Contents

Shift Your Mood: Unleash Your Life! Your Pathway to Inner Happiness

1. Shift Your Mood–
From emotional tension to your own inner wisdom

  • Habitual Pathways
  • Your Guard Dog
  • How to Shift Your Mood

2. You Are Not What You Think–
Not your thoughts, your role, or your story

  • You Are Not What You Think
  • You Are Not the Role You Play
  • The Impostor
  • Role Diffusion
  • You Are Not Your Story

3. Settle Your Mind–
Calm, steady, and clear

  • Mindfulness for the Klutz
  • What is Mindfulness?
  • Twelve Benefits of Mindfulness
  • How to Become More Mindful
  • Thinking Is Not an Enemy
  • Mindfulness and Mood

4. When the Going Gets Tough–
The Tough Keep Cool

  • Hassles at Work
  • Road Rage!
  • Fellow-feeling, Even for Strangers
  • What about Grief?
  • Physical Pain
  • The Wounded Healer

5. Free Your Mind!
Cut through your obsessions

  • Four Ways to Get a Grip on Obsessive Thinking
  • Three Natural Cures for Obsessive Insomnia
  • The Dog Walker Who Couldn’t Stop Checking
  • Romantic Obsession
  • Intrusive Memories–and a Missing Experience

6. Self-Soothing–
Calm your inner Guard Dog

  • Seven Steps to Calm Your Guard Dog and Tame the Inner Critic
  • Panic Attacks
  • Relaxation Exercise
  • Developing Self-Love
  • Loving Presence

7. Boost Your Happiness Quotient!
Raise your set-point of happiness

  • The Paradox of Seeking Happiness
  • The Science of Happiness
  • Flow
  • Follow Your Bliss
  • Proven Ways to Raise Your Set-Point of Happiness

8. Steeped in Grace–
You are consciousness itself

  • Clear Consciousness
  • The Perfectly Ordinary
  • Steeped in Grace

9. Got It, Lost It–
What’s happening right now?

  • Impermanence
  • Catching Ourselves

10. Heartfelt Wisdom–
You already are whatever you’re seeking

  • Developing Compassion
  • Wisdom
  • The Golden Shadow
  • You Already Are Whatever You’re Seeking