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Seeking Serenity

The 10 New Rules for Health and Happiness in the Age of Anxiety

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In a provocative and practical look at modern stress, Seeking Serenity offers an empowering new message: Stress can serve as a guide to living our happiest and healthiest lives.  
In Seeking Serenity, stress columnist Amanda Enayati challenges our long-held assumptions about stress, painting a groundbreaking picture that separates myth from reality when it comes to what is commonly referred to as the plague of modern life. Weaving together stories, research from science, history, philosophy and diverse faiths, and everyday exercises, she crafts a fascinating tale that begins with the behind-the-scenes machinations of corporate villains and ends in the power of our stories to shape our realities.
We are living in an era of dramatic highs and lows, with lives that move at a pace and intensity impossible at any other time in history. These contradictions throw us off-kilter, out of harmony and balance, creating what we perceive as never-ending and destructive cycles of stress. But life itself has always been—and will always be—a series of fluctuations: the good days, the bad days, the excruciating days. The key to mastering stress lies in the way we experience it.
Seeking Serenity presents ten revolutionary principles developed from the emerging science of stress and reinforced by literature, philosophy and age-old spiritual wisdom that help us to differentiate between destructive and constructive stress, and to master stress in the everyday by learning how to:
  • Shift our perceptions to interpret inevitable challenges in a way that serves us better;
  • Embrace a narrative that casts stress as a pathway to adaptation and growth; and
  • Commit to breaks, buffers, and protective practices that will minimize and neutralize the adverse impacts of toxic stress.
  • Drawing on extensive research and remarkable case studies, Seeking Serenity presents a clear and accessible action plan to achieving more joyful and productive lives, stronger communities and a better world.
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      • Library Journal

        February 1, 2015

        Enayati, columnist for CNN and stress/technology correspondent for PBX MediaShift, believes that people can take advantage of stress as a pathway to better physical and psychological health through neutralizing its toxic aspects and reframing its advantages via controlled perception. She demonstrates, using examples and stories, how readers can develop resilience, find community and belonging, exercise kindness, and practice more of the building blocks of serene living. The author employs the discipline of mindfulness, thoughts from multiple writers, cultural patterns, and exercises to illustrate her ten rules. VERDICT Enayati's work, while not earth-shattering, provides a positive, inexpensive avenue to inner peace.

        Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

      • Booklist

        March 15, 2015
        Not all stress is bad, according to expert Enayati. Athletes use stress to break records; actors use stress to enhance their performances. Stress becomes dangerous when it is a constant companion. Enayati proposes 10 rules for combating stress and attaining serenity, organized into three sections: Your World, Your Mind, and Your Body. While the advice to be resilient, creative, free, happy, giving, kind, healthy, uncluttered, present, and connected isn't exactly new, the author presents strong evidence for the power of these qualities to provide relief and backs her assertions with documented examples. Each chapter ends with concrete suggestions on how to practice these rules. In most cases, mindfulness, meditation, and journaling play important roles in the process. For example, to be happy, Enayati recommends keeping a gratitude journal and giving focused time to at least three people each week. Slightly more scholarly and wide ranging than most self-help books, this thoughtful work will give readers some valuable ammunition in the battle against stress.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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