Reasons to Be Happy
Reasons to Be Happy

Author: Katrina Kittle

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1402260202

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"Gripping I was instantly swept away by Hannah's struggles and greatly inspired by her journey. This is a powerful book, and I recommend it for anyone who has ever worried about how to fit in." -Kristina McBride, author of The Tension of Opposites REASONS TO BE HAPPY 21. Cat purr vibrating through your skin 22. Jumping on a trampoline in the rain 23. Raw cookie dough 24. Getting yourself all freaked out after a scary movie 25. Dancing like an idiot when no one is watching What happened to the girl who wrote those things? I miss that girl. She used to be bold and fun. Now she's a big chicken loser. How could so much change so fast? Let's see, you could be the plain Jane daughter of two gorgeous famous people, move to a new school, have no real friends, and your mom could get sick, and, oh yeah, you could have the most embarrassing secret in the world. Yep, that about does it. So, the real question is, how do I get that girl back? Praise for The Blessings of the Animals: "With subtle yet shimmering insight, Kittle explores the resilience of human nature." -Booklist Praise for The Kindness of Strangers: "Kittle crafts a disturbing but compelling story...gripping read."-Publishers Weekly

Happy for No Reason
Happy for No Reason

Author: Marci Shimoff

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-03-03

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1416547738

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Everyone wants to be happy--yet so many people are unhappy today. What are they doing wrong? Clearly, a new approach is needed. Self-help guru Shimoff presents three new ideas and a practical program to change the way readers look at creating happiness in their lives: 1. Happiness is not an emotion, a spike of elation or euphoria, but a lasting, neuro-physiological state of peace and well-being. 2. True happiness is not based on what people do or have--it doesn't depend on external reasons or circumstances. 3. Research indicates that everyone has a happiness set-point. No matter what happens to a person, they will tend to return to a set range of happiness. This book shows how you can actually reprogram your set-point to a higher level.--From publisher description.

Reasons to be Happy
Reasons to be Happy

Author: Neil LaBute

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2016-05-09

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13: 1468308483

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Reasons to Be Happy features the same four characters--Greg, Steph, Carly, and Kent--picking up their lives three years later, but in different romantic pairings as they each search desperately for that elusive object of desire: happiness. New York City's MCC Theater will produce the world premiere in May 2013.

Reasons to be Pretty
Reasons to be Pretty

Author: Neil LaBute

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780822223948

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THE STORY: A love story about the impossibility of love, REASONS TO BE PRETTY introduces us to Greg, who really, truly adores his girlfriend, Steph. Unfortunately, he also thinks she has a few physical imperfections, and when he casually mentions t

Reasons to be Happy at the Beach
Reasons to be Happy at the Beach

Author: Sandy Gingras

Publisher: Down the Shore Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780945582984

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There are so many reasons to be happy at the beach. This little book delights in the counting of some favorites. Reasons to Be Happy at the Beach is a gift book that combines the author-illustrator's uniquely endearing watercolor artwork with a wonderfully poetic listing. It's a book that shows us how present happiness really is -- all we have to do is look.

There Are So Many Beautiful Reasons to Be Happy: Motivational 6 X 9 Gratitude Journal with 120 Lined Pages for Finding Happiness in Your Everyday Life
There Are So Many Beautiful Reasons to Be Happy: Motivational 6 X 9 Gratitude Journal with 120 Lined Pages for Finding Happiness in Your Everyday Life

Author: Leaf And Lake Journals

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-01-31

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9781795578752

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Embrace the "old-fashioned" method of writing with pen (or pencil) on paper using this stylish 6 x 9" notebook with 120 lightly lined journal pages waiting to be filled with your notes, lists, doodles, dreams, thoughts, memories, observations, and more. Whether you are a stream of consciousness writer or a list maker, a quick note taker or a storyteller, the simple, clean design of this book provides you with an empty canvas to use in your preferred writing style. The soft paperback matte cover is beautifully styled with a modern Danish folk flower design in green, mustard, blush, and orange and the inspirational quote - There Are So Many Beautiful Reasons To Be Happy And at 6 x 9, it provides plenty of space to write in while remaining compact and portable. This lovely journal is also a thoughtful birthday or holiday gift to give to your friends and family members who like to unplug and express themselves on paper.

The Undefeated Mind
The Undefeated Mind

Author: Alex Lickerman

Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.

Published: 2012-11-06

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0757316425

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Legions of self-help authors rightly urge personal development as the key to happiness, but they typically fail to focus on its most important objective: hardiness. Though that which doesn't kill us can make us stronger, as Nietzsche tells us, few authors today offer any insight into just how to springboard from adversity to strength. It doesn't just happen automatically, and it takes practice. New scientific research suggests that resilience isn't something with which only a fortunate few of us have been born, but rather something we can all take specific action to develop. To build strength out of adversity, we need a catalyst. What we need, according to Dr. Alex Lickerman, is wisdom—wisdom that adversity has the potential to teach us. Lickerman's underlying premise is that our ability to control what happens to us in life may be limited, but we have the ability to establish a life-state to surmount the suffering life brings us. The Undefeated Mind distills the wisdom we need to create true resilience into nine core principles, including: --A new definition of victory and its relevance to happiness --The concept of the changing of poison into medicine --A way to view prayer as a vow we make to ourselves. --A method of setting expectations that enhances our ability to endure disappointment and minimizes the likelihood of quitting --An approach to taking personal responsibility and moral action that enhances resilience --A process to managing pain—both physical and emotional—that enables us to push through obstacles that might otherwise prevent us from attaining out goals --A method of leveraging our relationships with others that helps us manifest our strongest selves Through stories of patients who have used these principles to overcome suffering caused by unemployment, unwanted weight gain, addiction, rejection, chronic pain, retirement, illness, loss, and even death, Dr. Lickerman shows how we too can make these principles function within our own lives, enabling us to develop for ourselves the resilience we need to achieve indestructible happiness. At its core, The Undefeated Mind urges us to stop hoping for easy lives and focus instead on cultivating the inner strength we need to enjoy the difficult lives we all have.

Happiness Through Goal Setting
Happiness Through Goal Setting

Author: Christian Ehrlich

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 9781032002309

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An evidence-based, practical guide to reflection on the most important goals in life, this book provides a unique framework and thought-provoking exercises to modify personal and professional goals to increase happiness. Why we pursue our most important goals in life is an important question, and the answer we give ourselves greatly influences our happiness. This book presents the goal-striving reasons framework to illustrate the essential positive and negative ingredients: pleasure, altruism, self-esteem, and necessity. This new framework and the practical exercises throughout the book will enable readers to change their reasons for pursuing goals and achieve the ultimate aim of becoming happier in life. There are many books on happiness - no other discusses happiness specifically from a goal-setting perspective. Human resources and mental health professionals, mindfulness practitioners, coaches, mentors, higher education staff, postgraduate students, and others will benefit from the hands-on guidance in this book.

Happy Yoga
Happy Yoga

Author: Steve Ross

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2003-11-11

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780060533397

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After studying yoga in India and traveling all over the world with traditional Vedantic masters, Steve Ross returned to his hometown of Los Angeles with a broadened point of view of what yoga could be. He was surprised to find that yoga classes at home were missing the humor, joy, and celebration that fueled his Eastern studies. Instead of expanding and enhancing the joy of being, Western yoga classes focused obsessively on correcting body positions and developing a picture-perfect physique. Determined to keep his yoga practice true to cultivating bliss and inner radiance, Ross started his own yoga studio and has created a yoga movement in Los Angeles that is, to put it simply, revolutionary. Ross lives and teaches according to his belief that the secret to yoga is not obsessing over whether your feet are parallel or whether you can bend as far as the person on your left can, but about transcending the serious and allowing joy into your life, your body, your mind, and hopefully your yoga practice itself. It's about lightening up. In Happy Yoga, Ross reveals that everyone is inherently happy, but that our true self is shadowed and concealed by the layers of worry that, through habit, become our daily thoughts. In each chapter, he examines one of our seven greatest human fears -- depression, ill health, loss of love, career failure, war, death, and emotional stasis -- and uses yoga wisdom to explain how to strip away these worries to reach your core of calm radiant joy. By sharing his system of yoga postures, diet, meditation, music, supplements, and philosophy, Ross has effected profound physical and mental changes in both his life and the lives of his students. Ross's power is that he goes back to the source -- five thousand years of ancient yogic wisdom -- and decodes the abstract Eastern ideas for a Western audience. Happy Yoga is not just a set of movements and facts to consume, it is a way of shifting your awareness to bring the spirit of yoga into each movement, each meal, each relationship, each thought, and each breath. With love and joyful abandon, Ross offers us a new way to practice and live yoga. The result is profound calm, a dramatic release of anxiety and pain, and the realization that there really is nothing to worry about.

Happiness
Happiness

Author: Richard Layard

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-06-27

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1101117710

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There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not speculation: It's the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence shows that on average people have grown no happier in the last fifty years, even as average incomes have more than doubled. The central question the great economist Richard Layard asks in Happiness is this: If we really wanted to be happier, what would we do differently? First we'd have to see clearly what conditions generate happiness and then bend all our efforts toward producing them. That is what this book is about-the causes of happiness and the means we have to effect it. Until recently there was too little evidence to give a good answer to this essential question, but, Layard shows us, thanks to the integrated insights of psychology, sociology, applied economics, and other fields, we can now reach some firm conclusions, conclusions that will surprise you. Happiness is an illuminating road map, grounded in hard research, to a better, happier life for us all.