Mindfulness & Happiness

This Is Adventures in Happiness

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Essential advice on feeling your best and finding happiness

By The Blinkist Curators

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Mindfulness & Happiness Health & Nutrition

In the Blinkist Shortcast of Adventures in Happiness, host Jessica Ortner shows us why the world has gotten it backwards—happiness isn't the result of success, instead, situating happiness as our center is. In this collection of the top 5 Shortcast episodes from Adventures in Happiness you'll get honest advice for finding your life's passion, reducing stress and overwhelm, and why taking care of your body and health is crucial to living your best life!

This Is Adventures in Happiness

Essential advice on feeling your best and finding happiness

Everything is Figureoutable: Marie Forleo

Everything is Figureoutable: Marie Forleo

At some point in our life, we’ve all been asked this question: what do you want to be when you grow up? As we get older, the question intensifies: what do you want to do with your life? What kind of career do you want? We feel like we have to choose a single path or settle just to adhere to societal expectations, but bestselling author Marie Forleo teaches us that there’s a way to explore all of our interests without sacrificing clarity. In this episode, Marie teaches us how to embrace our identities as multi-passionate people, and free ourselves from other people's ideas of who we should be.

How to Be More With Less: Courtney Carver

How to Be More With Less: Courtney Carver

Having more options seems like a good thing in theory—but often the more stuff we have, the more stress we feel. In a world that constantly encourages us to add "more" to our lives, Courtney Carver joins Jessica to discuss the benefits of confronting the clutter in them, and paring it all down as a result. They talk about how stress has become the norm, feelings of overwhelm with the excess in our lives, at how at some point we have to take a step back and just get rid of some of it. You'll learn about the 333 Challenge and other insights from Courtney's book, Project 333, which can help you to reduce the stress in your life and take steps towards being “more with less.”

Ending the Cycle of Self-Hatred, Diets, and Binge Eating

Ending the Cycle of Self-Hatred, Diets, and Binge Eating

Why do we diet? Many of us would say "to lose weight," but that's barely scratching the surface. In this episode, bestselling author Geneen Roth teaches us how to understand and embrace the complex emotions beneath our desire to lose weight. In a world of fad diets and unrealistic beauty standards, we often think that if we just lose that weight, everything in our lives will change. However, Geneen believes that before we can change our relationship to food, we have to look inward with compassion. She shares tools from her book, Women, Food, and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything, and explores ideas that allow us to confront the mean voices in our heads, transforming our relationships with food for good.

Sleep and Success: Why It's Important

Sleep and Success: Why It's Important

In a world where it feels like there's never enough time, you might be sacrificing sleep to get it all done. There's no doubt that culture would have us believe that exhaustion is an inevitable part of success, but in this episode media maven Arianna Huffington—bestselling author and co-founder of the Huffington Post—joins Jessica to discuss the importance of sleep. She reveals us that as soon as we start saying "no" to the things that are keeping us awake, the sooner we start saying "yes" to health, productivity, and happiness. We'll learn relaxation tips from her book, The Sleep Revolution, which will help us to quiet those noisy bedtime thoughts, ensuring that when we go to sleep, we stay asleep and get the essential rest we need.

The Happiness Toolbox

The Happiness Toolbox

Work hard, be successful, and then at last be happy—right? We think that we need to follow this sequence of events, believing it must be easier when we get more successful. It's a model many of us have been taught, but according to Neil Pasricha—author of The Happiness Equation—we have it completely backwards! Neil discovered first-hand that some of the most successful people out there aren’t actually happy. So, he set himself on a mission to find out how to actually change our mood today, rather than hoping it changes some time in the future. In this episode, you'll hear 7 tools from Neil’s book which are scientifically proven to provide an instant happiness boost.

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