http://pathwaytohappiness.com/happiness Happiness through Self Awareness: Change core beliefs, control emotional reactions, and create love and happiness in your relationships Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:15:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Happiness is the emotional experience created by you expressing the emotion of love. In every moment of joy and peace in your life you were creating love and expressing it. Feeling different qualities of happiness at different times is because there are millions of variations of love that ... http://pathwaytohappiness.com/happiness/2008/04/29/secret-happiness/ There’s a lot of talk about the importance of focusing on the positive. There is certainly value in focusing your attention on the positive. However, like anything, too much of a good thing, can work against you. There are times when it is valuable to focus your attention on ... http://pathwaytohappiness.com/happiness/2008/04/18/focus-attention/ Ask Gary I would really appreciate your help with a question. I’m graduating from high school this year and trying to figure out what I should do. When reading about your background, I noticed that you have a degree in Mechanical Engineering. I have been accepted to a University for that very ... http://pathwaytohappiness.com/happiness/2008/04/16/graduation/ Consciousness There's a lot we could say about what this brain researcher realized about the mind during her stroke, and her recovery. One point is that we have many different modalities with which to perceive the world. Whether we define our self by the limit of our bodies, or ... http://pathwaytohappiness.com/happiness/2008/04/07/consciousness/ Understanding the Mind As humans we live in two worlds. There is the external physical world of work, family and friends that we travel in. Then there is the world of our mind and imagination. It is a virtual reality that can appear and feel just as real. ... http://pathwaytohappiness.com/happiness/2007/09/27/mind-affects-happiness/ Faster Personal Changes When a person engages in personal and spiritual growth practices they often begin with reading and gathering knowledge. This is a good place to start for background information. However the knowledge approach has limited potential for change. It can also be relatively slow. Real life ... http://pathwaytohappiness.com/happiness/2007/08/28/faster-personal-and-emotional-change/ We have cats. By their instinctive nature they chase things. Humans aren’t much different. Once in a while we will take out a pen sized laser pointer and put a red dot on the floor. The cats go after it. We point the laser light up and down the hallway ... http://pathwaytohappiness.com/happiness/2007/08/09/feeling-trapped-in-relationships/ How to deal with a Liar The most important aspect to master when dealing with a liar is your emotional reactions. You can’t always change the behavior of a liar, but you can change how you feel and react to them. Once you learn to change your emotions about ... http://pathwaytohappiness.com/happiness/2007/07/30/understanding-a-liar/ I don’t consider myself to be a motivational speaker. In some ways I may seem de-motivating to people. That may be because I’m not an optimist. I talk a lot about the issues of happiness and yet oddly, not an optimist. In spite of the ... http://pathwaytohappiness.com/happiness/2007/07/18/being-optimistic/ I was sharing with Lisa, my girlfriend, the observation that words have lost their meaning. By that I mean that they have lost their power. People are inundated with Words to read on the internet, blogs, books, and magazines articles, Talk from the news, friends, parents, radio, television, and their ... http://pathwaytohappiness.com/happiness/2007/06/28/what-are-you-saying/