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    A Guide to Happiness: Using Mindfulness and Meditation
    A Guide to Happiness: Using Mindfulness and Meditation
    A Guide to Happiness: Using Mindfulness and Meditation
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    A Guide to Happiness: Using Mindfulness and Meditation

    By Tara Ward

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    Embark on a journey to happiness and fulfillment in seven simple steps

    A Guide to Happiness is a seven-step personal development programme that will help you rediscover your zest for life. The techniques and exercises in this book are designed to help you plot out your own way to happiness in small, actionable steps.

    • Includes mindful exercises in every chapter
    • Features plans for health and happiness for you to fill in
    • Includes an exclusive audio link so you can listen to guided meditations

    Say goodbye to stress and the perils of feeling low as you set off on a deeply satisfying personal journey.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcturus Publishing
    Release dateJun 1, 2020
    ISBN9781398800380
    A Guide to Happiness: Using Mindfulness and Meditation
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    Tara Ward

    Tara Ward is an art historian specializing in twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual culture. She is editor of Gender and Popular Culture: A Visual Study, and her work has been published by the Guggenheim Museum, Oxford Art Journal, and Excursions.

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      A Guide to Happiness - Tara Ward

      Introduction

      Welcome! So you would like to feel happy? Or happier? Then you have come to the right book.

      The exercises you are about to do will increase your overall level of happiness, but my intention is for you to have an even more profound experience. While we may feel generally happy a lot of the time as we go through life, mindful moments of real, unadulterated happiness are literally that: moments. The tools and techniques in this book are designed to help you have moments of pure happiness which is an emotion over and above feeling ‘sort of happy’ as you go about your daily life.

      So you are going to have the opportunity to experience different levels of happiness, ranging from a mild happiness that may sustain you throughout the day to a deep explosion of happiness that might be a profound moment. The secret is to create lots of the latter, so your whole day becomes uplifted.

      The even bigger secret is not to link your happiness levels to events or to pin your happiness on the behaviour of others. I appreciate that might be more of a challenge.

      HELPFUL HINTS

      I offer these during each stage. You might want to try them all; you may find some appeal more than others. Some help you to approach exercises in different ways.

      As with all my mindfulness books, I want you to have fun as we explore what true happiness means for you.

      Some of the exercises might seem frivolous, but we learn much more when we are enjoying ourselves – and I want you to learn a lot!

      Shall we get started? Please look at your Happiness Plan on page 118. You are going to fill it in as you go through each stage. Everyone has different triggers for happiness

      or unhappiness and you need to get to know yours. This is going to be a very personal journey.

      I want to point out one important fact before we continue. If you suffer from clinical depression, while the techniques I offer in this book may help, I encourage you also to seek professional support.

      Lastly, at the end of each section is an anecdote about my own personal journey into happiness. I hope that sharing my experiences may encourage you in your own pursuit of happiness.

      PERSONAL EXAMPLE

      Ever since I can remember, people have always said I come across as a happy, upbeat kind of a person. My dear Mum says I was always laughing and smiling as a young baby. But while some of us may have a greater propensity to happiness than others, I think the truth is that some of us are also better at pretending than others. I pretended a lot as a young woman; it took me a long time to realize the difference between pretending and truly being happy.

      Step 1: Your Health

      I am going to kick off by getting into a little science with you. Notice I said ‘a little’!

      When we are happy, our brain chemicals respond in a particular way, releasing different

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