http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/happiness-blog.html The Happiness Blog tells you when new content is added to this site, and offers you, the visitor, the opportunity to publish your own pages and comments on happiness related topics. Subscribe (free). en-us happiness Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:21:54 GMT Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:21:54 GMT unlock-your-happiness.com http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/happiness-is-reading-articles-i-dont-usually-have-time-to-read.html Meet Instapaper Here's a cool, free service that I plan to make use of in several ways, mostly for reading stuff offline on my Kindle. The website service Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:35:28 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/happy-people.html I've added a new video to the Happy People page. It's youngsters doing a South African 'township' dance called the Kwela. It is performed here live on stage at the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town. It is a short and lively video that's cute to watch. Click on the link below. The two videos are near the end of the page. Hopefully you'll also read the page content if you haven't seen that page before. :-) Enjoy! Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:42:41 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/what-causes-happiness-to-flow.html Wonder what causes happiness to flow? Get rid of the blockages in your mind-body system and you will automatically unlock your inner happiness. Follow these simple tips for happiness. Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:46:00 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/tips-for-happiness.html Share your own tips for happiness on your own Web pages at this site. Read what others say, and add your comments too. Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:55:30 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/my-happy-baboon-burglar-made-me-laugh.html Holy Bliksem! The bedroom door handle just turned, and into the lounge walks the biggest baboon you can imagine! I opened the sliding door to give him Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:00:25 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/learn-meditation.html Until further notice the course in Conscious Mental Rest (CMR - Transcending Meditation) is available free of charge for subscribers to my free e-zine, Happiness Hub. Click on the link below for further details. For existing subscribers to Happiness Hub who would now like to learn CMR, I am sending out a special short e-mail to give you the web page address and the password to access the course registration form. (I guess I should have included that info in the Feb issue of the e-zine. :-) Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:42:56 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/website-updates-newsletter-request.html The February issue of the free e-zine, Happiness Hub, has been mailed out to all subscribers. To subscribe (free, no strings attached), click on the Permalink below. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:37:48 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/hubble-ultra-deep-field-3d.html Here's another awesome peep into the cosmos. My daughter sent me the URL. (Thanks Angie!) Rather than spoil it with blah blah blah, I invite you to click Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:05:45 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/definition-of-happiness.html Do we really, really need a definition of happiness in order to experience it? Surely not. But for the sake of creating a common base for discussion, let's try to define happiness anyway. Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:22:26 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/success-and-happiness.html Success and happiness through midlife and beyond are made easier through applying the master key to happiness and learning a few practical midlife coping strategies. Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:26:01 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/index.html How to be happy takes just two simple keys to unlock your happiness from within. This site will show you how. Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:13:50 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/christian-meditation.html Is Christian meditation really effective as a means to 'be still and know that I am God'? Or can Christians enjoy effective meditation without compromising their beliefs? Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:29:03 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/yoga-breathing.html Here is a quicky, easy and effective yoga breathing technique called pranayama that will help you create balance in body and mind, an essential aspect of how to be happy. Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:42:33 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/stop-indecision-one-of-the-ways-to-relieve-stress.html In one of his books, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi explains: When the flow of a particular desire is obstructed by another flow, energy is produced at the Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:35:22 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/free-mind-mapping-software.html For some time now I have been using this excellent free program for creating mind maps (which I call Trigger Charts when they're used for Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:48:19 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/abraham-hicks.html Abraham-Hicks explains how to trigger the manifestation process with the Law of Attraction. Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:43:03 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/free-lessons-on-transcendental-meditation.html There are some websites offering free lessons on Transcendental Meditation. Don't be misled, folks. Those sites I have seen are not offering Transcendental Meditation at all. Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:22:07 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/conscious-mental-rest.html Born out of my 30 years of advanced meditation practice, I discovered Conscious Mental Rest, a 100 natural and most effective method that allows the mind to go effortlessly towards stillness. Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:12:30 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/keys-to-happiness-page.html That is GREAT, Gavin - Thank You! A succinct yet powerful summary of yr whole happiness Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:42:31 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/consciousness-creates-another-very-relevant-theory-of-reality.html Was just sent this & it struck me as resonating with our whole Microcosm/Macrocosm thing that we extracted from the slideshow: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:22:22 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/financial-happiness.html Financial happiness or financial stress: which of these opposites are you experiencing? Start changing the way in which money affects your life and happiness - from stress to joy and exhilaration. Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:40:23 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/what-causes-happiness.html What causes happiness is far more profound than things like success, relationships, money, a good night's sleep, and so on. These things help to trigger the experience of happiness. Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:38:59 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/how-to-fit-in-meditation-time.html I'm considering learning how to meditate, but I just can't see how I can fit it into my already busy schedule. I'd like to hear how others do it. Can Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:21:45 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/making-time-to-meditate.html When I first started meditating regularly twice a day (in February 1975) I was working in the corporate world and also had children to take to school Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:27:00 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/how-to-find-time-to-meditate.html How to find time to meditate twice every day is something many consider to be an obstacle when you want to learn meditation. Share your solution and read how others have succeeded. Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:51:43 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/how-to-be-happy-blog.html At the free How To Be Happy Blog become a blogger about all sorts of happiness related matters without having to maintain your own blog. Get your own free blog page with every post you make. Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:51:08 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/thanx-to-gavin-for-2009.html I would just like to thank Gavin for the wealth of new ideas & suggestions as to developing more happiness, that he has given all thru 2009 - and Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:15:17 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/money-and-happiness.html Do money and happiness go together? Sure! Can money buy happiness? Find out here. Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:59:38 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/consciousness-shift-3.html A consciousness shift towards a subtle altered level of consciousness or perception can be assisted by watching this slide show that takes you on a return journey to the galaxies. Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:48:52 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/thanx.html Gavin - that was a fascinating trip thru the Consciousness Shift - I've never seen quarks before - I wonder if they are really rainbow colored like Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:22:09 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/ecleaner-the-free-email-cleaner.html I have used eCleaner for many years now, to remove all those messy chevrons (>>>>) and things you get in forwarded emails. It works like a charm, Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:58:26 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/free-stuff-to-trigger-happiness.html Here's some free stuff to trigger your happiness, and mine too, by sharing some freebies with you. It includes freeware and free online services that I've found very useful. Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:17:11 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/steve-says-happiness-is-a-choice.html YES, it is a choice! That's what I now believe, even though I have not been happy for most of my life and I know my happiness is tinged with deep Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:18:14 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/i-believe-happiness-is-a-choice.html I believe happiness is ultimately our choice whether conscious or unconscious. I can't control what goes on around me. I CAN control how I look at Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:15:39 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/happiness-is-certainly-a-choice-tanya.html I agree with you that happiness is already in us, but people have a choice about if they will feel it or not. Some people go through life and just Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:10:45 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/how-i-manage-spam-email.html I have never installed anti-spam software, either free or paid-for. Yet I get zero spam in my mailbox at my ISP or onto my computer. This is how I Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:43:54 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/how-meditation-benefits-me.html Sometimes I really don't feel like meditating. My head is foggy, I am tired and I just feel generally out of sorts. Meditation is the last thing I Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:16:01 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/benefits-of-meditation-3.html Forget the laundry lists of benefits of meditation. Find out what real people have experienced as a result of meditating regularly. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:23:50 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/learn-meditation.html Learn meditation for beginners and experts alike, with a free guided meditation course downloadable here. Called Conscious Mental Rest, this meditation technique is effortless and 100 percent natural. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:25:41 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/truth-and-life.html Truth and life. For many years I was a 'seeker', wanting to understand the mysteries of life and my own status and role in this vast universe. Then I became a finder. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:27:44 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/cma.html CMA or Conscious Mental Attention is all about making effective use of the mind during activity. It is about increasing our happiness by what we give our attention to. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:23:27 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/conscious-mental-attention-origins.html Through Conscious Mental Attention we can help to eliminate old habits of thinking, speaking and doing that slow down the pace at which daily meditation can bring about positive changes. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:18:42 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/conscious-mental-rest-origins.html With the birth of Conscious Mental Rest anyone could now enjoy the most natural process I know of for allowing the mind to move towards stillness. I named it Conscious Mental Rest. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:48:33 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/transcending.html I found that for me transcending thoughts without using a mantra or having a guru was very easy. You just need to set up the right conditions, then let go. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:51:46 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/transcendence-for-happiness.html In 1975 I had my first intended experience of transcendence, under the guidance of a trained teacher of the world's most researched technique of meditation. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:08:10 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/transcendental-bliss-without-meditation-techniques.html One day, a while after I had finished my session of transcendental meditation, I had an experience that confirmed my belief that one doesn't need a meditation technique in order to transcend. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:45:32 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/what-causes-happiness-biochemistry.html What causes happiness, according to modern science, is brain chemistry, in particular the chemicals called serotonin and dopamine. But there's more to it than meets the eye. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:02:38 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/philosophy-happiness.html In my own philosophy happiness has its causes at three distinct levels. Knowing what causes happiness makes it easy to enjoy a happier and more contented life. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:43:38 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/what-does-transcending-meditation-mean.html On this site Conscious Mental Rest is sometimes referred to as CMR - Transcending Meditation. What is meant by Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:45:42 GMT http://www.unlock-your-happiness.com/christian-meditation-method.html Here's an effective Christian meditation method that can be comfortably used by Christians because it has no associations with Eastern religions or philosophies. Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:18:49 GMT