Living happily can be the central, organising value of your life, once you accept the profound implications of a very simple truth, says Tony Wilkinson: being happy depends on your inner life - on your thoughts, emotions, desires and beliefs - far more than on your circumstances or on what happens to you. The Lost Art of Being Happy shows that your inner life, and happiness, depend on patterns or habits that you can change. It focuses on achieving happiness by practising a set of five inner life skills - mindfulness, benevolence, story, letting go and enjoyment - rather than by pursuing virtues or merit. Consequently, this profound shift of paradigm upholds an ethical, non-materialist approach to living which can respect faith without necessarily sharing it.
250pp, 153mm x 230mm, softback, 2007
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