Marci Shimoff
Marci Shimoff is author of Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul and Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul, making her one of the bestselling female nonfiction authors of all time. She's also a featured teacher in the international film and book phenomenon, The Secret. Visit <a href="http://www.happyfornoreason.com/home.asp" title="http://www.happyfornoreason.com/home.asp" target="_blank">http://www.happyfornoreason.com/home.asp</a>.
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Welcome to Happy for No Reason, the ezine devoted to helping you experience unconditional happiness in your life Every few weeks I'll be sending you this ezine that includes articles, information, and exercises to speed you on your way to being Happy for No Reason
When I was a child, my grandfather visited my family every weekend I dearly loved Poppa, and I vibrated with excitement and joy as soon as I saw him approaching the front door
If you want to be happier — move your body In fact, PE class should have been called Happiness 101
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness
I once heard a revered sage speak He took a question from a man dressed in a three-thousand-dollar suit, wearing classy shoes, and dripping with gold jewelry
What really makes people happy It's a question I'm sure you've pondered and one that's always fascinated me
Einstein once said that the most important question a person can ask himself is, "Is this a friendly universe" As part of the research I did for my new book, Happy for No Reason, I interviewed over one hundred unconditionally happy people
Think of a time when you felt that life was miraculous — watching early-morning light fill a mountain valley, holding your newborn baby in your arms for the first time, or maybe looking up into the vast night sky ablaze with stars Every one of us has had at least one moment when our appreciation for life was so intense, it became awe
Being happy is not just a state of mind — it's also a state of the body What I found in my research for my book, Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out, is that our bodies are actually designed to support our happiness
Years ago, I taught a success seminar in which I asked the participants to take a big sheet of heavy paper and write across the top "100 THINGS TO BE, DO, HAVE" They made three long columns and began listing their dreams, big and small