How Art Can Make You Happy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Art Can Make You Happy write by Bridget Watson Payne. This book was released on 2017-05-02. How Art Can Make You Happy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why is art magical? How can it make us happy? How Art Can Make You Happy offers the keys to unlocking a rich and rewarding source of joy in life. This easy, breezy handbook is full of insight that will help regular people begin a more inspiring and less stressful relationship with art. With tips on how to visit museums, how to talk about art at cocktail parties, and how to let art wake you up to the world around you, this little guide makes it possible for anyone to fall in love with art, whether for the first time or all over again.
Against Happiness
Against Happiness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Against Happiness write by Eric G. Wilson. This book was released on 2008-01-22. Against Happiness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Americans are addicted to happiness. When we're not popping pills, we leaf through scientific studies that take for granted our quest for happiness, or read self-help books by everyone from armchair philosophers and clinical psychologists to the Dalai Lama on how to achieve a trouble-free life: Stumbling on Happiness; Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment; The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living. The titles themselves draw a stark portrait of the war on melancholy. More than any other generation, Americans of today believe in the transformative power of positive thinking. But who says we're supposed to be happy? Where does it say that in the Bible, or in the Constitution? In Against Happiness, the scholar Eric G. Wilson argues that melancholia is necessary to any thriving culture, that it is the muse of great literature, painting, music, and innovation—and that it is the force underlying original insights. Francisco Goya, Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, and Abraham Lincoln were all confirmed melancholics. So enough Prozac-ing of our brains. Let's embrace our depressive sides as the wellspring of creativity. What most people take for contentment, Wilson argues, is living death, and what the majority takes for depression is a vital force. In Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy, Wilson suggests it would be better to relish the blues that make humans people.
The Art of Procrastination
The Art of Procrastination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Procrastination write by John Perry. This book was released on 2012-01-01. The Art of Procrastination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explains the principles of structured procrastination and provides tips and techniques to chronic procrastinators for developing an attitude of acceptance for their accomplishments while enjoying the time they waste.
Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy
Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy write by Cathy A. Malchiodi. This book was released on 2020-03-27. Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Psychological trauma can be a life-changing experience that affects multiple facets of health and well-being. The nature of trauma is to impact the mind and body in unpredictable and multidimensional ways. It can be a highly subjective that is difficult or even impossible to explain with words. It also can impact the body in highly individualized ways and result in complex symptoms that affect memory, social engagement, and quality of life. While many people overcome trauma with resilience and without long term effects, many do not. Trauma's impact often requires approaches that address the sensory-based experiences many survivors report. The expressive arts therapy-the purposeful application of art, music, dance/movement, dramatic enactment, creative writing and imaginative play-are largely non-verbal ways of self-expression of feelings and perceptions. More importantly, they are action-oriented and tap implicit, embodied experiences of trauma that can defy expression through verbal therapy or logic. Based on current evidence-based and emerging brain-body practices, there are eight key reasons for including expressive arts in trauma intervention, covered in this book: (1) letting the senses tell the story; (2) self-soothing mind and body; (3) engaging the body; (4) enhancing nonverbal communication; (5) recovering self-efficacy; (6) rescripting the trauma story; (7) making meaning; and (8) restoring aliveness"--
Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism write by Fumio Sasaki. This book was released on 2017-04-11. Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The best-selling phenomenon from Japan that shows us a minimalist life is a happy life. Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo—he’s just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided to change his life by saying goodbye to everything he didn’t absolutely need. The effects were remarkable: Sasaki gained true freedom, new focus, and a real sense of gratitude for everything around him. In Goodbye, Things Sasaki modestly shares his personal minimalist experience, offering specific tips on the minimizing process and revealing how the new minimalist movement can not only transform your space but truly enrich your life. The benefits of a minimalist life can be realized by anyone, and Sasaki’s humble vision of true happiness will open your eyes to minimalism’s potential.
