Train your mind toward lasting connection and joy.
In this modern world where peace and quiet have slowly become a luxury, there is an urgent need to find some stabilising force within ourselves to cope with this dystopian world! Meditation is one such way to keep yourself calm throughout the day. While it is easier said than done, it isn’t impossible to achieve inner peace. The Bombay Circle Press has just the right book that will gently guide you towards a better quality of life. How To Train a Happy Mind by Scott Snibbe is based on the hugely successful podcast A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment, this book provides a simple 8-step guide to using the power of analytical meditation to improve mental wellbeing by mixing Tibetan Buddhist Meditation with modern science, psychology and popular culture.
Eager to share the life-enhancing benefits he found in Buddhism, skeptic Scott Snibbe presents this 8-step programme that allows anyone to build positive mental habits. Inspired by the ancient Buddhist path to enlightenment yet firmly grounded in modern science, How to Train a Happy Mind is the first mainstream book to show how you can achieve happiness using analytical meditation. Working in much the same way as cognitive behavioural therapy, analytical meditation goes beyond the calm-inducing practice of mindfulness to actively train the brain through easy-to-follow narrative visualizations.
Breaking the path down into concise steps and written in a relatable tone with plenty of references to popular culture, this is the ideal book if you recognize your mind as both the source of your problems and the source of your solutions. The purpose of this book is to share a structured program of thought that brings happiness and meaning to your life, develops your best qualities, and deepens your connection to others, all without requiring religious belief.
Scott Snibbe is a twenty-five-year student of Tibetan Buddhism whose teachers include Lama Zopa Rinpoche and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He leads meditation classes and retreats worldwide infused with science, humor, and the realities of the modern world. Snibbe is the host of the popular Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment podcast, and a new media artist whose installations have been incorporated into museums, public spaces, and performances. He has collaborated with musicians and filmmakers including Björk, Philip Glass, Beck, and James Cameron, and his work can be found in the collections of MoMA, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and other institutions.
What contemporary authors are saying about How To Train a Happy Mind
“This book is a clear, well-lit path through the tangled thickets of psychological and spiritual ideas, tools, and advice—and it takes you directly to greater resilience, happiness, love and inner peace. Honest and helpful, this book is a gem.”
—Rick Hanson, Ph.D., author of Hardwiring Happiness, Neurodharma and Buddha’s Brain
“At last someone gives a simple and clear introduction, for regular spiritual seekers like any of us, to the most important of all meditations—beyond the healthy calm, the deeply transformative analysis to discover the reality of it all!”
—Robert Thurman, Ph.D., author of Inner Revolution, Essential Tibetan Buddhism, and The Tibetan Book of the Dead