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Author Loizzo, Joe

Title Sustainable Happiness : the Mind Science of Well-Being, Altruism, and Inspiration
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (745 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Buddhological Foreword; Interpersonal Neurobiological Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Recent Breakthroughs, Timeless Methods; PART 1 Turning the Body Wheel: Deep Mindfulness and Personal Healing; 1 Deep Mindfulness and Self-Healing; 2 Self-Analysis, Insight, and Freedom; 3 The Lifelong Path of Contemplative Health; PART 2 Turning the Speech Wheel: Compassion and Social Healing; 4 Clearing the Mind for Social Engagement; 5 De-Reifying and Dismantling the Reactive Self
6 Altruism and the Path of EngagementPART 3 Turning the Mind Wheel: Creativity and Cultural Healing; 7 Role-Modeling Imagery and Self-Transformation; 8 The Art and Science of Reconstructing Life; 9 Living Altruism through Impassioned Vision; PART 4 Turning the Bliss Wheel: Sublimation and Natural Healing; 10 Sublimation-Tapping and Channeling Flow; 11 Inspiration-Turning Bliss to Light; 12 Uniting Pure Inspiration with Perfect Clarity; Conclusion: Four Paths, One Happiness- Sustainable Living Today; Notes; References; Glossary of Technical Terms; Index
Summary Today's greatest health challenges, the so-called diseases of civilization-depression, trauma, obesity, cancer-are now known in large part to reflect our inability to tame stress reflexes gone wild and to empower instead the peaceful, healing and sociable part of our nature that adapts us to civilized life. The same can be said of the economic challenges posed by the stress-reactive cycles of boom and bust, driven by addictive greed and compulsive panic. As current research opens up new horizons of stress-cessation, empathic intelligence, peak performance, and shared happiness, it has also enc
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Subject Happiness.
Mind and body.
Well-being.
Happiness
comfort (sensation)
Happiness
Mind and body
Well-being
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136993206
1136993207