Happiness Within

Happiness Within By Rosemary Mannners

9 Steps to Health and Happiness for Busy Mums

Have you ever wondered why you continually make poor health decisions. Imagine making good decisions easily and effortlessly. If you like this feeling this may be the book for you.

Author Rosemary Manners says “I've written this book for the busy mum to firstly help her to choose health as a value and then to go on to achieve her health goals. It is written for the busy mum because she is the centre of society when it comes to sound heath decisions. She is a role model, teaching and feeding the children. She is supporting the working man. The busy mum has a network of friends to spread the word to. If she understands the importance of happiness and health She is in just the right position to help the rest of the community.”

Just to get you hooked here is the opening of the first chapter;

The beginning is about identifying the problem. To find health and happiness it is your first step to find out why you don't have it now. What are the obstacles that are stopping you from choosing health?

I remember as a child waiting and waiting. When I was growing up, there wasn’t a great deal of money, but whenever our birthday came around, we kids were allowed to choose a very, very special treat.

One year I chose Luna Park, Oh. It was good to anticipate … marking the days off on the calendar, and after the last cross we’d be there. The big day arrived; I remember running to my favourite ride.

Do you know what it was? I can see it now. It may be your favourite ride too clink, clink, clink, whoosh the big dipper. And it was so, so big.

Everybody knows you need to wait in the queue. I know you can imagine waiting, and slowly, as your turns gets closer and closer, little butterflies appear in your stomach. And they grow until you’re at the front of the queue, listening — clink, clink, clink, whoosh. Your breathing quickens and then it’s your turn.

Into the dipper car you pop — front or back? I chose the back. Would you? And off we go, around the corner, then we start going up, up. We hear the clink, clink, clink, whoosh of the wheels as they turn, pulling us higher and higher and higher. What a wonderful feeling.

Have you ever been so high up that you’ve felt on top of the world?

At one time or another, you may have been skiing. I reconnect with this feeling when I think about one day when I arrived at the Remarkable s in New Zealand. Awe-inspiring mountains towered over three small lifts. So what do you do? As you look up at the mountains, you see a few skiers walking up this one steep mountain slope with skis on their backs. Imagine that.

So what next? Catch the lift to its highest point then take your skis off and head up the hill. Start trudging up a very steep path with those heavy snow boots. And as the skis weigh down on your shoulder, you notice your breathing becoming quick and shallow in the thin air. Up and up and up; mountains all around; one boot after another. Up and up towards the top.

As you get closer to the top, you notice this exhilaration, a feeling of excitement forming in the base of your stomach. Am I going to ski down fast or slow? Will it be safe or dangerous? Will it take one minute or two? And will I begin now or later? Do I feel prepared to do this? The majestic mountains, that feeling of anticipation is big now with the excitement building and building as I get higher and higher.

Another high place I remember being in was in South America; my feet love to travel. I was high up in a mountain village where no English was spoken. You can imagine it. My Spanish is limited, but that did not stop the locals from approaching me for a chat. At a bus station, a man sat down next to me with all his heavy bundles, ready for market day. He was all dressed up in his colourful finery, and he was talking and talking and talking. I was looking into the old man’s eyes, listening to the words as he was talking and talking. Have you ever listened to another language being spoken when you are unable to catch the words?

As I looked into his eyes I noticed little things at first. And I looked again. Have you felt that? I imagine you have. Something more than talking, talking, talking…

So many different people come into my shops each day. One day, a guy I knew quite well — his name was Brian — drifted in the door on cloud nine, floating.

He got to the front door, and from the counter I could tell, as I know you could have, that something big had happened in his life — some event so big that he’d walked down from his house to tell me. He wasn’t hurrying — would you have? He was floating slowly, one leg after another. What was he going to tell me?

As I looked carefully, I noticed his breathing was short and sharp, as if there was something inside waiting to be uncloaked. His eyes were bright, with just a little moisture inside. His lips appeared to be full of blood as if it was really juicy. Can you picture this? The colour and the shine on his face. What was it? His face was flushed pink and shiny, like an angel glowing and floating in the night. What was I going to hear about sooner or later? Could I be imagining this? Was it something that I’d like or not? How was his life changing? How was this man floating?

Another of my customers is 103 years old. I wonder how the world appears to her from inside her head looking out. How much has her world changed? And with all the experiences she has had, all the people she has met and seen, I wonder how many times she has changed her mind in 103 years.

What are we looking for, for us to access health and happiness? Is it information? Is it to check whether this information is true? Is it to know what to do? Why have we not solved the problem ourselves?

Or are we really coming to learn the skills we need to change our minds?

We often say that it’s easy to change our mind: ‘I do it every day — about what I’m going to wear, what I’ll eat, where I’ll go, what I’ll do.’ That’s true of course, but what about the decisions we don’t know how to change, those decisions sitting deep in our unconscious mind that we are not even aware of? They are sitting there ruling what we do, how we react and what we say. Limiting decisions such as 'only food with sugar in it is interesting', 'I'm too busy....' ' I don't want big muscles', 'I love McDonald's' and 'I have no time.'...

When we change our mind about a particular subject or behaviour that is inhibiting our potential for wellness and growth, then our whole life changes.

Start at the beginning. Begin by working out, clearly identifying your problem, thinking of examples of this problem and trying to discover how you frame it in your head. Probe, try to discover the source of the problem. Know it is important that you are clear about what has to happen so that you know the problem has gone....to read more download from Amazon.  Happiness Within