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There is no app for happiness : how to avoid a near-life experience / Max Strom.

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New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, c2013.

9781620876367 (hbk.)

1620876361 (hbk.)

vii, 258 pages ; 22 cm

The world we live in now. How to avoid a near-life experience -- The new Cambrian explosion -- Defining happiness -- Why aren't we happy? -- Starving for intimacy -- The rise of the flat screeners and the decline of happiness -- The age of wisdom -- The technology of happiness. The three imperatives -- We need to become self-aware. What is self-awareness? -- Revealing your blind side -- The book of your life -- Utilizing technology to increase self-awareness -- The discovery of symptomatic behavior -- Knocking on the temple door -- Yoga and men -- The overcompensation syndrome -- Grief -- Cultivating intimacy -- Respect : it feels just like love -- Respect in the workplace -- Respect in the practice room -- Respect and blogging -- Imperative 2 : live as if your time and your life span were the same thing. Bartering your time -- Managing your life span : commitment integrity -- Choose your technology wisely -- The 10 percent relationship -- Vital life : better sleep -- To help you sleep -- Taking action : the basics -- Your sleep environment -- The new personal cost-benefit analysis -- Ashes in your eyes -- Imperative 3 : learn and practice a daily regime that heals, empowers, and illuminates. A new kind of fitness : healing the spirit -- Conscious breathing -- Your emotional body -- Inhabiting the body -- Why stretching? -- Cutting-edge fitness regimes -- A daily practice to change your life -- Create a creed -- Above the horizon -- About hatha yoga -- Finding the right style or teacher for you -- About qigong -- The practice of mental stillness -- Make room in your life for your practice -- Creating a personal altar -- A place to breathe -- The message -- The long view -- Appendix. Student guidelines for a public class -- Recommended clothing and cleanliness for public classes -- For more information on Max Strom and his media products.

Identifies three imperatives to help people take back control of their lives from today's technologically driven society, revealing how to become connected to a new and more meaningful experience of living.

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