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2023., Crown Call No: NEW 152.1 R896l Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been studying happiness and human nature. Then, one day, a visit to her eye doctor made her realize that she'd been overlooking a key element of happiness: her five senses. She'd spent so much time stuck in her head that she'd allowed the vital sensations of life to slip away, unnoticed. This epiphany lifted her from a state of foggy preoccupation into a world rediscovered by seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching. In this revelatory journey of self-experimentation, she explores the mysteries and joys of the five senses as a path to a happier, more mindful life. Drawing on cutting-edge science, philosophy, literature, and her own efforts to practice what she learns, she investigates the profound power of tuning in to the physical world. From the simple pleasures of appreciating the magic of ketchup and adding favorite songs to a playlist, to more adventurous efforts like creating a daily ritual of visiting the Met and attending Flavor University, Rubin show us how to experience each day with depth, delight, and connection. In the rush of daily life, she finds, our five senses offer us an immediate, sustainable way to cheer up, calm down, and engage the world around us-as well as a way to glimpse the soul and touch the transcendent. A Life in Five Senses is an absorbing, layered story of discovery filled with profound insights and practical suggestions about how to heighten our senses and use our powers of perception to live fuller, richer lives-and, ultimately, how to move through the world with more vitality and love.
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2014., Adult, HarperCollins Canada Call No: 155.2 L777m Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An in-depth exploration of the human personality. Questions such as: Are our first impressions of other people's personalities accurate? Are creative individuals maladjusted? Are our personality traits, as William James put it, "set like plaster" by the age of thirty? Are some individuals genetically hard-wired for happiness? And which is the more viable path toward human flourishing, the pursuit of happiness or the happiness of pursuit? Little helps us see ourselves, and other selves, as somewhat less perplexing and definitely more intriguing. Brian Little is currently at Cambridge University, where he is a distinguished scholar and director of the Social Ecology Research Group in the department of psychology. Previously, he taught at McGill, Oxford and Harvard Universities. Dividing his time between Canada and the U.K., Little is also a distinguished research professor emeritus at Carleton University in Ottawa.
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-- Science and art of longevity2023., Adult, Harmony Call No: NEW 612.68 A885o Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Rating:
(1 Ratings) Summary Note: "Wouldn't you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes with treatments too late to help, prolonging lifespan at the expense of healthspan, or quality of life. Dr. Attia believes we must replace this outdated framework with a personalized, proactive strategy for longevity, one where we take action now, rather than waiting. This is not 'biohacking,' it's science: a well-founded strategic and tactical approach to extending lifespan while also improving our physical, cognitive, and emotional health. Dr. Attia's aim is less to tell you what to do and more to help you learn how to think about long-term health, in order to create the best plan for you as an individual. In Outlive, readers will discover: Why the cholesterol test at your annual physical doesn't tell you enough about your actual risk of dying from a heart attack; that you may already suffer from an extremely common yet underdiagnosed liver condition that could be a precursor to the chronic diseases of aging; why exercise is the most potent pro-longevity 'drug'--and how to begin training for the 'Centenarian Decathlon"; why you should forget about diets, and focus instead on nutritional biochemistry, using technology and data to personalize your eating pattern; why striving for physical health and longevity, but ignoring emotional health, could be the ultimate curse of all. Aging and longevity are far more malleable than we think; our fate is not set in stone. With the right roadmap, you can plot a different path for your life, one that lets you outlive your genes to make each decade better than the one before"--Publisher marketing.
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By Haig, Matt2016., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: 158.092 H149r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A wonderfully moving and upbeat account of how Matt Haig survived depression and anxiety, and also a life-affirming guide to helping yourself -- and others -- through mental illness. In the western world the suicide rate is highest amongst men under the age of 35. Matt Haig could have added to that statistic when, aged 24, he found himself staring at a cliff-edge about to jump off. This is the story of why he didn't, and how he recovered and learned to live with anxiety and depression. It's also an optimistic, joyous and often funny exploration of how to live better, love better, read better and feel more. A wonderful mix of memoir and hard-won wisdom, Reasons to Stay Alive is, at heart, about making the most of your time on earth. Matt Haig suffered a breakdown in his early twenties. After battling depression for a long time he turned to writing, and he believes that reading and writing books saved his life. His novels, often dark and quirky takes on family life, include The Last Family in England, The Radleys and The Humans. Matt was born in was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire"--Provided by publisher.
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2017., General, Collins Call No: 613 W454r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Concrete strategies on how to get better and stay better - not just for a few weeks or a few months, but for life. Optimal well-being is obtained through a commitment to the holy trinity of healthy living - eating better, moving better, and sleeping better. Together these lead to peak physical performance. Dr. Wells exposes exercise and diet myths, inspiring you and leading you on a clear path to achieve a health and fitness transformation. You'll learn how eating broccoli provides the body with more protein per calorie than eating steak, using one teaspoon less of sugar per day would help you lose four pounds of fat per year, replacing an hour of television with an hour of sleep could help you lose over fourteen pounds in a year, and much more. Dr. Greg Wells is a physiologist and exercise medicne researcher at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children.
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2023., Adult, RMB Rocky Mountain Books Call No: NEW 304.209 M367s Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A global quest to comprehend the meaning of "Happy Valley" on three continents and how these mountain communities continue to survive in a world that constantly challenges the very notion of "happiness."
