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The how of happiness a scientific approach to getting the life you want
Drawing on her own research with thousands of people, psychologist Lyubomirsky has pioneered a detailed yet easy-to-follow plan to increase happiness in our day-to-day lives--in the short and long term. This book that offers a guide to understanding what happiness is, and isn't, and what can be...
| Main Author: | Lyubomirsky, Sonja (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- I. How to attain real and lasting happiness. Is it possible to become happier
- How happy are you and why?
- How to find happiness activities that fit your interests, your values, and your needs
- II. Happiness activities. Practicing gratitude and positive thinking
- Investing in social connections
- Managing stress, hardship, trauma
- Living in the present
- Committing to your goals
- Taking care of your body and soul
- III. Secrets to abiding happiness. The five hows behind sustainable happiness: positive emotion, optimal thinking and variety, social support, motivation, effort, and commitment, habit
- The promise of abiding happiness
- If you are depressed: What is depression?
- The causes of depression
- The most effective treatments for depression
- The cure for unhappiness is happiness
- Surmounting setbacks.