About Happiness! Australia
Welcome Home!
Happiness! Australia invites you home to where the heart is.
Happiness! Australia is a new sensation for Australia and the world to emulate. Our Happy Destiny is Unavoidable. Our joy in life is to find our happy place and live in harmony. To achieve this we can dedicate our lives to being happy. Peace is the realisation of happiness. That is when you get the joke! HA
Disruption or Celebration?
As we go through uncertainty, economic downturns and social disruption with our family and friends, we can either join in the unhappiness or we can start to focus on what we actually want rather than what we don’t want. This is how you create the change in your own life.
It was Mahatma Gandhi who said: ‘be the change you wish to see in the world’.
Life is about choice. Happiness! Australia chooses celebration.
What Do You Truly Want?
Do you want to be truly Happy?
Do you want to feel Peace?
Do you want to live in Harmony?
Then you have come to the right Happy Place. Our joy in life is to find our happy place and live in harmony. To achieve this we can dedicate our lives to being happy. Peace is the realisation of happiness. That is when you get the joke! HA
My Dream of Peace
I dreamed I was teaching peace in 1998. I had worked as a market analyst for 10 years and suddenly I had this dream. On awakening I realised this was the real currency and real wealth of who we are. When you are happy you are at peace. They are two sides of the same coin.
Declaration of Independence
Below is a declaration I wrote in 2019 as sovereignty for me means self determination. I choose to be who I am.
Declaration of Independence is the Sovereignty of Our True Nature in the End
Happiness is a Decision
I recall an invitation to clown at a Principals Conference in Canberra. I flew to Canberra and found myself feeling really sad. I was in a dilemma as I am a clown. I said to myself I have to be happy. So I started putting on my clown suit and heard the bells, then suddenly I felt happy. For four hours I clowned in joy. Later I realised that happiness is a decision.
When we resolve inner unhappiness or the lies we tell ourselves (shadow puppets), we naturally feel happy as it is our true nature.
Fear or Happiness is a Choice?
Do we live our lives from fear or happiness?
Do we find ways to turn lemons into lemonade? What does this mean?
It means finding the good in what seems unpalatable or unbearable.
Is that rose coloured to look for the good?
No, always there is a flip side, the art of happiness is not to keep repeating ‘it is all good’ but rather ‘it is what it is’.
Happiness Opens Up Possibilities
Happiness is not about facts, it is looking through a problem for the real answers that may not be obvious until you ‘see differently‘.
I met Patch Adams in 2002 on his Healing with Humour tour of Russia. This clip below from the movie Patch Adams is of Patch meeting a famous scientist people believed was crazy. His act of kindness fixing a cup was how he was named Patch. He tried to fix problems by becoming a solution. Patch had to come to a mental institution to understand the real meaning in his life. So don’t judge those deemed crazy or excessively happy or a current term, toxic happiness, they may well be the ones who lead you home as they took the risk to be themselves despite the ridicule.
Below is a extract of the footage and dialogue of when Patch sees ‘fingers’ the crazy scientist realising he is not insane. His name is Arthur Mendelson (patient in the mental institution).
Arthur Mendelson says: How many do you see (fingers)? No look beyond the fingers. How many do you see.
Patch says: eight.
Arthur Mendelson: Yes, it is a good answer….
See what everyone else chooses not to see out of fear and conformity and laziness. See the whole world anew each day. The truth is you are well on your way. If you didn’t see something here besides a crazy, bitter old man you wouldn’t have come in the first place.
Patch: What do you see when you look at me Arthur?
Arthur: You fixed my cup. I will see you around Patch.
Arthur Mendelson : You’re focusing on the problem. If you focus on the problem, you can’t see the solution. Never focus on the problem!
So do we ignore the crazy scientist or we can see through the disguise? When we take a risk to speak to those many have judged crazy, maybe life has just introduced you to your purpose of your own life as you took a leap of faith to trust your intuition. Patch knew he was brilliant.
The Fools Journey
When happiness is the goal, like the Fool you will carry the Fool’s gold which is not the money or riches but the wisdom that you have learned by taking risks, seeing differently, facing fears, resolving conflict, and loving until it no longer hurts. My trip around the world was to awaken the Fool.
In 2010, Susan aka Peace Fool clown chose to travel the world as an opportunity to face all fears. Susan had been a World Peace clown in hospitals, schools, non-profits and service clubs. The next step was to teach peace around the world, as our world is crying out for peace.
Below are links to Worldpeacefull peace albums depicting a fool’s journey around the world and subsequent free pdf book ‘A Fool for Peace’ documenting the real time blog of what happened when she stepped out with no plan. Susan was self funded and following a vision alone like a Fool on a Quest to teach peace and learn from the world as a mirror. the Fool’s Journey is to ‘Know Thyself’. She discovered:
“…I was in danger of making friends. I was helped all the way...”
Travelling the World for Peace Albums
Susan’s free pdf book A Fool for Peace, click below:
Peace & Sustainability
This experience has been transformed into 8 e-books which can be purchased to support this peace vision. Click below:
Author
Happiness! Australia is to be a light in the darkness as Susan has REAL HOPES for the World.
Each smile is like a candle passed from one to the other.
It is to know that happiness is finding your own truth. It is not trying to please others, make your parents happy, be seen to be doing good but to actually follow the silent prompts that lead you home. What does this mean?
When you feel happy you are following your own heart. That is, following what you actually want. This does not mean ignoring advice, it just means when it doesn’t feel right for you, you may say no in a gentle way and hold onto the candle which enlightens the vision to not give up no matter the odds. You realise nothing is impossible when you believe in yourself.
Making choices from the heart can appear unrealistic and challenging as some may say it is all very well to sugar coat life, put fairy floss on it but the reality can be harsh and we have to get things done. They will say: I can’t just go off and follow my heart – who is going to pay the bills? Who will put food on the table? There is too much to do I don’t have time for happiness. I am exhausted and have no time for this? You are a dreamer ‘get a real job’.
Susan realised that peace and happiness is a choice that can seem ‘crazy’ to others. However, this dream became true in reality and the wise will remind you, you teach what you are here to learn.
Remembering ‘happiness’ is really a self mastery. At first we take it slow. Little steps where we notice what we feel, we observe our fearful thoughts and we make choices and see what turns up. Sometimes we drop the balls. Some times we can juggle life really well.
When we master life we realise fear creates our limits, impossibilities and defines what we believe we can and can’t do.
Are we okay if we fail? Can you face failure with a smile?
What if life is turning up exactly as it is meant to and that there are no mistakes in hindsight?
The real question is will you try?
Remember Arthur in Patch Adams said “You’re focusing on the problem. If you focus on the problem, you can’t see the solution. Never focus on the problem!”
Peace and happiness is to not look at what is wrong in the world but to understand the world has its own natural order that in hindsight led us to a point where we could ‘see differently’. Rather than believing what we see we look beyond what we physically see and feel to look into the world book (inside yourself) to see further than selfish interest. What does this mean? It means you are open to possibilities, you do not follow the news, other opinions but instead look within yourself for your answers as subtle prompts present themselves.
As we grow we start to see differently and expand possibilities to notice that as we intend what we want things ‘magically’ change. We can dream a future that is happy, that is peaceful and where all thrive. We can have what we thought was impossible realising there are no limits to love. We can and do change our world by our thoughts then actions, but in what direction do things change? You become the author of that future.
The wise know there is more.
Yoda: Always with you it can not be done, do you hear nothing that I say? Only different in your mind. You must unlearn what you have learned.… No, Try Not. Do or Do Not. There is No Try.
Yin/Yang
The Yin/Yang is an old ancient Chinese symbol which symbolises the dark/light or up/down and changing feelings as we move through Life. This symbol can be: Happy/Sad, Wise/Foolish, Love/Hate, Good/Bad, Kind/Cruel Success/Failure etc. The shadow represents the dark side of denial of who we are and the light side is seeing life without a story ‘as it is’. Life and light is information offering infinite possibilities.
Many will resist looking for what is good or wise solutions as typically people need to feel right and seek to prove the other wrong to feel better about themselves. They will seek to criticise (put down), judge (lesser, stupid, worthless), or seek revenge or punish as they are insecure, fearful or hurt. The really hard work is to look at ourselves.
Mohandas Gandhi’s policy of non-violence was effectively followed by 600 million people during the campaign for independence in India. There is a well-known quote that express the sentiment for non-retaliatory philosophy:
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
The same sentiment is mentioned in religion (bible):
You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’[a] 39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. 40 And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well.
This is how yin/yang works we bring light into darkness but curse it not. Those in the dark will use you complaints, anger and violence against you. Happy people do not need to fight, destroy or seek revenge as they see the light in truth and love realising violence is self defeating and arising from ignorance.
We Can Change Our Lives Even in the Darkest Times
This is what it means to see the light in the dark. Susan visited this nursing home and the elderly man wore the love glasses. She noticed he was seeing differently.
In fact those life changing moments have only ever come when we are at our lowest ebb. So the dark can bring us self realisation as we decide we are tired of the dark. We look for our own light and lift our candle to the world and allow it to shine without fear or favour.
So be sure that when you are at rock bottom, something life changing is waiting for you to make critical decisions as if they will happen:
I AM getting better
I AM happy
I AM changing my life for the better
I AM alive and celebrate my amazing life.
This is like the magic wand of your thoughts dispelling the old and saying the magic words to bring to you a new future. Every life matters. Not one is worthless. Not one.
All Lives Matter
The real test for society is how they perceive and treat those profiled as ‘less’, ‘worthless’, ‘deplorables’, ‘defectives’, ‘useless eaters’ or ‘homeless’. Susan Carew has been without a home or income since 2018. Housing prices are too high due to overseas speculators amplifying prices in a domestic market. The Consumer Price Index has increased as a result of the ‘basket of goods’ increasing in price in deflationary conditions (lower demand) yet markets behaving as if high demand.
Homelessness was never made a national priority. Ironically during Covid-19 homeless people were housed, today their numbers have grown due to basics becoming unaffordable. This reflects a narrowing middle class. . The majority of homeless people are single women over 50 who are not deserving of this status as it impacts their ability to survive. In Economics we call this ‘structural violence’ that is, the structures in the system are the cause of hardship. In reality homelessness is not about a home but the break up of the family and propaganda victim blaming those who are experiencing hardship. Poverty is a mindset created by wealthy countries and is another form of violence when there is enough abundance for everyONE.
Artists within an economic model that maximises profit as value, find themselves unable to sustain their lives as many live in the opposite paradigm. True value from an artists perspective is in a creative guise. They paint their visions and create beauty through their gifts. This brings joy, love, inspiration and opportunities to see life differently as we decide what a piece of art means. Those of us ‘clowns’ or ‘fool’s’ use humour and paint the picture of a loving world. We smile, play, laugh, joke, dance, sing, make mistakes and give permission for others to appear foolish. We were in the courts of Kings reminding them of the truth of their humanity. We do it without fear or favour acknowledging that every human is of the highest value, as that is how we see. Thus, we do not fit into economic models of self interest, gathering up more things to look good, or saying we are better than anyone.
Artists realise the more we love the more we give and it means the less we take as our true nature is to give. We live to give is the modus operandi of artists and those who are non-commercial.
The real wealth of a nation is Gross National Happiness (GNH). When this becomes the reason for being, then no-one will be homeless. refer https://ha.worldpeacefull.com/gross-national-happiness/
In a economic model that is increasingly corporatised by large multinational companies impacting the basics of life. This ensures marginalisation of those who may have different skills, or are of an older age with skills no longer valued in an emerging Smart Cities digital Technocracy. It is very very easy to fall between the cracks. This is why we are noticing more and more mental health issues as people find themselves unravelled from the social fabric and judged by others. This causes ‘social’ imbalance where we no longer value everyone equally.
Refer link:
All Lives Matter
Media sample
Awake 2 Oneness Radio
Susan Carew was interviewed by Caroline Chang.
Supernal Magazine
Awaken the Fool, Feature article
Susan was interviewed by Anthony Kilner editor of Supernal magazine who featured an investigation into the homelessness problem (not solved).
Pages 21 to 23
Triple R FM
Susan started a pilot radio program with Triple R called Homeless Lives Matter. Their voices are not heard. Refer link below.
https://ha.worldpeacefull.com/homeless-lives/triple-r-fm/
Happiness! Australia is here to remind you that:
Your happy destiny is unavoidable no matter your circumstances
Dr Patch Adams
Susan Carew learned about happiness from the famous Dr. Patch Adams who was played by Robin Williams in the film of the same name.
Patch’s brother Wildman invited Susan on Patch’s Healing with Humour Tour to Russia remembering his philosophy of:
Laughter is the best Medicine
Patch Adams is a clown doctor. Susan had the joy of travelling with Dr. Patch Adams and how these tours of Russia (over 20 years) were to bridge the divide between the United States and Russia (former USSR). Patch led what he calls the ‘love revolution‘ building teams to teach a small group to love, laugh, and live in harmony sharing the happiness with others, many of whom were underprivileged. There were over 600,000 orphaned children in Russia at that time. The Healing with Humour Tour was to bring joy to many institutionalised children, the elderly and the public on the streets to have fun with strangers and remind them that life is about happiness. The visits were to show them that we silly clowns cared.
Refer Worldpeacefull.com
Patch Adams in Russia
Happiness is a change of attitude. It is a decision to be happy and pass your smile from one to the other.
Patch Adams made a decision at a critical juncture when he wanted to end his life in a mental institution. The critical choice was to be happy, live in misery or end his life. His positive choice changed the world.
Patch studied to become a medical doctor. He chose unorthodox techniques such as clowning, play, laughter to rehumanise doctors and alleviate fear for frightened patients. He was accused of ‘excessive happiness’ by the medical board at the Medical school. Today we hear ‘toxic happiness’. When happiness is the real healing as the desire to live is there. This scene is from the movie Patch Adams and it is Patch teaching the medical establishment what being a doctor is really about.
Patch talks about the importance of humanity in medicine not self importance.
I lost my mother on 13/1/2023 through medical practices that I have questioned deeply. I found a detachment and inhumanity as I watched my mum die in pain when she wanted to live. All her time in hospital and the nursing home she asserted she wanted to be well as her health worsened. The doctors did not see my mother as a human being but rather she was a medical condition and non compliant in their eyes. No-one sat down and really got to know her as time is money. The real disease as Patch says is ‘indifference‘. Detachment, busy schedules, lack of staffing and profiteering has been the perennial problem in health care. The care has been lost, my mother said to me ‘they don’t care’. So in 2024 still this problem remains. How do we see through the facts, to see eight fingers. Love heals.
I know happiness and love is The Way to healing our world. Happiness is what our world is crying out for.
Patch started in paediatrics and then brought his message to adults. That is the power of choosing happiness and choosing life. Have a listen to what Patch said on TEDx.
Byron Katie (Transformation)
When I was on the Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies Program in Bangkok, Thailand, I asked myself who is a teacher alive that teaches peaceful transformation. I found Byron Katie and knew she was a teacher who had realised peace and joy. She named one of her books ‘A Thousand Names for Joy’. Byron Katie taught me about reality, not my imagined, projected beliefs about reality but what is real and what is not.
Happiness! Australia will introduce the public to this easy but profound work. It is all about self responsibility and self knowledge (know thyself) as we create our misery by believing our thoughts 100%. We dwell on events that happened years ago and no longer exist. Yet we carry them like a heavy load to haul out and remember why we are unhappy. The Work is life transformative. When you commit to undoing the false beliefs you believe, then you open the door to true happiness. Visit www.thework.com:
BE FREE
Happy is (s)he who can find that great treasure.
Is the treasure in objects of value or something else?
Humanity is discovering the answer to this statement as they realise peace is not chaos and yet it is. That the treasure is not trinkets but within your very self.
This joy is a treasure hunt to find what is of real value within us.
When the treasure is YOU, you will need NOTHING.