The Spontaneous Happiness Toolkit
Guided Practices for Peak Emotional Wellness
Synopsis: Dr. Andrew Weil’s new paradigm for emotional wellness, featuring guided practices to boost your baseline of calm and contentment immediately.
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Andrew Weil, MD
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About the Toolkit
Just as the body is designed to heal itself, says Dr. Andrew Weil, so too are we “wires” for emotional well-being. With The Spontaneous Happiness Toolkit, this leading voice for natural health offers a practical resource of strategies for creating a lasting “sea level” of resilience, flow, and contentment. Dr. Weil guides us through the essential practices recommended in his new book Spontaneous Happiness (Little, Brown & Co,. 2011). For anyone facing depression, anxiety, or just wanting more joy in their lives, Dr. Weil and his colleagues are ready to help. This complete stand-alone program includes:
- Breathing techniques for emotional calm and resilience
- Brain training for focused attention–a state present in our happiest moments
- Methods to foster gratitude, forgiveness, and compassion–beneficial to physical and emotional health
- Mantra meditation to break out of worry
- Music recommended by Dr. Weil to promote relaxation
- Guided imagery to shift awareness toward optimism and possibility, and many other practices
- A 52-page guide and 25 Spontaneous Happiness cards
About Dr. Weil
Andrew Weil, MD, is the founder and director of Tucson’s Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. He is the author of Spontaneous Happiness (Knopf, 1995), Spontaneous Healing (Ballantine Books, 1996), Eight Weeks to Optimum Health (Knopf, 1997) and numerous other books.
