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  • You Can Be Happy No Matter What

  • Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective
  • By: Richard Carlson
  • Narrated by: Richard Carlson
  • Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (88 ratings)

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You Can Be Happy No Matter What

By: Richard Carlson
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Summary

Most of us believe that our happiness depends on the outside world - and that by solving our problems, improving our relationships, or achieving success, we will find contentment. In You Can Be Happy No Matter What, Dr. Richard Carlson shows that happiness has nothing to do with forces beyond our control. His simple and practical guide teaches 5 principles - Thought, Moods, Separate Realities, Feelings, and the Present Moment - for discovering a new mode of living that doesn't repress natural emotions, yet where feelings and thoughts don't overwhelm us. Dr. Carlson is the best selling author of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff.
©1997 Richard Carlson (P)2012 New World Library
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Critic reviews

"...shows us...how to remove the blocks to the awareness of our natural state, happiness." (Gerald Jampolsky, Love is Letting Go of Fear)
"...[counterbalances] the therapy junkie's tendency to wallow in 'processing' while life's beauty passes them by." ( Yoga Journal)

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Good listen

Good listen a lot of seasonable and sometimes obvious views I had forgotten. I’ll take on board a few if the suggestions definitely

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a life changing book

of all the self help books I have listened to this is it ! this is the answer. incredible. very well written and straight to the point!

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one of the best books

If you can implement what this book is teaching it will change your experience of life.
It gets you to look at your relationship of what you think and how you interperate those thoughts,it is suprising how much misery we bring on ourselves with our own thoughts,this book will show you how to understand your thoughts to gain a more realistic interpretation.

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By far the best and most practical

This is short sharp relevant and practical. Best I’ve heard of this type of book.

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Good - interesting ideas

Very easy to listen to. Interesting ideas, but I felt it was a little lacking on how to actually implement what he was talking about some of the time.

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It has really helped

Listen to this brilliant book at the start of each day and feel balanced through the chaos of life as a result.

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Excellent Book !!!

Like the book very much. Narrating is also very good. I think the concepts are universallly applicable anywhere.

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Highly recommend for stress and anxiety

I have re-read this book many times. It has changed my life and stoped my endless negative thoughts. Helps me see things from a better perspective

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It changed me completely

I love this book and have listened to it so many times on repeat. There are a number of advices which I adhere to on a daily basis. For example I am more aware of my thoughts playing with my mind. I am less worried and see my life and others in a different light. I know that the author sadly died and it kind of feels that he is speaking from another world. This is an useful and straight talking audio book. I would definitely recommend this.

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It really is that simple.

I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Having lost my husband 7years ago I found happiness elusive. The recognition that we are what we think and only as happy as we choose to be, has been a game changer. To simplify it down as Dr Carlson does has helped me enormously to find inner peace and contentment (most of the time, even through the trials of internet dating and being a single parent). When I remind myself of the advice he gives I can center myself back into a contented state of mind and life is so much easier. Too simple to be true, well it works for me.

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