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Amazing Book, learnt lot about how to be happy and if i am not how to change how i feel.
I am still reading this book and intend to start over once I am done. I am enjoying the material and the supporting writers. I already do begin to feel "Happy for no Reason.
Nonetheless, I found the ideas and writing to be powerful and useful for both men and women and took a number of notes and things to put into practice. For example, analogies are all about gardening and stuff like that, very gentle and soft stuff, nothing about the joy of pushing through a challenge or being a warrior in difficult circumstance.
A happiness that goes beyond what is happening "out there" and is built on various solid foundations. This book is really great, with a detailed and effective study of what it might take to have a deep kind of happiness, that you can sustain under any circumstance.
There is of course no hostility to men, but there is no male energy at all available in the book. There are a lot of personal stories, which might get in the way if you are reading it and impatient to just get to "the bottom line," but as an audio book, they really help deepen the understanding by creating more of an experience than a thought, if that makes sense.
The authors are women and so the vibe is definitely feminine. For men, I would say this touches the magician, the lover, and the king, but not the warrior.
The seven pillars are to 1) Take ownership of your happiness2) Understand your mind and train it for happiness3) Unerstand your heart and train it for happiness4) Understand your body and train it5) Understand your sould and train it6) Live a life inspired by purpose7) Cultivate a garden or nourishing relationshipsNamaste.
How encouraging. I treasure good books, and this is one of the best. How refreshing. Marci Shimoff not only shares great stories, but reinforces positive attitudes with physical exercises, nutritional guidance, mind boggling insights and emotional support. Some books just have to be in my home to use for references, and this is one of the special ones. Thank you, Marci.
I am usually a skeptic when it comes to this type of book. If these people could find their way back to happiness who are we to take all that we have for granted. I mean come on.seven steps to happiness. But I listened to the audio version (it was a gift )and didn't want it to end.The true life examples of people who had endured unbelieveable loss were especially thought provoking,not to mention heart wrenching. It is a little over-simplified to say it takes the old "glass is either half empty or half full " position but that is it in a nutshell. The author causes you to discover how full of good things your life is.She keeps her focus and builds her case the way a good lawyer would.so even a skeptic like me was convinced by the end.
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