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Book SynopsisHappiness, sadness, compassion, resentment, despair: just some of the feelings and moods that characterize the lives of each one of us. They are part and parcel of our everyday lives and they affect everything we do, like a kind of mental climate that surrounds and permeates our activities and thoughts.
Trade Review'No one I know except for Christophe André can write in such a rhapsodic, poetic, poignant and personally honest way about such quintessentially human experiences as feelings and moods – energies which, while evanescent and subtle, run our lives in ways it is very easy to ignore. This book illuminates the very real possibility of authentic well-being and happiness for each of us, right here and now, without anything having to change, however astonishing and improbable that proposition may seem.'
Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Mindfulness for Beginners and Coming to Our Senses
'Moods establish the inner "weather" of the mind – perhaps bright and sunny, or overcast and troubled – and with his rare combination of head and heart, Christophe André shows what creates this weather and how we can change it for the better.'
Rick Hanson, author of Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
'Christophe André leads us through a heartfelt encounter with the ubiquity and complexity of emotional life. Take your time reading his evocative prose and find yourself rewarded with a new appreciation for how thoughts and feelings are foundational in achieving greater satisfaction and purposefulness in your life.'
Zindel Segal, University of TorontoTable of ContentsContents
A little girl falls over
PART ONE
Existence
Chapter 1 - Feelings and moods: towards understanding
Chapter 2 - Feelings and moods: the pain and the pleasure
Chapter 3 - Rumination and losing control
Chapter 4 - Introspection
PART TWO
Suffering
Chapter 5 - Painful feelings and moods
Chapter 6 - Anxieties
Chapter 7 - Resentment
Chapter 8 - Sadness
Chapter 9 - Despair
Chapter 10 - Fragility
Chapter 11 - Calm and energy
Chapter 12 - Regulating feelings and moods
Chapter 13 - Curing ourselves of the disease of materialism
Chapter 14 - Living mindfully
Chapter 15 - Compassion, self-compassion and the power of gentleness
Chapter 16 - Happiness
Chapter 17 - Wisdom
Conclusion - See you tomorrow, life
Footnotes
Acknowledgments
