Product Description

Scientifically tested and proven, Robert Holden’s training to improve wellbeing and mental health is finally available in this workbook of 50 principles and exercises to radically change a negative thought pattern to a positive mindset. Encapsulating Dr. Holden’s world famous techniques, this book shows you how to stop chasing happiness and start enjoying your life as it happens, create a happiness contract to undo mental and emotional blocks to happiness and success, learn to forgive old mistakes, accept the past cannot be changed and focus on being happy now, and use the power of happiness to bless your life and benefit others.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34229 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 226 pages

From the Back Cover
Teach yourself how to enjoy more happiness now! In Be Happy, Robert Holden gives you a front-row seat to his eight-week happiness course – famously tested by independent scientists for the BBC-TV documentary How to Be Happy. Written with his trademark insight, compassion and humour, Robert guides you through a set of scientifically proven principles and exercises that have been hailed as ‘a genuine fast-track to happiness’. Key themes include: • defining true happiness: give up the pursuit of happiness out there and start following your joy • the happiness contract: increase your natural capacity for prosperity and success • the receiving meditation: discover how to be so happy that you almost feel guilty, but not quite! • the forgiveness principle: give up all hopes for a better past and commit to living happily even after • the gift of happiness: use the power of happiness to bless your life, let your relationships flourish, and help you be a truly loving presence in the world ‘This happiness training not only changes the way you feel; it actually changes the way your brain functions.’ Professor Richard Davidson, University of Wisconsin-Madison Robert Holden PhD is the Director of The Happiness Project and Success Intelligence. His innovative work on happiness and success has been featured on Oprah and in two major BBC-TV documentaries, The Happiness Formula and How to Be Happy, shown in 16 countries to more than 30 million television viewers. He is the author of the bestselling books Happiness NOW!, Success Intelligence and Shift Happens! He lives in London with his wife and daughter. www.behappy.net •www.successintelligence.com •www.robertholden.org

About the Author
Robert Holden, Ph.D., is the Director of The Happiness Project and Success Intelligence. He’s the author of ten best-selling books, including Success Intelligence and Shift Happens!, and was featured on the BBC documentary How to Be Happy. Author Residence: London, UK

Customer Reviews

Mamma Mia meets the Dalai Lama
Over the Summer, I re-read `Happiness Now' and was so impressed (again) at Robert Holden's knowledge, insight, wisdom and the sheer poetry of his writing.
It got me wondering what else he'd written since 1997 and discovered this brand new book. If I'm honest my fear was whether "Be Happy" was a re-hash of previous (albeit good) work.

This fear was totally unfounded. "Be Happy" is remarkable on so many different levels.

For a book `about' happiness to evoke such joy while you're reading it is, takes some doing! Robert has such an obvious love of language and its beauty. His intelligence, wit, and playful use of language shines through. To me at least, the mark of `literature' is how slowly you choose to read something. This was therefore a slow read for me. I chose to absorb, rather than merely read the words.

His blank page in the book where you are invited to write your own definition of happiness provoked me to write "To feel at ease and at peace with who I am, where I am and what I choose to do for myself and others." Worth the price just for helping me to realise this.

One paragraph he writes "....happiness is not a mental idea; it is the ground of your being. Happiness is not learned; it is remembered. There is no pass or fail. Happiness is not to be understood; it is to be enjoyed. Happiness happens when you least inspect (sic) it..."

Robert Holden PhD deserves enormous thanks for creating such an outstanding contribution to happiness and humanity.

If "Be Happy" was a film, it would probably be "Mamma Mia meets the Dalai Lama." With a definite Oscar for 'Best Screenplay".

And for me, this coming Christmas will be the easiest I've ever had for buying gifts that will be appreciated! Thank you.

Warm, witty, down-to-earth good sense
If you're worried that Robert Holden is one of those self-help writers who are so self-righteously worthy that they make you feel guilty, then don't be. He comes across as a beacon of good sense and a warm, wise and funny human being whose writing is a joy to read - intelligent yet totally accessible, literate but down-to-earth. He won't have you striving for perfection or dazzled by unreachable goals - this book will lead you gently along a path of self-acceptance and a recognition of the joy already existing in your world in a way that will inspire and enhance every aspect of your life. Add to that some great stories, jokes and quotations from my favourite poets and I'm hooked - if I could give it more than five stars, I would.

Thoroughly recommended for anyone who loves good writing, feeling inspired and being happy.

Not so much a ray of sunshine - more a whole Summer's worth!
A wonderful book. Deep and thoroughly useful (not at all superficial or glib). Useful resource and backed up by research studies proving effectiveness. I get the feeling that Robert Holden writes as he speaks - he must be a very likeable man. Highly recommended!