In her book, “Happy For No Reason”, Marci Shimoff shares stories of various individuals from what she calls “the happy 100”.

In our practice one of the primary points of focus in care is to create a paradigm shift.  If we can not communicate and lead people to the perspective that we are spiritual beings undergoing a physical condition, instead of we are physical beings with brief glimpses of spiritual experiences, there will be very little true healing and transformation.

A common misconception of our race, society, family lineage and personal perspective is that happiness as a source, is external to me.  Therefore I must always be out of myself, pursuing in desire or dreading in fear the essential happiness that all humans long for.  This outside/in thinking is the essence of suffering.

What Marci Shimoff is getting at is that within us is the eternal source of happiness.  So instead of looking out there for my quick fix of happiness or a need to fight/flight from threat, perhaps we can begin to look at our habits for what is going on in my life i.e. body, relationships or finances.  As I look deep for what I am grateful for, I begin to recontectualize my life and I see it from a different, deeper perspective.

I begin to be happy, joyful, content, enthusiastic for no reason at all, because I am living from beingness which is one of abundance, that seeks to gift its own inner joy, unconditionally to others!

So in the words of Thomas Jefferson, “Let us pursue (which means to practice in habits) happiness in all we think, say and do” and it shall be so, from the inside out!

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland F. Phillips BA.,BS.,D.C.