Happiness Post

I have been reading this book I got from the Health and Wellness center at UVU. I have been doing my internship there and this last semester got to do some one-on-one coaching. My client signed up for the Happiness course that is based of  the book I am currently reading called Be Happy by: Robert Holden. When I took my client through this course I started out as a critic thinking this course would never help her become happy or help her become happier. I can say that there was a true change in her. She became happier over the weeks of this course. After I met with her for the last time she asked me what I learned from teaching the course. This question through me off but I told her that I learned what true happiness is and how many of us lack true happiness. I told her I discovered my own barriers to happiness. My boss challenged me to read the book that the course was based on and go through the course by myself to help them see any flaws to their course or if they needed to add anything. 
Well I have been reading the book and was again very skeptical of it at first but I have discovered a lot about myself and what happiness is. He is not LDS but he has a whole chapter on the spiritual path and health of individuals. It is amazing how much it aligns with the gospel. The section I read tonight really helped me see what I need to work on and I hope it causes an eye opening experience to those who read this post. He starts of this section of the book by talking about why we suffer. He says: "When you forget who you are, you forget what happiness is. And when you forget what happiness is, you suffer." He then talks about how people try to discover who they really are. The first way is the search. He talks about how this search for happiness is denial of happiness. He says: "For as long as you deny the joy of your being, your ego and your personality will never be completely satisfied or pleased with the world....You only search for that which you fear you do not have, or for that which you are not yet willing to accept that you have already. The truth is, you are what you seek." Happiness is already with us and we will only discover it when we call off the search for happiness. So I have learned by just this first way that I have been searching for happiness or think that I will achieve happiness when I am married, graduated, and working. In reality I won't find it there because it is already with me. None of these things will satisfy me either because "it is impossible to find happiness for as long as you overlook your true nature." So as of tonight I am calling off the search for happiness because I already have it. This post is super long so I will write more later this week or on sunday.