The Everyday Alchemist’s Happiness Handbook
So that’s what we’ll be looking at from here on in: how to form a strong, lasting connection with Happiness, how to get to know it more intimately, and for you to know how to ignite your inspiration to the degree that you want to spend more time in its company. You’ll also get well versed in the art of noticing the times you don’t feel happy—the triggers, the troubles and the tensions—and how to use those moments as your alchemical fire, fuelling your awareness of who you really are, of your true nature.
And, in case it needs to be said, we’re not doing this because of any unwritten rule that says you should be happy all the time, or that being less than happy is wrong. We’re doing this because it’s empowering to have a choice, because you don’t have to be at the mercy of circumstance if you don’t want to be, and because you’ve noticed that beneath the striving and the longing, somewhere along the winding path of acceptance, sits your inner Happiness, your eternal self, waiting to welcome you home.
When I started writing this book, I was told, more than once, that I shouldn’t write a book on Happiness. Various well-meaning naysayers said things like: “It’s too big a subject.” “You need to ‘be someone’ before you can write about Happiness— or at least be an expert on it.” “You’re too young—you’ve not suffered enough of life’s ups and downs.” “There are already so many books written on the subject—people have heard it all before.”
Anyone who knows me will be unsurprised that I paid little attention, and that you now have a book on Happiness in your hands. Whilst I appreciated their advice, I didn’t let others’ opinions stop me from writing about such an important topic.
About the Author:
Natalie Fee is a columnist, poet and TV presenter. She is also Britain’s only non-qualified happiness expert her insights and experiences are drawn from the University of Daily Life as a part-time single mother and a full-time, self-employed ‘everyday alchemist’. Through her widely published articles she has garnered a reputation for bringing lightheartedness to the serious subject of suffering and is firmly committed to the human ability to transmute daily struggles into higher faculties, talents and creativity. She currently resides in Glastonbury.
Connect with Natilie at nataliefee.com
