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    The Happiness Path: Your Mind is Your Paint Brush
    The Happiness Path: Your Mind is Your Paint Brush
    The Happiness Path: Your Mind is Your Paint Brush
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    The Happiness Path: Your Mind is Your Paint Brush

    By Joanne Rodasta Wilshin

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    You'll love this book if you truly want to be consciously happy. Yes, that means your relationships are kind, beneficial, and truthful; prosperity flows into your life; those opportunities you long for appear; your health is at its best; and you're on your life path.
    You'll also love this book if you know in your heart that you can create your best future, but feel like you're missing the exact know-how and understanding.
    The Happiness Path explains the basic quantum physics of how your thoughts and intentions transform energy into experiences and things, whether you're paying attention or not. And it illustrates how your emotions, ego, subconscious mind and imagination function as a team to influence the life experiences your energy has created so far, as well as those in your future.
    Armed with this new knowledge, The Happiness Path guides you in retooling future experiences so you end up genuinely happy, rather than kind of happy, or not at all. Plus, you'll finally have a way to dissipate painful emotions, rather than struggling to ignore them or trying to just let them go (which really doesn't work!). Your uncomfortable emotions are huge gifts that shouldn't be ignored, dismissed, or misunderstood. They help you understand what you need to be happy.
    This book is also for you if you've had varying success with praying, saying affirmations, and visualizing, because it shows you an important step you probably didn't know about, and that you'll want to include in your practice so you see the changes you've been working toward.
    The Dalai Lama said, "The purpose of our lives is to be happy." If you agree, even partially, you'll love this book's benefits. That's because it'll help you discover what makes you happy, and show you how to create it. You'll even learn to create good for your friends and family, because it's hard to be happy when they are not.
    The Happiness Path is an update of Joanne Rodasta's Take a Moment and Create Your Life! (1997). Since then, she has constantly tested the concepts in both books in order to provide you the most elegant practice to follow to create experiences that leave you feeling happy. Also available is Joanne Rodasta Wilshin's The Happiness Path Group Guide if you want to start a group to support your practice. (Suggested!)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoanne Rodasta Wilshin
    Release dateOct 28, 2015
    ISBN9781310478659
    The Happiness Path: Your Mind is Your Paint Brush
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    Joanne Rodasta Wilshin

    Joanne Rodasta Wilshin, MA, is an creativity consultant and educator. Besides The Happiness Path, she is the author of Take a Moment and Create Your Life! (1997) and The Happiness Path Group Guide. In the 1990s, she researched and tested the influence of thought and intention on matter, and the systemic relationship among emotions, the ego, the subconscious mind, and the imagination. She has spent the past two decades teaching and consulting people and groups to access negative thoughts they unwittingly hold and to alter them so as to change what they create. Joanne attended Oslo University, and earned degrees from California State University Long Beach and University of San Francisco. JoanneWilshin.com

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      The Happiness Path - Joanne Rodasta Wilshin

      The Happiness Path

      Your Mind is Your Paintbrush

      by

      Joanne Rodasta Wilshin

      Anacortes, Washington

      Copyright © 2015 by Joanne Rodasta Wilshin.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, without prior written permission of the author.

      A Voyager Book

      519 Commercial Ste. 1942

      Anacortes, WA 98221

      joannewilshin.com

      Smashwords Edition License Notes: This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Publisher’s Note: This book is not intended as a substitute for the medical, psychiatric, or psychological advice of physicians or therapists. The reader should consult a physician or therapist in matters relating to his/her physical and mental health and particularly with respect to any symptoms that may require diagnosis or medical and therapeutic attention. The authors and publisher of this book intend for the information in this book to supplement, not replace, skilled medical and psychological help.

      Book Layout: P.B.Sargent/ Anacortes, Washington

      Cover Design: P.B.Sargent/ Anacortes, Washington

      Cover Typography: Fortuna Dot by Harold Lohner, Allura by Robert E. Leuschke, Biko by Marco Ugolini

      Cover Photograph: Shutterstock

      Author Photograph: Laurie Bryston/ Laguna Beach, California

      Typography: Microsoft Palatino Linotype

      The happiness path: your mind is your paint brush. Wilshin, Joanne Rodasta -- 1st ed.

      ISBN 978-0692528204

      To David,

      for being there,

      for listening,

      for questioning,

      and for loving.

      Contents

      1. You'll Love This Book If

      2. Your Creative System

      3. The Happiness Path and Your Ego

      4. Creative Energy: The Giant Mirror

      5. Feelings are Feedback

      6. Know Your Fears

      7. Want What You Want

      8. Those Lurking Thoughts

      9. You're the Architect of Your Life

      10. You are Your Own Genius

      11. Making Dreams a Reality

      12. Other Antidotes

      13. The Fine Points

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      Chapter One

      You'll Love This Book If . . .

      Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. George Bernard Shaw

      I wrote this book for those of you who truly want to be happy. You want your relationships with your family, friends, and co-workers to be kind and beneficial. You want to be treated fairly. You want to be able to hear and tell the truth. You don't want to have to sacrifice, and you don't want others to have to make sacrifices for you, because sacrifice always carries a price.

      You want money and prosperity to flow into your life so it can create harmony, health, strength and comfort. I'm not talking about amassing and hoarding great stashes of cash. Instead, I'm talking about money and prosperity that come into your life so you can create beauty and happiness all around you on a consistent basis.

      You also want those opportunities you long and have longed for to appear in your life. These are the opportunities that bring you closer to what you truly want and who you really are. (This book will explain why you yearn for certain things and why it's important for you to deeply embrace having them.)

      You want your health to be its best. You want to give your body all the good you can give it so that it thrives and allows you the most enjoyment.

      And you want a method to dissipate painful, emotionally-charged past experiences so when they repeat themselves (history does repeat itself!), they'll reappear as future experiences that satisfy and delight you. In other words, you'll know what to do with your jealousy, anger, sadness, depression, and rage so they no longer debilitate you, and they instead set you on a course to happiness. These uncomfortable emotions are actually huge gifts that shouldn't be ignored, dismissed, or misunderstood. They are keys that help you understand what you need to be happy.

      If you have areas in your life where you're not feeling entirely happy, this book gives you a step-by-step process to turn those experiences around. It shows you how to be the artist of your life by giving you techniques that let you repaint the areas of your life you’d like to see changed. Just imagine how your life might look if you do some major and minor tweaking!

      This book is also for you if you've had varying success with praying, saying affirmations, and visualizing. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. If failure has led you to experience feelings of depression, sadness, anger, or giving up, there's a reason. This book will show you an important step you probably didn't know about, and that you'll want to include in your practice. Then you'll begin seeing the change you've been working toward.

      The Dalai Lama said, The purpose of our lives is to be happy. If you agree with this, even partially, you'll love the benefits of this book. That's because it'll help you discover what makes you happy, and show you how to create it.

      As a concept, this sounds simple enough, right? Figure out what you want, then create it.

      But in reality, so much in your environment works against you.

      The commercial world, for example, inundates you with messages about what should make you happy so you'll buy their products. This car will make you feel free. That stereo will make you feel sophisticated. These shoes will make you feel modern or sexy.

      The problem, of course, is that advertisements, TV programs, and movies all use music and images that trigger your emotions. The emotional comfort you feel when you see those Budweiser horses subliminally persuades you that Budweiser beer must be just as comforting. Or that person smiling in her convertible driving along the coastline. That could be you!

      But, in that moment, do you really want the convertible or the beer? If not, what do you really want? What will really make you happy? That's the question you'll be asked over and over in this book, because that's the most important question of all. And you'll see why.

      Your social world also sends messages that work against your happiness. As you mature, you learn to hide your feelings, which, in itself, is not wrong. You'll soon learn that expressing emotions is far less helpful than understanding what the emotions are telling you.

      But your happiness gets genuinely sidelined when you hide from or judge your feelings, even trivial ones. If someone treats you dismissively, it probably makes you angry, and for good reason. If someone gets your dream job, you might feel jealous or sad, again for good reason.

      The problem worsens when you try to ignore or marginalize these feelings. You tell yourself not to be angry, sad, or jealous. But the fact is you're not happy. Gandhi said, Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. In others words, persuading yourself that you're happy, when you're really not, works against you. Instead, figuring out what would make you happy requires digging into those emotions and discovering what they're telling you. When you do that, and you start creating happiness for yourself, you'll have started one of the most exciting eras in your life!

      §

      Why is The Happiness Path so important?

      Because the Happiness Path gives you:

      More control over your life.

      The Happiness Path gives you more control over your life, but it also makes you less controlling. Creating happiness involves working with all the elements in the Universe, even the ones you don't understand. You work with energy, gravity, magnetism, imagination, God and good spirits, and your own spirit or soul. And you work with the powers of commitment and love. When all these elements work together to create your happiness, you need to get out of the way and give up control. The novelist Paulo Coelho said, You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

      But while you’re giving up control to allow for the miracle of creativity, you're also increasing control in all the areas you want to experience happiness: family, friends, prosperity, healing, and career. That's why I like to say, Real control is no control.

      And, if you create happiness with others, as a group, you can impact the environment and society, as long as you're creating something that benefits everyone, not just a few. (You'll read how to do just that!)

      More expansive view of what's possible.

      At first, when this book asks what you want to be happy, you'll come up with things that solve immediate problems. You want your spouse to apologize for something. You want the dial on the bathroom scale to go down. You want enough money so you can live comfortably.

      As you move through the book, you'll find yourself delving deeper and deeper into what truly makes you happy in any given moment. You'll uncover important desires you've had your whole life, which you may never have been aware of. For example, I used to always lose things. Whenever I bought a new car, I'd make six or seven keys, because I knew I'd need them. While developing the steps of The Happiness Path, I realized how much I wanted to be a person whose possessions did not vanish. And sure enough, that's exactly what I'm now creating on a regular basis in many areas of my life.

      The ability to help other people.

      It's pretty hard to be happy when others in your life are not. What's the saying? No one's happy if Mama ain't happy.

      There's good

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