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Awakening Joy

10 Steps That Will Put You on the Road to Real Happiness

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Awakening Joy

Written by: James Baraz, Shoshana Alexander
Narrated by: James Baraz, Shoshana Alexander
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Joy is not for just the lucky few - it's a choice anyone can make. In this groundbreaking book, based on his popular course, James Baraz helps you discover a path to the happiness that's right in front of you, offering a step-by-step program that will reorient your mind away from dissatisfaction and distraction and toward the contentment and delight that is abundantly available in our everyday lives. You can decide to be happy.

For years, James Baraz's online Awakening Joy course has offered participants from around the world the benefits of this simple but profoundly radical proposition. Grounded in simple Buddhist principles but accessible to people of all faiths- or no faith at all - this concept provides the jumping-off point for a transformational journey toward a richer, more meaningful, more positive outlook on life.

Now listeners everywhere can follow the same 10 steps Baraz teaches to his program participants. In this practical down-to-earth guide, you will learn how to:

  • Make happiness a habit by inclining your mind toward states that lead to well-being
  • Find joy, even during difficult times, and avoid the pitfalls that prevent you from achieving the contentment you seek
  • Cultivate effective practices for sustaining joyfulness, such as reclaiming your natural sense of wonder and finding joy in the midst of everyday experiences

Each chapter of Awakening Joy consists of one step in Baraz's 10-step program and includes engaging exercises and practical advice to make happiness your natural default setting. For everyone from the cynic, despondent over life's many sorrows, to the harried commuter raging at freeway traffic, this book offers up a simple yet powerful message of hope, grounded in the realization that joy already exists inside every one of us. Like a precious child, it only needs to be recognized, embraced, and nurtured in order to grow to its full potential.

©2010 James Baraz and Shoshana Alexander (P)2010 Audible, Inc.
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Simplicity as a wonderful transmission tool

A real Performance in bringing up such a subject with clarity, simplicity and so much evident own experience of practicing what James Baraz is transmitting
To me a balanced setting of theory, examples, citations, poetry and practice.
I love the fact that the author himself is narrating with a voice that feels soothing and helping to embody the words. It’s also nice to have an alternation with a feminine voice.
Suggestion: titles of the chapters and a pdf of the different exercices offered through the chapters would be of great help. In order to be able to find what we need easily when coming back to the practice parts

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