Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" … These were, according to Thomas Jefferson, our most “inalienable rights” equally given to all human beings by their Creator, and for which protection governments are created.
Hence “happiness” became for the first time in human history the bedrock of American democracy guaranteed in the new nation’s Declaration of Independence. But really, how could Happiness be put on the same order of importance as Life and Liberty? Somehow, there seem to be far more important issues to “worry” about…
And indeed, our parents, society and most cultures around the world teach their children about hard work, discipline, obedience, respect of laws and traditions, and yes too, sacrifice, as the necessary elements to eventually achieve some level of happiness in our lifetime and most assuredly after death in Heaven.
Always then the attainment of happiness had a price, an element of self-sacrifice and struggle. And if happiness was the ultimate goal, success, love, prosperity, justice, fairness were the means. We needed first right all wrongs, overcome adversity and then… deservedly, happiness will come to us.
In her talk, Wafa argues we have been misled and we have it all backward. It is not through struggle and hardship that we achieve positive change and success for us and others, it is first by learning to be happy, truly content and at peace with ourselves and under any and all circumstances, that we can bring about lasting change and success.
Using the principles of the Law of Attraction – “The essence of that which is like unto itself is drawn” – and the Teachings of Abraham, she will address the nagging issues and stubborn roadblocks that keep us from achieving the life we dream of in the kind of world we want.
PRODUCER: Wafa Hallam
Born and raised in Morocco, Wafa F. Hallam left home at 18 for France where she lived for 4 years and traveled to over 35 countries selling French books. In 1980, she moved to America to attend college the University of Florida, then New York University where she earned a Master's Degree in International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies. She lived in NYC for over 25 years and worked for Merrill Lynch as a senior financial advisor for over a decade.
In December 2003, Wafa left Wall Street after she hit a wall mentally and emotionally. The perfect storm gathered for her in the wake of 9/11, her mother's illness, the invasion of Iraq and a profound personal identity crisis. In 2007, she began writing her first book, a memoir, called The Road from Morocco.
In the early stages of her book writing, Wafa was introduced to Ekhart Tolle’s New Earth, a book that became her bible and transformed her life. It marked the beginning of an unquenchable drive to learn all about spirituality and the expansion of human consciousness. Her self-study of Buddhism, Hinduism, Kabbalah, Sufism, and finally Abraham-Hicks, among others, all served to form the basis of her understanding of human awakening.