Happy at Last: The Thinking Person's Guide to Finding Joy
Written by Richard O'Connor
Narrated by Rick Adamson
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About this audiobook
From the bestselling author of Undoing Depression – a groundbreaking program to get happy and stay happy!
Do you want to live the happiest, most satisfying life possible? Does happiness feel like an elusive goal? According to the most recent developments in psychology and science, the brain can be trained to be more receptive to happiness, because staying happy doesn't come naturally. Nor does our society make it easy. In Happy at Last, psychotherapist Richard O'Connor offers new thinking about how we attain and maintain happiness, and he shows us that it doesn't necessarily have to come at a high cost or in a big package. Rather, we can be in command of our happiness by learning to control how our minds work so that we can identify and savor the hidden positive aspects of everyday life. To do this, O'Connor provides us with a set of skills that will help us re-wire our brains to allow ourselves more joy.
Filled with practical advice and exercises, Happy at Last is a step-by-step guide that will help you achieve
* The core skills that we need to feel happy and fulfilled in today's world.
* Strategies for increasing happiness, reducing unnecessary misery, and experiencing greater satisfaction.
* Techniques for keeping sadness at bay and stress from getting in the way of enjoying life.
This is not glib pop psychology but rather the best current science has to offer, put into an accessible and absorbing audiobook. Richard O'Connor makes it possible to be, finally, Happy at Last!
Richard O'Connor
Richard O'Connor is the author of five books, Undoing Depression, Active Treatment of Depression, Undoing Perpetual Stress, Happy At Last, and Rewire. For fourteen years he was executive director of the Northwest Center for Family Service and Mental Health, overseeing the treatment of almost a thousand patients per year. He is a practicing psychotherapist, with offices in Canaan, Connecticut, and New York City, and he lives with his family in Lakeville, Connecticut.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Can't afford a therapist? In his book Happy at Last, Richard O'Connor combines cognitive therapy and Buddhist philosophy to provide a clear framework for improving your mood and outlook on life. O'Connor begins by drawing heavily on Daniel Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness and other recent research on psychology and behavioral economics, as he argues that a great deal of the unhappiness we experience has to do with our outlook or the circumstances of modern American life, and that we do have the ability to change our mood. He discusses the negative traps that lead to unhappiness that we fall into, and intersperses easy exercises we can try to keep from falling into a dark mood. The book stresses that there are no magic pills to happiness, nor should we expect to live in a constant state of bliss. It does, however, provide practical suggestions for change, andleaves the reader confident that he can make real improvements in his mood and outlook on life.