Download or read book The Myths of Happiness written by Sonja Lyubomirsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of The How of Happiness reveals how to find opportunity in life’s thorniest moments Focusing on life’s biggest, messiest moments, Sonja Lyubomirsky provides readers with the clear-eyed vision they need to build the healthiest, most satisfying life. Lyubomirsky argues that we have been given false promises—myths that assure us that lifelong happiness will be attained once we hit the culturally confirmed markers of adult success. This black-and-white vision of happiness works to discourage us from recognizing the upside of any negative and limits our potential for personal growth. A corrective course on happiness and a call to regard life’s twists and turns with a more open mind, The Myths of Happiness shares practical lessons that prove we are more adaptable than we think we are. It empowers readers to look beyond their first response, sharing scientific evidence that often it is our mindset—not our circumstances—that matters most.

Download or read book The Sacrament of Happy written by Lisa Harper and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God is good, God does good, and oh, how He wants you to be happy. In her new book, The Sacrament of Happy: What a Smiling God Brings to a Wounded World, Lisa Harper unveils that happiness is a gift from God that we can unashamedly enjoy. Happiness tends to be cast as a fluffy emotion without substance rather than a biblical concept, but this is not theologically accurate. Wearing the twin hats of both seminarian and belly-laughing adoptive mom, Lisa Harper dismantles the old-school idea that joy, not happiness, is the truly spiritual emotion, and asserts that Christ-followers are actually called to happiness. We are called to happiness, and this happiness is not impacted by personal or global tumult. In fact, happiness is a sacrament. The general definition of sacrament is “a visible sign of inward grace.” In communities of faith, it most often refers to holy communion or the Eucharist. In the broadest understanding, however, a sacrament is a gift bestowed by God, and in that case, ‘happiness’ is absolutely a sacrament—a visible, sometimes even audible, sign of inward grace! Lisa shares heart-wrenching difficult stories from her past, as well as some side-splitting hilarity along the way. Throughout the book, we see that happiness and sadness can coexist and ebb and flow like the tides. Christine Caine, Founder of A21 & Propel Women, had this to say about Lisa’s new book: "The Sacrament of Happy—like all of Lisa’s messages and books—enriches my understanding of God and His Word—and His great love for us. As always, she unfolds biblical truth so clearly and calls me to action. Every. Single. Time.”

Download or read book Authentic Happiness written by Martin Seligman and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important, entertaining book, one of the world's most celebrated psychologists, Martin Seligman, asserts that happiness can be learned and cultivated, and that everyone has the power to inject real joy into their lives. In Authentic Happiness, he describes the 24 strengths and virtues unique to the human psyche. Each of us, it seems, has at least five of these attributes, and can build on them to identify and develop to our maximum potential. By incorporating these strengths - which include kindness, originality, humour, optimism, curiosity, enthusiasm and generosity -- into our everyday lives, he tells us, we can reach new levels of optimism, happiness and productivity. Authentic Happiness provides a variety of tests and unique assessment tools to enable readers to discover and deploy those strengths at work, in love and in raising children. By accessing the very best in ourselves, we can improve the world around us and achieve new and lasting levels of authentic contentment and joy.

Download or read book Mindfulness For Dummies written by Shamash Alidina and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use mindfulness to relax and control anxiety, depression, stress and pain Whether you're looking to control your depression and anxiety levels, improve concentration and reduce stress, or just want to restore balance in your life, Mindfulness For Dummies, 2nd Edition shows you how to slow down, become aware of what is going on around you and react effectively. Focusing on breathing and other self-control techniques, the practice of mindfulness is scientifically proven to calm jittery nerves and free the mind of distracting thoughts, mental clutter and unrealistic expectations. With this easy-to-follow guide, you'll discover how to pay attention to the present in order to change the way you think, feel and act. Covering the latest research on the effect of mindfulness on the brain, Mindfulness For Dummies, 2nd Edition shows you how to break free from a downward spiral of negative thought and action, and empowers you to make positive choices that support your well-being. Use mindfulness to reduce stress and anxiety, combat pain and more Receive guidance on incorporating mindfulness into everyday life Establish your own mindfulness routine Access audio downloads of guided meditations Written by a professional mindfulness trainer, and packed with tips to incorporate this practice into your daily life, Mindfulness For Dummies, 2nd Edition shows you how to reap the benefits of a more attentive life.

Download or read book The Menopause Makeover written by Staness Jonekos and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hot flashes and sleepless nights? Feeling anxious and irritable? Feel like you're losing your mind? Frustrated with weight gain? It's time for a makeover—a menopause makeover! Staness Jonekos knows all too well how you feel. Leading up to her wedding day at the age of forty-seven, she was sporting a not-so-sexy belly bulge, suffering from hot flashes and feeling in no mood for a honeymoon. Jonekos took drastic action and created the first-ever menopause makeover to get back into that little white dress and feel sexy again in just twelve weeks. Now she joins forces with leading menopause expert Dr. Wendy Klein to give you the relief you need, fast! Based on the latest scientific research, and designed for both pre- and post-menopausal women, The Menopause Makeover is a proven, eight-step program to help you reclaim your health—and your life. • Evaluate if hormone therapy is right for you • Beat belly bulge with The Menopause Makeover food pyramid and recipes • Tone up and trim down with The Menopause Makeover fitness formula • Boost your libido and learn to love intimacy again • Regain your vibrant, youthful glow with essential beauty tips • Manage stress and get off the mood-swing roller coaster • Stay motivated with self-assessments and tools to track your progress

Download or read book Happy written by Derren Brown and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Really brilliant and just crammed with wisdom and insight. It will genuinely make a difference to me and the way I think about myself.' Stephen Fry ___ Everyone says they want to be happy. But that's much more easily said than done. What does being happy actually mean? And how do you even know when you feel it? In Happy Derren Brown explores changing concepts of happiness - from the surprisingly modern wisdom of the Stoics and Epicureans in classical times right up until today, when the self-help industry has attempted to claim happiness as its own. He shows how many of self-help's suggested routes to happiness and success - such as positive thinking, self-belief and setting goals - can be disastrous to follow and, indeed, actually cause anxiety. Happy aims to reclaim happiness and to enable us to appreciate the good things in life, in all their transient glory. By taking control of the stories we tell ourselves, by remembering that 'everything's fine' even when it might not feel that way, we can allow ourselves to flourish and to live more happily. ___ What readers are saying: ***** 'Immensely positive and life-affirming' ***** 'This is the blue print to a good life' ***** 'Thought provoking and potentially life-changing.'

Download or read book George Eliot s Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Power of Positive Thinking written by Rikroses Books and E-books and published by . This book was released on with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of negativity draining your success and well-being? "The Power of Positive Thinking: How to Train Your Brain for Success and Well-being" isn't just another pep talk; it's a practical toolkit to rewire your brain for happiness and achievement. Learn to identify and dismantle negativity, replacing it with affirmations, visualizations, and gratitude. Discover the science behind optimism, resilience, and self-compassion. Unlock the power of mindfulness, meditation, humor, and creativity to find calm, flow, and purpose. Master goal-setting, build empowering habits, and gain valuable feedback to thrive. This isn't just a book; it's an invitation to a life bursting with possibility. Embrace the power within, and watch your world transform. Start training your brain today, and unlock the incredible person you were always meant to be.

Download or read book Psychology in Everyday Life written by David G. Myers and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Anthem written by Ayn Rand and published by Ayn Rand Institute Press. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About this Edition This 2021-2022 Digital Student Edition of Ayn Rand's Anthem was created for teachers and students receiving free novels from the Ayn Rand Institute, and includes a historic Q&A with Ayn Rand that cannot be found in any other edition of Anthem. In this Q&A from 1979, Rand responds to questions about Anthem sent to her by a high school classroom. About Anthem Anthem is Ayn Rand’s “hymn to man’s ego.” It is the story of one man’s rebellion against a totalitarian, collectivist society. Equality 7-2521 is a young man who yearns to understand “the Science of Things.” But he lives in a bleak, dystopian future where independent thought is a crime and where science and technology have regressed to primitive levels. All expressions of individualism have been suppressed in the world of Anthem; personal possessions are nonexistent, individual preferences are condemned as sinful and romantic love is forbidden. Obedience to the collective is so deeply ingrained that the very word “I” has been erased from the language. In pursuit of his quest for knowledge, Equality 7-2521 struggles to answer the questions that burn within him — questions that ultimately lead him to uncover the mystery behind his society’s downfall and to find the key to a future of freedom and progress. Anthem anticipates the theme of Rand’s first best seller, The Fountainhead, which she stated as “individualism versus collectivism, not in politics, but in man’s soul.”

Download or read book The Happy Healthy Nonprofit written by Beth Kanter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steer your organization away from burnout while boosting all-around performance The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit presents realistic strategies for leaders looking to optimize organizational achievement while avoiding the common nonprofit burnout. With a uniquely holistic approach to nonprofit leadership strategy, this book functions as a handbook to help leaders examine their existing organization, identify trouble spots, and resolve issues with attention to all aspects of operations and culture. The expert author team walks you through the process of building a happier, healthier organization from the ground up, with a balanced approach that considers more than just quantitative results. Employee wellbeing takes a front seat next to organizational performance, with clear guidance on establishing optimal systems and processes that bring about better results while allowing a healthier work-life balance. By improving attitudes and personal habits at all levels, you'll implement a positive cultural change with sustainable impact. Nonprofits are driven to do more, more, more, often with fewer and fewer resources; there comes a breaking point where passion dwindles under the weight of pressure, and the mission suffers as a result. This book shows you how to revamp your organization to do more and do it better, by putting cultural considerations at the heart of strategy. Find and relieve cultural and behavioral pain points Achieve better results with attention to well-being Redefine your organizational culture to avoid burnout Establish systems and processes that enable sustainable change At its core, a nonprofit is driven by passion. What begins as a personal investment in the organization's mission can quickly become the driver of stress and overwork that leads to overall lackluster performance. Executing a cultural about-face can be the lifeline your organization needs to thrive. The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit provides a blueprint for sustainable change, with a holistic approach to improving organizational outlook.

Download or read book Claim Your Happiness written by Jay Bamire and published by Claim My Happiness. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know the feeling. Stuck in a soul-sucking routine, chasing someone else's definition of success. But what if there was a better way? A way to design a life that sparks joy, aligns with your values, and makes you feel like YOU again? Would you take it? This eBook isn't your average happiness guide. It's a personalized roadmap packed with actionable strategies to ditch the "shoulds" and build a life that truly excites YOU. Forget the generic advice and one-size-fits-all approaches. This is a self-guided workbook, packed with proven frameworks and actionable exercises to help you: Uncover Your Why: Identify your core values and what truly brings you fulfillment. Ditch the Doubt: Learn practical strategies to overcome limiting beliefs and build unshakeable confidence. Goal Getter: Break down your dreams into achievable steps, so you can finally stop feeling paralyzed and start taking action. Happiness Hacker: Discover science-backed techniques to cultivate lasting happiness and positive habits that stick. Effortless Improvement: Integrate self-improvement seamlessly into your daily routine with our habit-building hacks. Claim Your Happiness isn't just a book, it's a transformation. Here's what real people are saying: "I used to be a chronic procrastinator, overwhelmed and anxious. Now I'm crushing my goals and feeling more confident than ever!" - Emily Smith, Entrepreneur Stop Existing, Start Thriving! Get Your Guide Now.

Download or read book How to Be Single and Happy written by Jennifer Taitz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Single, less stressed, and free If you’re tired of swiping through dating apps, ghosting, and hearing well-meaning questions about why you’re still single, it’s hard not to feel “less-than” because you haven’t found your soul mate. Until now. How to Be Single and Happy is an empowering, compassionate guide to stop overanalyzing romantic encounters, get over regrets or guilt about past relationships, and identify what you want and need in a partner. But this isn’t just another dating book. Drawing on her extensive expertise as a clinical psychologist, as well as the latest research, hundreds of patient interviews, and key principles in positive psychology, Dr. Jennifer Taitz challenges the most common myths about women and love (like the advice to play hard to get). And while she teaches how to skillfully date, she’ll also help you cultivate the mindset, values, and connections that ensure you’ll live your best, happiest life, whether single or coupled up.

Download or read book Keeping Minds Happy and Healthy written by Pat Guy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeping Minds Happy and Healthy is a practical resource for teachers and shows how pupils can achieve and maintain excellent mental health. It focuses on identifying the main causes of unhappiness, stress and anxiety, by examining the difficulties a school system can inadvertently create for pupils. By developing resilience, empathic behaviour, social skills and self respect during childhood, pupils will better equipped to withstand the pressures of modern society and growing up. With practical tip sheets and advice Keeping Minds Happy and Healthy suggests ways to create a more positive educational experience for all pupils. Pat Guy shows how schools can increase all pupils’ well-being, enabling them to deal with the challenging situations they face as they move through education and into the adult world.

Download or read book Weeping Britannia written by Thomas Dixon and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a persistent myth about the British: that we are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips, repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia - the first history of crying in Britain - comprehensively debunks this myth. Far from being a persistent element in the 'national character', the notion of the British stiff upper lip was in fact the product of a relatively brief and militaristic period of our past, from about 1870 to 1945. In earlier times we were a nation of proficient, sometimes virtuosic moral weepers. To illustrate this perhaps surprising fact, Thomas Dixon charts six centuries of weeping Britons, and theories about them, from the medieval mystic Margery Kempe in the early fifteenth century, to Paul Gascoigne's famous tears in the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup. In between, the book includes the tears of some of the most influential figures in British history, from Oliver Cromwell to Margaret Thatcher (not forgetting George III, Queen Victoria, Charles Darwin, and Winston Churchill along the way). But the history of weeping in Britain is not simply one of famous tear-stained individuals. These tearful micro-histories all contribute to a bigger picture of changing emotional ideas and styles over the centuries, touching on many other fascinating areas of our history. For instance, the book also investigates the histories of painting, literature, theatre, music and the cinema to discover how and why people have been moved to tears by the arts, from the sentimental paintings and novels of the eighteenth century and the romantic music of the nineteenth, to Hollywood weepies, expressionist art, and pop music in the twentieth century. Weeping Britannia is simultaneously a museum of tears and a philosophical handbook, using history to shed new light on the changing nature of Britishness over time, as well as the ever-shifting ways in which we express and understand our emotional lives. The story that emerges is one in which a previously rich religious and cultural history of producing and interpreting tears was almost completely erased by the rise of a stoical and repressed British empire in the late nineteenth century. Those forgotten philosophies of tears and feeling can now be rediscovered. In the process, readers might perhaps come to view their own tears in a different light, as something more than mere emotional incontinence.

Download or read book Buying Happiness written by Kate Campbell and published by Major Street Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete guide to building a life you love &– and the financial tools to get you there.Money doesn' t eliminate life' s challenges, but it does make them easier to face and overcome. This became evident to Kate Campbell, the host of top-ranking Australian Finance Podcast, when an episode on ways to buy happiness became their most popular ever. Suddenly, it made sense to her audience: the reason to monitor spending, start saving and investing, and set money goals is because sound financial decisions can lead to a happier life.In Buying Happiness, Kate dives deeper on this topic to build a roadmap that will improve every aspect of your financial life, while maximizing your happiness along the way. Easy-to-read and jam packed with helpful resources, this optimistic book shares small but meaningful actions that will help you:• Set financial goals you' re excited to achieve• Invest your very first $5 in the stock market• Reach financial freedom and free up 40+ hours every week• Curate a meaningful career through experimentation• Pass on money skills to the next generation.Buying Happiness is the ultimate guide for anyone who is ready to dream, live, travel and thrive.

Download or read book The 17 Day Plan to Stop Aging written by Dr Mike Moreno and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The 17 Day Plan to Stop Aging, Dr Mike Moreno - author of the bestselling sensation The 17 Day Diet- offers an incredible four-cycle plan designed to help you prevent or even reverse the symptoms of aging. There are nine systems in your body that must all be in good working order for you to function at your peak at any age: circulatory, respiratory, nervous, immune, digestive, endocrine, musculoskeletal, reproductive and urinary systems. Dr Mike is giving readers all the strategies for longevity that they need, from the exact nutrients that can keep the body running at its peak to easy tips for integrating more movement into every day, following the same plan of 17-day cycles that has worked so well for people on The 17 Day Diet. Designed to work with any lifestyle, The 17 Day Plan to StopAging shows how to use nutrition, physical fitness and mental exercise to keep your systems in excellent condition. The steps are simple. The results are real.Highlights include: specific foods to eat to properly manage your digestive system; physical activities that will decrease the medical age of your cardiovascular and respiratory system; cognitive exercises to keep your mental systems young and sharp; products, ingredients and regimens that will decrease inflammation in the body, which, according to the latest research out of Harvard School of Public Health can improve everything from heart health and cognitive ability to joint pain and one's general sense of happiness.