Absolute Control: Not Your Typical Book On Happiness

By Shanti Atma

Everyone wants to be happy but attaining happiness sometimes comes at a price, sometimes confusion and misconceptions about the reality of things prevents us from being truly happy.
In this book you'll learn how to be happy by identifying common behaviors and thought patterns that make you unhappy, mastering your own mind and learning how to control it, how to direct it in the only direction that is meaningful to you - living an exceptional life of never ending happiness and peace.
Stop wasting your precious time being unhappy, learn how to be in control today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shanti Atma
• Release date: Jul 17, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310690365

Shanti Atma

I never in my life intended to be a writer. I came to The USA at 2005 and went to school for visual arts since I have a huge visual arts background. I graduated as a Graphic and Web Designer but shortly after starting to work as one I realized that this wasn’t how I wanted to spend my life, I wanted to be in a greater service of people.Years later I moved to New York City and was working as a real estate agent in one of the largest real estate firms in the city. I wasn’t happy there because I wasn’t serving humanity for a greater cause. After two years I wanted to start my own company and I wasn’t sure how to drive people to my website so they could buy my product.I don’t really remember how I came up with the idea of writing an e-Book but I did it and I distributed it for free in order to build customer trust and make people come to my website. Things took an unexpected twist. One day I received an email from one of my readers telling me how my book changed her life. That day I realized that my calling was to change people’s lives by sharing my knowledge.I still can’t believe this is happening. Now my life is more meaningful than ever because I have the opportunity to reach countless people around the globe thanks to Smashwords and iBooks.

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ABSOLUTE CONTROL

NOT YOUR TYPICAL BOOK ON HAPPINESS

By Shanti Atma

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Published by Intrinsic Publications at Smashwords

Copyright © 2015-2016 by Intrinsic Publications

ISBN 9781310690365

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

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Part 1. Why I wrote this book?

I've had much unhappiness in my life, just like you, and every time I reached a point of no return, a realization, enlightenment, or extreme unbearable pain, I asked myself what the purpose of life was. Why I am here, what the meaning of this world and my existence in it is. Most of all, why life is so painful and unbearable half or most of the time.

This became the reason I wrote Absolute Control. The system described here has changed my life, and if you follow it, it will surely change yours, too.

Just as I was writing these pages, my mother called me and told me my father is dying of prostate cancer, which has spread out to his bones, and he's lying in a hospital bed, emasculated and crying in great pain. This broken down man, once a vigorous alpha male, is now like a little helpless child.

My earliest childhood memory is precisely me crawling on the floor of my mother's house, finding myself in my parents' bedroom, only to witness my father beating the shit out of my mom - the one who raised me with so much love and care. He was throwing her against the brown wooden doors of the closet. He used to beat me up, too. Regardless, I do feel compassion for his condition, and I wish that no human being had to go through such a painful ending.

My ex-wife, the love of my life, just gave birth prematurely, in the fifth month, to a dying child, which is now hooked up to all kinds of life support machines like a human battery in The Matrix, but she told me that the child will most likely die. And even if it doesn't, it will have some serious mental and physical limitations.

It really breaks my heart to know that my sweetheart, my sun and my moon, my everything, is going through such a hell. Just imagine yourself in that situation--you are facing the dilemma whether to pull the plug on your own child or let it grow up mentally and physically damaged.

I'm just like you. I have my own problems, and you have yours. Such events have transformed me into a seeker of truth. I turned to history for the answers, and what I found was that nothing much has changed since ancient Rome, not even in present-day New York. This might sound shocking to you, but it is because we inhabit bodies that haven't had the chance to adapt to such a fast evolving environment.

What we are is a strange mixture of an old animal living in a technologically-advanced world, where all our knowledge and understanding collides with our spiritual side, with our belief or disbelief in God--if we have one.

Gautama Siddhartha advised us over two millennia ago to think for ourselves and not as others want us to think. Question everything and investigate. Take no fact or statement blindly, like a person in love who only sees the beautiful face of their lover. Only then can you find your own truth and meaning in life. There is no universal truth.

In this book, we'll talk about religion, human psychology, and science. We'll mix them all up, and then hopefully we can discover the meaning of life together. You might find a deep meaning or no meaning at all. In either case, you can still be happy because happiness is available in endless amounts and quantities, free of charge, right now.

You could just decide today, right this moment, that you want to be happy. Imagine yourself as a happy person, and the universe will give you what you desire. You may not realize that all unhappiness is self-created. If you are unhappy, it means that you are focusing on the unhappy events in your life. The Law of Nature is that everything has a dual nature, and no matter how much you try, you can never live in a world void of the opposites of what you desire.

I know it sounds rather harsh, but everything in your life is also a result of your own thoughts and actions. It took me a while to realize that. In the past six years, I went through much unbearable unhappiness, and I completely lost my direction in life, which put me in a place where I no longer knew what was real or right, where I was going or what I was supposed to do.

This became the reason I started looking for answers and got to where I am today, a calm peaceful state of mind and understanding that even if something doesn't make any sense, it doesn't mean that the event is wrong. Unhappiness may not make any sense to you, but it could turn out to be a great springboard for you from which to jump into the unknown realms of existence that you might well have overlooked before. Thanks Lama Surya Das for this insight.

Those unknown aspects hold the key to salvation or eternal fire. This is what your life will be. If you decide to react in negative ways towards events in your life, you condemn yourself to never-ending suffering. If you decide to act positively, you will find Paradise in your present life-form. The choice is yours. The power is in your hands. You can be happy!

If the only thing you take from this book is this paragraph, then you need to identify how unhappy people think and act and do the exact opposite in your everyday life. It's that simple. Look at the person who is waiting in line, complaining about why it’s taking so long. Look at the driver getting angry over some insignificant issue on the road.

Look at the person in the restaurant who's unhappy with their food. Everywhere you go, you can observe people who are dissatisfied, disappointed, and upset with things and events. Just decide to say goodbye to all those negative emotions, and never let them back into your life again. That's all: remove the bad tendencies that you have, and you will be happy.

It's your choice. You can take the side of your conditioned mind, which complains and never sees anything as good enough, or you can take the other side, which is complete and content no matter what. Unless you learn to appreciate the smallest and the simplest things in life, you will never be happy.

The roof over your head, the piece of bread on your table, the company of your friends is all you'll ever need, and every time you go somewhere else to seek something else, you'll realize that things are not what they seem. The achievement of your goals will never bring lasting peace and joy to you.

No matter how much wealth, success, or recognition you receive from others, your entire reality and well-being will always depend on those conditions that you require to feel worthy of your existence. What happens when you are no longer that person that others admired? What is the point of your existence, then?

I'm going to talk about the obstacles in your life that cause you unhappiness. One of them is The Bondage of Expectation. You expect a complete idealized version of an outcome in any activity that you participate in. That is the desired outcome. You are attached to that one outcome, and whenever things don't go your way, you are deeply upset because you wanted things to happen exactly as you imagined.

A close friend of mine told me a story once. Happiness for him depends on sexual gratification - he needs to have sexual encounters with numerous young women to feel worthy of himself.

One day he found this beautiful young Russian prostitute online, and they arranged a meeting. He imagined that they would make sweet romantic love and that he'd be in Heaven. When he got to her apartment, it turned out that he didn't have any condoms, though the lady of night offered them for $25 a pop.

He was so taken aback, he got angry and didn't enjoy having sex with her at all because of the extra $25. This is The Bondage of Expectation; this is how it prevents you from being happy. In this book, we'll also talk about other forms of Bondage that prevent you from being happy.

So this is where Mind Control comes in. When you train your mind, you start identifying the destructive patterns that cause your unhappiness. It's the same as with your body. If you ignore your physical development, life becomes harder, and you age faster.

If we take the opposite case in which you eat somewhat healthily and exercise actively almost every day, your body starts listening to and obeying you. You are fit and healthy; you appear 10 or more years younger than your real age and are

Reviews for Absolute Control

[pmistry1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very simple yet meaningful !
Powerful tool to be happy .