Shift Happens!

Second edition of this useful book explaining how we can live an inspired life. The author is a specialist on happiness (www.happiness.co.uk) and writes simply and directly. This series of short essays can be picked up and read in small chunks. Themes include 'shift happens - when you let go, you are never stuck, just afraid, laughter is a state of mind, there is no separation, struggle is a choice, exhaustion means there must be a better way.' Many of the essays contain anecdotes and personal experiences to illustrate the point. There is a nice story about a meeting a Guru who repeatedly asks him 'who are you?' and he was able to go beyond his labels of himself. On another occasion he is on a radio show when the host tells his listeners in that he is going to conduct an unreasonable happiness experiment, to see if it is possible to be happy for no reason at all. Immediately after the 11 o'clock news he runs a tape of 45 seconds of laughter, culminating in uncontrollable guffaws (everyone in the studio was in hysterics by the end). For the next hour, phone lines were jammed with callers expressing their thanks for this experiment and realising that they did not have to have a reason for being happy.