Download or read book Happier written by Tal Ben-Shahar and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2007-05-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can YouLearn to BeHappy? YES . . . according to the teacher of HarvardUniversity’s most popular and life-changingcourse. One out of every five Harvard studentshas lined up to hear Tal Ben-Shahar’sinsightful and inspiring lectures on thatever-elusive state: HAPPINESS. HOW? Grounded in the revolutionary “positive psychology” movement,Ben-Shahar ingeniously combines scientific studies, scholarly research, self-help advice, and spiritual enlightenment. He weaves them together into a set of principles that you can apply to your daily life. Once you open your heart and mind to Happier ’s thoughts, you will feel more fulfilled, more connected . . . and, yes, HAPPIER. “Dr. Ben-Shahar, one of the most popular teachers in Harvard’s recent history, has written a personal, informed, and highly enjoyable primer on how to become happier. It would be wise to take his advice.” --Ellen J. Langer, author of Mindfulness and On Becoming an Artist “This fine book shimmers with a rare brand of good sense that is imbedded in scientific knowledge about how to increase happiness. It is easy to see how this is the backbone of the most popular course at Harvard today." --Martin E. P. Seligman, author of Authentic Happiness

Download or read book Shahar written by Prakhar Patidar and published by Verses Kindler Publication. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are as many versions of a city as one can imagine. As many as the pair of eyes that open up to its landscape each morning. As many as the breaths that have been breathed in the city's air. *_Shahar_* brings you 25 of them, captured in prosaic and poetic pieces that different cities have brewed.

Download or read book Returning written by Yael Shahar and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Portions of this work were previously published under the title, "A Damaged Mirror: a story of memory and redemption", Kasva Press, 2015"--Title page verso.

Download or read book Summary of Tal Ben Shahar s Happier No Matter What written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-04T22:59:00Z with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The first element of the SPIRE of happiness is spiritual wellbeing. We can experience spirituality in two ways: when we’re feeling a sense of meaning and purpose in what we’re doing, and when we’re fully present and focused in the moment. #2 There are people who see their work as a job, a career, or a calling. The question is, which is the predominant mindset. How do you feel about your work in general. Most of us experience all three perspectives, at different times. #3 The researchers found that the dominant perspective in your life makes all the difference in terms of your overall wellbeing, as well as how you end up doing in that work in the long run. For example, doctors who viewed their work as a calling were more helpful and friendly than those who viewed it as a chore. #4 The calling mindset does not just apply to the workplace, but also to parenting. If you have little kids at home, you could choose to see your parenting job as a calling, where you see your children as your most important responsibility.

Download or read book Summary of Tal Ben Shahar s Choose the Life You Want written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-15T22:59:00Z with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The advice to just live your life can have a dark side: it can lead us to turn our back on our most sacred privilege, our ability to choose our own path. We must commit ourselves to the idea that there are more possibilities than we normally see, and then make the effort to choose the best one for us. #2 When we feel trapped, we must choose to choose. We must commit ourselves to looking for new ways to change our life, and find within ourselves the keys that will unlock the doors of the prison we are trapped in. #3 Mindfulness is a choice we can make, and it is something we can practice. When our mind wanders, we can gently shift our focus back to the wonders that are everywhere to be found. #4 The best way to become more mindful is to read and reread the essay Three Days to See by Helen Keller. Keller lost her sight and hearing at the age of nineteen months as a result of an illness, but she was given back the use of these senses for just three days.

Download or read book Summary of Tal Ben Shahar s The Pursuit of Perfect written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-04T22:59:00Z with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I became Israel’s youngest-ever national squash champion in 1987. I was thrilled, but I quickly began to think that my accomplishment was not very significant. I decided that to feel truly happy, I needed to win a world championship. #2 I had always been afraid of failure, and the thought of not achieving my goals kept me up at night. I spent my first years of college in a state of constant stress and unhappiness. #3 I had always done well in science and math, so I decided to switch my major from computer science to psychology and philosophy. I had not realized until then that so many people struggled with the same issues I did. #4 The Perfectionist fears failure, whereas the Optimalist accepts it. Perfectionism and optimalism are not distinct qualities that are entirely independent of each other. We should think of perfectionism and optimalism as lying on a continuum, and each of us tends to a lesser or greater degree of one end or the other of the continuum.

Download or read book Happier No Matter What Cultivating Hope Resilience and Purpose in Hard Times written by Tal Ben-Shahar and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even when everything is going wrong, the science of happiness can help you! Pioneering positive psychologist and New York Times–bestselling author Tal Ben-Shahar shows us how in Happier, No Matter What. Ben-Shahar busts the all-too-common ideas that success brings happiness and that we can seek happiness itself. When hard times thwart our success and steal our joy, these ideas actually invite despair by leaving us with nothing to do. But we can do something: We can climb the SPIRE—Ben-Shahar’s five-step staircase to hope and purpose. Spiritual: I am experiencing meaning. Physical: My body’s needs are met. Intellectual: I am learning. Relational: My friends support me. Emotional: I am allowed to feel. By truly living these five elements of well-being, we build the resilience to carry us through anything—from a personal loss to a global pandemic. Ben-Shahar’s all-new SPIRE method shows us the way to becoming “whole again”—and when we’re whole, we invite happiness in.

Download or read book Happiness Studies written by Tal Ben-Shahar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-04 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Tal Ben-Shahar introduces a new interdisciplinary field of study that is dedicated to exploring happiness. The study of happiness ought not be left to psychologists alone. Philosophers, theologians, biologists, economists, and scholars from other disciplines have explored ways of attaining happiness, and to do justice to this important pursuit, we ought to listen to their words and experiment with their prescriptions. Not only does the field of happiness studies embrace different disciplines, it also approaches happiness as a multifaceted and multidimensional variable that includes five parts which form the acronym SPIRE: Spiritual wellbeing Physical wellbeing Intellectual wellbeing Relational wellbeing Emotional wellbeing This book addresses each of these elements of happiness, explains them, and addresses practical ways for their cultivation.

Download or read book The Shaolin Monastery written by Meir Shahar and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-01-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously researched and eminently readable study considers the economic, political, and religious factors that led Shaolin monks to disregard the Buddhist prohibition against violence and instead create fighting techniques that by the 21st century have spread throughout the world.

Download or read book Personalized Law written by Omri Ben-Shahar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world of one-size-fits-all law. People are different, but the laws that govern them are uniform. "Personalized Law"---rules that vary person by person---will change that. Here is a vision of a brave new world, where each person is bound by their own personally-tailored law. "Reasonable person" standards would be replaced by a multitude of personalized commands, each individual with their own "reasonable you" rule. Skilled doctors would be held to higher standards of care, the most vulnerable consumers and employees would receive stronger protections, age restrictions for driving or for the consumption of alcohol would vary according the recklessness risk that each person poses, and borrowers would be entitled to personalized loan disclosures tailored to their unique needs and delivered in a format fitting their mental capacity. The data and algorithms to administer personalize law are at our doorstep, and embryos of this regime are sprouting. Should we welcome this transformation of the law? Does personalized law harbor a utopic promise, or would it produce alienation, demoralization, and discrimination? This book is the first to explore personalized law, offering a vision of law and robotics that delegates to machines those tasks humans are least able to perform well. It inquires how personalized law can be designed to deliver precision and justice and what pitfalls the regime would have to prudently avoid. In this book, Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat not only present this concept in a clear, easily accessible way, but they offer specific examples of how personalized law may be implemented across a variety of real-life applications.

Download or read book Even Happier A Gratitude Journal for Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment written by Tal Ben-Shahar and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to be Happier. Week by Week. In this week-by-week guided journal, Tal Ben-Shahar offers a full year'sworth of exercises to inspire happiness every day. Using the groundbreakingprinciples of positive psychology that he taught in his wildly popularcourse at Harvard University and that inspired his worldwide bestsellerHappier, Ben-Shahar has designed a series of tools and techniques toenable us all to find more pleasure and meaning in our lives. 52 weeks of new exercises, meditations, and “time-ins” A journal to record your thoughts, feelings, and personal growth Life-changing insights of philosophers, psychologists, artists,writers, scientists, and successful entrepreneurs This is no ordinary self-help book that you read and toss aside. It's acomplete, user-driven journal filled with proactive challenges, thoughtprovokingquestions, and “time-ins” that allow you to pause and reflect.You can engage in these activities every day to stimulate your creativity,enhance your sense of empowerment, enrich the quality of your life, and,yes, feel Even Happier.

Download or read book Temporal Information Systems in Medicine written by Carlo Combi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Temporal Information Systems in Medicine introduces the engineering of information systems for medically-related problems and applications. The chapters are organized into four parts; fundamentals, temporal reasoning & maintenance in medicine, time in clinical tasks, and the display of time-oriented clinical information. The chapters are self-contained with pointers to other relevant chapters or sections in this book when necessary. Time is of central importance and is a key component of the engineering process for information systems. This book is designed as a secondary text or reference book for upper -undergraduate level students and graduate level students concentrating on computer science, biomedicine and engineering. Industry professionals and researchers working in health care management, information systems in medicine, medical informatics, database management and AI will also find this book a valuable asset.

Download or read book Erosion written by Golan Shahar and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Erosion, Self-Made offers a comprehensive treatment of self-criticism based in philosophy, developmental science, personality and clinical psychology, social theories, and cognitive-affective neuroscience"--

Download or read book Childhood in the Middle Ages written by Shulamith Shahar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide variety of European sources, Childhood in the Middle Ages (1992) examines attitudes towards children, images of childhood, and the concept of the stages of childhood in medieval culture, from the nobility to the peasantry. It makes fascinating and illuminating reading for anyone interested in the social and cultural history of medieval Europe as well as the history of child-rearing and education.

Download or read book Choose the Life You Want The Mindful Way to Happiness written by Tal Ben-Shahar and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kind of life do you want for yourself? What choices will create this kind of life? In his New York Times bestseller Happier, positive psychology expert Tal Ben-Shahar taught us how to become happier through simple exercises. Now, in Choose the Life You Want, he has a new, life-changing lesson to share: Drawing on the latest psychological research, Ben-Shahar shows how making the right choices—not the big, once-in-a-lifetime choices, but the countless small choices we make every day almost without noticing—has a direct, long-lasting impact on our happiness. Every single moment is an opportunity to make a conscious choice for a happy and fulfilled life. Choose the Life You Want covers 101 such choices, complete with real-life stories, to help you identify and act on opportunities large and small.

Download or read book Shattered Vessels written by Michal Peled Ginsburg and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Shahar (1926–1997), author of the seven-novel sequence The Palace of Shattered Vessels, occupies an ambiguous position in the Israeli literary canon. Often compared to Proust, Shahar produced a body of work that offers a fascinating poetic and ideological alternative to the dominant models of Amos Oz and A. B. Yehoshua. This book, the first full-length study of this fascinating author, takes a fresh look at the uniqueness of his literary achievement in both poetic and ideological terms. In addition to situating Shahar within the European literary tradition, the book reads Shahar's representation of Jerusalem in his multi-volume novel as a "heterotopia"—an actual space where society's unconscious (what does not fit on its ideological map) is materially present—and argues for the relevance of Shahar's work to the critical discussion of the Arab question in Israeli culture.

Download or read book Touching the Relational Edge written by Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces body psychotherapy to psychologists, psychotherapists, and interested others through an attachment based, object relations, and primarily psychoanalytic and relational framework. It approaches body psychotherapy through historical, theoretical and clinical perspectives.