The book is based on a four-part premise. 1. Everybody wants to be happy 2. People are much less happy than they could be 3. People could be much happier if they knew what happiness is and how to get there 4. The explanation of what happiness is and how to get there is badly missing The objective of the book is to provide that missing information, positioning anyone to exit unhappiness and bring more happiness into their life. The book achieves that objective by taking an entirely unique approach. The key to the book's momentous breakthroughs starts with the title. Happiness is not a transactional "know, do, have thing". Happiness is a BE thing. And as such it has to be defined in "be terms". It can only be found at the "be-level of life." And it has to be pursued by the part of our human nature the deals with "be things". And yet all of those "be-type things" are almost entirely unknown. As far as defining happiness in "be terms", the book explains how we humans emotionally and perceptually experience happiness and unhappiness. We finally have a universal definition of what happiness IS. Importantly, that definition allows us to learn to "listen and detect" our momentary degree of happiness or unhappiness. In regards to finding happiness, it exists at the ever-active yet almost entirely unknown be-level of life. This is the level of life where happiness and unhappiness are constantly originating and expressing. There's much more to that. Perhaps most powerful of all the happiness-related insights is the realization that our mind and body have little to do with determining happiness and unhappiness. It turns out that our spiritual / higher nature is the part of us that operates at the be-level of life. It's the primary source of here and now happiness. Consistent with the book's objective, anyone can become aware of and understand these "be things" and in doing so get on a steady life-long path to what we all want – to simply BE happy.
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