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The Happiness Show Goes Global
Added: (Tue Nov 23 2004)
White Plains Cable Channel 76's “The Happiness Show,” the world’s first television program entirely devoted to helping viewers become happier, has come to the internet. On December 2, 2004, producer George Ortega, made all of his over sixty half-hour episodes available for free to the world’s internet community through the program’s new .com website “thehappinessshow.”
The program, which premiered on cable television May 1, 2003, presents social science based advice about how individuals can very easily become much happier. Now hosted by Mr. Ortega and Lionel Ketchian, the show also promotes societal happiness-increase strategies like the teaching of happiness in schools.
According to Mr. Ortega, “Broadband internet customers will be able to view select episodes in high quality streaming video at no cost. All of the over sixty episodes taped so far will also be available for free to every internet customer in standard quality streaming audio and video formats.” “Streaming media technology,” Ortega explains, “is perfect for presenting the shows on the internet because it lets surfers begin watching episodes usually within a minute of clicking their selection.”
“Researchers have found,” Ortega explains, “that the average level of happiness in the world is under 65 percent, and only 70 percent in the United States. In fact, Americans report feeling happy only about 54 percent of each day.” Mr. Ortega is very optimistic about helping people everywhere become much happier through the show’s website. He emphasizes that, “Using experiment-based techniques from studies published in professional psychology journals, we can all very easily become much happier.”
“As numerous studies show,” Ortega adds, “happiness is not really about the advantages enjoyed only by the world’s richer countries. In fact, the University of Michigan’s prestigious World Values Surveys, directed by Dr. Ron Inglehart, recently published findings listing the three happiest countries in the world to be Nigeria, Mexico, and Venezuela, (quite poor countries).”
Ortega, a happiness researcher himself, recommends that viewers watch his special “Bliss Mantra Method” episode which describes a powerful meditation-based method that he considers the most simple and elegant strategy for becoming happier yet developed. Through a variety of happiness methods, he predicts that entrepreneurs are poised to begin making huge profits as consumers become more aware that they can easily become much happier through simple classroom training, and happiness begins to be marketed directly “as a product.”
In addition to presenting the episodes, the show’s website will serve as a clearing house for information about happiness. From lists of happiness researchers and promoters to many specific strategies for becoming happier, the site presents a wealth of information on happiness and provides many links to other important happiness resources available through the internet.
Aristotle considered happiness “the highest good.” According to Mr. Ortega “everyone is finally awakening to the fact that happiness rules, and that becoming much happier is much easier than most of us realize.” Thanks to The Happiness Show’s new website, the keys to happiness will now be much more accessible, for free, to people everywhere.
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