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Lion Hudson - Martin Robinson , Paul Griffiths

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We are surrounded by innumerable products promising to make us more attractive, more healthy, more popular and more successful. But somehow, it's not quite enough - there's more to happiness than having a great job, designer clothes, a busy social life or a fat bank balance. This book guides you through the 8 secrets which psychologists have discovered to be the foundations of happiness, revealing a hidden dimension they all share. In an age of unprecedented wealth, coupled with unprecedented unhappiness and even depression, this book is a timely wake-up call.

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Publié par	Lion Hudson
Date de parution	01 octobre 2009
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780745959221
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	4 Mo

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A Lion Book an imprint of Lion Hudson plcWilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, England www.lionhudson.com ISBN 978 0 7459 5239 8 (UK) ISBN 978 0 8254 7905 2 (US) Distributed by:UK: Marston Book Services, PO Box 269, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4YNUSA:Trafalgar Square Publishing, 814 N. Franklin Street, Chicago, IL 60610USA: Christian Market: Kregel Publications, PO Box 2607, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49501 First edition 2008 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 All rights reserved The text paper used in this book has been made from wood independently certiﬁed as having come from sustainable forests. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Typeset in 10/13 ITC Stone Serif Printed and bound in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, Reading.

Paul Griffiths & Martin robinson

This book is dedicated to all those who want to wake up happy.

CONTeNTS

ackNOwLedgmeNTS 7

iNTROdUcTION 9

1. COUNT yOUR BLeSSINgS 20

2. PRàcTISe àcTS OF kINdNeSS 38

3. sàvOUR LIFe’S jOyS 54

4. tHàNk à meNTOR 72

5. leàRN TO FORgIve 85

6.iNveST TIme àNd eNeRgy IN FRIeNdS àNd FàmILy 102

7. tàke càRe OF yOUR BOdy àNd SOUL 120

8. DeveLOp STRàTegIeS FOR cOpINg wITH STReSS àNd HàRdSHIpS 140

EpILOgUe 155

appeNdIceS 156

ackNOwLedgmeNTS

There are a host of people who have helped make this book a reality, and have shared their ideas and insights with us. To one and all we want to say thank you. We particularly want to thank Sharon Lanfear for her help in earthing our comments and offering illustrations of what we were trying to say. Her willingness to read and reread chapters and offer suggestions has made this book all the better for her input. We are indebted to the writings of Martin Seligman and other psychologists who have blazed an exciting trail into our understanding of happiness, and to the insightful comments of spiritual gurus of long ago, whose wisdom still speaks today. This book would also not be a reality without the help of several others: Morag Reeve for believing in the project, Kate Kirkpatrick and Miranda Powell from Lion Hudson for bringing their skills and energy to this exciting adventure and Julie Kite for offering encouragement and advice during the ﬁnal stages. Above all, we want to say thank you to our wives and families for their part in our personal happiness and for giving us the time to work on this book.

iNTROdUcTION

Is it possible to be deeply happy, to have a depth of happiness that sparkles in the routine of everyday life and which overﬂows even in life’s most difﬁcult circumstances and darkest moments? InThe Road Less Travelled, bestselling author M. Scott Peck focuses on his conviction concerning one of the greatest truths about life. He faces us with the core reality that life is difﬁcult. He then goes on to argue that many people attempt to avoid this reality. Others, though, do want to know whether there is a quality of happiness that we can access as we face up to, live in and live with the realities of life – a happiness ride which lasts longer than the occasional four minutes on a rollercoaster. Historians tell us that humankind has always searched for happiness. Plato studied the good life in his academy, Aristotle set up his own college to look at what human ﬂourishing would mean. Over time, Buddha, Confucius, Patnajali and Jesus have all added their insights about this insatiable drive. Today, this search for the ‘blessed life’ is expressed in the 56 million hits that the Internet search engine, Google, gets for the word ‘happiness’ or the fact that there are over 60,000 books in print whose titles are connected with the theme of this earthly nirvana. Recently,Timemagazine dedicated a special edition to the subject of happiness. It brought together a signiﬁcant array of research on the subject, most