Being happy 95 percent of the time

From Mary Jane Popp at KAHI Radio in Sacramento, California

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Can you be happy all the time? How about 95% of the time? Sounds like a plan to me, and it did for Dr. Doyle Staples.

He has been changing lives for more than 30 years. His journey into self-discovery began as a young adult when he suffered from stress, anxiety, and depression. So he went in search of finding ways to overcome negativity.

He went on to become an Air Force Officer, a career diplomat, a corporate executive, a college professor, and a respected author with books like “Think Like A Winner” and “May the Healing Begin.”

Now comes “Be Happy 95% of the Time” with three simple ways to overcome depression and feel content almost all the time. It explains how our attachment to our ego can only create dysfunction and suffering in our lives, resulting in fear, guilt, regret, depression, and/or despair.

He contends we need to awaken to a new consciousness and experience a new beginning. According to Staples, each stage in our development corresponds to an equivalent stage in the level of our consciousness or awareness. This expands as we discover new truths and experience new things.

Our education is a mixture of inputs from our upbringing and environments from parents to teachers to books, the internet, TV, movies, and travel. We’re all on a grand journey. It’s like going through several phases of our own reality show. “Happy 95% of the Time” describes in detail the three primary ways to overcome low self-esteem, stress, anxiety, and depression.

1) COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (CBT). This is an example of Western, left-brain analytical thinking.
2) PRACTICAL SPIRITUALITY. This is an example of Eastern, right-brain mystical thinking.
3) MINDFULNESS MEDITATION. This is an inner-body, contemplative approach designed to manage our internal thought processes in order to calm the mind.

He had some thought-provoking ways to think about life. “We have to know imperfection before we can know perfection. We have to be hurt before we can heal. We have to be broken before we can know bliss. It’s a journey many of us are forced to take.” Staples gave me some powerful strategies to overcome depression and despair.

1) SELF-TALK/AFFIRMATIONS…I’M WORTHY AND I CAN.
2) VISUALIZATION/POSITIVE IMAGING.
3) QUIET CONTEMPLATION (SPENDING TIME IN NATURE)
4) REGULAR SLEEP HABITS
5) DAILY EXERCISE (BRICK WALKING/RUNNING/PADDLING ETC
6) DIET AND NUTRITION (NATURAL AND HOME COOKED.
7) LEARN (APPLY CRITICAL THINKING
8) PRACTICE REGULAR MINDFUL MEDITATION.
9) UNDERSTAND/DEVELOP/RESPECT YOUR SPIRITUALITY (E.G. BEING AT ONE WITH NATURE)
10) DEVELOP A PERSONAL INTEREST/HOBBY/ACTIVITY
11) ENGAGE IN OUTDOOR RECREATION (E.G. HUNTING/FISHING)
12) READ ARTICLES, BOOKS, AND PEROSNAL ANECDOTES ABOUT DESPAIR/DEPRESSION, ITS CAUSES AND HOW TO MANAGE AND OVERCOME IT.

It’s a beginning with 12 drug-free, self-administered ways to stop depression and find happiness. The goal is to help manage and control your thoughts, mood, and feelings. Here are a couple of the 50 memorable quotations from “HAPPY 95% OF THE TIME.”

“It is always your mind, and only your mind, that gets you into trouble; it follows that only your mind can get you out of it.” And this one is my favorite. “Most people believe that the next moment is more important, and will be more interesting than the present moment, the moment at hand. This, it could be argued, is the greatest curse of humankind.”

I’ll finish with my own thought.

Enjoy today. It’s the best present you can give yourself!

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