The Bliss Experiment

Informationen zum Autor Sean Meshorer Klappentext A cross between The Power of Now and The Happiness Project , The Bliss Experiment reveals how to tap into the innate state of inner joy that resides in all of us: the state of bliss. HAPPINESS IS GOOD. BLISS IS BETTER. You only need a moment of bliss to benefit the rest of your life. We have a higher standard of living and more ways to instantaneously fulfill every desire than ever before. Then why are we unhappy? Because happiness is fleeting. Bliss is transformative. In The Bliss Experiment , leading spiritual teacher and New Thought minister Sean Meshorer, who suffers from chronic pain, shares the exercises and ideas that help him and countless others live life to the fullest. This is the one essential book that distills and unifies seemingly competing practices, philosophies, religions, and psychologies. You'll read dozens of stories of real people learning from everyday situations, backed by more than five hundred scientific studies. Bliss helps ease stress, anxiety, and depression. It makes people more successful, better able to see and seize opportunities, and build or improve relationships. Give The Bliss Experiment twenty-eight days of dedicated attention, and you will see results too. CHAPTER 1 From Pleasure to Bliss: The Happiness Scale Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: You were created for spiritual JOY. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and spiritual joy, you have not yet begun to live. Thomas Merton, American contemplative monk (191568) Let's begin by surveying our landscape and orienting ourselves in it. By doing so, we can understand the larger framework in which we begin our journey to finding bliss. Happiness, meaning, and truth can mean different things to different people. Happiness in particular has several different components. The different types of happiness are: • numbness, • pleasure, • relief (false happiness), • everyday happiness, and • bliss. I find it helpful to think of these five aspects of happiness not as discrete experienceseach inhabiting its own little worldbut rather as varying degrees of the same impulse ; different states of consciousness on the same continuum. The most important level of all, bliss, is not only the least understood but also so seldom experienced that most of us don't even realize it exists. Our entire human journey can be thought of as the adventure from one end of the happiness scale to the other: from pleasure to bliss. The better we can understand each of these components and how they relate to one another, the greater our clarity of mind and ability to navigate our journey toward bliss successfully. The Story Jane came to my classes because she was intrigued by the idea that she could learn to consciously induce what had been a lifetime of apparently random moments of deep bliss, often followed by feelings of despair as they dissolved. From a young age, she experienced jaw-dropping moments of awe; it felt like her everyday world fell away, revealing a field of pure awareness in which she could see not only herself but also see how she was connected to every atom of creation. Sometimes this revelatory moment would be accompanied by an intense wave of energy that started at the base of her spine and swept its way up her body to the top of her head. The feeling was so intense that she felt like her mind and body couldn't possibly contain it, that she might burst apart. As quickly as these experiences came, they vanished. Jane tried talking to her Protestant minister about them, but he seemed alarmed by the confession. He thought she might need a doctor. She once confided in a devout Catholic friend of hers, only to be told that she mi...

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Sean Meshorer

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A cross between The Power of Now and The Happiness Project, The Bliss Experiment reveals how to tap into the innate state of inner joy that resides in all of us: the state of bliss.

HAPPINESS IS GOOD. BLISS IS BETTER.

You only need a moment of bliss to benefit the rest of your life. We have a higher standard of living and more ways to instantaneously fulfill every desire than ever before. Then why are we unhappy? Because happiness is fleeting. Bliss is transformative.

In The Bliss Experiment, leading spiritual teacher and New Thought minister Sean Meshorer, who suffers from chronic pain, shares the exercises and ideas that help him and countless others live life to the fullest. This is the one essential book that distills and unifies seemingly competing practices, philosophies, religions, and psychologies. You’ll read dozens of stories of real people learning from everyday situations, backed by more than five hundred scientific studies.

Bliss helps ease stress, anxiety, and depression. It makes people more successful, better able to see and seize opportunities, and build or improve relationships. Give The Bliss Experiment twenty-eight days of dedicated attention, and you will see results too.