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Happiness can result from exciting changes like getting a new pet, or from smaller events like playing a favorite game or reading a cherished book. Readers will encounter many such joyful situations in this guidebook focused on self-awareness and perception, both key components of social and emotional learning. Through accessible language and photographs, children will learn to recognize when and why they feel happy and how to regulate this healthy...
4) Happy
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Do you ever feel happy? What makes you feel happy? Find out all the different things that make Mia happy.
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Do you want to live the happiest, most satisfying life possible? Does happiness feel like an elusive goal? According to the most recent developments in psychology and science, the brain can be trained to be more receptive to happiness, because staying happy doesnt come naturally. Nor does our society make it easy. In Happy at Last, psychotherapist Richard OConnor offers new thinking about how we attain and maintain happiness, and he shows us that...
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Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. We follow him through public school and Cambridge, and into his father's firm. In a highly structured society, Maurice is a conventional young man in almost every way-except that he is homosexual. Written during 1913 and 1914, immediately after Howards End, and not published until 1971, Maurice was...
10) Happiness
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Seeks to dispel common misconceptions that God is unhappy and wants people to be unhappy as well, citing Bible verses that show Him to be a joy-filled creator who desperately wants His children to be happy.
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Years of neuroscience research have led to the current understanding of the brain as a prediction machine. The problem is that our brains' evolved capacity for avoiding and defending against threats has a slew of by-products, all tightly woven into our day-to-day thinking and behavior, that ensnare us while making our threat-anticipating brains "happy."