
Sustainable Happiness : Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference.
Title:
Sustainable Happiness : Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference.
Author:
van Gelder, Sarah.
ISBN:
9781626563308
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (125 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- How We Lost Track of Real Happiness and Where to Find It Now -- PART ONE What We Know About Real Well-Being -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 The Movement to Live More Simply Is Older Than You Think -- 2 10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy -- 3 Who Pays the Price for Cheap Stuff? -- 4 Why Everyone Is Happier in More Equitable Societies -- 5 We Are Hardwired to Cooperate and Share -- 6 Why Saying Hello Matters -- PART TWO The Practice of Happiness (or, How You Can Get Some) -- INTRODUCTION -- 7 This Is Your Life-Show Up For It Mindfully -- 8 Give Yourself a Break: Take a Tech Sabbath -- 9 Kick Your Addictions, Return to Intimacy -- 10 Stop Worrying and Find Work You Love -- 11 Follow Your Calling-Even When It Scares You -- 12 Share Meals with Loved Ones -- 13 Choose Gratitude -- PART THREE Sustainable Happiness and the Beloved Community -- INTRODUCTION -- 14 The Story of Your Gift -- 15 Heal, Don't Punish -- 16 The Hidden Treasures in Your Neighborhood -- 17 How to Design Your Neighborhood for Happiness -- Five Ways to Meet Your Neighbors -- 18 Lessons in Gratitude From a Pay-It-Forward Restaurant -- 19 Everything I Need to Know About Happiness, I Learned in the Forest -- The Wild Geese -- CONCLUSION -- 10 Ways Sustainable Happiness Can Change the World -- NOTES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS.
Abstract:
We're bombarded by messages telling us that bigger and better things are the keys to happiness-but after we pile up the stuff and pile on the work hours, we end up exhausted and broke on a planet full of trash. Sarah van Gelder and her colleagues at YES! Magazine have been exploring the meaning of real happiness for eighteen years. Here they offer fascinating research, in-depth essays, and compelling personal stories by visionaries such as Annie Leonard, Matthieu Ricard, and Vandana Shiva, showing us that real well-being is found in supportive relationships and thriving communities, opportunities to make a contribution, and the renewal we receive from a thriving natural world. In the pages of this book, you'll find creative and practical ways to cultivate a happiness that is nurturing, enduring, and life affirming.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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