The Happiness Trap

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I recommend this book: http://www.thehappinesstrap.com/

It's actually helping me like few other methods have, and I've tried almost everything. It's based on the teaching ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) which is based in science and Buddhism, and it's all about how negative thoughts are just stories that our mind thinks up to protect us from potential danger, and that we only encounter problems when we "fuse" with them and treat them as fact. It teaches you how to "defuse" your unhelpful thoughts, which is one of the keys to inner peace. P.S. I didn't write it and I'm not a spammer.

I thought this was going to be a negative thread

Sounds good!

I will definitely look for it.

sounds similar to the book ''the power of now''. Also a great thing to check out if you're into this stuff.

Nice haircut! I lived in a buddhist monastery in Thailand for a while. Your peaceful expression has transported me to my past state of being that I enjoyed for many years

Negativity and negative thinking.... I have many of these now due to my engaging the world, and losing the engagement, and have put on weight in response, as protection from potential danger in the future. Once bitten twice shy

Thank you for your kind reminder.

Oddly scientology teaches a similar idea that past hurts become programs that keep running in the background, and sap memory resources that prevent you from living fully or your CPU maxing out from past hurts....

I'll keep my eyes peeled.