How to Train a Happy Mind: A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment

(Paperback, 0th New edition)

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TRAIN YOUR MIND TOWARD LASTING CONNECTION AND JOY Eager to share the life-enhancing benefits he found in Buddhism, skeptic Scott Snibbe presents this 8-step programme that allows anyone to build positive mental habits. Inspired by the ancient Buddhist path to enlightenment yet firmly grounded in modern science, How to Train a Happy Mind is the first mainstream book to show how you can achieve happiness using analytical meditation. Working in much the same way as cognitive behavioural therapy, analytical meditation goes beyond the calm-inducing practice of mindfulness to actively train the brain through easy-to-follow narrative visualizations. Breaking the path down into concise steps and written in a relatable tone with plenty of references to popular culture, this is the ideal book if you recognize your mind as both the source of your problems and the source of your solutions.

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"A clear, well-lit path through the tangled thickets of psychological and spiritual ideas, tools, and adviceand it takes you directly to greater resilience, happiness, love and inner peace."
"At last someone gives a simple and clear introduction to the most important of all meditations."
Scott Snibbe has done a marvellous job of interpreting the timeless wisdom of Buddhist masters for a contemporary audience."
The real test of a book is whether, when you have finished, you can put it to use in your life. Scott Snibbes book passes this test with flying colours."

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Scott Snibbe is a twenty-year student of Tibetan Buddhism whose teachers include Lama Zopa Rinpoche and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He is the Executive Director of A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment, the world's first organization dedicated to teaching secular forms of Tibetan Buddhist analytical meditation, which reaches about 10,000 people a month through its podcast, website and courses.