How to Train a Happy Mind: A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment

How to Train a Happy Mind: A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment

How to Train a Happy Mind: A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment

How to Train a Happy Mind: A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment

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Overview

TRAIN YOUR MIND TOWARD LASTING CONNECTION AND JOY

Eager to share the life-enhancing benefits he found in Buddhism, skeptic Scott Snibbe presents this 8-step programme that allows anyone to build positive mental habits. Inspired by the ancient Buddhist path to enlightenment yet firmly grounded in modern science, How to Train a Happy Mind is the first mainstream book to show how you can achieve happiness using analytical meditation. Working in much the same way as cognitive behavioural therapy, analytical meditation goes beyond the calm-inducing practice of mindfulness to actively train the brain through easy-to-follow narrative visualizations.

Breaking the path down into concise steps and written in a relatable tone with plenty of references to popular culture, this is the ideal book if you recognize your mind as both the source of your problems and the source of your solutions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781786787613
Publisher: Watkins Media
Publication date: 03/12/2024
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 248
Sales rank: 542,354
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Scott Snibbe is a 25-year student of Tibetan Buddhism whose teachers include Lama Zopa Rinpoche and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He is the Executive Director of A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment, a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching secular forms of Tibetan Buddhist analytical meditation. Find out more at: www.skepticspath.org

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"A clear, well-lit path through the tangled thickets of psychological and spiritual ideas, tools, and advice—and it takes you directly to greater resilience, happiness, love and inner peace." 
Rick Hanson, Ph.D., author of Hardwiring Happiness, Neurodharma and Buddha’s Brain

"While Buddhist religion is the spiritual practice that concerns followers of the religion only, Buddhist science and philosophy have shown themselves of benefit to humanity at large, including even to non-believers. … I am therefore pleased to see this book, How to Train a Happy Mind: A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment, by Scott Snibbe, that is geared towards informing the general reader about the fundamentals of Buddhism.”
— from the foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

"At last someone gives a simple and clear introduction to the most important of all meditations."
— Robert Thurman, Ph.D., author of Inner Revolution, Essential Tibetan Buddhism and The Tibetan Book of the Dead

“The real test of a book is whether, when you have finished, you can put it to use in your life. Scott Snibbe’s book passes this test with flying colours."
Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Ministry for the Future and Red Mars

“Scott Snibbe has done a marvellous job of interpreting the timeless wisdom of Buddhist masters for a contemporary audience."
— Venerable Kathleen McDonald (Sangye Khadro), author of How to Meditate

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