Ch1:Happiness & Self-Actualization

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From You Can Choose To Be Happy, Tom G. Stevens PhD
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CHAPTER 1:

OUR SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS
AND
SELF-ACTUALIZATION

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Contents Where to start our quest for happiness Characteristics of happy, psychologically healthy people Your "top goal" in life as a major cause of happiness or unhappiness Is choosing happiness as a top goal too selfish? (Re)defining "success," "personal power," and "Happiness IQ" The "Choose to be Happy" self-development plan \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Chapter Epilogue: Happiness is a measure
of the overall health, growth, and harmony of the entire body and mind.
Happiness also reflects
our perception of the harmony and functioning of the external world.
The biological happiness mechanism has
safeguards against lack of concern about other people
and lack of concern about the future.
To make happiness our ultimate concern in life
is to align our conscious ultimate concern
with the most basic human motives and universal forces.
If we all seek happiness for self and others,
humankind can evolve into a highly integrated organism
that will maximize the happiness for all. Return to beginning Go to next chapter--Chapter 2

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