Depression It's All In Your Head

Does having a purpose in life make you happy? If so is chasing happiness a legitimate purpose? This book takes you back to the greatest thinkers of our time and links this advice to the problems you have today. You will read how the most feared warrior ever to exist the Samurai used Buddhism and Zen training to override the natural human tendency to survive. Their ultimate aim after all was to die a glorious death in battle. Compare this with today where in the U.S. more people die by suicide than homicide. Sean Allen uses his years as a martial arts instructor and educator in the Australian Education Department to draw a link between happiness and purpose to use history and research to understand why we struggle and to lift you above depression and anxiety using information and knowledge. * How open heart surgery gives you real perspective.* Advice for moving on from someone's mother.* Why pessimists think they are realists.* Why you get the lesson at the end of the experience. And can we do it the other way around?