Techniques to Finding Happiness 44

by Burt Goldman

Hi friends. I thought it would be nice to share with you some­thing I received in my email inbox not too long ago from Ger­ald O’Donnell.

These are three things you should start doing every sin­gle day to increase your level of hap­pi­ness NOW.

These three exer­cises are intended to be done at home on a daily and ongo­ing basis. They will open up a new level of aware­ness and pre­pare you for advanced per­sonal and spir­i­tual devel­op­ment.

Exer­cise 1: A New Way of Being

This first exer­cise is a plea­sur­able and pow­er­ful life-changing tool. The effects of daily stress asso­ci­ated with mate­ri­al­is­tic obses­sion (and its by-products: anx­i­ety, iso­la­tion, frus­tra­tion, fear, anger and depres­sion) can be dis­solved by this tech­nique. It is at the same time sim­ple and very pro­found. It increases greatly the vibra­tory rate of your non-physical Higher Self. Its premise is “smile at the world and the world will smile back at you.”

As you go about your daily activ­i­ties, from the moment you get up in the morn­ing up to the the time that you go back to sleep, con­stantly imag­ine that you are smil­ing inwardly at your outer real­ity as you go about your daily activ­i­ties. Imag­ine that you are smil­ing from the deeper recesses of your mind, orig­i­nat­ing from within your heart area, and that you are pro­ject­ing that hap­pi­ness and smile out­ward through your eyes and expres­sion. No mat­ter what the cir­cum­stances are. You will find increas­ingly that your eyes will be smil­ing and so will your mouth, that will often curl up to a slight smile.

At the same time imag­ine that your heart con­stantly expresses a great inward smile filled with pure joy of being alive, no mat­ter what.

After 2 weeks or so, you will notice an incred­i­ble amount of changes, not only in the way you inter­act with the ‘out­side’ world, but also in how the ‘world’ acts and projects real­ity toward you. Your fears will begin to abate and an inner feel­ing of peace and love will emerge. Notice how peo­ple seek your pres­ence and ‘Inner Love.’


Exer­cise 2: The Witness

Set aside 5 min­utes at first (keep increas­ing by 2–3 min­utes every other day until you reach 20 min­utes) and close your eyes. Turn your atten­tion inward and, from being a ‘think­ing’ human being, start view­ing your thoughts as an inde­pen­dent observer in a detached remote man­ner, as if your thoughts were ‘things’ or a spec­ta­cle to watch. Watch the train of your thoughts and images, the suc­ces­sion of often unre­lated thoughts that appear to you. Don’t ana­lyze any­thing.

Learn to switch from the per­cep­tion of being ‘in’ your thoughts to with­draw­ing from them and becom­ing the detached totally pas­sive observer of them. Get the feel­ing for the men­tal shift that occurs when doing so. Go within the thoughts and then with­draw to a more detached level. After a while of repeat­ing this exer­cise you will notice that your thoughts become more iso­lated and that your inner mind starts tak­ing a break.

Now, here is the next part of the exer­cise. As you watch your train of thought (images or just con­cepts), pick up one par­tic­u­lar thought that you find inter­est­ing and “plunge into it” with full con­cen­tra­tion. Remain focused on that thought to the exclu­sion of oth­ers for as long as pos­si­ble. If other thoughts inter­fere, do not push them away, but watch them pass by as if they were for­eign ‘things’ in your con­scious­ness. At first you might only be able to do this for maybe 1 minute or less. Slowly increase it up to 7 minutes.

The last part of the exer­cise con­sists of blank­ing your thoughts out. This is done by decid­ing to con­cen­trate on per­cep­tu­ally dark noth­ing­ness. If a thought comes in, imag­ine throw­ing white light on it. Imag­ine that the light dis­solves that thought and that the screen then goes back to noth­ing­ness. Try to main­tain that state up to 5 min­utes. Start with 1–2 minutes.


Exer­cise 3: The Movies

This exer­cise is the “going in and out of movies” exer­cise. All you need to do is to choose a good sus­pense­ful motion pic­ture and go watch it, prefer­ably on a big screen. Try it also with hilar­i­ous comedies.

First, allow your­self to get immersed in the cap­ti­vat­ing story. As you for­get about your iden­tity and start becom­ing ‘within’ the plot of the scene, sud­denly with­draw your aware­ness from the big screen (you may for the first time want to look a bit around you in the dark in order to remem­ber ‘who you are’) and become the observer of real­ity again. Slowly recon­nect to the plot, but this time, allow your­self to remain with the aware­ness of being your­self watch­ing, as a spec­ta­tor (observer), the real­ity pro­jected in the movie. Keep this dual aware­ness for a moment and then let go and plunge within the movie action, for­get­ting your real inner self again. And then repeat the exer­cise over and over.

Keep on doing this men­tal with­drawal and then plung­ing in again, until you get to know inti­mately the feel­ing of with­draw­ing from ‘real­ity’ (aware of inner self) and div­ing back in it (aware of outer real­ity). Easy isn’t it? This sim­ple exer­cise is very powerful.

As you get the knack of it try the same sys­tem as you go about your daily life. Use the same “men­tal trick” when engaged in your daily activ­i­ties, espe­cially the very ones that cap­ti­vate you and are often asso­ci­ated with fear and stress. Soon, you will become aware at all times of being the ‘observer’ (inner self) observ­ing the observed (real­ity and outer self) and become quite detached about it, enjoy­ing your ‘movie’ in a much more relaxed and calm atmosphere.

Hope you enjoyed these exer­cises. Try them out, and let me know your feedback.

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44 Comments on “Techniques to Finding Happiness” - Post your own?

Rose says

Hi! Burt

Many times I had gone into my thoughts before and got scared and opened my eyes. But, now that you are telling me that it’s ok to do this, I’m going to try it. I want to be able to med­i­tate, at least for one min. I’ve always been scared of the unknown. I always smile at peo­ple no mat­ter where I’m at. Some peo­ple look at me very puz­zled and don’t smile back. But, I always say to myself that it’s ok! as long as I smiled, I also look up into the sky and smile and say to myself what a beau­ti­ful sky. I also, smile at myself because I feel good no mat­ter if I’m hav­ing a bad day.

Thanks
May you live for a very long time, so you can keep on lead­ing us and mak­ing us feel good about ourselves.

Carol says

Thank you very much for the tips in find­ing hap­pi­ness. I will give this a try it sure can’t hurt.

josi geloso says

BURT.….OMG.…..THIS MORNING IN MY PRAYERS I WAS PRAYING ON THE SUBJECT OF “WORRY”..SINCE I,VE BEEN GOING THRU HORRIFIC PANIC AN ANXIETY ATTACKS…AN WHEN IEXAMINE THE REASON FOR THIS BIG BALL OF NERVES IN MY STOMACH AS “WORRY”..HERE YOU SEND ME “DON’T WORRY BE HAPPY”…THE CREATOR IS SO KIND TO HAVE YOU COME WITH YOUR NOT WORRY TEQ.!!!! I WAS SO GRATEFUL FOR THIS INFORMATION..THANKS SO MUCH /SMILEYFACE.…JOSI***

Michael says

I am just too overwhelming,y excited by this gait, Mr. Burt,his mwon­der­ful tech­niques. He will save mil­lions of peo­ple in this world. Mr. Burt, I love you dearly!

Diane says

Thank you Burt for all the won­der­ful teach­ings! I defi­nately see a big dif­fer­ence in my world. Thank you for believ­ing in me. I see, feel and know my life is chang­ing for the bet­ter! May God Bless yoy always, Diane

Maritza Beltre says

great! thank you

Petrina says

I greatly enjoy all of the exer­cises and appre­ci­ate you shar­ing them with me. It is nice to have oth­ers on this jour­ney. Thank you!!!

Anjali says

Great exer­cises! Thank you

maureen says

Thankyou for shar­ing these med­i­ta­tions they are so incred­i­bly powerful.You are a won­der­ful guide and teacher to those who seek enlight­en­ment. Many Bless­ing be upon you.

k.n.g Babujee says

Dear Burt,

Thank u for great advice i’ll try it in my life.

Kind Regards

Best regards,
k.n.g Babujee

one says

Hi Burt,

Its won­der­ful.

Its easy to practice.

It is giv­ing results.

Whats more you have shared it free.

Thank you very much.

May you get all that you ever desire.

Love for me Love for All
OneManyAllOne

Bishnu says

Thank you Burt for your prac­ti­cal guid­ance. You are a won­der­ful human being. God bless you!

Bishnu Hamal

sune says

Dear Burt…
This is extra­or­di­nar­ily GREAT!!
Smil­ing at outer self and world brings joy con­tin­u­ously..
Watch­ing the Self and outer world includ­ing all..brings joy!
“Amer­i­can Funny Videos” pro­gram never ceased to make me laugh and when I saw in a arti­cle that actu­ally we are laugh­ing at outer-self and the feel funny about it..I felt why we are smil­ing or laugh­ing non-stopping sometimes..

These prac­tices you men­tioned are so GREAT..Thank you Burt!!
God bless you!!

Fadzilah says

Great exer­cise, Burt! I have tried ex.1 and will try the other two exer­cises, they seem to be good.

sooz says

Dear Burt,

Thank you for this exer­cise. I will put it into prac­tice and see what hap­pens. I’m sure view­ing myself from the out­side will be interesting.

sooz

Romeo says

I love to sing & I have a good voice but every time I sing in front of a crowd I start cough­ing and I some­times run from the stage and vomit. I also cough a lot & my doc­tor told me it’s old age. I tried the quam­tum jump with the inten­tion of get­ting rid of this cough­ing, in the alpha stage I remem­bered an inci­dent 40 years ago when I was in the army. Because of my good voice I was ordered to sing in front of the troop of 10,000 and the staff includ­ing a cou­ple of gen­er­als and I sung off key and I was so embar­rassed that I never sung infront of a crowd again. When I got out of Alpha I noticed that the cough­ing was gone and I have not cough for two whole week now. This sat­ur­day I am going to a Kareoke party, I hope that I will be able to sing this time.

james says

Thanks for the expe­ri­ence it is help­ing me to view life diffrently and see that I dont realy have prob­lems that I cant solve.
Thanks for the mind­box it is a slow process but I know I will get there soon.

Zaenia Jensen says

Hi Burt

I met mr. Ger­ald O´Donnell shortly before I “run” into you on the net. You two com­bined has been the biggest quan­tum leep in my skills and my life.
Thank you for that :-) ).
I found it “funny” now that you and mr. O´Donnell has begun to cor­re­spon­date.
Nameste Zae­nia / Denmark

Md. Tariq Iqbal says

Hello Burt, Hope you are very well after cel­e­brat­ing of Chrismas.You almost well done for many of life mak­ers in this world.Here I want to say about real facts thats why I am not able to start right now.

I have no USD Credit card.
) No per­sonal Com­puter
3) Its my offi­cial computer

So thats why I am not not start­ing at once?Whats my wrong.
Great desire or inten­tion but not ability.How & when can I start with you you just tell me.To find out this answer in deep medition.I know You have aquired some spe­cial power,spiritual gift.But one has great desire or inten­tion but no power(Money or credit card.Just you tell me how & when start with you with all resources.Thanks

nedhal says

Dear Burt,

Thank u for great advice i’ll try it in my life.

Kind Regards

Best regards,
Nidhal

Fatima says

Thank you so much for the won­der­ful exer­cises and tech­niques. Will try these. I par­tic­u­larly liked the smil­ing exer­cise — thats not dif­fi­cult to do!!

Thank you again for all your won­der­ful emails.

Kerry says

The quan­tum jump­ing course I just recieved and expe­ri­enced was too much too fast for me to take in with­out some of these smaller steps, so I am glad you are allow­ing me to back up a bit. I will try these steps before I go back to quan­tum. Thanks.

Ruth says

I will try this exercise.

Thank you:)

Issy says

Thankyou Burt, for your great infor­ma­tive web­site and advice.
Best Wishes,
Issy.

Linda says

Very Interesting.…Especially like the 3rd one … Thanks for shar­ing these ideas… will be try­ing them out also …

Linda

one says

Hi Burt,

Thank you very much.

Its very simple.

Easy to follow.

The Movie tech­nque is very prac­ti­cal and immensely beneficial.

May GOD bless you all that you desire. Have a won­der­ful life.

Love for me Love for All
OneManyAllOne

Joe says

Really cool burt. Thanks for every­thing. check out my video’s when you get a chance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h54Wsh63SPQ

Jordi says

Dear Burt,

I had been try­ing the exer­cises from time to time not even know­ing what they were just fol­low­ing my inner voice and YES they work! but it is so nice to see that I was tap­ping into some­thing for real some­thing that you and many oth­ers have already mas­ter may God bless you for shar­ing what has been given to you. May you con­tinue grow­ing and sharing.

God bless!!
Your friend always!
Jordi

Cathy says

Hey,

Yes I will try this out & many thank’s for you awe­some advice Burt.

Kind Regards
Cathy.

Ayca says

Thanks so much Burt
I’ll try and let you know:)

Chandni Aathmika says

Thank you. They were great tech­niques. I will do that in my med­i­ta­tions.
Chandni

Raine says

Thanks Burt

Pankaja says

It was an orig­i­nal & my first ever comment.Thanks for the Hap­pi­ness exercises.I feel it will lead to a great med­i­ta­tion as we prac­tice it daily.I intend to keep it up.Love,PANKAJA

Pankaja says

Thanks for the Hap­pi­ness exer­cises. I“m sure it’ll even­tu­ally lead to a great meditation.Love,PANKAJA

Mark wm. Gagnier says

Thanks Burt.
I just fin­ished my morn­ing med­i­ta­tion.
I opened your mail,and your let­ter described my expe­ri­ence.
Very nice! Thanks Burt I am great­ful for all the help
that you pro­vide us. Keep it up, “please”.THANK YOU.
until we meet again.
Mark

Vincent Golingham says

Dear Brut,
Thank you very much for the won­der­ful mind exercises.

It would be won­der­ful and help a lot to a per­son like me, if you can give a tech­niques how to attract money or improve a finan­cial conditions.

May the Bless­ing of God be always with you

BorisD says

Thank you soooo much for shar­ing, Burt. These exer­cises sure sound inspiring.

Greet­ings from one of you stu­dents,
Laredo, 1994.

Arun says

Will def­i­nitely try & let u know my feel­ings.
ThanX

anithakiron says

I thank you for your won­der­ful advice

Alba says

Dear Burt, Thank you so much for the pow­er­ful exer­cises just received in my email box this morn­ing. I shall enjoy using these fab­u­lous tech­niques. Best Wishes, Alba

ambreen says

Dear Ger­ald

Hi,This is ambreen here, I just wanted to say thankyou for shar­ing your exer­cises with us and most of all free of cost! THANK YOU VERY MUCH I will def­i­nitely try them.

Ambreen

r.panneer selvam says

Really very nice I will spe­cially try this to get a bal­ance of ming and feel­ings
Thank you for your Interest

R.Panneer Sel­vam

Fernando Romero says

Burt : Some things you men­tion here are hap­pen­ing already :
“smile at the world and the world will smile back at you.”
imag­ine that your heart con­stantly expresses a great inward smile filled with pure joy of being alive, no mat­ter what.
not only in the way you inter­act with the ‘out­side’ world, but also in how the ‘world’ acts and projects real­ity toward you.
Don’t ana­lyze any­thing.
Go within the thoughts and then with­draw to a more detached level.
being the ‘observer’ (inner self) observ­ing the observed (real­ity and outer self)
SELF REMEMBRANCE comes through
the HOLY SPIRIT !!!

S H A L O M !!!
Fernando !

Genevieve Jolicoeur says

Thank you so much for these won­der­ful tips. i will cer­tainly try these exer­cises on a daily basis from now on. I actu­ally, “coin­ci­dently”… was doing the smil­ing thing all day today, and it is true that it works nicely…
Thank you for all your cor­re­spon­dence. I always enjoy all of your mes­sages and I am very found of your med­i­ta­tions. I also enjoyed your web sem­i­nar a few weeks ago. I don’t have the money just right now to get fur­ther into what you are offer­ing, how­ever I feel for­tu­nate to receive your guid­ance when­ever it comes my way. You are an inspi­ra­tion and a bless­ing.
God bless you.

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