I research a lot to find Books on finding happiness within yourself. Read those books for spirituality, positivity, psychology and success associated with your happiness.
Table of Contents
The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living By Russ Harris and Steven C. Hayes PhD:
One-liner: The book provides a guide about Acceptances and Commitment Therapy (ACT) that change your response towards negative emotions to follow your values.
Why read it?
The common ways to find happiness ends up more miserable or under pain. Harris provides Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for your behavioural psychology. The book clarifies your values and brings you out of the happiness trap. Assure meaning instead of insecurity and self-doubt.
Key Points:
Fighting through your negative emotions empowers or worsen them more.
Enjoy the feeling of happiness that comes but chase your commitments.
Never select your feelings by faking them; act your values out. Read Paulo Coelho Happiness.
Think Like a Monk By Jay Shetty:
One-liner: It’s a Monk mindset approach to get happiness through identifying joy in troubles and protecting yourself from suffering that prevails in peace.
Why read it?
The book calms you down instant about the pain or confusion. It gives reasoning to let go, grow and find meaning in your service. It overcomes your negative thoughts of guilt and fear. You get healing and purpose to pursue actions.
Key Points:
Understanding the happiness components for you is an initial step for finding Joy.
Understanding factors that take your joy away yields more Joy.
Practice meditation for consistent stability in life to cope with situations.
Stumbling on Happiness By Daniel Gilbert:
One-liner: It shares facts about brain capacity towards experiences, lack of awareness impacts decision making and behavioural change to synthesize happiness.
Why read it?
That’s a fun read. It explains the brain and happiness studies impact on history. Expose deep conviction about brain working. It points out our pleasure fantasizing behaviour towards the inescapable situations. Gilbert shares our future imagining power for happiness.
Key Points:
The brain tries to fill the gaps(Wrong or right); that’s its nature.
Identify the value of the things now rather than comparing them through experience.
Go for the experience, Bad one is better than no experience. The worst experience has a bright side.
10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works-A True Story By Dan Harris:
One-liner: The book provides a clear mediational way instead of overwhelming techniques through explaining the science behind those mindfulness exercises for a stress-free life.
Why read it?
The author shares a sceptical way to achieve happiness instead of diving into spirituality or self-help. He finds his problem necessary to be happier.
He finds an effective way to resolve the voice that enforces to do unwanted stuff. His meditation technique lowers your blood pressure down to rewire your brain.
Key Points:
Your Ego enforces you to want more and ruin your happiness.
Letting go of your ego makes a person easy to overcome; Be simple, not stupid.
Meditation enhances your mindfulness and compassion by making you more observant than judgemental.
The Book of Joy By 14th Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Carlton Abrams:
One-liner: The book comes out as a result of 7 Day meeting of two of the world’s influential spiritual leaders (Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu); they discuss finding joy without suffering.
Why read it?
The book provides you with spiritual details about joy and its obstacles. It gives a practical approach to sustaining joyful life.
It shares personal stories to struggle with happiness and deep happiness science. The book assures that joy can become an enduring life path.
Key Points:
Life without suffering doesn’t exist. Turn your focus to others in Suffering.
Your response towards suffering is under your control.
Transform stress and anger into compassion and sadness to transform fear into joy.
Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment By Tal Ben-Shahar:
One-liner: The book provides a mental state towards success levels that provides wrongness in your joy; identify crucial things of life; make those significant things part of your life.
Why read it?
The book wrote famous Harward teacher of Happiness. The author combines researched base scientific advice through spiritual enlightenment.
The book provides implementable rules for your routine life. Shares and encourage helping all.
Key Points:
Happiness is the final achievement for aiming and pursuing a goal for success.
Adopt the joy now that benefits your future joy achievement.
Deep and connective relationships nurture your happiness.
The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life By Shawn Achor:
One-liner: The book presents happiness as a crucial tool for success and provides 7 Steps to assure your happiness for the better.
Why read it?
The book uncovers the ways to benefit through happiness for a positive attitude. Shawn shares researched-based practical lessons to break wrong patterns and restore your strengths. Support your stronger self through goal driving approach.
Key Points:
Happy people only get success in life; others burn out in the process.
Train yourself to see the bright side(positivity) by performing engaging activities.
Believe in alternative scenarios and developmental milestones to cope with failure.
The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything=Have Everything By Neil Pasricha:
One-liner: It shares 9 Scientific research prove that desiring nothing and efforting for your tasks yields everything in return.
Why read it?
The book shifts your mindset about expecting more and doing less. Happiness plays a key role to generate your productivity. Neil shares ways to restore your happiness even in a disastrous state.
Key Points:
The Ikigai is the way to stay productive till death in different ways.
Use Saturday morning test to identify that fulfil without obligations.
Trusting your judgement is essential instead of crowding with advice.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck By Mark Manson:
One-liner: The book breaks the notions of positive psychology that move you towards Stoic and accepting the unwanted life events that revolve around your priorities.
Why read it?
The book proves that real happiness drives by resolving problems instead of suppressing negative emotions. Never develop too special for you; make your ordinary alive. It teaches about stopping overwhelming through a variety of work. It drives your morality to take advantage of chances instead of missing them.
Key Points:
Identify and control the values that are under your control.
Your certainty to know things end up your growth.
Focusing useful for present and never driven for great instant actions makes you legendary.
The Gifts of Imperfection By Brené Brown:
One-liner: The book gives you the courage to embrace your imperfect self instead of chasing the image you want to be or meeting others’ expectations.
Why read it?
It proceeds with the belief inside you about your self-worth. It gives the courage to get power over paralyzing fear through consciousness. Embrace your weaknesses and accept your imperfect self. You become enough for yourself instead of being busy.
Key Points:
Your gut feeling and ground forces are the same for decision-making in front of risks.
Comparison hurts and bores us by reducing our chances of winning.
The Opposite doesn’t play means depression. Your relaxing and enjoying is part of your work.
