Joy on Demand

A long awaited follow up to the New York Times bestselling Search Inside Yourself shows us how to cultivate joy within the context of our fast paced lives and explains why it is critical to creativity, innovation, confidence, and ultimately success in every arena.In Joy on Demand, Meng shows that you don t need to meditate for hours, days, months or years to achieve lasting joy you can actually get consistent access to it in as little as 15 seconds Explaining joy and meditation as complementary things that naturally reinforce each other, Meng explains how these two skills form a virtuous cycle, and once put into motion, become a solid practice that can be sustained in daily life For many years, meditation has been taught and practiced in cultures where almost all meditators practice full time for years, resulting in training programs optimized for practitioners with lots of free time and not much else to do but develop profound mastery over the mind Seeing a disconnect between the traditional practice and the modern world, bestselling author and Google s Jolly Good Fellow Chade Meng Tan has developed a program, through wise laziness, to help readers meditate efficiently and effectively Meng shares the three pillars of joy inner peace, insight, and happiness , why joy is the secret is to success, and demonstrates the practical tools anyone can use to cultivate it on demand. Read Joy on Demand – kino-fada.fr Books like this are really hard for me to read If I would ve been reading the physical copy, I can all but guarantee I wouldn t have finished it I think I get into this betterment of Allie attitude, buy download a book, and then after a few chapters I start talking myself out of it Fortunately, I listened to parts of this with my 10 year old son, and he wanted to hearGood thing It s obvious that the author has a completely different mind path than I do, which is good and bad I real Books like this are really hard for me to read If I would ve been reading the physical copy, I can all but guarantee I wouldn t have finished it I think I get into this betterment of Allie attitude, buy download a book, and then after a few chapters I start talking myself out of it Fortunately, I listened to parts of this with my 10 year old son, and he wanted to hearGood thing It s obvious that the author has a completely different mind path ...I enjoyed Tan s earlier book, Search Inside Yourself, and so was excited to hear that he had released a new book To me, Joy on Demand is even better Maybe it s because as a novice at mediation, Joy on Demand is a wonderful guide on how to access joy from within by training to ease claiming the mind , incline learning to be mindful of joy in yourself, your life and the world and uplift cultivating loving kindness, compassion and altruistic joy the mind Applying these skills can also teach I enjoyed Tan s earlier book, Search Inside Yourself, and so was excited to hear that he had released a new book To me, Joy on Demand is even better Maybe it s because as a novice at mediation, Joy on Demand is a wonderful guide on how to access joy ...Another great book on how to calm your mind and bring in compassion through meditation Lot of good ideas on how to practice letting goI ve been redoubling my efforts to manage my anxiety throughnatural means as the amount of anti anxiety meds I was on had me feeling a bit flat and drugged out One of the methods I employ for anxiety control is meditation, but I sometimes have trouble finding resources that aren t a bit out there and New Age y for my taste, or tied to a particular religious tradition This book was lovely, because although Chade Meng Tan came to meditation through Buddhism, he takes a very accessible, hum I ve been redoubling my efforts to manage my anxiety throughnatural means as the amount of anti anxiety meds I was on had me feeling a bit flat and drugged out One of the methods I employ for anxiety control is meditation, but I sometimes have troubl...Cool concept that I d like to learn, but the author spent too much of the book trying to convince us that joy on demand is possible and giving examples of people that have achieved it, and not enough on how to actually do itTo truly be finished with the book, I would have had to integrate his learning into my life and I have failed at that so far However, this is a great introduction into meditation very encouraging, interesting, personal and fun.I read this book with a biased mindset thinking I wouldn t get much out of it since I already knew enough about meditation, and I didn t like how the title sounded But I was still curious to see how the author approached it It turned out I enjoyed reading it a lot Somehow he s able to take something that can be very abstract and use plain language to explain it, with humour to drive home his points I really appreciated the additional layer of storytelling, research and anecdotes to what I a I read this book with a biased mindset thinking I wouldn t get much out of it since I already knew enough about meditation, and I didn t like how the title sounded But I was still curious to see how the author approached it It turned out I enjoyed reading it a lot Somehow he s able to take something that can be very abstract and use plain language to explain it, with humour to drive home his points I really appreciated the additional layer of storytelling, research and anecdotes to what I already knew about meditation Reading this book has made me enthusiastic about deepening my practice as he was able to illustrate in detail and precision, the benefits of meditation There is also this persistent ambiguity about meditation because meditation teachers tend to somehow be overly cryptic and zen, but Meng was able to bring forth clarity by using stories and als...The most impactful book I ve read in a long time A way to start meditating with mindful breaths and attending to joy I plan on starting it again very soon.I don t know if I had a bit of a virus or if this book was just full of highly successful relaxing visualizations and meditations because I fell asleep several times over the course of reading this book That said, I got a lot ou...Amazing book as always Good follow up to the previous one Slight repetitive but a good refresher none the elss.

Joy on Demand
  • English
  • 01 December 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 272 pages
  • 0062378856
  • Chade-Meng Tan
  • Joy on Demand