You Can Feel Good Again: Common-Sense Strategies for Releasing Unhappiness and Changing Your Life - Softcover

Carlson, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452272424 ISBN 13: 9780452272422

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 1994

Synopsis

The words “don't sweat the small stuff” became an important part of American culture thanks to Richard Carlson’s runaway bestseller, which made publishing history as the #1 book in the United States for two consecutive years.

Now, You Can Feel Good Again has one simple message: changing your thinking changes your life. Carlson offers a commonsense method that allows anyone to release unhappiness and negativity related to present circumstances or past events, and return to a natural state of well-being in the present. You Can Feel Good Again is full of humor, wisdom, and thoughtful guidance—a genuine tool to foster the realization that happiness and contentment are truly one thought away.

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About the Author

During his life, RICHARD CARLSON, Ph.D, was considered one of the foremost experts in happiness and stress reduction in the United States and around the world, and was a frequent guest on such shows as Oprah, The Today Show, The View, CNN, Fox, PBS, and over 2000 other shows. Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff continued to be a publishing phenomenon, with over 20 titles in the series, two of which were co-authored with his beloved wife, Kris. He died of a pulmonary embolism in December 2006, at the age of forty-five.

The words “don't sweat the small stuff” became a part of American culture thanks to Carlson’s book of the same name, which became a runaway bestseller and made publishing history as the #1 bestselling book in the United States for two consecutive years.

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff spent over 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and is still considered one of the fastest selling books of all time. It has sold over 15 million copies worldwide.

From Publishers Weekly

Carlson ( You Can Be Happy No Matter What: Good News About Depression ) doesn't encourage his clients to attend therapy weekly. Frequent sessions, he asserts, don't make people happy; they only make clients brood about how miserable their lives are. Instead, what we think about, he believes, actually determines how optimistic or unhappy we are. " Your thoughts always create your emotions ," the author argues. Thus, the key to happiness is to replace negative thoughts with postive ones. Negative thinking, according to Carlson, is a habit like smoking or drinking that can be broken. So in effect, depression is the result of faulty thinking habits. Carlson's technique is based on the Psychology of Mind, a new branch of psychotherapy. Included here are case studies of clients he has treated using these principles. While Carlson demonstrates some common sense, much of the book seems glib and patronizing, as if people were machines that could be reprogrammed by pressing a few buttons. First serial to Cosmopolitan.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0452272424
• ISBN 13: 9780452272422
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180