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Sustainable happiness : live simply, live well, make a difference / edited by Sarah van Gelder and the staff of YES! Magazine.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: San Francisco : BK, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, a BK Life Book, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: First editionDescription: xv, 148 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1626563292
  • 9781626563292
Uniform titles:
  • Yes! (Bainbridge Island, Wash.)
Subject(s):
Contents:
What We Know About Real Well-Being -- Introduction Movement to Live More Simply Is Older Than You Think / 10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy / Who Pays the Price for Cheap Stuff? / Why Everyone Is Happier in More Equitable Societies / We Are Hardwired to Cooperate and Share / Why Saying Hello Matters / Practice of Happiness (or, How You Can Get Some) -- Introduction This Is Your Life -- Show Up For It Mindfully / Give Yourself a Break: Take a Tech Sabbath / Kick Your Addictions, Return to Intimacy / Stop Worrying and Find Work You Love / Follow Your Calling -- Even When It Scares You / Share Meals with Loved Ones / Choose Gratitude / Sustainable Happiness and the Beloved Community -- Introduction Story of Your Gift / Heal, Don't Punish / Hidden Treasures in Your Neighborhood / How to Design Your Neighborhood for Happiness / Five Ways to Meet Your Neighbors / Lessons in Gratitude From a Pay-It-Forward Restaurant / Everything I Need to Know About Happiness, I Learned in the Forest / Wild Geese
Summary: Sarah van Gelder and her colleagues at YES! Magazine have been exploring the meaning of real happiness for eighteen years. In this volume, they marshal research, in-depth essays, and personal stories that lead to a life-altering conclusion: what makes us truly happy are the depth of our relationships, the quality of our communities, our opportunities to make a contribution, and the renewal we receive from the natural world.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-135) and index.

What We Know About Real Well-Being -- Introduction Movement to Live More Simply Is Older Than You Think / 10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy / Who Pays the Price for Cheap Stuff? / Why Everyone Is Happier in More Equitable Societies / We Are Hardwired to Cooperate and Share / Why Saying Hello Matters / Practice of Happiness (or, How You Can Get Some) -- Introduction This Is Your Life -- Show Up For It Mindfully / Give Yourself a Break: Take a Tech Sabbath / Kick Your Addictions, Return to Intimacy / Stop Worrying and Find Work You Love / Follow Your Calling -- Even When It Scares You / Share Meals with Loved Ones / Choose Gratitude / Sustainable Happiness and the Beloved Community -- Introduction Story of Your Gift / Heal, Don't Punish / Hidden Treasures in Your Neighborhood / How to Design Your Neighborhood for Happiness / Five Ways to Meet Your Neighbors / Lessons in Gratitude From a Pay-It-Forward Restaurant / Everything I Need to Know About Happiness, I Learned in the Forest / Wild Geese

Sarah van Gelder and her colleagues at YES! Magazine have been exploring the meaning of real happiness for eighteen years. In this volume, they marshal research, in-depth essays, and personal stories that lead to a life-altering conclusion: what makes us truly happy are the depth of our relationships, the quality of our communities, our opportunities to make a contribution, and the renewal we receive from the natural world.

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