QUOTED in Times of India & Mumbai Mirror

I was quoted in two major publications in India on April 18 and July 2 of 2014.

The Times of India: The secret to happiness

Mumbai Mirror : The secret to khushi (happiness)

By Teja Lele Desai

Quotes

Don't look outwards: Seeking external sources of happiness can sabotage your peace. San Francisco-based sustainable happiness expert Dr Aymee Coget suggests, "Focus on controlling your emotional state by choosing happiness and adopting positive psychology principles, build your resilience, follow your heart and meditate into the greatest states of bliss."

Don't fail to live in the moment: "It is our nature to dwell on past events, especially negatives. We need six positives for our brain to overcome what happened in the past. Training our mind to live in the moment — a sink-or-swim skill — is the way to happiness," Coget says. Learn from past mistakes, but live in the present.

Throughout my career as a happiness expert, I have multiple experiences being written up in newspapers from local, national, and international.

Yet this year, I was so touched by being quoted in two major publications in India.

The truths of happiness science combined with the ancient traditions of spiritual bliss have guided my thinking and teaching of my 5 steps to sustainable happiness.

Since 2004, I have studied with Jinendra Swami who specializes in Sustainable Happiness and have practiced Reiki Mastership for thirteen years. Two traditions based in spiritual lineages.

Connecting the new science of happiness with the ancient spiritual traditions has been a wonderful convergence for me.

Since 2011, I have experienced multiple spiritual awakenings and in my first one, the Swami I study with gave me an Indian name, Lakshmi Saraswati – which translates to:

Lakshmi -  Hindu Goddess of wealth, love, prosperity (both material and spiritual), fortune, and the embodiment of beauty.

Saraswati - Hindu Goddess of knowledge, music, arts, wisdom and nature.

Combining what I have learned from happiness science and what I have experienced in spirituality has proved to be a rewarding path!

I have been blessed to receive multiple spiritual awakenings in the last 3 years and this is a gift I hold in my heart very dear.

When I was quoted this past April in the Times of India, I had my largest kundalini awakening which lasted 10 days!

I was unaware the article ran at the time of one of the most intense experiences of my life, in hindsight I wonder about how bringing knowledge of happiness to India had something to do with my most recent spiritual awakening.

This is something I will never know.  Yet I wanted to let the people of India know I hold your history and culture dear to my heart and it meant a lot to be quoted in the major media outlets in your country.  And, it could have led to another spiritual uplift in my life.

May I continue to share the blessings and teachings of sustainable happiness in your lives and beyond!

Om Shanti Om

Dr Aymee Coget

Sustainable Happiness Doctor

Author of Forthcoming Book : Sustainable Happiness in 5 Steps

sfhappinessdoctor at gmail dot com

www.happinessmakeover.com

5 Steps Audio Program

Sustainable Happiness Skill: Merging into the Infinite with Present Moment Awareness

Infinite time , space , opportunity. 

What a concept!

Right now you probably want more time, more space and more opportunity.

Right now you may feel a shortness of breath because there is not enough time, not enough space and not enough opportunity.

Right now you may experience a multitude of thoughts in any given moment and change the view of your eyesight rapidly without much conscious awareness.

If you are feeling a lack of _____, you may feel a shortness of breath or like opportunities are forgotten.

Present moment awareness could help you.

If you are feeling stressed, anxious, unhappy, scared, frustrated, sad, confused, or any emotion outside of happiness, present moment awareness could help you.

Present moment awareness seems like a foreign language to most let alone a clear understanding of practical steps to merge beyond the experience of time.

Working ‘on the clock’ is unnatural for our human spirit, it is a way of working that evolved in the mechanistic informational age when humans were told to work like machines.

Lack of time drives some to suicide, heart attacks, stroke, divorce, depression, anxiety, and more…

A recent Harvard study showed on average most people think about something other than what they are doing right now 47% of the time and this causes unhappiness. 

What can you do about? Where can you go? What can you read? What app can you download?

How can you proactively learn how to live in the now?

Imagine being free from time.

Imagine feeling at ease and in your own flow all day everyday.

Imagine a freedom without the stress of time.

Imagine always meeting your friends, family and colleagues at the perfect moment.

Imagine parking in the perfect spot all of the time.

Imagine a mind absent of thought, calm like a tranquil pond.

Imagine operating in the optimal flourishing state of life: flow. 

Imagine the words rush, hurry and ‘dead’line, are removed from your experience.

In 2006, I actively pursued living in the moment, because of one of my mentors Dr. Bob Nozik who has achieved sustainable happiness for 25 years. In his book, Happy for Life: Here’s how to do it, he indicates the need for present moment awareness. This made me reflect on our modern day gurus who promoted living in the now, yet I never truly grasped what actually can happen when time expands into the infinite.  

I knew it was important, yet unsure why, or how to do it, I set out on an unknown path to train myself to stop thinking about the future or the past so I can be present.

I worked diligently moment to moment to train my brain to live in the now.  It took 6 months of active training yet I finally ‘arrived in the now’ and never looked back.  

Now, I successfully have lived in the moment for 8 consecutive years.

The amount of ease, flow and serendipity/synchronicity in my life has become ever present. The absence of stress, anxiety, or discontent is blissful.

Living in this moment has helped create peace in my heart, mind and soul.  

This is a sink or swim skill of sustainable happiness.

Learn my 5 steps to living in the moment to see your life change, your moments expand into the infinite and let bliss burst in your heart <3 

Untie Yourself from Time and Unleash your Upward Spiral

Do you want to contribute to this conversation?

Dr Aymee Coget
Sustainable Happiness Doctor
Sustainablehappinessdoctor at g mail dot com
www.happinessmakeover.com

Is Sustainable Happiness Un - Human?

Show me one person who only feels one emotion.

Inquisition kicks in when sustainable happiness is the topic of discussion.

It seems impossible and even UN- human to sustain a positive emotional state in the face of devastating circumstances of life.

Is sustainable happiness un natural to the human state of being?

If someone I love dies, I will cry.

If my heart is touched by devastation, I will cry.

When I am ready I can choose happiness.

This empowers me over my emotional state of being.

After almost 20 years of in depth study of sustainable happiness, I can tell you with full confidence, it is possible and it is natural and it is human!

Most humans have their emotional state tied like an anchor to the ever-changing reality landscape around them.

If this is the case, when bad things happen, our cognitive and emotional states head straight toward the downward spiral. 

If not the downward spiral, the emotional roller coaster. 

Things are good; happiness.  Things are bad; unhappiness.

Seems natural and human until I offer you a strategy where you can no longer be a leaf in the wind or an anchor tied to the circumstances of your life.

This strategy is one based in positive psychology and leadership principles.

This strategy is not to be used to ignore or repress any human emotional experience.

It is used to help navigate the ever-changing landscape in your mind as daily life always offers challenges.

When the strategy of these five steps of sustainable happiness are engaged on a daily basis, there is a consistent recalibration to the moment, to positivity, to empowerment to deeper meaning and purpose and to faith in the unknown.

Imagine being empowered over your own emotional state, instead of the world being empowered over you.

Imagine being able to create a positive mood within yourself no matter what is happening around you.

Imagine having resiliency that is seamless no matter what the challenge.

Imagine having contentment and fulfillment in your heart separate from the emotional experience in your brain.

Imagine feeling safe and secure when faced with the unknown.

Imagine enjoying sorrow, grief, and sadness. Embracing them as you have power of them instead of them having power of you.

Employing sustainable happiness principles in your daily life can stop the downward spiral and the emotional roller coaster of life.

It only takes a 3:1 ratio of positive to negative emotional experiences to create your upward spiral and this strategy can offer you a 15:1 ratio if done accurately.

Which do you want?

Downward Spiral

Emotional Roller Coaster

Upward Spiral

The choice is easy. The choice is yours.  The power of your sustainable happiness can be in your hands.

Positive emotion is different than positive mood.

Positive mood is different than resiliency.

Resiliency is different than contentment.

Contentment is different than bliss.

All of which are under the umbrella of the term – happiness.

So yes sustainable happiness is a possible and it is human.

It is human to be able to control your own emotional state and I offer this 5 step guide as a tool to be used to help create your upward spiral for life once and for all.

Do you want to contribute to this conversation?

Dr Aymee Coget

Sustainable Happiness Doctor

Sfhappinessdoctor at gmail dot com

www.happinessmakeover.com