Download or read book The Mechanics of Happiness written by Peter J Levine and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author identifies three key areas whose underlying influence upon the quality of our lives is absolutely fundamental; these are happiness, fulfillment and development. Western lifestyles have created a deficit in these three leading to a range of conditions that can easily prevent us from leading the satisfying lives we all desire. Approached in a conversational, matter of fact way the author reveals strategies, techniques and practical exercises kept secret and known only to the select few with the idea of handing control of your life back to you. The promise of this book is to return the gift of your life back to its rightful owner, you.
Download or read book Happiness written by Tim Lomas and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and engaging exploration of how we understand happiness. What does it mean to feel happiness? As a state of mind, it’s elusive. As a concept—despite the plethora of pop psychology books on the subject—it’s poorly understood. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, psychologist Tim Lomas offers a concise and engaging overview of our current understanding of happiness. Lomas explains that although the field of positive psychology, which focuses on happiness, emerged only in the last twenty-five years, interest in the meaning of happiness goes back several millennia. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, from philosophy and sociology to economics and anthropology, Lomas offers an expansive vision of what happiness means, exploring a significant range of experiential territory. After considering such related concepts as wellbeing and flourishing, Lomas traces ideas of happiness from the ancient Buddhist notions of sukha and nirvana through Aristotle’s distinction between hedonic and eudaemonic happiness to today’s therapeutic and scientific approaches. He discusses current academic perspectives, looking at the breadth of happiness research across disciplines; examines the mechanics of happiness—the physiological, psychological, phenomenological, and sociocultural processes that make up happiness; explores the factors that influence happiness, both individual and social; and discusses the cultivation of happiness.
Download or read book The Seven Sages written by Patricia Anne Dye and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many world legends suggest that at any given time, seven sages walk the Earth, tasked with the responsibility to anchor wisdom on behalf of humanity. Each one stands as the personification of a different rung of human consciousness. Together, they represent humanity's innate ability to save itself-or doom itself. - Earthwhisperer knows the secrets of the Earth, its pleasures, and its pains. - Lila understands the nature and workings of sacred pleasure. - Solomon has learned how to wield both moral and ethical power. - Philomel has captured the art of immaculate loving and heartfelt joy. - Dattatreya lives out his version of crazy wisdom with his innovative family. - Marianina is fey, with a vast and accurate perspective on the human soul and its cosmic context. - Horus is a human sun, the indicator of human destiny, well above normal human consciousness. At this time, the sages have the profound challenge to help humanity reclaim balance, compassion, and hope-when these qualities seem lost forever. Through a whirling cascade of shifts in perception, can the sages inspire each person to embrace his or her unique brand of wisdom in time?
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Happiness written by Susan A. David and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 1137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A text for researchers and practitioners interested in human happiness. Its editors and chapter contributors are world leaders in the investigation of happiness across the fields of psychology, education, philosophy, social policy and economics.
Download or read book The Mechanics Mirror written by Robert Macfarlane and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Happiness written by Jamshed R Bilimoria and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innocent, sprightly, inquisitive 14 years old girl coming to terms with higher truth. She searches everywhere – from a cocksure cannabis smoking guru to her own father who is revered by all those around him. She has to make sense of a maddening range of worldviews. She is light hearted and carefree yet suggests an innate sort of wisdom. Is there ever going to be an end to her quest?
Download or read book Mastering Emotions written by Erin Austin Dwyer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mastering Emotions examines the interactions between slaveholders and enslaved people, and between White people and free Black people, to expose how emotions such as love, terror, happiness, and trust functioned as social and economic capital for slaveholders and enslaved people alike.
Download or read book Out of my Comfort Zone Seeking Happiness and Joy written by Gabriele Annegret Barysch-Crosbie and published by epubli. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is your life so organized that you feel totally restless underneath all the perfection? Or are you confronted with lots of challenges that seem, at times, overwhelming? Whatever your situation might be, know that the universe is always on your side, and be brave to change your status quo. Have faith that there is always a way out and a plethora of divine guidance available to you. You might consult an oracle or a psychic, or visit a healer. You might learn how to pay attention to an omen. You might attend a workshop to get back with your innate abilities we all were born with. Take a leap of faith and move ahead on the road to expansion and ultimately, wholeness. Only then can you find true happiness and joy.
Download or read book Happiness Its Elements Means Simple Common Being an Address Delivered at the Mechanics Institute Jedburgh December 1851 written by John Purves (of Jedburgh.) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Play Anything written by Ian Bogost and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds -- forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can overcome our daily anxiety; transforming the boring, ordinary world around us into one of endless, playful possibilities. The key to this playful mindset lies in discovering the secret truth of fun and games. Play Anything, reveals that games appeal to us not because they are fun, but because they set limitations. Soccer wouldn't be soccer if it wasn't composed of two teams of eleven players using only their feet, heads, and torsos to get a ball into a goal; Tetris wouldn't be Tetris without falling pieces in characteristic shapes. Such rules seem needless, arbitrary, and difficult. Yet it is the limitations that make games enjoyable, just like it's the hard things in life that give it meaning. Play is what happens when we accept these limitations, narrow our focus, and, consequently, have fun. Which is also how to live a good life. Manipulating a soccer ball into a goal is no different than treating ordinary circumstances- like grocery shopping, lawn mowing, and making PowerPoints-as sources for meaning and joy. We can "play anything" by filling our days with attention and discipline, devotion and love for the world as it really is, beyond our desires and fears. Ranging from Internet culture to moral philosophy, ancient poetry to modern consumerism, Bogost shows us how today's chaotic world can only be tamed-and enjoyed-when we first impose boundaries on ourselves.
Download or read book Counting My Blessings Francis Brennan s Guide to Happiness written by Francis Brennan and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Brennan is back – to spread a little happiness!'Life can deal us any kind of hand, good or bad. Often it's a bit of both, and the only difference is what we make of it. That's the subject of this book – how we handle what life throws at us and how we learn to make the most of it. In short, it's a book about happiness.'Full of warm and witty anecdotes, Francis Brennan shares his memories while letting us in on the secret to his success – his belief in happiness. By counting his blessings – such as his childhood, family, friendships, career, travel, spirituality, home life and public life – he outlines what matters to him and what has sustained him in life, and shows how learning to be happy is the most important gift you can give yourself.By sharing how he has dealt with the ups and downs of life, Francis Brennan proves that happiness is something you choose, rather than something that chooses you. Counting Your Blessings: Table of Contents Introduction - Family Matters - Overcoming Challenges - Work, Glorious Work - Park Life - Living in the Limelight - Travel Broadens the Mind - A Hug Goes a Long Way - A Few of My Favourite Things
Download or read book Various Strategies Toward Success Wealth and Happiness written by NARCISO D. DOMINGO and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At present, there may be millions of materials taking up the subject matter success, wealth, and happiness. This book is not talking about another set of notions or ideas. It just strategically assesses some of the most popular references available, in terms of their applicability and practicability. It also analyzes why, despite of those voluminous materials, the search for these elusive states continues. Out of available references, I had personally selected a sample of ten strategies written by various authors. Ill present to you in capsule form their own secrets, laws, habits, rules, and commandments that accordingly give you everything you want in life as well as the reviews and comments of their detractors and believers. We will also have a glimpse on the lives of the worlds top three richest men and take a discerning look on the worlds happiest countries. The fact that this book is now in your hand is not an accident. It is with you right now for a purposethat is, to help you attain what you really want in life while helping others do the same. I just did! YOU DESERVE TO SUCCEED, BE WEALTHY AND BE HAPPY!!!
Download or read book Get a Life That Doesn t Suck written by Michelle Deangelis and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life can really suck. But it doesn't have to. With the help of esteemed consultant and coach Michelle DeAngelis, life can really rock. DeAngelis serves up a combination of street-smart wisdom and cheerful irreverence as she shows readers how to enjoy the "ride of their lives," regardless of the roadblocks or potholes along the way. By providing the specific mechanics to joy, DeAngelis shows that joy is a repeatable by-product of living one's life in integrity and of making conscious choices every day that kick misery, worry, and guilt to the curb. She explains how most people are not naturally equipped to deal with life's challenges and then introduces foundational tools and effective techniques to take readers from crappy to happy. She starts with a Joy Quotient Quiz that gives readers their "JQ" score and identifies their "Gap"--the measurable difference between what people think and what they do--which is where life sucks. She then teaches a four-step, fast-acting process that provides "suck relief" to solve everyday problems. The centerpiece of the work is DeAngelis's 10 Life-Changing Ahas. From the title to the very last line, Get a Life That Doesn't Suck is not your everyday self-help book. Through humor and real-life examples, DeAngelis explains how readers can reduce their stress, improve their outlook, and get rid of whatever is holding them back. She provides the formula for readers to make joy real and accessible so that the journey from "life sucks" to "life rocks" is worth the trip.
Download or read book Happy Pills in America written by David Herzberg and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valium. Paxil. Prozac. Prescribed by the millions each year, these medications have been hailed as wonder drugs and vilified as numbing and addictive crutches. Where did this “blockbuster drug” phenomenon come from? What factors led to the mass acceptance of tranquilizers and antidepressants? And how has their widespread use affected American culture? David Herzberg addresses these questions by tracing the rise of psychiatric medicines, from Miltown in the 1950s to Valium in the 1970s to Prozac in the 1990s. The result is more than a story of doctors and patients. From bare-knuckled marketing campaigns to political activism by feminists and antidrug warriors, the fate of psychopharmacology has been intimately wrapped up in the broader currents of modern American history. Beginning with the emergence of a medical marketplace for psychoactive drugs in the postwar consumer culture, Herzberg traces how “happy pills” became embroiled in Cold War gender battles and the explosive politics of the “war against drugs”—and how feminists brought the two issues together in a dramatic campaign against Valium addiction in the 1970s. A final look at antidepressants shows that even the Prozac phenomenon owed as much to commerce and culture as to scientific wizardry. With a barrage of “ask your doctor about” advertisements competing for attention with shocking news of drug company malfeasance, Happy Pills is an invaluable look at how the commercialization of medicine has transformed American culture since the end of World War II.
Download or read book Happiness written by Ed Diener and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing sophisticated methodology and three decades of research by the world's leading expert on happiness, Happiness challenges the present thinking of the causes and consequences of happiness and redefines our modern notions of happiness. shares the results of three decades of research on our notions of happiness covers the most important advances in our understanding of happiness offers readers unparalleled access to the world's leading experts on happiness provides "real world" examples that will resonate with general readers as well as scholars Winner of the 2008 PSP Prose Award for Excellence in Psychology, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers
Download or read book Wordsworth s Unremembered Pleasure written by Alexander Freer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wordsworth has traditionally been understood as the 'poet of memory'. This book argues that 'unremembered pleasure', an idea Wordsworth formulates in 'Tintern Abbey' but is often overlooked by modern readers, is central to understanding his writing. Wordsworth's poems discover and articulate a broad range of previously unfelt, unnoticed, and unconscious satisfactions. As well as providing new interpretations of major and under-studied writing by Wordsworth, this volume challenges a long tradition of psychoanalytic reading of romanticism, which uses trauma to explain the limits of literary memory. The book contests key psychoanalytic concepts in literary criticism including repression, sublimation, mourning, and pleasure. It asks what it would mean for us to be 'surprised by joy'.
Download or read book The Happiness Handbook written by James D. Sheetz and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003-11-24 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Happiness Handbook is based on the observations of a lifetime regarding the differences between those who are happy and those who are not. It is written in the form of true stories accompanied with specific steps you can take to improve your own level of happiness and contentment. It is concise and easy to absorb while providing practical ways to make your own life happier. Follow the simple steps and in time you will find you smile more, feel happier, are more at peace and have better relationships than you ever dreamed possible. Read it: all you have to lose is your pain and unhappiness.
