Part I: Making friends with yourself -- Are you a friend to yourself? -- Mindfulness: How it all started -- Pleasure vs Happiness: Choosing wisely -- To understand is to love -- Gentle effort is key -- Part II: Making friends with your mind -- Beginnign to explore your mind -- The mind: a storyteller -- Negativity bias: looking for negatives -- Your thoughts are nto powerful; you are! -- How to handle difficult thoughts -- Metta: A powerful antidote for the judgemental mind -- Part III: Making friends with your body -- Connecting with the body -- Supporting the body -- Body scan practice: Relaxing and noticing the body -- Part IV: Making friends with your feelings -- Understanding feelings -- Our usual way of dealing with feelings -- A wise way of working with difficult feelings -- The importance of noticing pleasant feelings -- Part V: Dealing with specific emotions and difficult situations -- Dealing with anger -- Dealing with boredom -- Dealing with anxiety -- Dealing with jealousy -- Dealing with body image difficulties: learning to love your body -- Understanding and working thruogh addiction -- Understanding bullying and dealing with it -- The path ahead.
Summary:
"A self-help guide-cum-journal for self-exploration. Jealousy. Bullying. Anger. Anxiety. Body image issues. Selfies and social media addiction . . . Are you grappling with any of these? Let's be honest, juggling school, extra classes, home, friendships and new relationships can be hard. It's difficult to find balance and really, really tough not to get affected by the 'happy' content we see online. But what is genuine happiness vis-̉-vis short-term pleasure? Are we even looking for it in the right place? Written by a renowned psychologist, this beautifully illustrated book is divided into five parts that will help in easing everyday anxieties. Learn to make friends with yourself, your body, mind and feelings, and to deal with difficult emotions and situations. You Are Simply Perfect! will equip you with life-changing tools to find contentment--in school and outside. Find your own quiet spaces inside this book with journal pages left for you to write and reflect." -- Amazon.com.
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