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Speaking of which, any suggestions on any good books on anxiety from the HN crowd?
by Maven911 8y ago
Speaking of which, any suggestions on any good books on anxiety from the HN crowd?
- mmanfrin 8y agoFour Agreements by Don Ruiz and Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
- codeafin 8y agoMeditations by Marcus Aurelius, definitely.
- rthomas6 8y agoAlso Seneca's Moral letters to Lucilius. The great thing about this and Meditations is that they're freely available online! Meditations: http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.2.two.html http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.2.two.html Seneca's Moral Letters: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius
- lsalvatore 8y agoanything by Eckhart Tolle
- rthomas6 8y agoI greatly prefer The Power of Now over his other books. IMO he does not practice what he preaches as much as he used to, and that influences his writing in small ways. Just my unenlightened opinion, though.
- lsalvatore 8y agoAlan Watts was an alcoholic. We're all human and prone to temptation and addiction, and even the ego. Curious about the flaws of Eckhart, or maybe not..
- Zelphyr 8y agoAcceptance Commitment Therapy Made Simple by Russ Harris (He has several good books on the subject) Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety by Kelly G. Wilson and M. Troy DuFrene
- rthomas6 8y agoThe Happiness Trap by Russ Harris is also good.
- procgen 8y ago'The Mind Illuminated' by John Yates. Meditate! I'll also add Ecclesiastes - there's perennial wisdom in that old book, and it doesn't demand a lick of faith.
- pivo 8y agoDepending on the source of your anxiety you might find that "Enlightenment Now!" by Steven Pinker is helpful. It was for me with my anxiety about the course of humankind.
- clumsysmurf 8y agoReading the thesis / synopsis of this book, I feel I live on a different planet than Pinker. Not sure how this would make anyone struggling with the bottom of the Maslow hierarchy feel better ...
- spicymaki 8y agoI am naturally pessimistic, so it is hard for me to swallow that the human experience is improving for people all over the world. However, Pinker presents a large amount of compelling data in "Enlightenment Now" about how we are actually progressing as a species. It is a good counterbalance to incessant negativity of the media.