101 Ways to Happiness, David R.

Hawkins
Dr. David Hawkins 101 Ways to Happiness 1. Source is
within, not without. 2. Want what you have, instead of have
what you want including your own existence. All that it takes
to be happy is the fact that you are. Be satisfied with the fact
that you are. Be happy with what you have. 3. Happiness is an
inner decision. 4. Give up poor me. 5. Choose instead of crave,
want, desire, or get. Dear God I seem to be the victim of this
insatiable craving please help me willingness to surrender
to God. 6. Surrender all cravings to God. Love of God becomes
all you want pray 1. Could you? 2. Would you? 7. Joie de
vivre is independent of events. It is an attitude anda superior
style of life. In human life, there is no winning orlosing.
Celebrate your own existence. Joy of life, helping others. 8. Is it
the child, adult, or parent (in you) that wants? Happiness =
bubbling over and active child, integrated adult, and totally
loving and accepting parent. The child wants to moon people on
the way here and the adult says, lets not do it today. Own
your child all the time; child free to express itself. Story: when I
was 12, my mom made me wear rubbers to school when it
rained. This embarrassed me. I hid the rubbers in the shrubs on
way to school and then put them on again on the way home.
Happiness is hiding your rubbers in a shrub! Another story: went
to internist, came home and the parent came up in Susan, You
didnt wear that undershirt with the hole in it, did you?!" 9.
Differentiate actual from symbolic win or gain. 10. Differentiate
narcissitic (rich and famous) from mature goals. 11. Be
pleased with the direction and alignment instead of just
completion. Be pleased with where you are, rather than Ill be
happy when I reach the goal. 12. Practical reality vs. fantasy
and glamour of success. 13. Choose decision instead of just
hope. Write down your goals for this life. One goal : be happy
no matter what happens. Be pleased with the direction of life-be uplifting to others or enlightenmentnot how far along you
are on the path because its anybodys guess. Where you are is
the result of your own decision, so you can t blame anyone. No
matter which way you go, there are risks involved. Life is a
sequence of roles. 14. Be flexible vs. rigid. The reed bends with

the current. 15. Cancel: and then Ill be happy 16. Let go of
clutching and grasping. 17. Clarify goals and ideals. 18. Realize
all value is arbitrary. 19. Happiness is a nap on a train or plane.
Gods will for you is happiness. To be happy is pleasing to God.
(Test: True). Being happy is fulfilling your human potential. 20.
Live one day at a time. If you dont have a problem, get one so
that you can join a 12 step group. They are happier than other
people. 21. Happiness is a cats purr or a dogs wagging tail. 22.
Faith vs. skepticism (narcissism)the skeptic has faith in his
skepticism. 23. Gratitude for what one has and is. 24. Detached
vs. cravingpick something you think you need for happiness
and get detached from it. 25. Glass half full or half empty 26.
Spiritual vs. material goals. Searching for truth in all of its
expressions is one of the most advanced states of
consciousness. 98 % of the world is not interested in truth. The
number of people interested in Enlightenment is less than 1 in
10 million. My goal inthis life time is enlightenment is true for
1 in 10 million. Test: True. The first great karma is to hear of
enlightenment. The second or next great karma is to pursue it.
The third and greatest is to pursue it and achieve it. Test:
Everybody in this audience hasgood karma. TRUE.
Enlightenment is a releasing of attachment and aversion, first in
the senses Its half full because its half empty. Spiritual goals
cannot be lost. They endure for all time. 27. Surrender to Gods
will. Spiritual wisdom evolves. For some people, shooting the
enemy is Gods will. For others, Gods will is not shooting. 28.
Capacity to let go. This capacity is Infinite. Its not that you
cant let go, but that you wont. 29. Be pleased with progress.
30. Avoid self-judgment. This is the internalized parent. Freuds
super-ego. Inner judge. Have your inner kid alive and well,
andsometimes you have to sit on your inner kid. My sister and I
would go on street car and mom told us to stay in our seats. I
was good and she was bad because she would be running up
and down the aisle. For me happiness was being good, for her
happiness was being bad. 31. Good vs. Bad are
circumstantial. 32. Win is provisional. 33. Simplicity vs.
complexity. 34. Realistic expectations of life, others, events. In
politics, dont judge the world by your values, dont expect a
lot! 35. Value is in the eye of the beholder. 36. Give up your

skepticism. 37. Sense of humor. 38. Accept karmic propensity..

not causality but likelihoods 39. See essence rather than
perception. 40. Jocular instead of morose. 41. Good will
regarding all of life. 42. Easy-going vs. rigid. 43. Reduce
expectations. 44. Generous instead of stingy.. Nurturance to all
of life, in woods, trees TEST: The trees in the woods know
that I am glad andlove them TRUE. They are literally aware of
your lovingness of them. It is not what you have, do, or say, but
what you have become. What can I do to affect the world? Stay
out of the way! If you step around the bug instead of stomping
it, that does more for world peace than marching in a parade!
45. Modify inner voice. 46. Be gracious to self and others. 47.
Surrender the need to control. Because of the good, youve
earned the privilege of working through bad karma. TEST:
When you need good karma, its there for you. TRUE. Story:
truck broke down on cloverleaf in middle of strange place,
stranger came by to remove the tire, took it to be fixed, brought
it back and put it back on That was my good karma savings
account. TRUE. There are angels in bodies. TRUE. 48. Let go
of desire for applause. Good will is noticed by all of life
Generosity is an attitude, not money. Talk to your inner thoughts
so that the inner thoughts express your spiritual commitments
and alignment. Be gracious to yourself. Thank you, Oh Lord, for
my existence. First thing my psychoanalyst said: 1. you need
to have a thicker skin. 2. be forgiving to yourself. Too rigid
superego. Look at your intention, not the act. Not necessary to
control things in life because the good karma will take care of it.
Just hold it in mind and it tends to manifest. 49. Be glad instead
of mad. 50. Acceptance instead of resistance. 51. Generous
instead of stingy. 52. Candid with self and others. Be honestI
like em diced instead of sliced! 53. Silence the mind. 54. Give
up thinkingness stop calling it my mind Everybodys gotta
speak their mind on TV, and they think thats a step forward!
Anybody can babble! I dont care what the man on the street
thinks he learned it on TV yesterday narcissistic egotism
why should the world give a rap about what you think? I dont
give a rap about I think! Knowingness comes about nonlinear. It
is certainty. Comes about without thinking about it.
Thinkingness is an energy field which can be transcended. 55.

Forgiving vs. vindictive. Forgiveyou dont have to get even

because karma is inevitable. 56. Work on inner traits instead of
external ones. 57. It only takes a bone to make a dog happy
its the small things of life! All it takes is a sip of soda. of
espresso. 58. Sing, Dont worry, be happy! in mind. 59.
Choose spiritual values and goals. You feel inner gladness about
the goodness of life. Whats the purpose of the world? Its here
for YOU. This is not egocentric. Out of Divine intention, that
which is here, is here for you. The essence of all that arises is
Divinity expressing itself as a stage, as a wonderful wife, as
these flowers, as the Kleenex, as the diet soda, espresso 60.
Choose spiritual friends and groups. The spiritual energy of this
group present is positively affecting all of mankind. TRUE.You
serve all of mankind by becoming as spiritually evolved as you
can be. 61. Go from complete to complete. 62. Identify with Self
rather than self. Without the presence of God within you, you
wouldnt exist. Self is my reality; self is only my temporary
expression in this domain. Snow bank experience. 63. Accept
limitations of humanness, which has the karma of protoplasm.
64. Happiness is a decision and direction. 65. Reflective vs.
impulsive. 66. Thoughtful rather than critical. 67. Be content
instead of complaining (weather, taxes). 68. Realize life is a
learning curve. 69. Pray. Praying is beneficial. It benefits
yourself, loved ones, the world, all of humanity. Each tested
TRUE. Praying is not just grade school exercise but expression
of what youve become, which is gracious. 70. Contemplate. 71.
Affirm God is my Source. 72. Sing an inner song. Learn to hum
to yourself without making any noise! 73. When feeling down,
say to yourself, Yours is the saddest story Ive ever heard! 74.
Insist on being miserable and gloomy. Oh well. Eeyore. 75.
Make faces at yourself in the mirror. This is a wonderful spiritual
technique. Holy Church of Giggledom The way to God is
through giggles. 76. Be grateful for the gift of life. Be all you can
be to everyone all of the time. Reflect back to life its Beauty. 77.
Live one day at a time. 78. Be your own best friend. 79.
Expansion vs. dimunuition of problems. 80. Clarify __________
with______role. 81. Play role of martyr? 82. Play role of hero? 83.
Play role of victim? 84. Play role of morally superior? 85. Let go
of being the injustice collector (martyr). 86. Let go of being

provocative. 87. Stop pushing ones luck. 88. Avoid catastrophe.

89. Dont buy a home in the flood plain or on the edge of a mud
cliff. 90. Do not win the lottery. 91. Dont ski in an avalanche
area. 92. Give up self-importance. 93. Obey the law be polite
to police. 94. Stop demonstrating. 95. Give up saving the world.
96. Mind your own business. 97. Give up being important. 98.
Improve yourself instead of others. 99. Pay your income taxes.
100. Smile and the world smiles with you. 101. Dedicate all
actions to God. Dr. David Hawkins' Answers-- from
Questions asked at his lecture. Q- How could you decline
death if it is pre-set? A- Death is predetermined for the majority
of mankind most of thetime, but not for the Enlightened being.
Test: TRUE. Q- How can I transcend thinkingness? A- Nobody
cares about what youre thinking, so why should you?
Knowingness is nonverbal, diffuse, and global. Karmic undoing
does not have to be verbatim (Test: True). Just because you cut
off someones head in previous lifetime doesntmean you have
to have your head cut off in this one. Q- How do you recognize
the voice of God? A- If you question it, its not the voice of God
because the voice ofGod is self-reflecting as the voice of God. It
comes by certainty.All of a sudden its simple and obvious.
Thanks Hawkins!