Mandrake

Short and snappy and immediately useful

Revisado: 10-04-15

What a short and snappy concise and extremely useful list of tools and techniques for managing anxiety and finding your inner passion and motivation.

The narrator presents the tips in engaging fashion and is sure to hook your ears.
Without much effort or changes to your everyday life, you can get to applying these tips right away, and feel the instant easing and regaining of enjoyable energy in your state of mind.

This is probably the most useful 20 minutes of your audible listening experience ever. If you only apply one of the 51 tips from the book, you are making progress!

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A comprehensive collection - the best of the bible

Revisado: 09-30-15

What an amazing collection of the best of the bible when it comes to messages that relate to good health.

‘The tongue of the wise is health. Pleasant words are as in honeycomb’
This book delivers. Listen to it. The words just might heal your spirit.

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Lots of money and time saving tips for Prime! 5*

Revisado: 08-18-15

Would you consider the audio edition of Amazon Prime to be better than the print version?

Yes, very clear narration, good pace. Can listen to the whole book on the way to work.

What did you like best about this story?

Tips and secrets for using Amazon Prime to get maximum value The audiobook is very clearly narrated and uses simple concise language. Starts by defining what Amazon Prime is and what the key benefits are and some of the less obvious , like Prime Pantry, and the kindle owners lending library. You can save money on the cost of Prime membership but using Amazon student. Similarly there are benefits for parents through Amazon Mom.The author also describes information on how to save 3% on all Prime Purchases. The book also features advice on how to save hundreds of dollars by cancelling your cable or satellite TV subscription and using Prime instead. And, how to get ....Music without ads on your phone, streaming to your house.Other benefits that the author unlocks in this short book include how to get...Photo secrets – storage of all your photos on the amazon cloud. Grocery shopping – cheaper than going to the store. All in all this is a great summary with simple instructions on really how to make the most of your Prime membership.

Review by Will Jelbert, Bestselling Author of 'The Happiness Animal'

Have you listened to any of Bill Pryce’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Very clear narration.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Inspired to save money!

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Don't blame yourself, change your conditioning.

Revisado: 08-15-15

Where does Finding Our Happiness Flow rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

In the top 3.

What did you like best about this story?

Dr Puff begins by stating why happiness can be so elusive: It’s all about want in society. He then invites us to begin the book with the goal of happiness itself.
The book is interspersed with Dr Puff’s personal anecdotes to illustrate the core concepts. The voice of the narrator is warm, captivating and easy to listen to. In fact the voice is much like that of Game of Thrones’ Varys (actor Conleth Hill).
Happiness, says Dr Puff, is about feeling fresh, new and alive. And he warns us that labeling and notions stop us experiencing what is before us, right now in this moment –‘Once we see a sparrow and name it a sparrow, we stop seeing it’.
He goes on to explain that happiness is more a journey than it is a destination and if we want to be happy, we need to enjoy the journey. It’s wrong to miss out on life as we achieve our goals. If we don’t like working towards our goals then we should stop and change the goal.
As Macklemore put it ‘comparison’s a motherf*****’ and Dr Puff makes it abundantly clear that if we compare ourselves to other people we are going to suffer. The way to avoid this suffering? Become more aware of the comparison game. ‘Lets celebrate the bronze medals,’ he says. ‘Just living is worth celebrating’. Dr Puff highlights the importance of focusing on what we do have.
The author asks us to make a deal with ourselves: If we are going to blame anything for our suffering or for our bad behavior, lets blame our exposure, not ourselves. Dr Puff convinced me that whatever we expose ourselves to impacts our thoughts and our happiness. We have to think of choosing our exposure as choosing our happiness diet. This theme continues into one of the greatest strengths of the book, namely Dr Puff’s analysis of addictions. When it comes to addiction, he expresses how important it is to feel our feelings. And he provides helpful tips on how to break free of negative thoughts. Our minds can only focus on one thing at a time. We can, he says, break our focusing on the negative thoughts if we go for a walk, allowing for some quiet time in nature which refocuses our mind.
He explains that it’s actually the negative critical thoughts about ourselves that perpetuate addictions and bad habits. We tell ourselves I’’m bad, I’m bad’, and we believe ourselves, and then do more harm to ourselves . We must, says Dr. Puff, learn to separate the self from the action or addiction. And ask, what can I learn from this bad behavior? What situation, what exposure allowed for this to come about?

I especially enjoyed the section of the book on conditioning: If we change our conditioning we will change our behavior, but we must be kind, not self-critical of ourselves. We must be aware that it is our conditioning that caused our behavior. And we can change our conditioning. Dr Puff provides the listener with three practical things to do when bad things happen.
The author is spot on when it comes to talking about addictions. Feeling the feelings rather than suppressing them. Confronting the pain is healing the pain. We can work through the pain and then work on improving our lives. He also states that experiencing suffering helps us grow. Dr Puff identifies a direct correlation between the amount of suffering and the amount of growth in an individual.
‘We need to realize that life has mosquitos,’ he says. ‘ If Mother Theresa couldn’t be liked be everybody, how can we’. The author provides useful tools for dealing with criticism, and explains why the fear of slipping up causes us to slip up. If we start thinking it’s ok to make mistakes we will grow from our mistakes. It’s OK to mess up. We can accept our fallibility.
Dr Puff advises us to be flexible when changes happen rather than resistant. We need to relax our bodies before the change impacts. If we resist it, and stiffen our muscles, the impact will do us more damage.
There is a common theme in the book that happiness only exists in the here and now and Dr Puff reiterates the importance of getting in the present as soon as we begin our day. Just breathe.
The book also offers surprisingly good relationship advice, and comprehensively addresses the subject (and the benefits) of online dating.
In summing up, Dr Puff recommends that each day, if we set ourselves the small target of just finding happiness today, not in the future, then we are more likely to get closer to our goal of happiness . To quote a line from American Sniper, ‘Small targets, small misses.’
In fairness, I’d appreciate it if Dr Puff could intersperse some of his points and anecdotes with some of of the readily available scientific research from himself and his psychologist peers, but that’s the only improvement I can suggest. All in all this was an inspiring listen, and a great way to break away from negative thoughts and to refocus on happiness each and every day. The narration and audio quality was also excellent. I recommend everyone listen to this book. 5 Stars!

Which scene was your favorite?

The scene where Dr Puff says: 'once we see a sparrow and name it a sparrow, we stop seeing it'

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It made me laugh, and smile. And it brought me back to the present moment, the here and now. I also felt more relaxed in my body and it stilled my mind.

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