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    Whacking Happiness A How-To Guide
    Whacking Happiness A How-To Guide
    Whacking Happiness A How-To Guide
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    Whacking Happiness A How-To Guide

    By JD Lovil

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    Are you sitting on the couch, wondering why you are not happy?

    Are you ready to change your life?

    There is a way that you can get out of your rut, and actually start feeling happy for a change.

    ˃˃˃ It will not be as easy as watching television, but it will be a lot more fun!

    Get a copy of this book, and read it.

    ˃˃˃ Follow the steps as shown in the book.

    Finding Happiness is a process. Lose yourself in the process.

    Become Happy. Buy a copy of 'Whacking Happiness' today.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJD Lovil Publishing
    Release dateSep 27, 2015
    ISBN9781516381418
    Whacking Happiness A How-To Guide
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    JD Lovil

    JD Lovil Is the writer of a series of cross genre science fiction novels dealing with the existence of a multitude of parallel earths as required by the Many Worlds interpretation of Quantum Theory. He enjoys writing books which are essentially ‘stand alone’ books, but with similar rules and circumstances, and with some crossover of characters. JD also writes nonfiction books occasionally on subjects, which he believes to be given less attention than called for, or for which he perceives a significant need. Originally from Arkansas, JD Lovil now lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Visit his website at www.jdlovil.jimdo.com

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      Whacking Happiness A How-To Guide - JD Lovil

      INTRODUCTION

      I ORIGINALLY INTENDED the title of this book to be 'Hacking Happiness.' Imagine my chagrin when I realized that that title, and several variations on it, were already taken. While searching for a minimal change that was not taken, I found that by adding a W to hacking would give me an unused title. This also struck me as a funny way to go about modifying the title, and I am all about funny.

      This (relatively) short book is intended to address a problem I see in the world of books about the subject. There are a lot of psychobabble books out there that are the Freudian equivalents of a tautology. There are the new-age feel-good books that basically push some version of positive affirmation, without even defining what it is they are trying to correct. There are those other books that are somewhere in between the first two categories.

      I decided that I needed to produce a book that will define the state of happiness, and then will define a general procedure for securing that state of happiness. It is an open-ended and recursive problem, which almost forces one to write an open-ended and recursive book, but I did the best I could without getting bogged down in the minutia.

      It is written as a sort of overview of the process, so I refer the reader to other books, written by other Authors, which will cover in more detail such tools as Meditation, visualization, and self-hypnosis. Each of those tools would merit a book in themselves, so I delegated. Anyway, enjoy the book, and here is hoping for success in your pursuits!

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      Chapter 1: What School doesn't Teach

      Chapter 2: The Bricks of Happiness

      Chapter 3: Genetics and Biology

      Chapter 4: The Onion of Memory

      Chapter 5: The Ocean of Mind

      Chapter 6: The Tools of Happiness

      Chapter 7: Belief is Reality

      Chapter 8: Goals

      Chapter 9: The Setup

      Chapter 10: The Starting Point

      Chapter 11: Success

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      Chapter 1: What School doesn't Teach

      OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM teaches many wonderful skills. If you want to be a social worker, or a nurse, or an engineer, there is a course load for that. You can take course work to be an artist. You can even take courses in the Zen art of Brick Laying. What you can't find courses on is the important stuff.

      You can find schools that will teach you how to be an investment broker or an accountant, but you can't really find one where they teach you how to deal with money on a personal level. You might find classes on making a budget, but you can't really find one of how to discover the whys of the process. You may find a process to use to budget for that new car, but not one to decide what you actually need and want that car to be. The personal decisions are the big ones, and the institutions totally ignore those decisions.

      Most of us spend our lifetimes attempting to obtain those vaguely described goals that others have imposed on us as the important things.  We look for Love, but we find it difficult to define it in any meaningful way. We look for happiness, but most people could not tell you the difference between happiness and pleasure.

      I have long realized that we all have traumatic lives. I don't care who you are. Even the most fortunately born of us find fault with our history. Our caring parents might be indulgently negligent. One of our parents may have utilized corporal punishment on us. At the very least, our wealthy families may have neglected to lavish heaps of cash upon us when the rules of earth and heaven would have directed such an action.

      I do not claim to be unique in the area of deprivation. I was not the child of substance abuse. None of my family was a secret serial killer that I know of. I don't know that you will be impressed by my history. I just know that it impresses me, and, as the spinner of this particular tale, I get to indulge myself in the telling.

      I was born in the latter part of the 1950s, a time of change from the rural America of the past to the modern urban country. I was born in the Southwestern area of Arkansas and was moved to the new urban area of Dallas called Grand Prairie when I was about eighteen months old. My father had obtained a position as a metalworker at a company called Chance Vault, and he moved us down there until I was about five years old.

      I was shuttled back and forth several times during this period. I am apparently an odd duck, in that I remember many details from this time period. I recall the exact layout of the house that I lived in there, and many of the experiences from that era, but I cannot remember specifically where I slept. I remember where everyone else slept. Isn't that weird?

      Understand that I will have to interpret some of the experiences of my early childhood from my sort of Adult perspective. I remember being very fatigued all the time when I was a child. I now understand that to be the result of persistent and chronic depression. The reasons for that were many and complex.

      My mother had been diagnosed as schizophrenic and spent about half her time in mental institutions. She underwent dozens of electroshock therapies during my childhood. This was the apex of psychology at the time. She would go through a period of increased anxiety and paranoia, which would result in a new visit to our local mental butchers. She would come back quietly and 'missing' for a few weeks until she started to remember the thoughts that had caused the original anxiety.

      My Father was the other side of the equation. He was something else. I am convinced that he never saw the people around him as actual people. His philosophy for how to have relationships involved manipulations, using emotional displays and browbeating. He had no problem using his belt to enforce his rules on his children.

      I have come to believe that he was actually one of the many types of sociopaths that exist. He did not see people as people, more as complex machines that could be manipulated as he wished. He would utilize his belt to enforce his will on a daily basis. Once he started a whipping with the belt, he would continue it until he tired of swinging it. Sometimes, he would reverse the belt so that the

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