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Shortcut To Happiness Nothing needs changing….but everything changes! THE SEARCH ENDS HERE Robert Baohm Shortcut To Happiness. Nothing needs changing but everything changes! by Robert Baohm Smashwords Edition Copyright Robert Baohm 2011 Smashwords Edition, License Notes This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. This book is dedicated to my teachers Excerpts from the book “…an open secret and it's the coolest club in town…” “You just haven't been getting the message.” “ … Heed these words because what I have just said are the most important words you will ever hear.” “It took twenty years before the message managed to seep its way into my head. I have written this guide to repackage and re-present the message in the hope that you don’t waste as much time as I did.” “It is everything you hope for and better. I'm not a writer but I have undertaken this task to tell you that finding the truth of your real Self is better than anything than your mind can offer” “You thought you wanted happiness? What you will find, if you stick with me, is beyond happiness and better than you ever thought possible. Your mind can't comprehend the depth of the peace, fullness, freedom and power that lies in your natural Self.” “All of the dead celebs that I mentioned in the introduction would have had the resources to change the balance of the good and bad and more or less and yet most of us are still using the same methods to achieve happiness. This is 'normal' and this is crazy because we keep doing the same things and expecting a different result.” “When you find your Natural Self you will find a fullness, richness and completeness better than you have ever experienced before (or at least that you can remember - the last time was probably in childhood). When you are no longer trying to get control of your universe by judging, classifying and labelling everything, your senses come alive. You move from a relatively dull and meaningless ongoing experience to an intense moment by moment aliveness. Eating even basic foods taste like there is a party in your mouth and it’s like you are using your eyes for the first time. Textures are wondrous but you have no desire to label or understand them. To just breathe is a blessing.” “Now, in your Natural State you can see and think and act clearly. In alignment with the present moment and the universe and without preconceptions distorting what you are seeing, hearing and thinking you now are capable of taking right action, providing the right response and making the right changes.” “It is OK to want change. It's OK to be ambitious and to go for things. It's OK to want money and fame and power. When you are in the Natural State though, you are under no illusion about YOU becoming more on achieving your goals. You are already complete.” “Everything else falls into place perfectly after that. Everything that is not important gently, naturally, falls away.” “Awesomely, not only is the method straight-forward, but it can be performed at any time, any place and in any state of mind and doing any action. Equally available is the answer.” Contents Personal and professional benefits Shortcut to the shortcut Introduction Have you had enough? Real Happiness and your Natural State Let me introduce myself Honestly resistant Part 1. You University The grand-daddy of all errors Natural V Normal Part 2. The Fix Getting back to your Natural State The stages from 'Normal' to Natural The normal is not going down without a fight The problem with acceptance Part 3. The Good Stuff The search ends here The answer is !ME! The Natural State is NOT Now you can create change The problem with meditation Shortcut to happiness Part 4. The wrap up The three paths to happiness Who cares how it works Love your mind Express yourself Tool changes In a Nutshell Part 5. What to do now My guarantee to you Personal and professional benefits This guide is written for the individual seeking happiness on a personal level, which should be obvious. But what is less obvious is that which can be gained on a professional level. If you aspire to work with people to the best of your ability, you need to know what really makes them tick. So, if you are: A psychologist; a politician or policy maker; an office or factory manager; in sales or advertising; in law enforcement; in human resources; in childcare; a hairdresser; in hospitality; a teacher; a business owner; a doctor or nurse; a social worker; in customer service or, just a human that likes people……. ……then come and get your hands dirty and learn about your mind. Once you have understood your mind by standing aside from it, you will have direct and practical knowledge, not just theoretical knowledge and you will understand all minds. Once you ‘get it’, you will understand what is at the basis of every human issue so you can now think clearer, prioritise better, act more decisively, be less stressed, relate better to others, deal with conflict better, sell better, be more ethical, be more connected with others, be more patient and on the list goes. No, not super-human, just properly, deeply human. And this is just a by-product of real happiness! Does it sound too good to be true? Come, put me to the test. So, what are you waiting for? Shortcut to the shortcut There are a lot of words about a very simple subject in this book. Even though real happiness is a very simple idea, it can take a while for new information to creep into a mind and different minds need different ways of presenting information. But, you know what? You may not need any of the theory! You may not need the background information now but may require some later or just not need any of it – ever. If at any stage you want to go straight to the magical chapters The search ends here and then to Shortcut to Happiness, straight to the practical help, be my guest, I won’t be offended! Just look for it back in the table of contents. So why not move the chapters The search ends here and Shortcut to Happiness up to the front? This guide has been written with beginners in mind and is designed to build understanding, step by step before revealing the ‘holy grail’ and this idea of directing you straight towards the magic comes very late in the process of writing this guide. I haven’t re-written them to make them stand-alone and so the chapters stay where they are because that’s where they belong in the narrative, as part of the bigger picture. But if you don’t need the big picture or get lost in the details just ditch it all and go for gold. The solution to finding your awesomeness could be revealed to in you just a few pages! Robert. Introduction Have you had enough? Have you had enough? And by enough I mean a real gut full? Does it sometimes seem like all of your efforts amount to nothing? Are you tired of trying and winning, trying and failing? Trying, trying, trying. Is ‘Life just one damn thing after another’? Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Or are you a winner? Talented, cashed up, sexed up, everybody wanting to be your friend? Winning, winning, winning. And still the hole is not full? Whether you're the next Amy Winehouse, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, Kurt Cobain, Whitney Houston (need I go on?) or a nobody, you've come to the right place. Whether you are 'up' or 'down', a winner or loser, rich or poor, sick or in good health and you still haven't 'cracked it' in the happiness game and you have absolutely had enough, welcome. Unless you have truly had enough, unless you are willing to challenge the popular and tightly held beliefs on what happiness is and how to get it then this guide is not going to be for you. Your deepest beliefs of who you take yourself to be are going to be confronted and sometimes it's going to hurt. Don't worry though - I'm not writing to hurt you, I'm writing to release you. If there is any pain and confusion, you can rest assured that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and all you have to do is see it through. That light is a happiness and a freedom and a fullness and a richness of life that most of us have lost in childhood, the tucked away memory of which keeps most of us going day in and day out. But wait – there's more! You don't have to actually do anything! You don't have to join a cult or club, take on a new belief system, work hard, become religious, leave your religion or even leave the house. Have you forgotten the sub-title of this book already? Nothing Needs Changing. Having said that, when you 'get it', everything changes and you still haven't lifted a finger! This guide is not on how to solve your problems, it's how to be happy in spite of your problems. Yes, you can have your cake and eat it, too! Have your problems, your life and know what it means to be really happy. Real Happiness and your Natural State What makes you happy? Most people would respond readily with something along the lines of "good times, travel, setting and reaching goals, family" etc. Now I want to ask you - Do you know who you really are (beyond my name is X and my job is Y, my hobbies are 1, 2 and 3 )? Thinking music please (and if you're honest the answer is) "Er Ah Um No." How can you really know what makes you happy if you don't know who you really are? It seems the cart had been put before the horse a bit doesn't it? Spending all our time trying to be happy without knowing who we really are under the labels and definitions we have given ourselves is to try and solve a puzzle that can't be solved. The ancient Greeks were onto this when they said “Know thy Self”. So it stands to reason that the first step to real happiness is to know who we really are. To know who you really are under the labels is to be in your 'Natural State'. And the second step There is no second step! Once you have returned to your Natural State, stick a fork in it – you're done! You were born with the happiness you seek and over the years it has been covered up. Over the years you have lost your connection to your Natural State and have been operating from what you would now consider to be your 'Normal State'. It's called 'Normal' because this is how most people operate. What is real happiness? Real happiness is not what most people think it is. It's better! When you are real-ly happy, you are not just happy in your head, you are happy in your body as well. The doubt and the noise in your head is gone and you can think clearly, you feel great in your body, your problems 'dissolve', and you understand what it means to be alive. You will find the meaning of life. I will tell you now that the meaning of life is to live but when you find real happiness, this won't just be a concept in your head, this will be a full body knowing. You no longer think about life. You just live – fully and completely and freely. When this knowing runs from the tips of your toes to the top of your head you are complete - there is nothing missing from your life and nothing needs changing. Exercise Let's try and get a handle on what real happiness and being complete actually means. Make two fists in front of your body. Let's say the right fist represents you. The left fist is somebody else or a tree or an event or an ant. Let's just say that the left fist is the rest of the world. Does this illustrate how you pretty much see the world and your place in it? Now open up your fists and interlock the fingers of both hands together. This is your Natural State. This is the youniverse as it really is. Before you felt separate from the world and even separate from yourself, now you are complete and there is no separation with-in yourself or between you and anything else. I am going to show you how your 'normal state' impedes your happiness and how to regain your birth right that is your Natural State and real happiness. [...]... tradesman-tough tool that will last you a lifetime! I will also be revealing where you can get face to face expert tuition on using this tool, dramatically reducing the time it will take to get to your goal Have the confidence to start this guide because I am giving you everything you need to see you through to the end Given that my real world machinery customers expect solid results, you can too Enough... want to share what I have found with you Given that most of my days are spent fixing machines, the explanation of how to get back to your Natural State will be in a similar mechanical manner We are going to 'crack you open' and examine the workings of your mind and I will be giving you the one simple tool for you to use to unlock the real happiness in you This is a professional quality, tradesman-tough... action will upset the way it likes to do things and then finds lots of reasons - any reason (even if seems to be an outside influence) - why taking action just isn’t possible Resistance isn’t to be confused with intuition or decisions based on sound reasoning and you don’t have to say yes to everything But when it comes to taking control of your internal world to achieve happiness and action doesn’t result,... gently keep pulling your attention back to your contemplation The Buddha said “Look with-in” and now you're doing it!!! This is all you have to do ‘Who is it?’ is the only tool you will ever need to find real happiness Let's try some more Who is that is driving / washing the dishes / adverse to vacuuming / reaching for the phone / watching TV / annoyed / going to the toilet / fixing the car / drinking... hold in your mind as to what would make you happy I'll write a few to get you started Don't just write down 'more good times' or 'a better body' or 'less problems', get specific I want you to not just do the exercises that I have laid out for you, but take some time and go into them deeply Don't hold back! Try to be as detailed as possible You will want to rationalise why not to do them fully, this... have some more work to do first! You are in and of the universe and no less complete than it is Go beyond the false that is your mind and find the fullness of life This is where real happiness can be found Natural V Normal We've established that the ‘you’ that you took yourself to be (what I have been calling the 'normal you') is not going to get you happiness The real, natural you IS happiness in its... doing to find happiness worked out for you after all you've done so far in this lifetime? If the answer is no, and you're willing to try something new then that's all you need for now Don't go and change anything just yet You are already on the path Keep following the beacon of resistance Part 2 The Fix Getting back to your Natural State When we want to know the answer to a question, we have to ask... are carrying weight around your stomach, you need not only to build those stomach muscles but to lose the fat hiding the muscles Fortunately, the spectacular ‘abs’ are already there – that is to say - the real you is already there We need to just lose the weight off of our tummy – and that weight is our identification with our minds Asking ‘Who is it?’ and being present to receive the answer is the effortless... Resistance is a beacon to move towards when it comes to happiness Leave “That’s nice but I think…” until you have finished the book Part 1 You University The grand-daddy of all errors First we should establish what our end goal is – or what we think it is What we are looking for is happiness There is essentially only one error we make in our hunt for happiness but on the surface it appears to be a number... nice but I think……” or “I’m just too busy” or how about this cracker - “I just don’t want too!’ BUT they are not insignificant and natural things The end result is always miraculously the same: failure to take action and the failure to achieve your goal – deeply fulfilling happiness The brick walls are super subtle but are never-the-less highly effective What is really stopping you from taking action . meditation Shortcut to happiness Part 4. The wrap up The three paths to happiness Who cares how it works Love your mind Express yourself Tool changes In a Nutshell Part 5. What to do now My guarantee to. And this is just a by-product of real happiness! Does it sound too good to be true? Come, put me to the test. So, what are you waiting for? Shortcut to the shortcut There are a lot of words about. any of it – ever. If at any stage you want to go straight to the magical chapters The search ends here and then to Shortcut to Happiness, straight to the practical help, be my guest, I won’t