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InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration

March 28, 2023

The focus for today's inspiration is:

I choose to be naturally happy. Right here. Right now.

Although you cannot buy it, grow it, achieve it, receive it as a reward, chase it, hold on to it, or put it in the trunk of your car, you know happiness when you see, hear, and feel it.

Ironically, the more frantic you are in searching for it, the less likely you are to happen upon it. And when you do, you might not be able to recognize it within yourself.

Chasing after happiness while believing that it is somehow removed from you, as in “out there,” or “in the future,” can make you become addicted to craving what you believe you cannot have. But you can be naturally happy. Right here. Right now.

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Today's inspiration was excerpted from the InnerSelf.com article:
     Are Your Expectations of Happiness Keeping You From Being Happy?
     Written by James D. Baird
Read the complete article here.


This is Marie T. Russell, publisher of InnerSelf.com, wishing you a day of choosing to be naturally happy, right here, right now (today and every day)

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The focus for today: Today, I choose to be naturally happy. Right here. Right now.

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Happiness Genes: Unlock the Positive Potential Hidden in Your DNA
by James D. Baird, PhD with Laurie Nadel, PhD.

This article is excerpted from the book: Happiness Genes by James D. Baird with Laurie NadelEvery day thousands of advertising images seduce into believing that happiness can be bought. But put away your wallet away. Happiness is at your fingertips, or rather sitting in your DNA, right now! The new science of epigenetics reveals there are reserves of natural happiness within your DNA that can be controlled by you, by your emotions, beliefs and behavioral choices.

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About the Authors

James D. Baird, co-author of the article: Your Expectations of HappinessJames D. Baird, Ph.D. has more than forty years of experience as a successful inventor and graduate engineer. His passion for understanding the bioengineering that makes us human combined with his spiritual beliefs has led him to research the subject of happiness for more than 20 years, and in the process, earned him a Ph.D. in Natural Health. Happiness Genes: Unlock the Positive Potential within Your DNA is his fourth book.

Laurie Nadel, co-author of the article: Your Expectations of HappinessLaurie Nadel, Ph.D. spent 20 years as a journalist for major American news organizations, including CBS News and The New York Times where she wrote a religion column, “Long Island at Worship.” The author of the best-seller Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power (ASJA Press, 2007), she has appeared on “Oprah.” “The Dr. Laurie Show” on Genesis Communications Network explores New Science topics. She holds doctorates in psychology and clinical hypnotherapy with a specialty in stress/wellness issues and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.