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The Happiness Trap: Happiness for the Rest of Us

A frustrated victim of motivational speakers, Arena begins her look at the happiness industry with us while reading The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. She will take us back to a Millionaire Mind Seminar where her quest to live her dreams brought her to a standstill with debt, legal trouble, and living in her worst nightmare - geographically, even.

Amy Arena holds a B.A. in American Studies from San Francisco State University. A respected actress and world-renown singer (at least underground) , Arena has written several peer-appreciated, but not-yet-produced plays, has published poetry and won awards for her short stories on websites that no longer exist, and produced an album that she can't afford to hype with the finesse of the happiness experts.

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  • Manifesting Mayhem

    I recently got in a little debate with a friend of mine about how to go about manifesting what you want.  We were speaking on internet chat so I don’t know if we were mis-communicating because that’s what we do or if we were impeded from clarity because of the nature of type-talking.  The issue was that I felt you needed to practice where she felt you could pop into such power.  At least, that’s what I was arguing, but again, it seems we were arguing against points we didn’t understand.

    I believe even to pop needs practice.  I wanted to tell her my many Manifesting mistakes that I’m still working on.  I am AWESOME at manifesting.  However, my skills for some time were off.  I’m saying “were” off because I don’t want to give power to the present moment.  That’s how you do it, right?

    Ok, so, I have a lot of examples.  Maybe that’s what I’ll blog about for a little while.  For now, though, let me just bring up this one from last night.

    I’m getting my money sorted out and a few years of a bad mood because I moved somewhere I didn’t want to be.  I’m not sure how someone does something so huge by accident, but I did.  I’m pretty magnificent that way.  One of the things my marriage badly needs is a bed.  He sleeps on the couch and I sleep on a trundle because we left the bed in Detroit. 

    We thought we’d move out of our “transition” home in a few months and deal with it later.  We haven’t moved.  The bed’s still there.  When we have money, we plan on moving again and decide we shouldn’t buy a bed until we do move.  Recently, I gave up on the idea and figure when we move we’ll find a way to move the bed, too.  So I’ve been wishing for a bed.  Hoping to win a Posturpedic.  Yeah!  Apparently, what I’ve been asking for is a “free bed.”

    Yesterday I was offered a new twin with mattress and frame.  Free. 

    With no intention of quoting Ms. Spears, “Oops, I did it again.”

    Tagged: Britney Spears Manifestation Manifestation Mistakes Get What You WAnt Self Help Self Transformation Personal Transformation

    Posted on April 22, 2011 with 8 notes

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