When I listened to this audiobook, I was feeling pretty desperate for some guidance on how to be happy, just within myself. She told me how much his words hurt, and how they added to a long list of self-critical thoughts that constantly swirled in her head. I have, in recent years, been listening to interviews and talks with Sylvia and found I identify with her SO much. He argues that by making informed, deliberate choices without thinking too hard about maximizing happiness, we can discover a life that is characterized by meaning and pleasure. A blackbird on a nearby roof perch started the joyful trilling, soon to be followed by another of the species who had definitely not cleared his throat on waking, and then another, until the whole neighbourhood was at it – blackbirds, sparrows, wrens, starlings.

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Doyle Gentry’s book also describes how to determine one’s current capacity for happiness, to live one’s desired life, to overcome barriers to happiness, and look into one’s unique strengths and virtues. Rather than the pursuit of happiness, many personal decisions are reflected as economics, on the level of society. You can be locked in prison in solitary confinement, yet you can find beauty in the sliver of sunshine that enters your cell. when I feel myself in caring connection--encouraging, consoling, or appreciating--I feel the twin pleasures of clarity and goodness.All the wisdom in the world about the inevitability of change or the lawfulness of karma does not ease the heaviness in the mind that we feel when we lose someone, or something, we hold dear [p. The books have been written from authors including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, to renowned professors of psychology, and even an economist.

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I am a "recovering fretter" as well and had I not judged this book by it's cover, I might well have made it to a better place sooner. She also talked about the five hindrances which she described as fatigue, worry, doubt, lust (or desire), and anger as the ways which we are prone to first respond to situations. Mindfulness skills can be learned easily, and are quick ways proven to decrease stress, improve performance, effectively deal with emotions, enhance health, improve vitality and – overall – really improve quality of life! Somehow, all the droll tales of life in rural France and the Bay Area didn’t connect me to the practices of gratitude and self-reflection, the book’s ultimate destination.

When I asked her if she thought she was beautiful, her eyes lit up as she looked at herself, and without a doubt, without hesitation, she said yes. It’s their problem, because more often than not people are reflecting their relationship to themselves. I felt that there was a glib attitude toward suffering and a very superficial explanation of the "practicing". I have read it as a loan from my local library and loved it so much I wanted to add a copy to my own library.

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Our brains are wired to be negative, but the good news is that you can train your brain to hold on to happiness. When you leave your happiness in someone else’s hands, you’ll end up being dependent on them and when they leave you, you’ll become empty inside. Your YES-driven self, comes to the surface when your mind, body, heart, and soul establish connection and harmony. It argues that, by training our hearts and minds, and by actively working on our attitudes and outlook, we can all achieve happiness. We all desire to be happy and are constantly striving to pursue it, but in the process of cultivating this emotional state, sometimes we forget to strengthen our inner selves.When you start aiming at something different — something like “I want to be better than I was yesterday ” — your minds will start presenting you with new information, derived from your previously hidden self, to aid you in your new pursuit and quest to become a better version of yourself. we are all making our way from one end of life to the other hoping--for whatever intervals of time we can manage it--to feel safe and content and strong and at ease.

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Positive Psychology suggests that the proposition that we will feel happy if, and when, we become successful is not true. In every moment, you have the power of determine whether you will view events in your life from a positive or negative lens.

But I suspect one of the reasons I enjoyed the book so much is because I could imagine it in her delightful voice.