Choosing Happier: How to be happy despite your circumstances, history or genes
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Choosing Happier: How to be happy despite your circumstances, history or genes
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Overview
Choosing Happier is a book about our potential for living a much happier life when we learn and practice some very simple but powerful habits and ways of looking at the world.
This book busts the modern happiness myths that assert that we can find lasting happiness through having more money, buying more things, or being famous, successful or powerful. Instead, it provides science-backed, actionable, effective, and simple practices that can make being happier a whole lot easier whoever and wherever you presently are. It turns out that our ability to be happy is not dependent on our circumstances - our degree of happiness is an inside job and something that we can influence and choose!
In its essence, this is a book of joy, for it combines ancient wisdom and modern positive psychology, valuable insights into why we have got lost in pursuing happiness but not finding it, powerful but simple practices that make it easy to turn this situation around, and all interwoven with inspiring and humorous quotes about happiness and life. Rather than this book just being an interesting read, it has been written in a way that encourages and enables the reader to actually increase their levels of authentic happiness. The author has even provided multi-media tools, MP3 meditations and an online community forum to support readers to make that shift into greater positivity with ease.
Being happier is not the only end goal of this book. It has been shown that happier people are more creative, successful, productive, healthy, resilient and they have better relationships too - what's not to like about these additional outcomes? In the bigger picture, happier people are more content, kind and generous. The more authentically happy people there are around the planet, the better off we all are.
If you read this book and do the exercises regularly you will develop empowering "happy habits" that will naturally increase your contentedness and joy, while reducing the time that you spend stuck in negative emotions. Don't put learning these skills and habits off and remain in unnecessary unhappiness when you could become one of those people who seem to be able to cruise through life's challenges with a smile on their face.
So read this book and learn the simple skills that will enable you to choose to be happier now!
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780995681125 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Imaginal Publishing |
| Publication date: | 04/14/2017 |
| Series: | Practical Happiness , #1 |
| Pages: | 238 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d) |
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Dedication............................................................................................. vii
The Happier Planet Mission Statement......................................... ix
Why You Should Read This Book.................................................... xi
Why I Wrote This Book................................................................... xvii
How To Read This Book................................................................ xxiii
A Special Invitation........................................................................... xxv
Table of Contents................................................................................ 27
PART 1.................................................................................................... 29
HAPPINESS – THE OVERVIEW........................................................ 29
Chapter 1. Understanding Happiness.............................................. 1
PART 2.................................................................................................... 29
THE PRACTICES................................................................................... 29
Chapter 2. Gratitude And Appreciation........................................ 31
Chapter 3. Meditation........................................................................ 41
Chapter 4. Acknowledging Your Strengths Of Character......... 49
Chapter 5. Exercise, Diet And Sleep............................................... 53
Chapter 6. Random Acts Of Kindness............................................ 63
Chapter 7. Social Connection........................................................... 71
Chapter 8. Using Your Physiology.................................................. 81
Chapter 9. Create A Supportive Environment........................... 93
Chapter 10. Having Downtime And Not Multitasking.............. 99
Chapter 11. Jumpstart Your Joy................................................... 103
PART 3................................................................................................. 119
THE WAYS OF BEING...................................................................... 119
Chapter 12. Guidance By Joy......................................................... 123
Chapter 13. Having Purpose.......................................................... 127
Chapter 14. Self-Compassion........................................................ 131
Chapter 15. Practice Optimism..................................................... 135
Chapter 16. Being Human.............................................................. 143
Chapter 17. Developing Resilience............................................. 149
PART 4................................................................................................. 153
EXPANDING HAPPINESS................................................................. 153
Chapter 18. The Butterfly Effect................................................... 155
Chapter 19. Conscious Happiness At A National Scale......... 161
In Conclusion..................................................................................... 171
One More Thing…............................................................................. 173
A Special Invitation.......................................................................... 175
Bonus Chapter: How to Improve Your Sleep........................... 177
Appendix 1. Happiness Tools And Resources......................... 185
Acknowledgements......................................................................... 193
About The Author............................................................................. 195