In "Secrets of Spiritual Happiness," Sharon Janis demystifies the secrets of spiritual happiness in an entertaining, accessible and down to earth style. She describes the barriers to happiness and offers practical tips to help readers respond to life situations in ways that will bring greater harmony and happiness. Readers will learn how to feel complete even while grieving the loss of something or someone of great value. Spiritual happiness transforms your fear into faith, and your anger into compassion and blessings.
Sharon Janis combines spiritual teachings of many traditions with examples from current world events, along with humorous and touching stories from her own colorful journey to explain the keys to happiness and to offer simple tips to help readers respond positively to life situations. Janis's sound advice makes Secrets of Spiritual Happiness a refreshing, realistic tool for achieving joy and fulfillment in everyday life.
Sharon Janis is an award-winning filmmaker, speaker, singer, photographer, graphic artist, and author of Spirituality For Dummies and other books. Sharon Janis brings together the depths of her decade of monastic life with the entertainment value of years as a Hollywood producer to offer writings that educate and uplift readers in a friendly, easy, personal, and down-to-earth style.
"With spiritual happiness, you are not waiting to be rich before you can be happy, or to find the right person to be happy, or to have more friends to be happy. You don't need to look different to be spiritually happy; nor do you have to heal all your flaws to be spiritually happy. With spiritual happiness, you can look at the world with realistic eyes -- seeing, experiencing, and responding to all the muddled mess that life can sometimes seem to be. Yet, in the depths of your being, you'll know a peacefulness and contentment that never fades, even while the world may be crashing down around you."
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"With spiritual happiness, you are not waiting to be rich before you can be happy, or to find the right person to be happy, or to have more friends to be happy. You don't need to look different to be spiritually happy; nor do you have to heal all your flaws to be spiritually happy. With spiritual happiness, you can look at the world with realistic eyes -- seeing, experiencing, and responding to all the muddled mess that life can sometimes seem to be. Yet, in the depths of your being, you'll know a peacefulness and contentment that never fades, even while the world may be crashing down around you."
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From the Inside Flap
Yes, spiritual happiness is right inside of you.
Yes, happiness is your choice.
Yes, you deserve to be happy
Yes, there are secrets to finding spiritual happiness.
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Sharon Kumuda Janis is an award-winning filmmaker, musician, speaker, and author of books including Secrets of Spiritual Happiness and Spirituality For Dummies.
While living a simple life of creative solitude along coastal California's Cardiff by the Sea for the past twelve years after many years of monastic life and then Hollywood filmmaking, Janis has steadily built and expanded, page by page and file by file, the Night Lotus Website of free multimedia spiritual resources (http://www.nightlotus.com) offers thousands of files of books, videos, music, photos, and more, all available for free in a noncommercial setting, without pop-ups, email harvesting, or google ads. The Night Lotus website draws hundreds of guests from around the world every day, and has been awarded "Cool Site of the Day."
Janis was introduced to the ideas of consciousness by her two psychology teacher parents at an early age, taking a three-month course in hypnosis at age seven and lecturing in her mother's class on dream symbolism at age nine. While studying neuroscience and film at the University of Michigan, she went to the local Ann Arbor ashram as part of a university field trip, experienced a spiritual awakening, and planned a two-month stay at the ashram of Baba Muktananda. Two months turned into a ten-year journey of monastic life, study, practice, service, and deep spiritual immersion, while scripting and editing hundreds of videos for the worldwide spiritual path of Siddha Yoga Meditation.
From the ashram, Sharon moved to Hollywood for an award-winning career as film editor, director, and producer, working on many news feature shows and television programs including Hard Copy, The Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, and X-MEN. These mainstream avenues honed Sharon's creative skills and brought her in touch with speaking to mainstream audiences.
The combination of monastic life and Hollywood creativity paved the way for Sharon to share her offerings with the worldwide community in a vibrant, down-to-earth style. She soon launched a new career as a professional spirituality speaker, author, and documentary filmmaker. Today, Janis lives in Cardiff by the Sea, California, as a spirituality speaker, author, and documentary filmmaker, sharing a universal view of spirituality with humor and insight.
Fun Facts from Sharon's Eclectic Journey
* Sharon Janis was born Jewish, brought up atheist, and then spent a decade living in an Indian Ashram. She now follows a universal spirituality that includes all faiths, and spent several years going to a different denominational service every week.
* Sharon's parents were both psychology teachers - she took a 3-month course in hypnosis at age seven, was reading books by Freud and other psychologists at age nine, and wrote a paper contrasting Freud's structural and topological theories at age twelve.
* Sharon double-majored in neuroscience and film/video at the University of Michigan, where she began using the self-hypnosis techniques she'd learned during childhood to do what she called "Exploring the Unconscious," and was known to do a bit of faith healing in her college dorm.
* The ashram where Sharon lived, studied, practiced, and served for ten years is the same ashram path described in the "pray" section of Elizabeth Gilbert's bestselling book, Eat, Pray, Love.
* After ten years of monastic ashram life, Sharon moved to Hollywood, where she edited and produced many popular television shows and movies, including X-Men, the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Candid Camera, Hard Copy, and many news and news feature programs, winning local, national, and international awards for her work.
* Sharon offers a popular and extensive website with hundreds of pages of free multimedia spiritual resources - videos, music, writings, photos, and more - often on a shoestring budget (generally living under the poverty line), believing that spiritual teachings and blessings should be offered as freely as possible and that the universe provides the daily bread, even if it's not always as fancy a bread as we might like to enjoy.
* Sharon produced a powerful documentary about the American sage Peace Pilgrim for the Friends of Peace Pilgrim foundation, and found great inspiration in Peace's story about living a simple life that is in harmony with your life's mission.
Sharon has been a frequent lecturer at the Golden Door Spa, where copies of Spirituality For Dummies are in every guest room, with the owner's apology for the title and personal endorsement of the book's value.Sharon also offers sacred music concerts with songs and chants from various spiritual traditions (view video clips from Sharon's talks and sacred music concerts at: http://www.spiritualityspeaker.com)
I highly recommend this book if you are interested in spiritual growth. If you liked Wayne Dyer's book "The Power of Intention"
then you will love Secrets of Spiritual Happiness. This book is full of practical wisdom to advance your life experience. Sharon Janis comes off as a true spiritual guide. You can open this book at any place and find words of wisdom. For me that is the true measure of a great book.
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I have two of her books and consider them as near textbooks on the teachers and teachings of those who have made spirit quests and those who are embarking upon their own. She's totally non-judgemental and presents everything in a reverential & understandable way, that's not over-the-top. This one lets us join her as she is questioning everything and not at ease with her answers, thusfar; but, not agnostic, just wanting "truth"..and willing to go all out to find her own truth. She's been involved in Hollywood productions and I'n surprised that she's not made her own movie. I suspect she's not past the first few chapters, in living her life's story out, yet. This might be considered the "introduction" to it.
Next, get her wonderful "textbook"..Spirituality for Dummies. If you're at all "into" this sort of spiritual examination, it's essential.
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