Nine Insights For a Successful and Happy Life
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Happiness is an art. If you wish to practice this art, you must first decide that it is something that you want, above everything else. People that choose to be happy will at some point wake up to a day filled with smiles, joy, and laughter. If they are lucky, they will remember that day, focus on its high points, and strive to repeat it. Before too long, another happy day will appear, seemingly out of the blue. People around them will wonder why they seem to be so different. The reason will not be found in surface changes.
The Nine Insights For a Happy and Successful Life emerged from my own life long desire to help thousands of people find happiness. Happiness is a gift that we bestow upon ourselves each time that we embrace the joy that breathes within. This book outlines two main themes that will guide you on the road to happiness. The first explores methods that will help you discover the secret inner joy that already hides within you. The second explores powerful and effective methods that will help you remove the chaos and obstacles that prevent you from feeling and expressing that joy in your daily life.
Success and happiness travel together on the road to joy. Let us discover your inner path together.
Mitchell Earl Gibson MD
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Introduction
During my career as a psychiatrist, I have been given a very privileged view into the lives of thousands of people. One day, I actually took the time to estimate just how many contacts I had witnessed over my tenure as a psychiatrist. I began my residency in 1985, and continued the general practice of clinical psychiatry until June 2005. During that time, I treated people from all walks of life. I worked with governors, astronauts, professional athletes, ambassadors, serial killers, boxers, corporate CEOs, career criminals, children, adolescents, housewives, physicians, millionaires, and countless other people within the human tapestry. I spent years counseling tens of thousands of individuals in nursing homes, hospitals, emergency rooms, homeless shelters, my private office, jails, schools, churches, community centers, adolescent care facilities, and hospice centers. I estimate that I have participated in over 96,000 individual contact sessions with my clients over the past 20 years. This amounts to an average of 20 sessions per day, 5 days per week, and 48 weeks per year over 20 years. This rough estimate does not include on-call nights, weekends, and emergency consultations.
There are many physicians in my field and other walks of medicine who have spent far more time with clients than I have. I personally know that a number of my colleagues treat many times that number of individuals per day. My point here is not to point out how hard medical professionals work. That is part of the arrangement that we accept when we take the oaths and training of a medical professional. I have noted, however, that the tremendous amount of time that we spend delving into the intimate lives of people gives us the opportunity to develop thought-provoking insights into humanity. I will outline these points for you before we proceed.
One: My clients were teaching me more about life than my medical training ever did.
Two: As I watched the sea of humanity parade before me on a daily basis, I often noted how our lives played out like gigantic scenes upon the stage of the world.
Three: Sometimes, when I listened very carefully, a player upon the stage would speak directly to me, and share profound life-changing insight derived from the heart of suffering and desire.
These profound and insightful statements were often repeated at the most unexpected times by the most unlikely clients. I recall one session where one such insight came from a five year old. I was asked to evaluate a young girl who was suspected of being psychotic. Her family reported that she talked to herself, was isolative, and did not sleep well at night because she was afraid of the ghosts that came into her room. After the family had exhausted a number of avenues, including church counselors, psychologists, and family counselors, they brought her in to me for medical evaluation.
The child, Melissa (not her real name), was a beautiful young lady with long, curly golden locks, ruddy cheeks, and large, penetrating blue eyes. She stormed into my office under obvious protest, and sat sullenly in the corner chair as her parents presented her medical history. I noticed that the child would occasionally throw furtive glances at me and just as quickly look away. After her parents had finished giving me her history, I asked them if I could spend a few minutes talking with her alone.
I offered Melissa some of the dolls and stuffed animals from a box that I kept in the corner. She took an almost immediate liking to an old, tattered stuffed bear that lay beside the box. As she stroked the bear's head, she looked up at me and smiled. Then she uttered a statement that floored me.
Your grandmother says she enjoyed talking with you last night.
I had dreamt about my grandmother the night before. In the dream, my grandmother had cooked a wonderful meal for me, and we’d talked about my work and the family. I remembered the dream because my grandmother had died ten years earlier, before I had graduated from medical school.
Melissa, how do you know that my grandmother talked with me last night?
She told me,
Melissa replied plainly.
How do you know that it was my grandmother, Melissa?
Dr. Gibson, we can do this like all my other counselors, or you can empty your cup a little and really listen to me.
Her words hit me like a blinding flash of light in a dark cave. This child was experiencing perceptions that she could not share with others. If I continued along a cold, clinical psychiatric line of questioning, I would most likely hospitalize her, place her on anti-psychotic medication, and turn off the unique light that burned within her consciousness forever. If I listened to her, emptying my cup so to speak, I learned that I would have to accept my role in the creation of something wonderful.
We talked for 30 minutes. She explained her visions and communications with the people in the dream,
as she called them. As we talked, I realized that she was not psychotic. Melissa was a budding clairvoyant. I never gave her medication, and through our work together, she learned to control her gift and grew into a happy, healthy young lady.
Her insight into her own dilemma was profound. There have been many aha
moments in my clinical career that mirror the empty-your-cup perspective provided to me by Melissa. This book was inspired by the gift of thousands of such moments.
The Nine Insights is a book that is designed to be a guide for those who wish to rise above the suffering and confusion that so often marks this path of existence. As a medical professional, the Creator has given me thousands of profound moments of transformational insight. I began keeping notes on these insights, and stored them away in a journal that, over time, became the basis for this work. From time to time, I shared these insights with friends, family, clients, and colleagues. Simple in their presentation, profound in their scope, The Nine Insights are meant only as a reference. Each chapter presents one insight as a unique entity. The stories and vignettes that support each insight are, in large part, based on my personal clinical experiences. From time to time, I have included a number of famous stories from history that help to outline the deeper perspectives of some of the insights.
I invite the reader to share these insights with others. I hope to provide a little light in a world in which millions feel isolated, empty, and without hope. The Nine Insights came from the Creator. I believe that they are His way of reminding each of us that we are unique and special to Him in ways that we cannot even imagine.
Mitchell Earl Gibson, MD
Insight Number One
Regularly giving away a small portion of your wealth helps to prevent the energy of chaos from building up in your life.
Money is one of the single greatest motivating forces for much of what we do in life. It is true that some of us are not motivated by the acquisition of money or wealth. Some people have more than they will ever need. Some people have no need for wealth. However, that is not true of most people. Most people are taught that getting the right education, securing the right job, and managing your finances properly are the secrets to a prosperous life. That is the real reason that most of us work. That is the real reason that most of us went to college. That is the real reason that most people get up every day and repeat the same routines that our forefathers did before us. In short, we want the security that money brings to life. We want security