My “Instant Happy” Happiness Tool

Karen Salmansohn is one of my favorite authors. I read most of her books, gives me a huge laugh, and teaches me timeless wisdoms.  Love it!

She shared some of her happiness tools that come from her bestselling book - "Instant Happy".  All her messages in the book reminded me of my journey to my difficult years in the past from the beginning life of my hearing-impaired at the age of 10- a slow learner, unresolved distorted and mumbled sounds from hearing aids for many years, unable to speak until the age of 10 and has difficulty in comprehending words , the sudden death of my father at age 17, the verbal abuse from some of my family members, relatives, classmates, teachers, and others.  In short, I was unhappy childhood life. But only one quote from the INSTANT HAPPY book that changes my life throughout the years which becomes my "Instant Happy" Happiness tool. I'll tell you in a while. hehe

One day, I grew tired dependent on them, to being slaves to them, and to please them.  That was when I was 19 years old. I said to myself in a "movie" mind that I wanted to understand words.  I didn't care if I didn't hear them. I didn’t care too if my hearing aids didn't work for me. All I want is to learn the English language and how to use those words to communicate with people in order to fight the right, to tell the truth, and to stand my feet on the ground! That's all I want and nothing else.

Then, I pray to God to help me to achieve my impossible dream.  Suddenly, my inner voice spoke to me in  typewritten words inside my mind and said- "YOU CAN DO IT! YOU GOTTA FAITH IT TO MAKE IT!" For me, at that time, those words were too aliens to me. I felt like it came from other planets. However, I follow my intuition to work for me heartily. At the age of 24, I started hiring different English teachers, practicing trials and errors in writing, forcing myself to read at least 70 books, and many more. I have achieved my dream today at the age of 28.5 but I still keep improving writing everyday through self-studying.

Now, I understand that word "faith" and is the most important powerful word above all else. Faith is a full package of “believe yourself”, “trust the power within”, and “love all your imperfections”. Because of that, you gotta faith it to make it work! Better than the word “fight”. Make sense!

This poster below is worth to keep it as my greatest “instant” happiness tool. Look, it is color green which means, GO, GO, GO!!! My dear, have faith and keep going!

From Karen Salmansohn's "Instant Happy" book

Hope you enjoy reading! :)

If you like it and want to inspire with powerful quotes/messages, I suggest you to have a look for "Instant Happy" book at www.notsalmon.com/instant-happy-book

xoxo :)

Take a Deep Breath

We are overwhelmed of our problems that lead to emotional depression and anxiety. Most of the time we disconnected to the normal hearing society because of our insecurities in our hearing-impairment that haven't met their standards and expectations as well as labelling us as "disabilities".  So, we stop what we are doing and take our power away and follow what they want us to do just to please them.  

Don't you think we act like a puppet and robot? Don't you think we feel slaves?

If so, it's time to stop to ACT AND FEEL like one!

It's time to change! 

We are ordinary people just like them but doing extraordinary things.

Really!!! We are!!!

We just missed one thing- hearing problem... So, that's not a big problem unless you let it be...

I'm sure you might be asking, "How can I start from scratch all over again? or Is it too late to start over again?"

But before you start doing anything, first you need to

 TAKE A DEEP BREATH! .Inhale .... and.. Exhale.... Inhale... Exhale...

FEEL the breath... that you are ALIVE! 

Again, INHALE all the good and positive vibes that enter inside our body 

and

EXHALE all our toxins from our body.  

Just do a simple breathing and you're on the way to master a very simple technique of breathing and meditation. Yey!!!

Who knows, it will turn a good tree and a flower as an added bonus and makes our world beautiful - Look at this :

From Google Image

Is it lovely?  So take a deep breath.. :)

You can do that while working, driving, cooking, or anything you do.  

It helps me to do it. Now, I'm happy, very happy!!! :) Even on the crisis time, I'm so happy too!!! :) 

If you don't believe me, you can read my previous posts about my emotional traumas, depressions, etc due to too much bully and abuse from my hearing-impairment and naive.  It might not a good read to you but I tell anyway so I have a proof to tell you that I'm an ordinary person too just like any humans but willing to do extraordinary things that makes me feel unique inspite of being hearing- impairment.

 just keep breathing to connect with yourself, and you're on the way to feel heaven.

Hope this inspires you.

More stories to come! :)

xoxo

No Class Today, Happy or Not Happy?

How many of you hear of these message, -"No Class Today, Yey!!!!" ? Almost all, right? What did they do if they don't have classes? They go to sleep, hang out with friends, buzzing through facebook, watch TV and other entertainment activities. 

Hearing this, my reaction is, "Sad, very sad". Because young people know what they want in life, but they just don't know how to do it. Schools don't provide those things on how to manifest their greatest desires in life. That's a big problem here in all schools around the world.  But I'm happy that they have the enjoyments they want such as going to party, enjoy bonding with people, etc. In my case, my struggle with difficulty in understanding words and not be able to hear well blocks the social happiness of my young life. Kinda lonely, though.

Back then, in my school days, I had problems with understanding with words, no matter how hard I tried to find ways to just get the meaning of those words, it didn't seep into my mind the clear detail of the words. What I did was picturing all those words from the textbooks inside my mind without understanding the meaning. So, I was happy if there were no classes because I was very busy memorizing everything- sometimes I wrote them everything from the book for easier memorization. That's how I survived in my school days, u can pass the exams just memorizing even if you didn't understand everything. Since, I didn't listen to teachers because I didn't understand anything! All I hear was mumbling and I stare their lip movements. Words were pretty confusing and aliens to me!

To be honest with you, it's not easy to live in hearing-impaired life here....there are plenty of things needed to get some training, learning, and so on just to get improving on hearing, listening, and communicating in order to survive in the real world. So, if there are no classes, you know where they are going...

See, why I tell this, because if you are normal hearing and able to study in school, take the chance and keep learning. As parents pay for your education so you can study all you want like yoga, belly dancing, painting, calligraphy,.. etc.. You have plenty of time during school days.... Take advantage of youth...

I myself gave up all creative sides such as piano and drawing just to commit myself to go into the world of understanding English words even if it is impossible to accomplish. 

So, if you come around no class again, think of what you do to make you happy that makes your life worth for. :)

From Google Image. Busy jotting down! :)

Hope you enjoy your day! :)

xoxo 

Hey, I'm Still Alive!

Oh no, I just notice that I didn't post for a long time. I'm sorry that it didn't excite you anymore. I didn't feel that I'm away for almost three months.  Maybe it's time to break my rules to tell you the truth.

First, I want to tell you that I'M STILL ALIVE and KICKING! hehe:)

Second, I am busy to look for answers to my problems mainly for emotional depressions, on and off switch creative blocks, communication problems, and passion- oriented career problem. Wait, did I ask for help? Yes, I did but none can help me to solve my problems. Soooo, I have to learn on my own... That's why I'm very busy doing research and experiment about life exploration. :) So, pardon for my being nerdy. hehe

Lastly, Of course, I really won't forget you. I am just busy experimenting here and there for my Exsilent QLEAFPRO hearing aids and how to apply in my life aspects. There are many things I discovered that I never experienced in my 17 years of my life! Wahoo! Hope you all are patiently waiting for my review. Give me more time. Since I need to expose different kinds of sound environment to check it out. :)

There are so many changes going on here but I'm happy with what I found which I yearned for! :)

I'll let you know. Just stay tuned.