The strength within : find your life anchors and cultivate habits of wholeness, hope, and joy / Barbara Hansen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hansen, Barbara, 1935-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contentment.

Conduct of life.

Physical Description:

xii, 195 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Uncorrected proof.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Hiddenspring, [2000]

Summary:

Life hands us dirty deals. No one knows this better than Barbara Hansen-author, college professor, and paraplegic since age nineteen. When she talks about clawing through life's lousy times, every page rings with authenticity. And when she talks about finding peace and joy despite life's dirty deals, every page shines with hope. Her experience forms the core of this guide to healing and wholeness, together with stories of her former and current students, her friends, her readers, and her workshop and lecture attendees. From all these sources she's developed practical strategies for finding true happiness.

Happiness comes from choices and attitudes, anchors that from an inner strength that remains solid despite life's roller-coaster ups and downs. Hansen reveals what these choices and attitudes are and how to cultivate them till they become habits of joy.

Contents:

Get Ready: Create the Foundation

1. Be Aware of Our Life Anchors 3

2. Avoid Twenty-First-Century Opiates 21

3. Quit Playing God 33

Go: Cultivate Inner Strength

4. Stop Blaming Our Past 59

5. Control Our Attitudes and Habits 73

6. Move outside Self-Centeredness 93

7. Allow Ourselves to Be Authentic 121

8. Live Life in the Now 137

9. Practice Delayed Gratification 159

10. Cultivate Hope and Faith 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 195).

ISBN:

1587680017

OCLC:

43903689