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Overview
- Focus on the Present Moment
- Secrets to Mindfulness
- Capturing the Little Things
- Changing Your Brain
- Sharing Happiness
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781592338580 |
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Publisher: | Fair Winds Press |
Publication date: | 03/12/2019 |
Pages: | 160 |
Sales rank: | 647,272 |
Product dimensions: | 6.60(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d) |
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INTRODUCTION
My story is the story of a tiny spiral notebook that eventually became a million-copy bestseller. I started writing in it in sixth grade, when I felt like I didn't fit in. Around that time, I happened to find a children's book called The Happy Book by Patricia Martin Zens, published in 1965. It was a short book of twenty pages, a list of things to be happy about. I liked the idea, so I started my own list.
The things I wrote down were simple. The first entries included blueberry muffins, green peas, bumper pool, cooking, and purses. I carried the notebook with me, opening it randomly. I always felt a boost from reading a few entries. When my notebook filled up, I started another ... then another. Eventually the notebooks turned into a book, 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, and a website, thingstobehappyabout.com, which features a database of more than 164,000 things.
Most importantly, those simple notebooks turned into a practice, a way to cultivate happiness and mindfulness. And with this journal, you can use it, too.
Mindfulness is an important factor, a first step, but mindfulness alone is not enough. Savoring and ingraining the good things you experience grows you a garden from which you will be able to pick flowers when challenges come. It is long-term, resilient happiness inside of you that does not rely on obtaining stuff or on outward circumstances being perfect. This practice is valuable in good times and bad times, a constant companion to help navigate the ups and downs of life.
Let's get started!
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Table of Contents
Introduction, 6,
1. Your Definition of Happiness, 8,
2. Methodologies, 34,
3. Focus on the Present Moment, 46,
4. Secrets to Mindfulness, 82,
5. Capturing the Little Things, 98,
6. How to Compile Your Own Collection, 122,
7. Changing Your Brain, 134,
8. Sharing Happiness, 150,
About the Author, 160,