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Mindfulness for Busy People
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Mindfulness for Busy People

by Dr. Michael Sinclair, Dr. Josie Seydel
October 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
248 pages
5h 40m
English
Pearson Business
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CHAPTER 13

Allowing the good times to roll

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

Edith Wharton

In this chapter we are going to look in more detail at the effects of:

  • Grasping after what we believe to be things or events that will ‘make’ us happy.
  • Being preoccupied with holding on to ‘good’ moments.
  • Being preoccupied with avoiding pain and ‘difficult’ moments.
  • Using mindfulness to enable us to cease this habitual, inefficient and distressing behaviour and freeing us to discover genuine well-being.

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ISBN: 9780273789901