Today’s greatest health challenges, the so-called diseases of civilization—depression, trauma, obesity, cancer—are now known in large part to reflect our inability to tame stress reflexes gone wild and to empower instead the peaceful, healing and sociable part of our nature that adapts us to civilized life. The same can be said of the economic challenges posed by the stress-reactive cycles of boom and bust, driven by addictive greed and compulsive panic. As current research opens up new horizons of stress-cessation, empathic intelligence, peak performance, and shared happiness, it has also encountered Asian methods of self-healing and interdependence more effective and teachable than any known in the West. Sustainable Happiness is the first book to make Asia’s most rigorous and complete system of contemplative living, hidden for centuries in Tibet, accessible to help us all on our shared journey towards sustainable well-being, altruism, inspiration and happiness.
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Creating Equanimity and Satisfaction Short attention spans, rage, and fear have been monetized by means of the internet, media, and the corporation. Behaviors that are manifested by our destructive emotions are commodities in the system we inhabit, particularly in the workplace, and are frequently rewarded and reinforced. Aggression, greed, and egocentric status are prized and promoted. To further complicate matters, the inherited, easily triggered, predatory facet of our nature, necessary for survival in bygone days, is often a…
The Psychology of Tibetan Buddhism – A Mesmerizing Exploration For anyone who has ever been curious about the method of Tibetan Buddhist practice, in Joe Loizzo’s remarkable book Sustainable Happiness, they will find the only substantive, accessible and illuminating blueprint for Westerners that I know of. This book is a first of its kind – a readable curriculum written by a long-term Western practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. With patience and determination, Loizzo helps the reader understand the history and teachings of the contemplative mind/body…