About Happiness is not Just an Emotion: The Twelve Essential Ingredients to Happiness, Well-Being and Fulfillment (How to find Happiness)
One of the most famous quotes about happiness is: “Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will elude, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.” Henry David Thoreau. This is very poetic, it sounds quite beautiful, but nothing could be farther from the truth.
This quote implies that happiness is a very transient emotion, over which we have no control, and that it comes and goes remaining only moments despite what we are doing or not doing.
This book takes an extremely different approach to happiness. It proposes that it is not just an emotion, but rather something we can actively achieve through our efforts when we know the ingredients of happiness. Based on the research of the last fifty years in Positive Psychology, we have found that happiness has many components. The more we apply these to our lives, the more joy and fulfillment we can enjoy in all circumstances. Psychologists tend to call this “well-being”. A sense of achievement, satisfaction, and joy permeates our lives despite adversity, stress, and hardship.
This book explains the twelve ingredients of happiness and joy, how each contributes to our overall well-being and bliss, and how to increase each aspect for a happy and fulfilling life.
Some ingredients that will be discussed and analyzed are: Building Meaningful Relationships. The Flavor of Purpose: Finding Direction in Life. Growing as a person: allowing yourself to flourish and enrich your life; The Sweetness of Kindness: Embracing Self-Care and Compassion. The Zest of Gratitude: The art of positivity and thankfulness. Giving to others, contributing to improving the world, and finding The Spiritual Essence of Life. These and other ingredients assure us of a life of higher purpose and continual joy.
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Author Bio:
Welcome to the happiness expert.
Trafford R. Cole was born in Germany to an American military family and then spent his childhood and adolescence in various localities in the States. He attended Brigham Young University on a scholarship for two years and then went to Italy for two years as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Fascinated by the Italian culture he returned to Italy, pursued his studies in clinical psychology, and met and married his wife Fernanda.
After five years of studies and a dissertation, he received his degree as a Doctor of Psychology at the University of Padua, one of the oldest universities in the world. He interned at a local family counseling center as he continued his studies in Relationship and Sex therapy. Once he received his advanced degree he opened his private practice and worked mostly with victims of childhood sexual abuse and trauma.
His career took a new direction when he was selected to teach psychology courses for the University of Maryland for the US military and their dependents in bases throughout Italy. He enjoyed immensely teaching the soldiers and their family members and continued this career for 25 years. He also worked for the Army Family Advocacy program for a few years, teaching the military and their families parenting, stress management, and a myriad of other courses.
He became interested in Italian history and genealogy through Fernanda’s family research and he began helping others to find their Italian roots. As a result, he published his first book on Italian Genealogical Records in 1995. This was followed by two books: one on relationships -Becoming Celestial Soulmates and one on Achieving Success the Lord’s Way.
Now that he has retired he is dedicating his time to writing books on happiness and how to obtain it, starting with Happiness Begins Today, and now his new book You Deserve to Be Happy; how to stop sabotaging your own success and happiness and
find the joy of living.
There is now a new book out for all of you entitled Flourishing, Transforming your life from stagnation and depression to find creativity and joy
This a book for everyone that let’s you find the way to a life of joy and fulfillment.
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