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Drop the Act - THE HAPPINESS ADDICTION

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OUR STAND

YOUR DENIAL is the beginning. The opening act on another struggle. Some of you who see this attempt to start distancing yourself from even the thought - thinking if you make your world small enough no one will know how addicted you are really. Shrinking your world is another lesson learned, but not the final one. This lens is an organized presentation to get at the heart of happiness and addiction. Not the usual -type (as seen in movies), but people that have jobs, families and a problem - like YOU.

This lens is my stand for HAPPINESS not pain. It's a stand to look at pain and see where the edges of happiness can still be seen. This is about the boundaries between happiness and those other things that sometimes blur our vision of happiness and make us be a smaller, weaker selves.

Being Happy is not always pretty

The following articles poke at how addiction is normally seen. Take your assumptions out for a comparison to what an addicts life is like.

Cheaper is Better: More treatment is not better for the patient - they have a life - they want to get to it.
Home and Employee Drug Test Kits Professor Test Kit: Home and professional drug test kits. FDA approved, laboratory accurate results in less than 5 minutes, 100% private.
Addicted to Knowledge: Neuroscientists at the University of Southern California have proposed a simple explanation for the pleasure of grasping a new concept: The brain is getting its fix.
Internet Poker Pro: Is being happy an act of Winning? Check this player's story.

The day to day writings and ramblings of a dedicated poker player and online addict...plus black and white "how I am doing" updates on the games around the Net.
When the Brain needs Help: There is a debate as to the location in your body where Happiness actually takes place. This article is for those that believe it takes place in the head. It describes those chemicals that best bring Happiness about.
When the Brain's Happiness is not Enough: For me Happiness takes place throughout the body not just in the brain. This article spells out the misuse some have made of an evolving science. Decide for yourself where your happiness takes place.
Moderate drinkers end up better thinkers: Moderate drinkers have been found to be better thinkers than heavy drinkers and those who do not drink at all, according to the Australian National University research. In a study of more than 7000 people aged 20-24, 40-44 and 60-64, participants were asked about their alcohol use, and to perform a series of tests to measure cognition - verbal skills, memory and speed of thinking.
Secret Dubai diary: Intrigue and adventure in the United Arab Emirates
Mosaic: Stories of Digital Lives and Identities: There is a dark side Gaming that players are oftentimes unwilling to confront - the prevalence of addiction.

A significant number of respondents considered themselves to be addicted to the game. Female players below the age of 23 were more likely than male players of the same age range to consider themselves addicted to the game.
Top 10 Celebrity Drug Users (living) | Informative Treatment Articles | Casa Palmera: Who are the celebrities that are the biggest users?
Happiness Formula: Mark Easton goes on a journey to understand what lasting happiness is. The six-part series looks at the newest research, examine the latest policy proposals, and meet the most cutting-edge thinkers from around the world.
IngentaConnect Social Networks of Drug Users in High-Risk Sites: Finding the Con...: Social Networks of Drug Users in High-Risk Sites: Finding the Connections
MyHappiness - Making Life Happier: Find your own path to sustained happiness by using Happiness Information, Directory of Resources, online tools and the help of an online community of your peers.
Movies on Addiction: Drugs....alcohol...pills...
They dull the pain, release our inhibitions, provide brief reprieve from difficulties ... then pull some of us down into a dwindling spiral. And along with ups and downs in our lives they provide ample fodder for drama in our entertainment.
Kevin Smith's "Boring Ass Life": I figured why not put the whole tale of Jason's battle with drug addiction into print here, where folks can get a better idea of who Jason truly is and maybe why he fell victim to heroin abuse in the first place. I'm thinking it's gonna be at least a four-parter, and I'm hoping to wrap it up by April 6th, the day Mewes celebrates his "Sober Birthday", when Jay will mark his third straight year of living completely drug and alcohol free.

Caught in Happiness

What do you look like being Happy

Happiness sometimes translates very nicely into pictures.

On Happiness - "the blips"

The penultimate issue, perhaps, with the emergence of happiness is the tension it stirs up. For the simple reason it disrupts, and by its very nature, being institutionally weak, needs to stand over against that which its being disrupts - fear.

Change Your Life Articles

Over time the staff at Changed Life writes for the general public essays and articles to illuminate what living under the influence means and how we see it.

Happiness is the "picture" you live

Wild Divine: The Journey to Wild Divine is a unique program for mind & body that links biofeedback hardware with your computer to create an enlightening experience of wellness.
Learn new breathing and meditation techniques using biofeedback to create a renewed sense of balance. The perfect addition to your wellness.
Passionate Using: Creating Passionate Users - Positive Psychic energy. This is how your day is technically supported and implemented. Your experience in the activies of operating devices.

Happyness is having the most and best toys.
Yes You Can!: Podcast. Happiness comes in words - spoken or silent. Take 5 minutes of encouragement.
VentureBlog Doin Happiness: Valleyschwag: The Power of Schwag By David Hornik on April 28, 2006 --Management Issues
I got my first package from Valleyschwag this week and it is just fantastic. What is ValleySchwag, you ask? Stuff of happiness defined by a venture capatalist. Everyone is is getting into the picture.
SAMHSA News - Volume XI, Number 3, Summer 2003: Doctor Shopping and other methods of seeking out unwarranted pain medication use shows up in all the best places and done by more people than you think. The Happiness sought in pain relief covers other breaks that Changed Life Ltd is focus to treat.
Blogcritics.org: Scientists Discover How to Measure Happiness Exactly: Sci/Tech: Scientists Discover How to Measure Happiness Exactly - Science finally learns to measure happiness exactly. More or less. Here is the protocol and some new findings.
Edge: THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS: A Talk with Daniel Gilbert: More thoughts on how happiness is a brain state and what part does imagination plays in strengthening or weakening that happiness.
Some Dark Thought on Happiness: Investigating Positive Psychology's Supporters and Antaggonists. Why would a New Yorker frown on being happy?
Debating Human Happiness: A Conversation between Martin Seligman, Robert Wright, and Steven Pinker.
Positive Psychology & the Buddhist Path: Does compassion make you happier?

Drop The Act - Specific Happiness Addictions

In this module we will feature more specific resources on addiction of various forms.

New Flickr Pictures

The Latest From The Establishment

What hacks are available to institutional users for addiction treatment.

The Cogntive State

Positive Pyschology

The techniques and test of the science of being happy over the long run. Not simply more wealthy, but the better person no one has time to be.

The Policy of Happiness

Governments are established to protect and provide Happiness for its citzens. How do really smart people write about Happiness. Is it the same as you think or not?

Happiness Public Policy: From the Cato Institute we have Will Wilkinson
Policy Analyst

Will Wilkinson is a policy analyst working on a wide range of issues from the moral dimensions of Social Security reform to the policy implications of the psychology of happiness.
Happiness in Economics: The new Journal of Economic Perspectives contains two interesting looking happiness papers, one on "Developments in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being" by Kahnemann and Krueger, and "Some Uses of Happiness Data in Economics" by Di Tella and MacCulloch.
Drug WarRant: News, analysis, and rants from the front lines of the drug war, by Pete Guither.
IDEAL | Illinois Drug Education and Legislative Reform: Illinois Drug Education and Legislative [IDEAL] Reform is an Illinois-based not-for profit advocacy organization, working to foster public and healthcare policies that best respond to the societal problems associated with drug prohibition and risks of drug misuse (taking the stigma way).

We base our work in science,harm reduction , compassion, and truth. We strive to educate the public and healthcare professionals through the advancement and examination of medical research.
Internet addiction disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Internet addiction disorder (IAD) is a theorized disorder coined by Ivan Goldberg, M.D., in 1997. It is compared to pathological gambling as diagnosed by the DSM-IV. Dr. Goldberg, along with Kimberly Young, Psy.D. are currently lobbying for the inclusion of IAD into the DSM-V, the next edition of the DSM, which would open the doors for insurance companies to pay out for Internet addiction counseling. However many others argue that IAD is not an actual disorder and should not be classified as a mental disorder in DSM-V.

Know Happiness - Be a Student of its Wonders!

Aristotle concluded that, more than anything else, men and women seek happiness. Over the years many others have since discribed it, but only recently has our knowledge of happiness related to states in our brain. To know happiness is to know your essence. The books I suggest below both confirm and explore happiness and how it can change your life.

Happiness in Art

Here's to the language games, the slights, tolerances denied and the stength to have fun with them, to know, in the many forms of art: Music, Books, and Movies why Happiess is worth the effort.

Music
Doo Bop - Miles Davis
Common - Common
Ahmad Jamal - But Not For Me,
Charles Lloyd - Forrest Flower,
Jazz at the Pawnshop,
Dakota Staton - The late late show,
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage,
John Coltrane - Blue Train,
Nikki Giovanni - Truth is on its way,
Weather Report - Heavy Weather,
Derek and the Dominos - Layla,
Dave Douglas - Keystone,
Norah Jones - come away with me,
Joe Sample & Lahah Hathway The Song Lives On,
Tied + Tickled Trio - electric avenue tapes, Bobby Mcferrin - The Voice,
Kurt Elling - This Time It's Love & Man In the Air
Books

Walker's Appeal & Garnet Address,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra,
Stupidity,
After Virtue,
The History of Sexuality,
Language Counter Memory Practice,
Faces at the bottom of the well,
The Colossus of New York,
The Dying Animal,
Ravelstein,
The Transparent Society,
Race and the Education of desire,
The Concise book of lying,
Wickedness-A philosophical essay,
A Rhetoric of Irony,
Ethics and the rule of law,
Hegemony & Socialist Strategy,
Exit-Voice-and Loyalty,
Design Thinking,
Movies

What the Bleep do we know,
Waking Life,
Three Days of Condor,
Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex, Steamboy,
Serenity,
Loveactually,
i humkabees,
Don Juan Demarco,
Being There,
Three Kings,
Fallen, Man on Fire,
Blade Runner,
Batman Begins,
Romeo + Juliet,
A Midsummer Night's Dream,
Baron Munchasen,
Absolutely Fabulous,
Akira,
Ghost in the Shell 2: innocence

Say it with Stuff: Happiness

It's not enough to simply say the words - being Happy is full of sights, textures and feel. Visit the selections of stuff that speaks - Happy talk.

Denial is the first hurdle

Happiness is getting over yourself!

You know what makes you happy - you.

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