PUBLICATION DATE: January 1, 2008
Dear Editor/Producer:
We are in the midst of a happiness revolution. Open a magazine or newspaper, turn on the television or radio, and you'll find an article, advertisement, or talk show focusing on our desire to be happy. It has been called the holy grail of human existence, the goal of all goals. We all want to discover how to attain true, lasting happiness; yet, it remains elusive to so many. With depression plaguing one out of four Americans, clearly we have gone off course in our search for happiness.
Marci Shimoff, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul and a featured teacher in the worldwide phenomenon The Secret, has been on a personal quest for happiness for the last thirty-five years. Now, in HAPPY FOR NO REASON: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out (Free Press, January 1, 2008; $24.95), with Carol Kline, Shimoff reveals her groundbreaking findings-the secrets to experiencing deep and lasting happiness that isn't dependent upon external circumstances such as relationships, career, or even success. It's a state of peace and well-being she calls “Happy for No Reason,” and she shows how it's available to us all.
Born of her own deep longing to be happy, Shimoff's journey shapes every page of the book. Narrated in a highly personal, engaging, and humorous style, HAPPY FOR NO REASON takes readers through a holistic seven-step program designed to raise their baseline level of happiness. In each step, Shimoff combines cutting-edge research in the field of Positive Psychology with practical techniques from many disciplines, plus inspiring Chicken Soup-style stories gleaned from her interviews with 100 unconditionally happy people, the group she calls her “Happy 100.” She demonstrates how, with the right tools, we can incorporate the habits of happy people into our lives to experience true happiness-wherever we're starting from.
Marci Shimoff is available for interviews this January. You can see her on the Today show January 8th. A dynamic speaker, she can discuss many groundbreaking discoveries and powerful techniques, including:
- How we can raise our “happiness set-point,” a genetic and learned tendency to remain at a certain level of happiness throughout our lives.
- How the “Law of Attraction” (a household term due to the success of The Secret in which Shimoff was a featured teacher) can help people become Happy for No Reason.
- How we can create the physiology of happiness that is characterized by distinct brain activity, heart rhythms, and body chemistry.
- How to overcome certain roadblocks to happiness, such as fear and anxiety, that have been hard-wired within us to insure our survival as a species.
- How to apply her “Secret Formula”: Intention + Attention + No Tension = Happy for No Reason.
Millions of people are longing to wake up happy every day. HAPPY FOR NO REASON offers us a foolproof formula for experiencing happiness as the constant backdrop for everything else in life. We hope that you will consider an interview with Marci Shimoff or a timely review or feature of her new book, and we will be in touch soon to discuss.
Happily,
Heidi Metcalfe