I lived for weekends and holidays, spending far too much money on expensive holidays each year to try and escape my life.
• I became a needy partner. With few friendships, I relied too much on my respective partners for company.
• I had no dreams because I was in survival mode: stressed and trying to play it safe so that I lost nothing. I protected what I had out of fear, even though it brought me great stress and ultimately led me to lose exactly what I thought I needed to protect.
• I looked forward to having enough money to stop work and retire. Doing nothing one day, sadly, had become a key goal in life.
• I enjoyed few hobbies of my own, because my life was dedicated to making sure my other family members were h