By: Heidi Whitaker

After reading the book Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out, by “The Secret’s” and “Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul’s” Marci Shimoff. , I knew that I wanted to start a forum for it. The book covers so many aspects that are relevant to members of the Connecting With Women / Real Guy Talk communities as well as my healthydivas.com community.

This forum is especially geared toward individuals building a network marketing business as well as individuals with autoimmune diseases such as Fibromyalgia, CFS, MS, RA, and others.

This positive group’s purpose is to help one another implement the principles that lead to building happiness from the inside.

What does that have to do with network marketing?

Think about it for a minute.

It is MUCH easier to recruit the perfect people into your organization when YOU are the kind of person that others want to be around. The fact is that people prefer to be around happy and optimistic individuals.

Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out teaches you HOW to be the kind of person that prospects want to go into a network marketing business with.

Being happy for no reason literally can make you an MLM magnet.

Being happy doesn’t cost you a thing. Learning how to be happy no matter what your circumstances doesn’t cost much either. You can get Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out from your local library. It is also available at Amazon.com.

I invite you to join the forum (even if you don’t read the book).

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If you have ever seen the movie or read the story Sarah, Plain and Tall, you know that Sarah answered an advertisement for a mail order bride in the hopes of making a difference in the lives of two young children whose mother had died. When times were hard, she stayed so that she could “make a difference”.

Love and Laughter - Real Medicine for Real Life
By Heidi Whitaker

Positive emotions, a good attitude, laughter, and love have an exceptionally powerful effect on immunity and a person’s ability to deal with disease. When we feel love, compassion, caring, or gratitude, the heart sends messages to the brain, which secretes hormones that positively affect our health.

Love is healing both to the giver and the receiver. We are protected from infection by social ties with friends, family, and community that involve love. In a study, 276 healthy volunteers received nasal drops containing rhinovirus, which causes the common cold. Not everyone who was infected became ill. Those with the greatest ties and number of strong relationships were the least likely to get sick.

Love of self is also an important part of the equation. One doctor stated that if he told his patients to raise their own immune function, they would not know how. However, if he taught them how to love themselves and others fully, it would achieve the desired effect

Just behind love in its healing properties is laughter. Individuals with a better sense of humor have stronger immune systems than those who do not laugh easily. Studies show that watching as little as thirty to sixty minutes of a comedy video is enough to increase immunoglobulin A, a part of your immune system, which serves to protect you against upper respiratory problems. We know from that same study that watching comedies increases levels of a substance called Complement 3, which helps antibodies pierce through and destroy defective or infected cells.

Too stressed out to take time out to laugh? Stress has such a powerful effect on immunity that it is estimated that in the general population, two-thirds of all the illnesses seen by doctors are stress related. Your body responds to emotional stress the same way it responds to physical stress: with increased disease.

You don’t even have to be experiencing stress in that moment. According to research, just recalling or thinking about stressful times in your past will warp immune function. In contrast, remembering happy times raises immunity.

Your immune system functions as a mirror to your emotions. If you want to be healthier, be happier. Focus your thoughts on the good in your life. Schedule time to laugh. Schedule time with friends and family. Make a daily effort to show your love and appreciation for them.

Heidi Whitaker is an author and popular speaker on the subject of autoimmunity.

She co-founded http://www.HealthyDivas.com a resource center for those with autoimmune disease looking for help and answers.

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By: Heidi Whitaker

“We cannot lower the mountain, therefore We must elevate ourselves.” -Todd Skinner

Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest. However, in 1952 he made a valiant, but failed attempt to climb Mount Everest. A few weeks later, while addressing an excited English crowd, Hillary made a fist and pointed at a picture of the mountain. In a loud voice he shouted, “Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I’ll beat you the next time because you’ve grown all you are going to grow… but I’m still growing!”

What is Your Personal Mount Everest?

Climbing your own Mount Everest means reaching the best that is within you. As you put one foot in front of the other, success – in business, relationships, health and all aspects of life - will follow you up that mountain.

Are you Thinking Big Enough?

Mountaineer and public speaker, Todd Skinner, encourages us to “Think, Believe, and Act on a Himalayan Scale.”

Fourteen and half-year-old Christopher Harris has already scaled Mount Everest, making it just 1500 metres from the summit before being forced to turn back. Where has this young man set his sights? Christopher dreams of Mars, where the tallest mountain reaches 21 kilometres into the Martian sky.

Indeed, before you can act on a Himalayan scale, you must think on one. It is your thinking that will determine how high you scale in this life.

“When I Have a Choice, I Choose to Believe” –Leslie Householder

On any given day, more than half of the thoughts of the average person are negative. What’s worse, 80% of those negative thoughts are recycled negative thoughts from the day before. We’re just thinking the same negative thoughts day after day. No wonder so many people are afraid of anything that may help them to progress.

Spend as much time as you can reading and listening to motivational materials. Read or listen to biographies about successful people. If you are sick, feed you mind stories of people who have overcome illness. If you are poor, feed your mind stories of people who have overcome poverty.

Constantly feed your mind until you come to understand and accept that although there will be failures along the way, success is a NORMAL consequence to risk-taking. This is what will give you the courage to climb your personal Mount Everest.

The skeptic says, “Let’s see if this will work.” The intelligent person says, “Let’s see this work.” - Steve Pavlina

Erik Weihenmayer, is a blind man who dreamed of climbing Mount Everest, a feat that defied nearly 90 percent of those who have attempted the climb to the summit. Determined not to waste his life feeling depressed and useless, Eric began to stretch his limits and became one of the elite few to make it to the top of the mountain.

Erik conquered Everest by simply putting one foot in front of the other. When asked how he accomplished this feat, Erik said, “I just kept thinking … keep your mind focused. Don’t let all that doubt and fear and frustration sort of get in the way.” Then, most importantly, he said, “Just take each day step by step.”

Eric didn’t wait for another blind man to pave the way for him up the mountainside. He took action. All the positive thinking in the world would not have gotten him anywhere had he not moved his feet.