Article Topic: Self-Help

As adults, especially in these trying times, "happiness" does not hold for us the same meaing that it did as when we were young. Is it possible (or even correct) to strive for happiness when there is strife all around us? As we move more and more towards a global community of sustainability, David Pond, author of The Pursuit of Happiness, explains the interdependent nature of true happiness.

Have you ever wondered why success and stress seem to be inseparable companions in our world today? Does it have to be that way? Guy Finley, best-selling author of Seeker's Guide to Self-Freedom, The Secret of Letting Go, and the newly-released Letting Go: A Little Bit at a Time, details how you can truly have success--without stress.

About ten years ago, Karen Mehringer and her husband uprooted their lives in Seattle to sail around the world. Are you truly living the life of your dreams? Are you prepared to live the life of your dreams, even if it meant leaving behind the stability of terra firma for the rolling ocean waves? Mehringer, author of Sail into Your Dreams presents four ways you, too, can start living the life of your dreams.

In more traditional cultures, the "wise one" is a central figure, advising all who seek answers. Today, this diverse role has been spread across a team of specialists: lawyers, doctors, public officials. This may not be the best model, however; Dr. Stewart Bitkoff, author of A Commuter's Guide to Enlightenment, explains how we can recapture our independence and spirituality by becoming our own wise one.

Love and intuition seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly, the sun and the moon and…well, like two people in love. Who at one time or another has not felt a shiver move up their spine or their stomach leap in joy when looking into another’s eyes? Have you ever met someone and instantly felt a connection with them or somehow knew what they were thinking or feeling, without knowing how you knew? We all have innate intuitive ability, and Sherrie Dillard, author of Love and Intuition and Discover Your Psychic Type, explains how we can enhance our relationships by enhancing our intuition.

In popular culture, vampires are as big (or even bigger) as they ever have been. Why? Why are so many of us engaged in this love affair with the Undead? Claudia Cunningham, author of Biting Back: A No-Nonsense (No Garlic) Guide to Facing the Personal Vampires in Your Life, explains that our own relationships with our personal vampires has fueled our love for the vampire culture, and that, like fictional characters, we too can slay our own vampires and reign victorious over our personal demons.

"In what kind of world do you live?" Ask this question to two people living in the same area and you will most likely get two very contrasting answers. And, both of these answers are correct. We create our worldview based on how we interpret that which is in front of us, as well as that which is in our own imagination. And, as Andy Baggott, author of Blissology, explains, we can use these tools to create our own happiness in life.