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July 13, 2004:
The
Hard Part About Being Happy II
Interview
with Greg Hicks author of the book,How
We Choose To Be Happy
Mike
Carruthers:
Do you think it's easy for happy people to be so happy?
Greg
Hicks :
The people that we talked to would say that happiness
is hard work, that you have to work at it everyday.
Greg Hicks
co-author of the book How
We Choose To Be Happy talked with three hundred people who
describe themselves as truly happy.
They
are so committed to living a joyful life rather than being seduced
into the negativity that is around us. That they just work hard
everyday at making sure they're experiencing as much joy as
possible.
And Greg
says it's interesting how happy people deal with the tough times.
These
people feel their feelings so if they feel sad they really let
themselves feel the sadness. That's one of the things that's
interesting about this, to be truly happy sometimes you have
to be truly sad. These people aren't always chipper, you know
that's not very realistic. So the first step is feel their feelings,
the second step is what am I learning about this that can help
my life in the future. And the third step is what are the new
opportunities available to me.
Although
being happy appears to be hard work it does have great rewards.
Like
more enhanced immune response to a vaccine, faster healing after
surgery, even longer life after being diagnosed with a terminal
illness.
You can
link to Greg's web site from our's and take a happiness quiz.
We're at somethingyoushouldknow.net,
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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