Long-Distance Running: Calming the Mind and Creating the Conditions for Happiness


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People could be happy at any one moment and suddenly feel sad. This feeling of mood swings is a result of what one thinks at any point in time. Women, men and children struggle with what they think. People experience a lot of pain and pleasure as a result of their thoughts. Thousands of people find switching off from daily work a massive struggle. Some of these people occupy very senior positions in various companies including those in executive positions. This book is a self- help tool to help calm ones mind. It suggests ways of avoiding negative thoughts and provides insight into silencing the stream of thoughts we experience daily. By providing guidance on training the mind, it offers insights into not allowing ones negative thoughts affect one emotionally. The book provides illuminating detail on the mind, memory, physical as well as the spiritual composition of the human mind. A key dimension of this book is that it talks to the elusive concept of happiness. It attempts a more realistic definition of happiness and suggests ways in which one can create the conditions for happiness.




Cultivate the Morning Calm: Nature's Way to a Happy Life


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Mary Mac takes you on the path Mother Nature provides for transforming the morning CHAOS into the Morning CALM. This wonderful little book contains a powerful recipe for following Nature's way to a peaceful and purposeful day. It includes stories and exercises designed to bring the reader to a deeper awareness of the nature of 'self' and the power of your mental focus and intention in the creation of a life you want to get up and jump into every day!




Positive Thinking: How to Achieve Real Success & Happiness in Your Life with Positive Thinking (Self help: Simple steps to achieving success)


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In primitive times a person’s existence was dependent entirely on one’s ability to survive in the face of indeterminate odds. Ironically, those ‘laws of the jungle’ exist even today on modern human society – and while we may not be dealing with life and death situations around every corner we are dealing with sufficiently life altering critical ‘win or lose’ based constructs. The only problem with this thought process however is that when you are living a life where you think in terms of ‘win or lose’ what you are actually doing is turning your usually colorful life and turning it into a black and white Audrey Hepburn movie. You miss out on all the nuances of living life and get sucked into a repetitive thought pattern where all you can think of is what you missed out on. In short, you forget to see the positives in life because you are so fixated on the negatives. This is not your run of the mill power of positive thinking book. It not only tells you about the power of positive thinking and how to utilize this to change your life, but it also explains HOW this works, how your mind works and why negative thinking can and will bring about negative consequences. The author draws upon real life circumstances and analogies to bring the information contained within this book to life, explaining in detail not only how or thinking can keep us from succeeding, but tells us why it works the way it works and how we can combat it to help us succeed in meeting our goals and being the person we were truly meant to be. He does this in a no-nonsense straight forward manner, encouraging us to be the best we can be by silencing those thoughts that tend to put us in this negative cycle.




Happiness: a Way of Life


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Happiness hinges on our ability to command what goes on in our consciousness from moment to moment. Each of us has our own path to traverse, and there is no single recipe. In Happiness: A Way of Life, author Asif Zaidi offers information to help fill you with deep, enriching happiness, creating an existence in which happiness plays the central role for a life worth living. An amalgam of wisdom from the East and evidence from the West, Zaidi lays out a path to lowered anxiety, better health, sharper focus, and enhanced performance, all of which distills into a life of happiness. Happiness: A Way of Life shows when you liberate your mind from the tyranny of external factors, happiness becomes an authentic state of being rather than a reassurance or a mere external performance. You can then realize that happiness is not something acquired; it is a natural state that arises when you stop creating chaos. In this guide, Zaidi summarizes what he’s learned during more than twenty years of extensive study on the subject, from the ultra-occidental to the ultra-oriental and from the most scientific to the most religious.




Running with the Mind of Meditation


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A unique fitness program from a highly respected spiritual leader that blends physical and spiritual practice for everyone - regardless of age, spiritual background, or ability - to great benefits for both body and soul. As a Tibetan lama and leader of Shambhala (an international community of 165 meditation centers), Sakyong Mipham has found physical activity to be essential for spiritual well-being. He's been trained in horsemanship and martial arts but has a special love for running. Here he incorporates his spiritual practice with running, presenting basic meditation instruction and fundamental principles he has developed. Even though both activities can be complicated, the lessons here are simple and designed to show how the melding of internal practice with physical movement can be used by anyone - regardless of age, spiritual background, or ability - to benefit body and soul.




The Real Happy Pill


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Is there a foolproof way to reduce stress and anxiety while you boost your memory? Raise your IQ even as you slow down the aging process? Become more creative and train your ability to focus at the same time? The answer is simple: Move! Modern neuroscience and research has shown, more than ever, that physical exercise has extraordinary effects on our cognition. Physical activity, more so than Sudoku or crossword puzzles, optimizes our mental abilities and health in a way unparalleled by any drug, medication, or food supplement. And exercise doesn’t just enhance your health, energy and mood levels, and cognitive abilities. You will also learn: Why physical training is the best protection against dementia What type of exercise can be used to treat depression as an antidepressant How exercise increases the ability to focus in children, especially kids with ADHD How children with good fitness can become better in math and reading comprehension Why “runner’s high,” the natural chemicals released during jogging, improves your health and mood With practical and concrete advice for the layman on how to reap these benefits, as well as neuroscientific research from the last five years broken down to accessible findings, The Real Happy Pill urges you to train your body and mind for a whole-body upgrade, and start to move!




Spontaneous Happiness


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Everyone wants to be happy. But what does that really mean? Increasingly, scientific evidence shows us that true satisfaction and well-being come only from within. Dr. Andrew Weil has proven that the best way to maintain optimum physical health is to draw on both conventional and alternative medicine. Now, in Spontaneous Happiness, he gives us the foundation for attaining and sustaining optimum emotional health. Rooted in Dr. Weil's pioneering work in integrative medicine, the book suggests a reinterpretation of the notion of happiness, discusses the limitations of the biomedical model in treating depression, and elaborates on the inseparability of body and mind. Dr. Weil offers an array of scientifically proven strategies from Eastern and Western psychology to counteract low mood and enhance contentment, comfort, resilience, serenity, and emotional balance. Drawn from psychotherapy, mindfulness training, Buddhist psychology, nutritional science, and more, these strategies include body-oriented therapies to support emotional wellness, techniques for managing stress and anxiety and changing mental habits that keep us stuck in negative patterns, and advice on developing a spiritual dimension in our lives. Lastly, Dr. Weil presents an eight-week program that can be customized according to specific needs, with short- and long-term advice on nutrition, exercise, supplements, environment, lifestyle, and much more. Whether you are struggling with depression or simply want to feel happier, Dr. Weil's revolutionary approach will shift the paradigm of emotional health and help you achieve greater contentment in your life.







Mindful Running


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'A must-read for anyone looking to improve performance and add richer meaning to the sport, activity and art of running.' Dean Karnazes, ultra-marathoner and New York Times bestselling author Discover how mindfulness can enhance your running and make you a happier, more fulfilled person. By applying mental fitness training to your running regime, you tap into a powerful mind-body connection that not only optimizes sporting performance, but also boosts happiness both on and off the running trails. Mindful Running brings together scientific research, expert analysis, and elite athlete contributions to reveal how relating to your mind, body, and surroundings in a new way can help you run longer and faster, as well as offer a boost to your overall mental, emotional, and physical health. Devised with both the competitive and everyday runner in mind, Mackenzie L. Havey introduces an innovative, approachable, and authoritative guide designed to increase self-awareness, develop concentration, and improve endurance. Not only does this have the potential to translate into better running, it can also play a role in training you to endure life's challenges with greater ease and find joy in all things big and small. Mindful Running is a total body and mind fitness regime.




Mindful Running: Letting go of Mindlessness and Finding Happiness through Running


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Mindful Running is about letting go of the day to day mindlessness, and opening up the present moment. Too often we walk around like zombies, staring at our phones all day, not fully awake and aware of moment. Mindful Running teaches you in a step by step process how to become actively aware of your life through running. This book is meant for new runners to advanced runners, who want to use running to help increase their mindfulness and increase their happiness.