Joy on demand The art of discovering the happiness within

Chade-Meng Tan

Book - 2016

"A long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Search Inside Yourself shows us how to cultivate joy within the context of our fast-paced lives and explains why it is critical to creativity, innovation, confidence, and ultimately success in every arena. In Joy on Demand, Chade-Meng Tan shows that you don't need to meditate for hours, days, months or years to achieve lasting joy--you can actually get consistent access to it in as little as fifteen seconds. Explaining joy and meditation as complementary things that naturally reinforce each other, Meng explains how these two skills form a virtuous cycle, and once put into motion, become a solid practice that can be sustained in daily life. For many years, meditation has b...een taught and practiced in cultures where almost all meditators practice full-time for years, resulting in training programs optimized for practitioners with lots of free time and not much else to do but develop profound mastery over the mind. Seeing a disconnect between the traditional practice and the modern world, the bestselling author and Google's "Jolly Good Fellow" has developed a program, through "wise laziness," to help readers meditate more efficiently and effectively. Meng shares the three pillars of joy (inner peace, insight, and happiness), why joy is the secret is to success, and demonstrates the practical tools anyone can use to cultivate it on demand"--

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Published
New York : HarperOne 2016.
Language
English
Main Author
Chade-Meng Tan (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
272 pages
ISBN
9780062378859
9780062482013
  • Introduction: How I Learned to Be Jolly for Fun and Profit
  • Chapter 1. Joy Becomes You: Surprising (and Not-So-Surprising) Benefits of Mind Training
  • Chapter 2. Just One Breath? Surely You Jest: How Joy Can Begin with the First Breath
  • Chapter 3. From One Breath to One Googol: Settling into Sustainable Joy
  • Chapter 4. What, Me Happy?: Inclining the Mind Toward Joy
  • Chapter 5. Uplift the Mind in Seconds: The Joy of Heart Practices
  • Chapter 6. Happiness Is Full of Crap: Working with Emotional Pain
  • Chapter 7. The Great Mind Is Better than Sex: An Exploration Beyond Worldly Pleasures
  • Epilogue: Don't Stop and Don't Strain
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
Review by Booklist Review

Born in Singapore in 1970, Tan taught himself at age 12 to program a computer. As an adult, he got a job at a small start-up company, Google. There he led the creation of an emotional intelligence course, Search Inside Yourself, which everyone from the Dalai Lama to Jimmy Carter endorsed. Almost overnight, he became an expert in mindfulness and compassion but, ironically, until he was 21, Tan was miserable. Happiness . . . was a skill I had to learn, he writes. This entertaining book is his earnest and, indeed, joyful attempt to help everyone else learn how to be happy, too. The state of happiness, he insists, is highly trainable, with meditation what he calls the mental equivalent of physical exercise the path to change lives. He offers breathing techniques that train the mind to access joy by applying three basic skills: easing into joy, inclining the mind toward joy, and uplifting the mind. He also discusses how to deal with pain and suffering while showing joy and pain can coexist. A practical and commonsense guide to achieving that most elusive of states, happiness.--Sawyers, June Copyright 2016 Booklist

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