Choose to Be Happy: The Craft and the Art of Living Beyond Anxiety

Swami Chetananda offers Truth as no other spiritual teacher I know of today. He writes from profound experience guiding the reader gently......step by step to a point where it is possible to realize that the choice to be happy is in the reader's hands alone. His energy lives in all his books so to begin with one is to open one's heart and mind to a gift of transformative possibility.......for all of us! Barbara A. Rabin

Recently there's been a spate of books on how to find happiness or make yourself feel happier. They all make their case with impressive statistics, catchy lists, and simple little tricks you can use to talk yourself into a more uplifted state. But the real test is whether you can cultivate, sustain, and live from a place inside yourself where that happiness is deep and permanent. This is the only book I've found to get at the root cause and core practice that will result in a total inner transformation that translates to your whole life. This book is powerful, inspiring, and life-changing. If you want to be a happier person, start by reading this book.

Chetanananda who is carrying on the teaching for Rudi, brings his own style to the wisdom of the east stripped of all of it's cultural baggage, extracting a potent concentrated clarity. This is an intellectual poetic book that is double edged in that; the insight it brings clarifies and inspires and reveals the gunk and horror of what habitually falls out of our awareness. His metaphor of the pendulum and acting from a place prior to our projection of good/bad, positive/negative jarred me awake from a place of deep slumber. This book is beautiful.

Just the chapter on inner vision was worth the book by itself