Yoga And The Pursuit Of Happiness

Author : Sam Chase
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
ISBN 13 : 1626252890
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yoga and the Pursuit of Happiness written by Sam Chase and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enlightenment isn’t a strange, mystical, or faraway place. It’s a fundamental human experience available to us all in different ways and in different moments.Learn how the ancient philosophy of yoga, modern neuroscience, and positive psychology can help you discover your life’s meaning and purpose, rewire your brain, and uncover lasting happiness and joy. Everyone is looking for happiness, but very few really know where to find it. Maybe it’s that house you’ve been dreaming of buying, or a new car, or the perfect relationship? Or maybe it’s a grand, epic revelation about the meaning of life? But when will that revelation come to you, and how long should you wait? And what if happiness isn’t something you achieve or obtain, but how you respond to the conditions of your life? After all, yogis can find peace and joy even when life is painful and unpleasant. In Yoga and the Pursuit of Happiness, you’ll discover that lasting happiness is already at your fingertips—in the small, everyday moments inherently infused with purpose and meaning. The philosophy of yoga—rather than the poses and postures—boils down to one fundamental process: overcoming suffering by coming to know ourselves and aligning our actions with our own intrinsic sense of spiritual purpose. And yoga gives us the tools to address two basic existential questions: Who am I? What should I do? Meanwhile, positive psychology and neuroscience show us how our actions are constantly rewiring our brain in helpful ways—which points to happiness as something we must practice and carry out each day. Happiness is, simply put, something we do. In this unique, lighthearted guide, celebrated yoga instructor Sam Chase blends ancient wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita and Yoga Sutras with his own personal journey of enlightenment to show you how to deepen your understanding of yourself and the world around you, end the cycle of materialism and greed that can get in the way of cultivating stillness of mind, and achieve lasting well-being.

Author : Deven Tasgaonkar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737077923
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Happiness written by Deven Tasgaonkar and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the boy walked through the desert, he knew one thing: he wanted water. And he could see it on the horizon, waiting for him. He walked towards it, but the water stayed out of reach. The boy realized it was a mirage, and that disappointed him. But there seemed no other way - keep walking towards anything shimmering, and maybe one day it will actually be water.One day though, he saw a signpost saying, "This way to water," likely planted by someone who passed that way before him. He decided to follow the sign. It led to more signs; and they led him to water!And so it is with happiness. We know one thing: we want happiness. So we seek things like popularity, education, a job, a house, a car, money, and so many other things -- we think they will lead to happiness. But they turn out to be a mirage. They are interesting and have their place in life, but they do not lead to happiness. Fortunately, many great people found happiness, and left signposts for us. One such path to happiness is Karma Yoga, outlined in Vedanta. This book explores Karma Yoga and how we can live it easily, in our day-to-day lives. Presented in a fun, approachable way, we hope it helps young people - and the grownups in their lives - along their Pursuit of Happiness!

Author : Ruth Whippman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250071526
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America the Anxious written by Ruth Whippman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author embarks on a pilgrimage to investigate how the national obessession with happiness infiltrates all areas of life, from religion to parenting, from the workplace to academia. She attends a Landmark Forum self-help course, visits Zappos headquarters in Las Vegas (a "happiness city"), looks into the academic "positive psychology movement" and spends time in Utah with Mormons, officially America's happiest people.

Author : Chalmers Brothers
Publisher : New Possibilites Press
ISBN 13 : 9780974948706
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and the Pursuit of Happiness written by Chalmers Brothers and published by New Possibilites Press. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book ... you will discover a powerful new way of understanding your language, your relationships, your results and - most importantly - yourself."--Back cover.

Author : Dennis Hill
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1425176763
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inner Yoga of Happiness written by Dennis Hill and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we do what we do? Isn’t everything we do, ultimately, to bring us happiness? Think about it. All our planning, all our actions, all our manipulations, all our accumulations, are so that we can just be happy. When we get what we want, really, how long does it last? Is there a way that we can be happy all the time? The drive to fulfill our desires, in practice, does not bring us lasting happiness; so, what can we do? There is one practice that is most essential in revealing the bliss of the Self—and that is meditation. This is the fundamental practice of mystics in all cultures that shows us the happiness that lies just behind the mind and shines its joyous radiance when the mind is at peace. If we will just spend some time every day in this sublime equanimity, we will get everything. The traditional path to the inner yoga of happiness, which is taught in yoga philosophy (Advaita Vedanta), is simply the practice of meditation. In this practice, we distill the inner caprice of thought down to simple stillness. As we get longer stretches of this stillness, we become acquainted with the fullness of our essential being. In this fullness arises spontaneous joy, contentment, and wisdom. This is the happiness that is always there in every moment. This book is a journal of clues along the way in the pursuit of enduring inner happiness, independent of outer circumstances. Also available from this author: Yoga Sutras: The Means to Liberation

Author : Bianca C. Williams
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822372134
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Happiness written by Bianca C. Williams and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Pursuit of Happiness Bianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American women as they travel to Jamaica, where they address the perils and disappointments of American racism by looking for intimacy, happiness, and a connection to their racial identities. Through their encounters with Jamaican online communities and their participation in trips organized by Girlfriend Tours International, the women construct notions of racial, sexual, and emotional belonging by forming relationships with Jamaican men and other "girlfriends." These relationships allow the women to exercise agency and find happiness in ways that resist the damaging intersections of racism and patriarchy in the United States. However, while the women require a spiritual and virtual connection to Jamaica in order to live happily in the United States, their notion of happiness relies on travel, which requires leveraging their national privilege as American citizens. Williams's theorization of "emotional transnationalism" and the construction of affect across diasporic distance attends to the connections between race, gender, and affect while highlighting how affective relationships mark nationalized and gendered power differentials within the African diaspora.

Author : Anna Heggie
Publisher : Interactive Publications
ISBN 13 : 1922120596
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yoga Happiness written by Anna Heggie and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoga Happiness: A Path for Transformation provides an insightful companion resource that propels you towards happiness transformation. Syntheses of ancient yoga principles and Eastern philosophies are easily defined to challenge our unwanted negative patterns.This guide provides you with a balance of yoga asanas and breathing exercises to help unify your mind and body and release unwanted tension. You will begin to feel more alive and more open as you become further enriched by Meditation and Visualisation practices.In this breakthrough approach, you are encouraged to draw on your own intuitio.

Author : Edward J. Erler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538130874
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Property and the Pursuit of Happiness written by Edward J. Erler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Edward Erler brings a lifetime of study of political philosophy, the American founding, and the US constitution to the central role of property in American constitutional thought. Erler argues that the Founders considered the natural right to property as the comprehensive right that included every other right. In this sense they followed political philosopher John Locke, but at the same time made significant improvements on Locke, making it moral and political, something they called the “pursuit of happiness.” In the past century, this understanding of the right to property—derived from the principles of the Declaration of Independence—has been challenged by the rise of progressivism, which places promoting community welfare above the protection of individual rights as the central role of government. This has led to the administrative state’s unrelenting attacks on the right to private property, which have effectively ended the right to property as it was understood by the founders. Property and the Pursuit of Happiness offers a learned and wide-ranging discussion of the values at the core of America’s founding that will be of interest to all readers seeking to understand the founders’ vision and the profound challenges to it today.

Author : Barry Magid
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458783618
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ending the Pursuit of Happiness written by Barry Magid and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspires us - in wryly gentle prose - to outgrow the impossible pursuit of happiness, and instead make peace with the perfection of the way things are. Including ourselves! Magid invites readers to consider the notion that our certainty that we are broken may be turning our (3z(Bpursuit of happiness(S3(B into a source of yet more suffering. He takes an unusual look at our (S2(Bsecret practices(S3(B (what we?re REALLY doing, when we say (S2(Bpracticing(S3(B) and (S2(Bcurative fantasies,(S3(B wherein we have ideals of what spiritual practices will "do" for us, "cure" us. In doing so, he helps us look squarely at such pitfalls of spiritual practice so that we can avoid them. Along the way, Magid lays out a rich roadmap of a new "psychological-minded Zen," which may be among the most important spiritual developments of the present day.

Author : David Frawley
Publisher : Lotus Press
ISBN 13 : 0940676214
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soma in Yoga and Ayurveda written by David Frawley and published by Lotus Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the secret of Soma, the legendary mystic drink of immortality, first lauded by India's ancient Vedic seers? Is Soma a single plant, a type of plants, a way of healing, a special intoxicant, or an inner elixir produced by Yoga and meditation? Going back to the vision of the Vedic seers, David Frawley reveals the secret of Soma for body, mind and spirit, with its profound implications from diet and herbs to pranayama, mantra and meditation. His new analysis of Soma, reflecting forty years of study of Vedic texts, is practical, comprehensive and deeply insightful - so that you can bring the secret power of Soma into all aspects of your life and consciousness, and for the world as a whole. Book jacket. He follows the yogic approach of Ganapati Muni, the chief disciple of the great Advaitic guru Ramana Maharshi. Book jacket.