NOTE: to see a theatrical preview of an upcoming film Dick is in, go to www.metaphysia.net / It will be released in 2008.

RADIO SHOW: Next week Dick and Carol Morgan, Ph.D. will talk about Radical Relationship Resources. Eighty-thousand people have now subscribed to have iTunes download “Dick Sutphen’s Metaphysical World” radio show into their iPods. Listen live at 11 AM on Wednesdays at www.contacttalkradio.com Archived shows are available anytime. Dick’s SEMINAR SCHEDULE at the end of this column.

Happiness

Happiness is an interesting trap.

“FLOW” author Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says, “More than anything else, people seek happiness.” He then adds, “Happiness is sought for its own sake, but all our other goals -- health, beauty, money or power -- are valued because we expect they will make us happy.” 

In “The Path to Love,” Deepak Chopra says, “... happiness too often means a ‘pleasure response.’ But this means there must be a stimulus attached to it. “There can be no sense of security in your existence when it depends upon outside factors, for the unpredictable changes of reality can never be controlled.”

So to be happy, we need to find a source of happiness beyond pleasure. Yet biochemists have proven that pleasure can release serotonin and beta-endorphins -- brain mind opiates that are chemically almost identical to opium. The more you release the happier you feel. And the opiates are addictive.

So is a pleasure stimulus to the brain the same as happiness? It feels that way. But the problem is a stimulus wears out. Deepak says, “Over time our responses weaken if the same stimulus keeps getting repeated. The taste that was once so sweet grows stale and cloying; the face that once enchanted becomes ordinary; the most exciting vision becomes just part of the scenery.

“It is all important to found our happiness upon a basis that doesn’t change.”

In his book, “Actualizations,” Stewart Emery says, “We have the implicit belief in goals the same way we have the implicit belief in Santa Claus. It is the continuing saga of our addiction to form. We still firmly believe that something outside of ourselves is going to make us happy.”

“If I get a million dollars, I’ll be happy.”

“If I get a new car, then I’ll be happy.”

“If I get a new job, then I’ll be happy.”

“If I get straight A’s in school, then I’ll be happy.”

“If I get my Ph.D., then I’ll be happy.”

“If only __________, then I’ll be happy.” You fill in the blank.

“Goals have become part of that whole happiness-through-acquisition belief program that everybody has bought. It works this way: For most of us, life floats between terrible and bearable, but there is hope -- hope that life will be more bearable if we achieve a goal exterior to ourselves. As if the destination itself will have any effect upon the traveler.

“The fact is that goals do not deliver what we are asking and expecting them to deliver. That has become a source of disillusionment and dissatisfaction in our society. Every time we reach a goal, we have momentary feeling of elation (temporary well-being) followed by a sinking realization with what we said we wanted, but without the experience that getting what we said we wanted was going to bring us. Ripped off again.”

It seems to me that happiness has to come from within as a result of what we do in life. If you go to www.dicksutphen.com and click on the “Books, Excerpts and Columns” button (fourth from the bottom) you will have an opportunity to choose “How To Fix Everything In Your Life At Once.” The chapters are actually the scripts from my old “25 Best Ways” CD series. Chapter 15 is “Create Happiness.”

Almost all 25 suggestions need to be manifested from within. My favorite happiness suggestion is “Develop Detached Mind,” followed by “Accept that what is, is,” “Live in the present,” and “Choose a positive viewpoint.”

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PRIVATE SESSIONS: Dick is available for Private Sessions in Westlake Village, CA (Los Angeles area) and Lake Arrowhead, CA. Also a limited number of appointments while on the road. Upcoming: Vienna, WV,  Columbus, OH, and Las Vegas, NV in January, 2008, San Pedro, CA in March, 2008. Additional cities to be added.

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Nov. 28-Dec. 2: Vienna, WV. Dick Sutphen’s classic 5-Day PROFESSIONAL HYPNOSIS CERTIFICATION TRAINING, including Past-Life Therapy and Spirit-Contact Therapy instruction. Vienna is a short drive from Columbus, OH. Location: The Self-Health & Awareness Center. www.selfhealthandawarenesscenter.com  / deborahlindsey@earthlink.net

Dec. 1: Vienna, WV, “The Shift” -- one evening workshop -- Vienna is a short drive from Columbus, OH. Location: The Self-Health & Awareness Center. www.selfhealthandawarenesscenter.com  / deborahlindsey@earthlink.net

Jan. 25-27, 2008: Las Vegas, NV -- THE AMERICAN BOARD OF HYPNOTHERAPY CONVENTION. Dick is president of the organization and more information will be released soon.

Mar. 3-9, 2008: San Pedro, CA -- THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF HYPNOSIS CONFERENCE. More information soon.

Apr. 18-20, 2008: Sedona, AZ -- Sutphen Seminar (title to be announced). Location: The Sedona Creative Life Center.

Sept. 26-28, 2008: Sedona, AZ -- Sutphen Seminar (title to be announced) Location: The Sedona Creative Life Center.

Many additional dates to be announced soon.

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