Living on Love news and thoughts newsletter

Issue 32 -- November 21, 2005

(Previous issues located here)

Links:

Living on Love books by Klaus Joehle online
Klaus and Roberta Joehle web site
Newsletter on working with love
Web forum on Working with Love - read what others say and share your experience

The news

1. All the mp3 records for Part 1 and Part 2 of the book "Some Things are Worth Believing In -- Money is Love" are online. Originally I was going to put them online a record a day, but Klaus proposed to upload them all, as there are important thought on Love to Money in the Part 2 recordings. Enjoy!
2. Good news from Russian and Spanish publishers -- see below.
3. Materials on "The Science of Happy" -- see below.
4. Interactive presentation of "The Messenger" in Russian - by VES publisher. (You can flip pages...)  English version is coming soon.
5. Roberta Joehle and Kostya talk about creating pages about happy and healthy life. See below
6. Klaus Joehle Spanish publisher Antonio Lopez is looking for a person to translate a great book on laughter from Russian to Spanish. See below.
7. Fine art by Arlene - see below.

To The Dear Readers :)

Hi everybody! Here is another newsletter and we have some interesting stuff today -- about "Living on Love" project and about other things. Enjoy!

Maybe it's easy to enjoy this newsletter because it's about Love. But you actually have the Power to Enjoy everything -- did you know about this? I used to have...

[My 8-months puppy fox terrier just came and put his front legs on my lap! Now he is making digging moves with his left front leg -- inviting me to play.]

... so I used to have problem with how to react to violent news on TV. No longer. I was thinking on it after listening and transcribing some of the "Money is Love" book recordings. Remember what Klaus Joehle says about playing Battlefield 1942 computer game? He enjoys it. I too -- sometimes. And he goes further -- we can see at our world as a computer game that enlightened souls play -- like we play Ultima Online. In this game we, enlightened souls take on all the different roles -- from presidents to the beggars -- just like in a computer game!

I write in my blog:

My wife Natasha is studying a teaching "Radasteya" where it's said that a soul is choosing a mother (let's say 7 years ahead of birth) and then a father (say 5 years ahead of birth). Then those choosen can't resist geting together to give birth to the child.

I though -- it could explain why the population of the developed countries is decreasing and the population of poor countries is increasing. Souls find it boring to go to the "perfectly planned" Europe. They prefer places where the action takes place -- all sorts of action. They wanna experience the life, just like Klaus Joehle writes in his book "Some Things are Worth Believing In - Money.

So when watching TV we can be just happy for those enlightened souls that found something interesting for themselves to chew on! What do you think? Tell us in our forum"On Working With Love"!

Sending love has already started to deeply change my life

Dear Kostya,

I've been hoping I would remember to thank you! For the mention of Klaus Joehle's writing. I noticed his name in your post 1 or 2 weeks ago, and felt mildly curious, then forgot. Then, Ulrike on this list mentioned in a PEM that she had visited his site and I might also enjoy it. Then I went looking, and read everything I could, and gobbled up his 2 books and asked my friend to print them out for both her and me to enjoy. Then last Sunday part of the "Money is Love" book became available to print from my computer, too! I read it that evening, &
I'm loving it.

Thank you! I'm a fan of Klaus' writing, I'm telling all my friends about it who might possibly be interested too, & the "sending love" exercise has already started to deeply change my life. Honest. It's just incredible!

Thank you for your involvement in this & I'm glad you are playing in the Abraham-Hicks
world too.

Best,
Jeanette in Santa Fe, New Mexico
(20-Nov-2005)

The Science of Happy

Kostya's introduction to forum:

I'm 38, male and live in Kiev, Ukraine. I was educated as an engineer, but never actually worked as one - because of Perestroika and everything. Actually, to my surprise, it was't interestig any longer after the graduation.

Instead I found myself more and more interested in psychology and related stuff.

Beginning from 1998 I have gotten more and more deeply involved in Klaus Joehle "Living on Love" books. I actually became a translator from English to Russian and translated not only "The Messenger" by Klaus Joehle (a book about sending love, or focusing on the feeling of love in such a way) -- but also a series of other books for a commercial publisher.

Now books in Russian translation are being published -- after they were online for several years. I'm very glad about this! :)

All Klaus Joehle books are available as of now online for your reading. Newest book "Some Things are Worth Believing In - Money Is Love” on releasing resistance to money and creating 3.6 million dollars is available as both text and mp3.

I've enjoyed very much a post on the science of happy in this forum. It gives so much to think about. I'm going to mention it - or post parts of it in my newsletter on working with love.

I hope it's not too many links in one message :) Oh, here is one more -- my bio. Just recently created this page.
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My blog on sending love and life :)
Klaus Joehle Living on Love books online

Excerpt 1: Can scientists tell us what happiness is?

Economists accept that if people describe themselves as happy, then they are happy. However, psychologists differentiate between levels of happiness. The most immediate type involves a feeling; pleasure or joy. But sometimes happiness is a judgment that life is satisfying, and does not imply an emotional state.

Public surveys measure what makes us happy. Marriage does, pets do, but children don't seem to (despite what we think). Youth and old age are the happiest times. Money does not add much to happiness; in Britain, incomes have trebled since 1950, but happiness has not increased at all. The happiness of lottery winners returns to former levels within a year. People disabled in an accident are likely to become almost as happy again. For happiness levels are probably genetic: identical twins are usually equally bubbly or grumpy.

One thing makes a striking difference. When two American psychologists studied hundreds of students and focused on the top 10% "very happy" people, they found they spent the least time alone and the most time socialising. Psychologists know that increasing the number of social contacts a miserable person has is the best way of cheering them up. When Jean-Paul Sartre wrote "hell is other people", the arch-pessimist of existentialist angst was wrong.

Thinking positively?

Survival in a time of adversity forged our brains into a persistent mould. Professor Seligman says: "Because our brain evolved during a time of ice, flood and famine, we have a catastrophic brain. The way the brain works is looking for what's wrong. The problem is, that worked in the Pleistocene era. It favoured you, but it doesn't work in the modern world."

Although most people rate themselves as happy, there is a wealth of evidence to show that negative thinking is deeply ingrained in the human psyche. Experiments show that we remember failures more vividly than successes. We dwell on what went badly, not what went well. When life runs smoothly, we're on autopilot — we're only in a state of true consciousness when we notice the stone in our shoe.

Of the six universal emotions, four — anger, fear, disgust and sadness — are negative and only one, joy, is positive. (The sixth, surprise, is neutral.) According to the psychologist Daniel Nettle, author of Happiness, and one of the Royal Institution lecturers, the negative emotions each tell us "something bad has happened" and suggest a different course of action. Fear tells us danger is near, so run away. Anger prompts us to deter aggressors. Sadness warns us to be cautious and save energy, while disgust urges us to avoid contamination.

Joy, according to Nettle, simply tells us, "something good has happened, don't change anything". The evolutionary role of pleasure was to encourage activity that was good for survival, such as eating and having sex. But unlike negative emotions, which are often persistent, joy tends to be short-lived. We soon get sick of cream cakes or blasé about our pay rise.

Look for good things!

Psychologists such as Seligman are convinced you can train yourself to be happier. His teams are developing new positive interventions (treatments) to counteract the brain's nagging insistence on seeking out bad news. The treatments work by boosting positive emotion about the past, by teaching people to savour the present, and by increasing the amount of engagement and meaning in their lives.

Since the days of Freud, the emphasis in consulting rooms has been on talk about negative effects of the past and how they damage people in the present. Seligman names this approach "victimology" and says research shows it to be worthless: "It is difficult to find even small effects of childhood events on adult personality, and there is no evidence at all of large effects."

[Kostya: you see? Right!]

Read the whole thread with several articles

Good health for Roberta Joehle through laugter and smiling

In the last issue of this newsletter I began talking on this topic. Today I saw another thread in our email exchange that looks interesting. Here it is:

Roberta:

I am still considering taking some of my stuff off like my tribute to mom and the cancer stuff  "its too depressing" unless I come up with some more writing soon to add to it if my creative juices ever get going that is "HA!"

I am trying to transfer the two songs I wrote a few years back to MP3 format "the one for Klaus at our wedding" and the one I wrote much later, I thought I'd see what they sound like and if they are good then maybe post them somewhere on the site.

Kostya:

Pages: Maybe it would be great if you convert that into Health and Laugh pages -- where you write on what you enjoy doing. Like your plans on enjoying things?

Songs: Great idea! Let's do it! Do you know how to do the transfer?

Roberta:

Well I will have to think about the converting pages into happy thoughts, that is something I haven't been able to write about for some reason. It is also the very thing I am working on with my writing group.

As for the songs yes we know how to do it but they are on tape right now not cd so we just have to borrow a tape deck to transfer them.

Kostya:

Well, we are already working on happy thoughts! Right? So -- if this is good material for the newsletter "On Working with Love" -- it is also a good material for your Health and Happiness pages! Right? So we'll just beging putting there good stuff we are talking about.

You've seen that interesting stuff on "The Science of Happy"? Sounds like something Klaus was looking for at those times.

Yes, you'll need to connect the tape deck to a computer and create a WAV file. Then it can be converted into MP3 file...

Latest publishing news

Russia, "The Messenger", "The Shameful Secret"

(21 Nov 2005) Just got a word from Alexey Layewsky in VES (Russian publisher of Klaus books) that they are sending now another 5,000 of "The Messenger" to printer and will print 10,000 in December.

Also they are going to publish "The Shameful Secret" In December.

Russia, "The Messenger"

(19 Nov 2005) VES Publisher has printed in August, September and October 3 batches of "Living on Love -- The Messenger" book by Klaus Joehle-- 5,000 copies each!

Spain, "The Messenger"

(9 Nov 2005) The translation is done but we are still working on the text. If everything goes as expected, "Living on Love -- The Messenger" will be published in February.

Fine art by Arlene

I am sending love to my studio and the canvases (which I make myself) ........ I send love to the wood that I make the stretcher bars from......while I'm cutting them, sanding them, screwing them together, stretching the raw canvas onto the frames.....MORE LOVE........ , priming them............. and OF COURSE, when I'm painting the actual paintings...... I am sending love into the Comox Rec Centre...... which is where my next show is (a big show that a whole bunch of artists do).......

I am really excited about how it will turn out this time (this will be my sixth Originals Only show), and up til now, I haven't sold much at these shows........ but this time feels sooooooooo good and exciting........ I am grateful for all the money I make selling my paintings....... and also all the money I make doing ALL the work I LOVE!!!!!!!

Love,
Arlene

Kostya: What's the address of the show and dates?

Hi Arleene! What's the address of the show and dates? How those interested can find your pictures on the show? (Booth number?)

Does the show have some sort of a web page? Give us a link please.

Do you have any of your pictures online, so that we could have a look? Also it would be great to have some of them on the pages of our site!

We have some pictures by Russian painter Julia Ivanova from city of Krasnoyarsk on website with Klaus books. She also works with love (and sells pretty well :).

I have a piece about Julia on Reader Reviews page under "Whale and Dolphins" picture.

Arlene: Here are some pics for you!!!!!

Hi Kostya!!!!

Here are some pics for you!!!!! I appreciate your interest!

There are pictures of some work on My Website , but that still needs a TON OF WORK, and I haven't gotten to it, yet. Also, I don't know anything about building websites, yet........... The one I have was built by my daughter :) , But I want to improve the whole thing drastically when I have time! :))

Sharon gave me links for some real easy software........ so I can't wait to play with that!

The Christmas Originals Only Fine Art Show and Sale takes place December 3rd and 4th (Saturday & Sunday), 10 am to 5 pm (both days) at the Comox Recreation Centre, Comox, BC. I'll be in booth # 29!!! :)

I gather Klaus and Roberta aren't that far away from me........ I was dreaming that it would be so cool if they came and I got to meet them! :)

Kostya: pictures feel wonderful!

Dear Arlene, thanks for the pictures -- they feel wonderful! And the website is great!

Seeking Russian to Spanish translator!

Klaus Joehle Spanish publisher Antonio Lopez is looking for a person to translate a great book on laughter from Russian to Spanish. I wrote some about it in Russian on translators forum.

Thinking aloud: It would be great if somebody would publish it in English too... :)

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