Feeling Happy by Richard Freeman
Written without "yoga jargon," Feeling Happy explores the nature of happiness as a basic human capacity-and illuminates how suffering, imbalanced emotion, and confusion can cast a veil over one's ability to truly feel happy.What is the fully embodied experience of happiness, and is there any way for it to last? Feeling Happy helps you explore what happiness is and offers practical steps toward cultivating happiness as a deep, embodied expression of life and connection to others.Using familiar examples from everyday life, traditional understanding of one's search for happiness, stories, and humor, Freeman and Taylor demonstrate how to find your way back home to the essence of who you are, and the direct experience of what it feels like to be truly happy.
The book offers 24 accessible practices-meditations, simple movements, and breathing exercises-along with 22 black-and-white illustrative photos as guides along the path toward fully embodying happiness. These practices together with insight into the nature of being, will allow you to wake up and integrate the physical body, heart, and mind through the breath so that even in difficult times, compassion, equanimity, and happiness can emerge.
Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor draw from their years of experience practicing and teaching yoga, meditation and the philosophical interfacing of yoga and Buddhism to explore what happiness is and to offer practical steps toward cultivating happiness as a deep, embodied expression of life. They offer insight into the nature of happiness as a basic human capacity-and illuminate how suffering, imbalanced emotion, and confusion can cast a veil over one's ability to truly feel happy.
Some of the practices included-
Focusing and calming the mind
Observing and engaging the breath as a guide
Working with difficulty and vulnerability
Keeping a tender and open heart
Building authenticity and presence
Attuning to yourself and to others
Cultivating kindness and compassion in complex times
And more
Mary P. Taylor is a trial attorney in Chicago, Illinois, who finds the give and take of the courtroom endlessly exciting and fascinating. A lifelong reader of science fiction and fantasy (as well as anything else she could get her hands on), Ms. Taylor fell in love with Star Trek when it first aired on NBC in 1966. Written Star Trek seemed a logical development to her, and she has read every Star Trek novel ever printed and has published reviews online and for Star Trek fan club newsletters. She lives in the Chicago area with her three beloved cats in a house filled with books, computer parts, cat toys and a few too many Beanie Babies. Her email address is MaryT 2054@aol.com and she expects to hear from many readers who disagree with her choices for this book.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781645472339 |
| ISBN 10 | 1645472337 |
| Title | Feeling Happy |
| Author | Richard Freeman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Year published | 2024-11-19 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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