Discover Happiness In Life | 7 Best Self-improvement Books That Will Change Your Life [Part-1]

Introduction

Everybody is looking for happiness, and the best way to find it is to live a life you love. The world is full of dissatisfied people with the way they live. Whether it's the job, the relationships, the money, or something else that they want to change, there is always something that needs to be improved.

Happiness is an individual term. The person who is experiencing it defines it. We can find happiness in different places, with family, friends, a job, or other things that make an individual feel content. We all want different things. What makes one person feel content may not make another person feel joyful.

We have used books for centuries to share knowledge and experiences. Books can be a persuasive instrument for self-improvement. Self-improvement books are an excellent way for people who want personal development and growth in their lives to learn how to find happiness in life.

These Seven most salutary self-improvement books written by experts can help you find yourself, and your passion, discover what the meaning of life is, success, wealth, and live the life you want.

1. Karma- A Yogi's Guide To Crafting Your Destiny

Author: Sadhguru

We know the author Jaggi Vasudev as Sadhguru is a public figure, an Indian yogi, a spiritual leader, and an author who has helped thousands of people worldwide by transforming their lives through his teachings. In this book, Sadhguru has pointed out the widely used and roughly understood word Karma.

Most people worldwide identify human suffering because of their Karma in the past life, or inappropriate activities of the present life. They equate Karma with some kind of penalty and reward for their wrong actions and monumental works, or for bad thoughts and good ideas. As someone high in the Heavens has a log that keeps records of all your faults and activities, you will be refunded either resentfully or favorably.

Karma is the only worldview that is supposed to guarantee that people end up getting what they deserve. This plain understanding of the word Karma has dropped human efforts to change their lives with their actions in the present. It has made human life more complicated and humans have lost their key to happiness for a living.

    Karma simply means how we act. What actions one will perform today will decide one's becoming or growth in this life. This is how Karma works. One's destiny is in their hands completely in the sense of human experiences. There is nothing to do with some extraneous manner of suffering in the sense of karma.

This appealingly written book, Karma-A Yogi's Guide To Crafting Your Destiny, with a new outlook and more rooted understanding of life in the sense of Karma by Sadhguru will help you understand what really karma is and how to use it to improve and craft your destiny with your actions for inner satisfaction and awareness in your life.

2. Ikigai- The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

Author: Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles

They based this book on the Japanese term Ikigai, which means a reason, or basis for a living, or a cause to jump out of the bed in the morning. In the absence of that cause, life seems to be tedious. Nobody would have bothered to get up earlier without a cause.

It's important to have a purpose to make life more exciting and eventful. Happiness is in the pursuit of life's goals & events. That's what makes every day beautiful and interesting.

Every one of us loves to live healthily and longer. There are different ways to do that in different cultures worldwide. In Japanese culture, people from Okinawa Island live longer than people from other places worldwide. These people consider Ikigai for their life span and happiness. Ikigai signifies a sense of constancy in life.

Ikigai is the combination of four elements- necessities, wishes, goals, and happiness that meets a state of perfect poise and attainment of life. Discovering one's Ikigai is the key to contentment and durability, and the cause to jump out of the bed in the morning.

This outstanding book, Ikigai-The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life, will help you discover your Ikigai to jump out of the bed in the morning for contentment and a long life span. You would also love to have a look at another unusual book written by the same authors-The Book of Ichigo Ichie: The Art of Making the Most of Every Moment, the Japanese Way.

3. Life's Amazing Secrets- How to Find Balance and Purpose in Your Life

Author: Gaur Gopal Das

Gaur Gopal Das, a well-known and vastly regarded monk, lifestyle coach, motivational talker, and modernistic spiritual leader, who helps people achieve supreme peace and purpose in life, wrote this book. He studied electrical engineering and after a spell with Hewlett Packard, he lived as a monk, spent twenty-two years in an ashram, and became a life coach.

Through this book, the author has highlighted finding balance and purpose in life. Even after being successful in life, people have neglected their key to perpetual happiness. It's necessary to have perfect stability in life.

The book Life's Amazing Secrets is perfect for those who are looking to manage their personal life by not worrying too much about life, spiritual practice, healthy relationships, family values, work life, and social life. Another influential book you may also find useful, by Gaur Gopal Das, The Way of the Monk: The four steps to peace, purpose, and lasting happiness.

4. A New Earth Awakening to your Life’s Purpose

Author: Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle, a German-born inhabitant of Canada, a spiritual leader, and best acknowledged for his book The Power of Now, wrote this book. Eckhart Tolle says he was distraught with his life and suffered depression, anxiety, and fear at an earlier age until 29. After being so frustrated with life and having so many questions in mind, one day he experienced an inner shift.

He also tells, he couldn't live with himself any longer. Then here, a question emerged in his mind: who is the one who doesn't want to live with himself. Who am I? What is the self? 

At the time before experiencing inner satisfaction, he was not aware that all his problems were in the mind only as thoughts with burdens and difficulties that exist in an unsatisfying past and fearful future. 

All of it dropped and disappeared. The next morning he woke up and everything was so peaceful. The peace was there because there was no self. Only a sense of presence, or beingness, or I-am-ness, just observing and seeing. There was no past or future as it lives in the mind, only as thoughts.

The beingness or I-am-ness is pure and complete, having no shape or form, not changing ever, only a sense of presence at the moment. One sees thoughts as the self and is unable to realize the seer to whom these thoughts arise.

In this book, A New Earth- Awakening to your Life’s Purpose, you will learn about the spiritual core of understanding yourself better; managing, manifesting, and achieving your goals; reaching your full potential; route struggles into something positive; changing negative habits; live in the moment.

5. Think Like a Monk- The Secret of How to Harness the Power of Positivity and be Happy now

Author: Jay Shetty

Jay Shetty wrote this book, who spent over three years as a practicing monk in a Vedic tradition ashram. He has shared how he gets inspired by a monk and why should every one of us think like a monk.

Monks seem to be happy, satisfied, and peaceful, having no materialistic property. What is the reason behind their peace? How can one be so content, certain, and calm by giving up things instead of feeling lost in their life?

They are not born monks and are just like us. We all can or should think like a monk to attain happiness while pursuing life's goals. To be a monk doesn't mean to wear saffron and meditate high in the mountains, but a clarity towards self and things in life.

Life is not all about being successful in life. In pursuit of success, one fails to find one's true self, which is the root of life itself. We all can see a tree for its beauty and fruits and feel content, but very few of us are aware of its roots, which handle its growth. Similarly, one needs to work on roots, i.e. self, before seeking anything else in life.

In today's life, one can learn from and think like monks to deal with life difficulties reduce stress by dropping negative thoughts or bad habits, and stay positive to find purpose, accomplishment, and peace in life.

In the book Think Like a Monk, you will find his harmonious experience as a monk to make the most out of life with practical actions one can practice in daily life to live happily. Use these steps to diminish anxiety, increase focus, better connections, recognize your suppressed skills, maintain a daily routine or discipline, and develop self-control.

6. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success- A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

Author: Deepak Chopra

This book is by the author of the book, Creating Affluence: A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life. The author Deepak Chopra is a medical professional and practiced medicine. He is also known as a body, mind, and spiritual practitioner. Deepak Chopra has a great impression on the world of medicine.

He realized himself after various stresses because of the restricted western aspect of medical professionals. During his suffering from stress, he followed eastern philosophies in the ways of Jiddu Krishnamurti and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He gets awakened and this completely changes his time.

Awakening changed not only his life, but he used to combine the most excellent methods of medical research into his principles or spiritual philosophy to discover inner satisfaction and affluence in the fields of all possibilities in life.

He has written several wonderful books on a diversity of subjects. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success is a quintessence of his book Creating Affluence: A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life in which he has directed toward wealth awareness based on pure knowledge of the functioning of life energy, or creation, or nature in creating physical existence as a body, animals, trees, etc.

Success and wealth don't always come with hard work only. A spiritual strategy can make it possible for anyone with ease. Our existence is because of nature. Nature can exist without an individual, but one can not exist without it.

Through this book, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, one will understand the laws of nature, which life energy uses to create everything, including us. After reading this wonderful book on success and wealth, one will connect himself with the ways of nature and can create unlimited fortune easily from different areas of life with no stress anymore.

7. The Magic

Author: Rhonda Byrne

The author Rhonda Byrne is an Australian citizen and a writer by her profession. She is famed for her first best-selling book The Secret. She got a terrific response from the readers for that book. In The Secret, she has revealed the secrets of positive energy or positive thought.

What we think or see around us is what we attract or become into our lives. Positive thoughts are quite important to stay passionate even if we are facing difficulties in our life. It gives us hope to start over again.

If we want something to disappear from our life that we don't like, we need to focus only on the things we want in our life. Everything happens within one's consciousness. If something is not coming into one's consciousness, things are non-existent for oneself. Therefore, don't give space in your mind to such things that you don't like.

After being successful with some components of life like career, wealth, or relations, etc., we are still struggling to discover the meaning and purpose of life. Human minds are full of curiosity and there are many questions about life, like what, where, why, how, who, and when? So, with those kinds of questions with no answers, we feel disappointed and empty within ourselves.

Therefore, we need some spark, energy, enthusiasm, or magic in life to encourage us with this kind of knowledge which Rhonda Byrne has better explained in her book i.e. The Magic, to embrace the magic in your life.

In the book The Magic, the author has focused on the miraculous word gratitude or thanks, which we all should have for what we already have and for abundance in life. So after giving a read to this book, you will learn how to be grateful and how gratefulness can offer you more than what you already have.

These books are not determined according to the serial numbers given above. Each book has unique qualities. Authors also have unique wisdom, writing skills  & experiences in life to share with you all. You can choose the best that connects you to the most among all.