Slowing Down to the Speed of Life: How To Create A More Peaceful, Simpler Life From the Inside Out - Softcover

Richard Carlson; Joseph Bailey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062514547 ISBN 13: 9780062514547

Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco, 1998

Synopsis

Feel like you're always rushing but never catching up?Are you doing more, but enjoying it less? The frantic pace and pressure of modern life can take a serious toll on your happiness and your health'but there is one way to step off the treadmill without giving up your career or your activities. The answer lies not in sacrificing your work productivity or your lifestyle but rather in changing your attitudes. By using simple exercises to slow down your mind and focus on the present moment, you can actually achieve greater productivity and creativity-all while maintaining a calmer, healthier state of mind.

Slowing Down to the Speed of Life helps you:

• Slow down your life without downsizing your lifestyle

• Enjoy the increased creativity and productivity that flow from inner calm

• Free yourself from the stressful influence of other peoples' habits, attitudes, behaviors, and moods

• Attain a sense of satisfaction with your life'and be happy!

About this title

About the Author

Richard Carlson is considered one of the world's foremost experts on happiness and stress reduction. He is the author of fifteen popular books, including Easier Than You Think and the runaway bestseller, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff . . . and It's All Small Stuff, which was named the number-one bestselling book in America for two consecutive years, a feat never before achieved in publishing. Dr. Carlson's books have been published in over one hundred countries. He was chosen by People magazine as one of the most intriguing people to watch in the world and has been a popular talk-show guest.

From the Back Cover

Feel like you're always rushing but never catching up? Are you doing more, but enjoying it less? The frantic pace and pressure of modern life can take a serious toll on your happiness and your health, but there is one way to step off the treadmill without giving up your career or your activities. The answer lies not in sacrificing your work productivity, or your lifestyle, but rather in changing your attitudes. By using simple exercises to slow down your mind and focus on the present moment, you can actually achieve greater productivity and creativity--all while maintaining a calmer, healthier state of mind.

Slowing Down to the Speed of Life helps you:

Slow down your life without downsizing your lifestyle

Enjoy the increased creativity and productivity that flow from inner calm

Free yourself from the stressful influence of other peoples' habits, attitudes, behaviors, and moods

Attain a sense of satisfaction with your life and be happy!

"This book speaks right to the heart of the matter: how to get more satisfaction in life from less rushing around. Many people will change their lives dramatically by reading this great book." (George Pransky, Ph.D., co-founder of Psychology of Mind and author of The Renaissance of Psychology)

From the Inside Flap

Ever notice that the faster you go, the "behinder" you get? Ever feel like while your life is full--maybe too full--of things to do, you aren't enjoying life nearly enough? Want a way off the treadmill of anxiety, worry and pressure, and into real happiness? In Slowing Down to the Speed of Life, Richard Carlson and Joseph Bailey show you how to create a more peaceful, simpler life from the inside out. In the authors' words:

"This is a book about slowing down to learning to live in the moment. We are not, however, going to ask to change your lifestyle. You don't have to move to the country or to a small town in another state. You don't have to resign from your job or change your career."

"In this book, you will learn to slow down your life from the inside out. This change will result from a wiser way of being in the world, not from superficially reorganizing the externals of your life. You will discover how your quality of life is created within rather than imposed upon you by outside forces."

Carlson and Bailey help us recognize rushed thought processes and access healthy, relaxed feelings and, using the popular "psychology of mind" approach, they teach us to gain new-found abilities to stay focused on the task at hand, and enhance our creativity and achievement. Illustrated with useful exercises, charts and diagrams, as well as inspiring personal reflections, Slowing Down to the Speed of Life shows us how to maintain a healthy calm in the midst of life's storm.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062514547
• ISBN 13: 9780062514547
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240