Worth Repeating: The 4 Simple Steps to Happiness

It's horrifyingly wonderful when someone boils the entire ocean of that crazy, chaotic and wonderful thing called life down (life is, after the only game in town as far we 'know'), and after boiling it down says what amounts to...



















"Don't sweat, it's easy! Just take this handful of simple steps and your life will be wonderful! Even better, the entire rejuvenation and get-back-on-track-process takes only ten weeks and there's no surgery involved, no emptying of your bank accounts, no exotic changes of venue or diet!"

















To say 'horrifyingly wonderful' is not to say, untrue and not valuable - hence the title tag "worth repeating."  So take a quick look. It is, after only a matter of 1, 2, 3 & 4, after which you need only repeat your way to happiness in the intervening random and various moments.

Mayo Clinic Scientist Reveals the Secret to Happiness in Four Simple Steps 

BOSTON, June 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- As the Daily Mail revealed last night, a group at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota has determined four key steps to achieving happiness.

Dr. Amit Sood, who leads a team of researchers at Mayo, believes happiness is a choice and, in fact, says that forty to fifty percent of people's happiness rests on the deliberate decisions they make day after day.

Dr. Sood has taken the four-steps and developed a comprehensive ten-week program to change your mindset and let a positive attitude become habit.  The program is outlined in the new book The Mayo Clinic Handbook for Happiness: A 4-Step Plan for Resilient Living which puts forth practical guidelines that are easy to implement into mundane moments—while waiting for an elevator, or folding laundry.

1. Train Your Attention: Learning to focus your attention enables you to command your thoughts and shift perspective.
2. Cultivate Emotional Resilience: Build inner emotional strength by making room for gratitude, compassion, acceptance, meaning, and forgiveness.
3. Start a Mind-Body Practice: Deepen your spiritual awareness through meditation, prayer, or any other mind-body practices that work for you.
4. Pick Healthy Habits: Direct your willpower to making positive, concrete changes to lead to a healthier you—eat well, exercise, worry less.

With this new book, Dr. Sood expands on the standards he set forth in The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-free Living which Dr. Daniel Goleman called "an important innovative approach to well-being."  Both books are published by Da Capo Lifelong Books/Da Capo Press, a division of the Perseus Books Group.

Dr. Amit Sood is a professor of medicine and the chair of the Mind-Body Medicine Initiative at Mayo Clinic, a nonprofit worldwide leader in medical care, research, and education.

SOURCE Da Capo Press
Link: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mayo-clinic-scientist-reveals-the-secret-to-happiness-in-four-simple-steps-300096659.html