Giving meaning to our existence does not require major changes in our lifestyle: simplicity is born from inner change.
In this book you will find 50 short strategies for rapid personal transformation. A guide for those who want to learn to value what is really important, cultivate their personal relationships and achieve security at home, work and in their spiritual life.
A simple life does not mean simply eating a boring bowl of white rice every day and constantly wearing a home shirt ... Although it certainly does not have to be much more complicated than that.
In this book Patrick Fanning and Heather Garnos Mitchener show us how living a simple life can not only provide us with fulfillment that in all probability we could not even imagine, but achieving it is, at the same time as rewarding, surprisingly simple. For this, both authors use resources and exercises derived from cognitive behavioral psychology: The result is 50 techniques with which we will learn to change our lives and achieve a lasting balance.
50 resources for us, its readers, to be able to discern what matters most in our lives, prioritize what is really significant and avoid wasting time and energy unnecessarily. Only then will we know how to make the smartest decisions to be able to live in harmony with the world around us.
I leave you an extract from the book that reflects very well the meaning of it:
Since you are giving up many things, there is something you would do well to keep: your passionWell, you will need it. When you start rejecting materialism, cutting back on your expenses, and lowering your standard of living, some people will have negative reactions ranging from polite jokes to outright hostility. Why? Because they will feel upset, worried and threatened.
Your friends might believe that you look down on them from your high moral position. Your partner might fear that you will drag him to live miserably in an unheated cabin in the woods. Your parents, so proud of your many accomplishments, may begin to think that you are slowing down. And your children may think that you have suddenly become a hippy.
If you come across these reactions, it may be because others see in your interest in simplifying a challenge to their own lives: what do you mean, that you are going to spend less money and buy less things and yet have a higher quality of life? What do you mean, that you are going to simplify your relationships and pay more attention to your inner life? What makes you so special? You will need a certain passion to stay on the right track. »
The important thing is to feel good about yourself. In every sense.