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Happiness the Real Medicine And How It Works

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Wow! This book is great for people of all ages! It gives you specific guidelines that you can use on a daily basis to learn how to handle life's ups and downs with grace and with a positive frame of mind. Very practical and easy to understand! Thank you, Blair!

Wow! This book is a definite in everyone's household. The author's insight and personal experiences make it a must read. The information is useful for a lifetime! Who doesn't want to be happy?

Blair has taken the concept of happiness to a practical level. This is a how-to-be-happy book filled with wonderful strategies and great stories of his search for happiness. I could completely relate to his struggles and conflicts - and learned from his unique solutions and refreshing perspective. I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a complete guide to self-improvement, including techniques and exercises that can be immediately applied and experienced.

Blair Lewis wittingly describes how we can recapture the happiness that resides within us!

Blair Lewis's Book Happiness the Real Medicine is a book for all aspiring Yogis! Blair takes the principles and philosophies of Yoga Science and breaks them down into practical steps that make it possible to become healthy in mind, body and spirit. In other words Happy! I enjoyed this book and have purchased copies for many of my friends.
Monica Groth-[...]

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Blair's stories are great, his insights are profound, and his techniques are unique and valid.

I have used Blair Lewis's book "Homepathic Remedies" for eighteen years. Therefore I was delighted to read his latest book on happiness. The chapters on diaphragmatic breathing have been very helpful to me and I recommend that every age learn this.

Featuring black-and-white illustrations and the occasional humorous cartoon, Happiness: The Real Medicine and How It Works is a self-help guide to improving one's outlook and quality of life. Author Blair Lewis reveals that happiness is an intrinsic human condition, obscured by negative emotions such as fear and guilt, and the never-ending quest for material possessions. Chapters cover traits shared by happy people such as self-restraint, disentanglement from conflict, and the cultivation of a quiet mind; how to develop a positive personal philosophy and wean oneself from the pharmaceuticals marketed to promote "happiness"; techniques for obtaining happiness including learning to love oneself, meditation, and yoga therapy; and much more. Happiness: The Real Medicine and How It Works looks especially to the ancient wisdom of East India as it guides the reader's thoughts toward a more pleasant and fulfilling existence.

Everyone has their own definition of happiness. But how many people do you know who are really, truly happy? It seems we are always a little less than satisfied with ourselves, our relationships, our possessions, our job...the list goes on. Still, we go on striving to find happiness. Usually, we look in all the wrong places.

Blair Lewis, a long-time medical practitioner from the Midwest, is one of the happiest people I know. But he wasn't always like that. It took years of searching and experimentation for him to reach his goal. And when he found ideas or techniques that worked for him, he shared them with others who were also searching for true happiness. While he has been using his personal understanding of happiness to transform the lives of his patients for the past 20 years, he has finally distilled his unique approach to wellness into a book, Happiness: The Real Medicine and How It Works.

Blair gets at the things that lead to real and enduring happiness. His practices and techniques are drawn from the oral tradition of Himalayan yoga masters and have been tried and tested over thousands of years. There is nothing fancy in this book, just practical information and profoundly simple techniques that are the core of yogic self-transformation.

Blair uses his own personal quest to find happiness to lead the reader through the first half of the book as he shows us how to develop a personal philosophy that will bring clarity to our lives and identify the major obstacles to lasting happiness. He blends his stories of how learning yoga science and ayurveda into an easy-read autobiography that never looses sight of its goal. Blair's story brings the student-teacher relationship to life in a manner that is refreshing, modern and practical.

This is hands-down the best introduction to the philosophy of yoga as self-transformation I've seen. It's the kind of book that can make advanced yoga practitioners re-evaluate their personal practice, while at the same time is great for friends, family, and co-workers who might be completely new to the theory and practice of yoga.

Get two copies, and give one to someone you love.

This is book is a true gem. Nowhere else have I found such a simple,
practical and yet profoundly useful guide to creating a life for yourself that
is joyful and productive. I would recomend this book to anyone looking
to bring a little happiness into their life and the lives of their loved ones.