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      Simple Practices for Overcoming Life’s Challenges and Living Each Day with Joy

      Xandria Ooi

      Mango Publishing

      Coral Gables

      Copyright © 2019 Xandria Ooi

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      Be Happy, Always: Simple Practices for Overcoming Life’s Challenges and Living Each Day with Joy

      Library of Congress Cataloging

      ISBN: (p) 978-1-64250-039-4 (e) 978-1-64250-040-0

      LCCN: 2019944140

      BISAC category code: SEL016000—SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Happiness

      Printed in the United States of America

      To my mother, who is my most treasured gift and absolute blessing in life.

      Table of Contents

       Introduction

       Chapter One

       Understanding Happiness and Unhappiness

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Communicating Positively with Difficult People

       Chapter Four

       Letting Go of Anger and Negative Emotions

       Chapter Five

       Living with Joy, Positivity and Gratitude

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

      Contents by Subjects

      Acceptance

      2. People Can Cause Us Pain, but We Can Choose Not to Suffer

      3. We Can Always Choose, but Never Control, Our Happiness

      4. Depression Is Not Our Identity

      5. It’s Okay to Be Not Okay

      29. Love Is Not about Sacrifices, but about Acceptance

      31. Creating Positive Change Requires Us to See the Best and Not the Worst in Someone

      32. To Help Someone Change, We Must Genuinely Accept Them

      39. If You Expect a Dog to Meow, You’re Definitely Going to Be Disappointed!

      47. When a Person Triggers You, Thank Them for Teaching You Something about Yourself

      53. Letting Go Is Never for the Person Who Wronged Us—It’s For Ourselves

      53. Don’t Let Your Pain of the Past Stop You from Fully Living in the Present

      56. Take the Thorn from Your Heart and Throw It Away

      62. There Are No Good or Bad Emotions, Only Those That Serve or Don’t Serve Us

      63. Don’t Use Blame and Guilt to Punish Yourself

      66. We Cannot Let Go of What We Pretend Isn’t There

      72. When You’re Having a Difficult Time: Remember That Life Doesn’t Happen to Us, It Happens for Us

      Awareness

      14. Are Your Expectations Helping or Sabotaging You?

      15. Don’t Let Resentment Eat Away at Your Relationship

      17. Are Your Subconscious Expectations Hurting Your Relationship?

      26. “But It’s Only Fair” Is a Concept That Brings a Great Deal of Misery

      28. Don’t Outsource Your Happiness to Your Partner

      30. Expecting Someone to Have No Expectations Is an Expectation in Itself

      33. To Create Positive Change, Change Yourself

      35. When the Going Gets Tough, How Do You Respond?

      36. Do People Make You Unhappy? Or Is Your Belief Making You Unhappy?

      37. When We Unintentionally Judge People, We End Up Unintentionally Unhappy

      43. When Solving Problems, Ask, “Is My Reaction Part of the Problem?”

      50. Other People’s Bad Behavior Does Not Justify Our Own

      63. Hate Spills Over to the People We Love, Especially Our Children

      Perspective

      1. Life Is Either a Celebration or a Lesson

      9. Nobody Can Make Us Happy or Unhappy

      11. Your Normal Is Not the Universal Normal (Part 1)

      12. Your Normal Is Not the Universal Normal (Part 2)

      21. When Someone We Love Gives Us What We Need, It Is a Gift, Not Something to Which We Are Entitled

      23. Everyone Has Their Own Journey, and Nobody Is Obligated to Us

      40. When Two People Disagree, Who Is Right?

      73. When You Want to be Easily Happy: Make Even the

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