The Joy Compass

Do you long for the ability to live fully in the moment? Do you wish that you could transcend everyday worries, dissolve discontent, and find true happiness? If so, The Joy Compass is your guide. Packed with tips and strategies for overriding the brain’s natural negativity bias, this practical pocket guide will teach you to recognize your negative moods as early as possible and refocus your attention toward the people, pleasures, and thoughts that bring you the most joy. Inside, you’ll find eight unique mindfulness pathways to align your personal happiness compass and keep joy within arm’s reach—no matter the situation. So get ready to reset your moods, release your laughter, and discover meaning and happiness right here, right now.

Do you know what you want in life? Do you want to find out but don't know where to start? This book will show you doable steps on how you can approach the big questions in life. It encourages you to start implementing right away so that you'll see results from the get-go. It motivates you to take full responsibility for your choices and inspires you to see the beauty and opportunity in that. You might find yourself running and turning in a hamster wheel at work. You might find yourself juggling between work and family. You might find yourself longing for retirement to finally live your dreams. You might find yourself wondering if there is anything more to life than making money to maintain social status. You might find yourself asking why you try so hard to make it right for everybody and what about you? The Joy Compass is your guide to a happy life, where you know what you want and how to ask for it, where you care for yourself and have a great impact on your environment too, where you make the best contribution to the wold by just being your authentic self. In this book, you are going to learn how to: Create a big fat vision Declutter on the outside Declutter on the inside Take good care of yourself, your body and your relationships Anchor supporting habits and ditch bad ones Create joy for yourself and for others This book offers you: Meditations for beginner and advanced Simple but life changing exercises Awesome tools to implement in your daily life A woman and a man version! If you take time to sit down with me - yes, this book is like a long inspiring conversation between you and me - and implement the exercises and tools, if you're willing to do the work, then you'll have an awesome toolbox to create fun and joy every day. Don't wait for someday. Your time is now!

A Path to Self Mastery is a road map to building sustaining wellness and joy. Based on Jayme's personal journey and 20 year teaching career, it's a story, a guide and a workbook. Jayme demystifies yogic philosophy so that it is approachable, inspiring, motivating and welcoming.

Joy Is My Compass is an empowering collection of insights on following one's own true path to "Joy". Alan Cohen tells readers how to devote their attention, heart, and vision to nurture the spirit in life and to hold that vision to live in joy and make happiness a priority rather than a pain.

A year of daily inspiration from the renowned spiritual leader, Mother Teresa. The provocative ideas and touching insights found in The Joy in Loving spring from incidents in Mother Teresa's own remarkable life. She speaks of men and women who have lived and died uncomplainingly, even in the midst of great poverty and deprivation; of wealthy businessmen whose indifference has been transformed into compassion and charity, and of her encounters with people and governments around the globe. Through all of this, Mother Teresa emphasizes the need for a disciplined, loving family life, for "in the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world." Drawing on more than seventy years of selfless service to the poorest of the poor, she discusses the importance of work and prayer, charity and service, the right to life and, above all, the need to love--unconditionally and absolutely.

A leading brain scientist's look at the neurobiology of pleasure-and how pleasures can become addictions. Whether eating, taking drugs, engaging in sex, or doing good deeds, the pursuit of pleasure is a central drive of the human animal. In The Compass of Pleasure Johns Hopkins neuroscientist David J. Linden explains how pleasure affects us at the most fundamental level: in our brain. As he did in his award-winning book, The Accidental Mind, Linden combines cutting-edge science with entertaining anecdotes to illuminate the source of the behaviors that can lead us to ecstasy but that can easily become compulsive. Why are drugs like nicotine and heroin addictive while LSD is not? Why has the search for safe appetite suppressants been such a disappointment? The Compass of Pleasure concludes with a provocative consideration of pleasure in the future, when it may be possible to activate our pleasure circuits at will and in entirely novel patterns.

Why are some people joyful, vibrant, fulfilled at 50-plus? Is it because they have money? Or are they just lucky? Neither. Julia Valentine condenses thousands of interviews into an astonishing two-hour read on the real secrets of being joyful and fulfilled at any age. Backed by extensive research, Valentine's findings:* Stop your fear of aging in its tracks;* Help add joyful years to your life by instantly transforming your beliefs about aging;* Inspire you to use creativity to achieve better health;* Give you a solid strategy to develop better solutions to your everyday problems;* Show you how to discover new activities and enjoy your freedom to do what you want;* Provide the key to discovering your true needs;* Reveal the secret to having lots of energy with minimal effort.Take seven easy steps to astonishing quality of life in retirement!

Surrender to your body and recover joy Alexander Lowen, famous student of Wilhelm Reich and founder of Bioenergetics, reveals in this book how to reclaim a natural, childlike state of joy through exercises that revive the body's vitality and liberate the energy of suppressed feelings. Using examples from four decades of clinical practice, Lowen shows how painful emotional experiences—from sexual abuse and fear of dying to the anger and heartbreak all human beings experience in life—are manifested in bodily symptoms. He then instructs readers how to listen for and answer the unique signals in the body that serve as internal cries for freedom. The vibrant health that results has a wide range of holistic benefits for the total being, including enhanced sexual pleasure and heightened spirituality. Joy, the culmination of Lowen’s life work, is a wonderfully hopeful and transformational guide from one of the pioneers of body/mind therapy.