Happy For No Reason with Marci Shimoff
Take Back Your Mind
Michael B. Beckwith
5 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Today’s Life Question of the Week asks how can one move from feeling stuck to activating the vision they have for their life.
Next, Michael speaks with Marci Shimoff. Marci is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a world-renowned transformational teacher, and an expert on happiness, success, and unconditional love. Her books include “Happy for No Reason”, “Love for No Reason”, and six titles in the phenomenally successful Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul series.
Marci is also the host of the national PBS television special “Happy for No Reason”, is a featured teacher in “The Secret”, and the narrator for the award-winning film “Happy”. She currently co-leads a worldwide program called Your Year of Miracles with thousands of participants from 72 countries.
In this delightful episode, Michael and Marci discuss:
–How Marci’s feelings of depression—even after achieving success—led her to want to study unconditional happiness
–What it means to be unconditionally happy and the myths surrounding happiness
–The 7 steps to unconditional happiness and the habits of happy people
–The biochemistry of happiness: endorphins, serotonin, oxytocin, and dopamine
–How to maintain your happiness during times of challenge
–Marci’s Year of Miracles program—and so much more!
You can connect with Marci at https://happyfornoreason.com/ and https://youryearofmiracles.com/ as well as across social media platforms.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy for no reason means you have an inner state of peace and well-being that doesn't depend on your circumstances. |
| 0:07.0 | Yes. |
| 0:08.0 | So stuff happens. People die. You're going to feel grief. You know, something upsets you. You might feel upset or angry. |
| 0:17.0 | But behind that, there is this backdrop of peace and well-being that you carry with you wherever |
| 0:21.9 | you go so that you're more resilient, you're more creative. |
| 0:26.7 | You know, the way I look at it is instead of trying to extract your happiness from your |
| 0:31.5 | life experiences, which is what most people try to do. |
| 0:34.0 | Yes. |
| 0:34.7 | Is we bring our happiness to our life experiences yes it's an entirely |
| 0:39.3 | different come from peace and riches blessings I am Michael B. Beck with the host of |
| 0:44.1 | Take Back your mind listen listen listen listen As we're lifted up into the spirit of the main |
| 0:57.0 | As you've heard me say for many years, peace and radical blessings. |
| 1:18.8 | Peace is the dynamic of harmonizing good. |
| 1:22.7 | That's what peace is. |
| 1:24.1 | It's a quality all of its own. |
| 1:26.9 | Peace and blessings. Blessings is a conferring of life of more life |
| 1:31.8 | when someone says bless you they're saying they're conferring more of the beauty of life upon |
| 1:37.8 | your soul so I say peace and radical blessings peace and mighty blessing peace and blessings |
| 1:43.5 | and welcome to take back your mind, |
| 1:47.2 | the podcast that is about having agency over our own awareness. The life question of the week |
| 1:55.2 | comes from Louise. She says, I have a clear vision of what I want my life to look like, a life dedicated |
| 2:04.6 | to meditation, creative writing, and nature study. But I find myself perpetually stuck in the |
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