 Love to be Happy:
Dr. Mehdi Bahadori’s entertaining and helpful book, "Love to be Happy",
presents practical truths on how to increase personal happiness- and why doing
so is a major personal and global, economic and environmental imperative. Amply
filled with illustrative anecdotes, "Love to be Happy" blends Dr. Bahadori’s
unique point of view as a recognized thermodynamicist and professor of
mechanical engineering with a lifetime of travel, life experience, and spiritual
investigation.
Dr. Bahadori, author also of The University of Life (Blue Dolphin, 1993),
believes “it is our nature to pursue happiness.” In his own quest, he has
discovered that trying to secure happiness through wealth and fame has been
responsible for most, if not all, of humanity’s problems. Secondly, thinking
that another person can ultimately or permanently make one complete, or “
happy,” is another universally- experienced illusion.
“Poverty , obscurity, wealth, fame , social status and power have nothing to
do with being truly joyous.”
Love to Be Happy is highly recommended reading and much – needed inspiration
in a day when grade school children are carrying guns into the classroom; many
people have nowhere to go and seemingly nothing to do or strive for; and
factional/ regional wars are breaking out all over the globe.
Having traveled throughout the world, Dr.Bahadori has been fortunate to have
met many people who, despite difficult circumstances, have discovered true joy:
“ These people are distinctive in that you can’t help but be happy in their
presence. They exude love; you see them always joyous.”
With the modern tools of scientific research, education, and communication,
Love to be happy hopes to awaken the public to the life –style and belief system
of truly joyous and happy people. Each chapter deals with specific steps toward
attaining happiness for ourselves, and sustaining this joy as we maneuver in
daily society.
 The fostering of unconditional love through the giving of selfless service
proves to be the most potent prescription. To cultivate these qualities, Dr.
Bahadori recommends various exercises along the way which include affirmation,
meditation, and visualization suggestions, and concludes that happiness is the
best medicine for uplifting every segment of our society.
Far from being merely idealistic, Love to Be happy challenges everyone- while
offering much sage advice- to be truly happy in this life.
What Readers Can Learn From
"Love to
Be Happy":
- The ten most effective ways to gain happiness.
- What beliefs have to do with health and happiness ?
- What are true “human” values, and why education in human values is
essential ?
- The two means of increasing happiness (Love and Service) that outweigh and
outpace all others.
- Why linking with a loving Master is vital in learning to be happy.
- How to identify and reduce lifestyle elements that detract from happiness.
- How to apply the science of “Happinometry” and systematically gain more
happiness.
- How cutting back on waste and desires automatically increases happiness.
- How to take advantage of your partnership with the Universe.
- Why increasing happiness is an environmental imperative and crucial to
sustaining life on earth.
- Why a society’s National Index of Happiness (NIH) is a more useful economic
indicator than its Gross National Product (GNP).
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