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A Course in Happiness: An Authentic Happiness Formula for Well-Being, Meaning and Flourishing
Do you want to start cultivating joyful living, here and now? If so, "A course in happiness: an authentic happiness formula for well-being, meaning and flourishing" is here for you.
The book received positive media coverage in North America, Europe and Asia. It offers tools to assess one's subjective well-being, and approaches to live a happier, purpose-driven and flourishing life. The first eleven chapters of the book are based on AmAre, an acronym which stands for "being"
- Aware and Accepting
- Meaningful and Motivated
- Active and Attentive
- Resilient and Respectful
- Eating properly and Exercising
They also address questions like "Is happiness an inside job? Or does it depend on external factors?" by thinking in terms of degree of facilitation. "Some events are like a weight" says Frank, "making harder for people to fly; some are like a lift, facilitating people's happiness. However, considering even the way human beings discern between weights and lifts is subjective, happiness is about attitudes and choices, it is not a place to reach through external factors."
Topics covered in the book include:
- Happiness is a way of living
- Power of context
- Being aware of awareness: consciousness matters
The author of the book, Frank Ra, is a Dharma instructor, has been coaching and working in eCommunication since late 1995; he studied Dharma, Business, and graduated in International Relations and Diplomacy. He is Italian, has spent most of his adult life in North America, England and Estonia, and travelling around the World. He settled in beautiful British Columbia, Canada.
The book received positive media coverage in North America, Europe and Asia. It offers tools to assess one's subjective well-being, and approaches to live a happier, purpose-driven and flourishing life. The first eleven chapters of the book are based on AmAre, an acronym which stands for "being"
- Aware and Accepting
- Meaningful and Motivated
- Active and Attentive
- Resilient and Respectful
- Eating properly and Exercising
They also address questions like "Is happiness an inside job? Or does it depend on external factors?" by thinking in terms of degree of facilitation. "Some events are like a weight" says Frank, "making harder for people to fly; some are like a lift, facilitating people's happiness. However, considering even the way human beings discern between weights and lifts is subjective, happiness is about attitudes and choices, it is not a place to reach through external factors."
Topics covered in the book include:
- Happiness is a way of living
- Power of context
- Being aware of awareness: consciousness matters
The author of the book, Frank Ra, is a Dharma instructor, has been coaching and working in eCommunication since late 1995; he studied Dharma, Business, and graduated in International Relations and Diplomacy. He is Italian, has spent most of his adult life in North America, England and Estonia, and travelling around the World. He settled in beautiful British Columbia, Canada.
176 pages, Paperback
First published January 3, 2011
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July 2, 2011
A good read for the mind and the body.
July 20, 2024
Full of common sense and sound advice. It’ll make more sense if you’ve read more on the subject, especially from the Buddhist perspective.
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