Praise for Feel Happy Now!
All I say is ITS ABOUT TIME! Michael Neill has directed theprocess of change in the direction that works. It should be a lesson toeveryone who wants to change liveshappiness is where we need to go.
Michael lays out the what and the how in an easy-to-use format.
Not just good reading, but good living.
Dr. Richard Bandler,
behavioral technologist and co-creator of
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
Michael Neill has written a simple roadmap to understandingeverything you need to know about feeling happy.... It is aneffective and entertaining guide that deals with issues that onewould normally consider to be hard and heavy. If you are depressed,think you could be feeling down, or simply just want a better qualityof life, this book is your essential guide.
Oli Barry,
BAFTA and Grierson Awardwinning director of Bye Bye Happiness
Michael Neill is a genius in making the accumulated wisdom of hisown and humanities search for happiness available to busy, modern,and often stressed-out Westerners. This book gives you profound yeteminently practical ways for realizing spontaneous joy and deepfulfillment. I highly recommend it.
Dr. Peter Fenner,
the author of Radiant Mind: Awakening Unconditioned Presence and
Intrinsic Freedom
This book is a brimming, practical miracle! What a spot-on distillationof exactly what we each need to practice to cultivate a lighthearted life.
Jennifer Louden,
the best-selling author of The Womans Comfort Book
Michael Neill is the finest success coach
in the world today.
The time Ive spent reading and rereading Michaels work hasmade a remarkable difference to my success, happiness, andwell-being. I have recommended it to everyone I know who isgenuinely interested in self-improvement.
Paul McKenna,
the best-selling author of Change Your Life in 7 Days
FEEL
HAPPY
NOW!
Also by Michael Neill
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All of the above are available at your local
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Hay House South Africa: www.hayhouse.co.za
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FEEL
HAPPY
NOW!
Michael Neill
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Copyright 2008 by Michael Neill
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The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.
Every effort has been made to obtain necessary permission with reference to copyright material. The publishers apologize if inadvertently any sources remain unacknowledged and will be glad to make the necessary arrangements at the earliest opportunity.
Dr. Richard Bandlers techniques used with written permission. Visit www.richardbandler.com to learn more.
The Sacred Journey technique used with the written permission of Robert Dilts. Please see Tools of the Spirit and the Encyclopedia of Systemic NLP for more information.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Neill, Michael.
Feel happy now! / Michael Neill. -- 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4019-1773-9 (tradepaper) 1. Happiness. I. Title.
BF575.H27N45 2008
152.42--dc22 2007014300
ISBN: 978-1-4019-1773-9
11 10 09 08 4 3 2 1
1st edition, January 2008
Printed in the United States of America
To Mom and Dad and Charlie and Dale
for believing in me when nobody else would...
and to Michael, aged 13 to 20
This is the true joy in life, the being used for
a purposerecognized by yourself as a mighty one;
the being thoroughlyworn out before you are thrown
on the scrap heap; the beinga force of Nature instead
of a feverish selfish little clod ofailments
and grievances complaining that the world will
notdevote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw
CONTENTS
by Candace B. Pert, Ph.D.,
the author of Everything You Need to Know
to Feel Go(o)d
Were all familiar with the phenomenon of the formidable chore. It may be a closet that needs cleaning or a garage that needs emptying out. We resist it like crazy, building up a mountain of reasons why now is not the time, and our lives are too full or busy to take on even one more task.
Then one day, in one moment, we feel differentand within five minutes, the whole job is done. Its not just about how much sugar is flowing through our muscles at any given time that determines our level of activity and interactivity with life. Our consciousness has a power and rhythm of its own.