The Laughing Guide to Well-Being: Using Humor and Science to Become Happier and Healthier
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (836 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1475825749 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 168 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky, an award winning community psychologist and humor writer, is Dean of the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Miami.
Smart, funny, entertaining , and deeply insightful. Dr. Prilleltensky's new book is smart, funny, entertaining , and deeply insightful. The reader is treated to an enjoyable and informational journey at the same time. The author shows us a path to live a more just, full and balanced life. Hilarious, mostly personal stories, introduce different areas of well-being. Following humorous introductions, the author shares scholarly knowledge about physical, psychological, and occupational well-being, among other areas. Based on cutting edge research, the book offers plenty of practical tools to achieve a healthier lifestyle. And what a better way to. Laughing ? Overly detailed for my needs. The prose is hilarious and useful both at the same time Shawn Post Don’t read this book next to a sleeping spouse… he or she will, for sure, be awakened by your fits of laughter! That was the first piece of information I learned from Dr. Prilleltensky’s entertaining and enlightening new book. The prose is hilarious and useful both at the same time. The “laughing side” and “learning side” of examining how to handle stress and enhance your well-being merge together to both entertain and inform. In other words, the author employs a perfect combination of narrative and expository writing styles. The majority of the sto
The first chapter provides an overview of well-being, while subsequent chapters cover each of its six domains: Interpersonal, Community, Occupational, Physical, Psychological, and Economic (I COPPE). All of us can use a little help to become happier or healthier. Do you experience stress? Are you interested in better health and well-being? Do you pursue happiness? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you need to read this book. Unfortunately, the help we get is often too scary: “if you don’t do this or that, some catastrophic event of epic proportions will happen.” Prilleltensky’s approach, in contrast, is to help you become healthier and happier through laughter. If you answered no, you’re in denial. When you finish the book you’ll have a greater understanding of your life, and ways to make it better.. Each chapter consists of the Laughing Side, a series of funny stories; and the Learning Side, a research-based, user-friendly guide to health and happiness. In this hilarious book, Prilleltensky combines humor with science to help you improve your well-being
Prilleltensky in a variety of settings, and knowing him as I do, it makes so much sense that he has written a wondrous new book,The Laughing Guide to Well-Being: Using Humor and Science to Become Happier and Healthier. Each chapter begins with The Laughing Side, then The Learning Side, which makes for a most engaging, informative, and at times, hilarious read. In each chapter, Dr. The Laughing guide to Well-Being shows the one little changeable thing in our life – a better sense of humor – that can transform relationships, visions toward the future, and our health. Drawing upon psychological insights, the scientific literature, and common life experiences this book provides an important contribution to positive psychology in general and our understanding of happiness in particular. (Martin E. (David L. You'll be convinced that a sense of w