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Gateway to Happiness, Part 1
 
Rabbi Zelig Pliskin has generously made his book: Gateway To Happiness, (A Condensed Edition) available to you as a free e-book. It is Rabbi Pliskin's vision to see that people are as happy as possible. Rabbi Pliskin is happy to share his extraordinary book with you, so that you can experience the wonderful joy of happiness. Read this book, practice what you learn and you are on your way to being happy. Go to www.happinessclub.com look under the "books" section at the top of the screen and download the book for yourself, and tell your family and friends to do the same.

You will find Gateway to Happiness to be very useful in helping you understand happiness. This is a very enlightening and encyclopedic book on happiness. Rabbi Pliskin does a skillful job helping us to understand happiness with thoughts like this one, "The person with greater control over his thoughts will have greater control over his emotions. Anyone who claims that one does not have a large amount of control over one's emotions is merely saying that he does not have much control over what he thinks about and how he perceives events."

Gateway to Happiness does a very comprehensive job of explaining happiness. This book is not like most books that are written to tell you about the author's experience. Gateway to Happiness is actually more like a reference book that you can work with. This is a book of happiness facts that are categorized in chapters that make it easy to look up any particular topic you want to focus on and learn more about.

The most incredible components of this book and the segments that make it great are the first four chapters. They are Chapter 1: Happiness is an obligation, Chapter 2: Appreciating what you have, Chapter 3: Happiness is dependent on your thoughts, and Chapter 4: Peace of mind. These four chapters include the best thinking and teaching explanations on happiness I have ever read.

In this condensed version, Rabbi Pliskin states that if you read only one chapter of his book, it should be Chapter 3: Happiness is dependent on your thoughts. I agree whole heatedly, because the understanding of our happiness is so conditioned to what you allow yourself to think, that many people do not realize how much control they give up by thinking negative thoughts.

As Rabbi Pliskin says, "Would you rather feel worse than you have to? Do you want to choose to feel happy? At the root of complaining is thinking that the situation could be better. At the root of satisfaction is being aware that the situation could be worse. In almost all instances things could be worse and they could be better. To master happiness a person needs to have a constant awareness that things are better than they could be."

I find it amazing how we allow our thinking to dictate how we should feel. We do it because we have not been taught how we give our power away to our negative thoughts. If we learned more about controlling our thinking, we would experience more freedom and happiness in our lives.

Rabbi Pliskin says, "What you tell yourself about a given situation is the way that situation will affect you. Your attitude towards any event or situation is not based on its objective reality but on your own subjective evaluation of the event or situation. It is the viewer who evaluates them as either positive, negative, or neutral. Once you have a strong awareness and internalization of this concept, you will have the ability to change your negative attitudes to more positive ones."

On Thursday, July 3, Rabbi Zelig Pliskin will facilitate the first meeting of The Happiness Club of Jerusalem. Rabbi Pliskin will present a talk called: Nine Principles for Mastering Happiness and Joy. The meeting will be held at The Israel Center, 22 Keren Hayesod, Jerusalem, Israel 91141, from 8:00-9:30 PM. Phone: 2-566-7787. Everyone is welcome; there is no fee.

Rabbi Pliskin is the author of 23 books on happiness and emotional competence. Do not miss this golden happiness opportunity to get this exceptional book. The wisdom contained in Gateway to Happiness is essential for the individual seeking the happy life. As Rabbi Pliskin says, "Happiness is a skill that can be learned." Its true money can't buy happiness. Now, get your happiness for free!

Originally published in the Fairfield Citizen-News, July 2, 2008
For more on Rabbi Pliskin, go here to Part 2 

BE HAPPY ZONE
By Lionel Ketchian

Gateway to Happiness
You can order the book from a store in New York called Eichler's. The book is available online at: www.eichlers.com.