Be Happy!: Release the Power of Happiness in YOU [Paperback]

Robert Holden (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 15, 2010

“Happiness is a spiritual path. The more you learn about true happiness, the more you discover the truth of who you are, what is important, and what your life is for.”

 

Be Happy! is the follow-up to Robert Holden’s best-selling Happiness NOW! In this book, Robert gives you a front-row seat on his 8-week happiness program—famously tested by independent scientists for the BBC-TV documentary called How to Be Happy. Step-by-step he introduces you to a set of proven techniques, principles, meditations, and insights that will help you be happy now!  Key lessons include:

Follow Your Joy — stop chasing happiness and start enjoying your life as it happens.

The Happiness Contract — undo mental and emotional blocks to happiness and success.

The Receiving Meditation — increase your natural capacity for happiness and abundance.

The Forgiveness Practice — give up all hopes for a better past and be happy now.

The Gift of Happiness — use the power of happiness to bless your life and benefit others. 

 

“This happiness training not only changes the way you feel; it actually changes the way your brain functions.”

— Professor Davidson, Wisconsin-Madison University

BBC’s How to Be Happy TV documentary

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Robert Holden, Ph.D., 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.

Robert is a consultant and coach to leading brands and organizations such as Dove, Virgin, The Body Shop, and Comic Relief. He gives public lectures worldwide and has shared the stage with Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Patch Adams, and Paul McKenna. He is the author of the best sellers Happiness NOW!, Success Intelligence, and Shift Happens!

Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Hay House; 1 edition (April 15, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401921817
• ISBN-13: 978-1401921811
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #342,721 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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 best-selling books Happiness Now!, Success Intelligence, Be Happy and Shift Happens!

Robert runs a public program of courses in the UK and the USA, as well as featuring in a host of online, TV and radio programs. He currently runs courses on Happiness and Success both for the public and in corporations.

Robert Holden's websites: www.robertholden.org, www.behappy.net and www.successintelligence.com. Please click on the Events Diaries for Robert's courses and future public engagements.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a 'Must Have' for everyone!, April 2, 2009

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Book Lover "Florence 2706" (London, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Be Happy!: Release the Power of Happiness in YOU (Hardcover)

I read this book cover to cover on a long transatlantic flight and could not put it down. After every chapter I felt my life had shifted and transformed and I could not believe there was still more to come with the rest of the book! With every chapter I learned new insights which led me to feel transformed and as if my life would now be lived from a whole new perspective.

With warmth, humour and wisdom, Robert takes us through is 8-week happiness program (which I have done by the way and it is amazing!) and this book has truly changed my life, as has the 8-week course, which I did in person.

This is an essential book for everyone who is interested in being happy (and I have never met anyone who isn't ?!)

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great gift to everyone, July 23, 2009

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C. Talbot (Grantham UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Be Happy!: Release the Power of Happiness in YOU (Hardcover)

This book is written with such great generosity. Robert shares his Happiness 8-week course with the world and brings it alive with great passion and astonishing depth yet keeping it joyfully alive with great warmth and humour.
This read searches into every single area of our lives - and then goes that little bit further. Its holistic, spiritual, joyful, open and as said, so very, very generous. A totally fascinating enquiry into our own individual thinking around the whole concept of happiness and where it is and isn't in our lives - and, as the great Louise Hay says in her forward to the book, 'do yourself a favour and do all the exercises'.
I have had the great privilege of actually being on this course and it has completely shifted my life for the better and given me timeless reminders and a deeper sense of staying open to all possibilites.
This book will serve as a constant reminder of TRUE happiness.
Give yourself a gift and enjoy this book.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't be fooled..., June 16, 2009

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Ben F. Eiseman "ben" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Be Happy!: Release the Power of Happiness in YOU (Hardcover)

If you think "Be Happy" is light and fluffy pop-psyche, guess again. Dr. Holden is brilliant and this book is incredibly thorough, delving deeply into our psychology and spirituality- there is so much covered in this book. I'm very grateful for Dr. Holden's wonderful contributions to our world.