TY - GEN AU - Anand , R. TI - Happiness at Work: Mindfulness, : Analysis and Well-being SN - 978-9352808052 U1 - 650.1 PY - 2018/// CY - New Delhi PB - SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd KW - Happiness KW - Stress Management KW - Work Life Balance KW - Meditation N1 - Foreword by S. Y. Siddiqui Preface Acknowledgements Needle in a Haystack Defining Well-being The Stoics The Psychoanalysts The Philosopher: Bertrand Russell The Physician’s Perspective The Positive Psychologists Mind–Body Connection Policy and Institutions My Stress Profile Outer Realm Inner Realm Well-being Enablers Understanding Our Sources of Stress The Outer Theatre Factors Family Dynamics Parenting Relationship Stress Lack of Financial Predictability The Deadly Commute 24/7 Work Deadlines Dealing with a Surfeit of Information Health Difficult Boss, Office Politics and Competition Connecting Outer and Inner Realms How Do I Know That I Am Stressed? Well-being Beyond External Circumstances Anxiety about the Future Exercises for Overcoming Anxiety Grief about the Past Exercises to Overcome Grief of the Past Discomfort with Present Circumstance Effectively Dealing with Present-moment Stressors Do I Know Myself Well Enough? Universal Distortions Anchoring or Priming Overcoming Anchoring or Priming Base Rate Neglect Overcoming Base Rate Neglect Loss Aversion Overcoming Loss Aversion Some Combination Distortions: The Choice Architecture Overcoming Choice Architecture Mental Accounting ‘Focusing’ and ‘End of History Illusion’ Personal Distortions Freudian School Transactional Analysis Rituals, Pasttimes, Games and Scripts My Working Self: A Personalized Analysis Why and How We Transact How Do We Break Free? Games We Play A Journal of Mistakes, Forgetfulness and Errors Well-being Through Dream Analysis Why We Sleep? Why We Dream? Retrieving and Recording Your Dreams Carrying Out Dream Analysis Dreams Are Wish Fulfillments My Body as a Well-being Compass Body Language Bio-chemical Markers of Well-being Blue Zones and Longevity Moderate, Regular Physical Activity Life Purpose Stress Reduction Diet Pro-social Focus More Biological Markers Cultivating Pro-social Behaviours Compassion-Temple Exercise Collective Prayer Gratitude Mental Subtraction and Savouring Meditation: Why, When and How It Works? Types of Meditation Vipassana Why Does It Lead to Well-being? Zen Meditation Transcendental Meditation Vichara: Inquiry into Identity Can Hobbies Be Meditation? The Common Thread The Route and Milestones to Well-being How We Came Here? Can We Measure Our Progress? What Next? Evolving the Well-being Protocol Bibliography N2 - A handful of stressors and internal psychodynamics derail the happiness of normal people like you and me. Fortunately, rigorous science and psychology can be applied to this problem. Happiness at Work: Mindfulness, Analysis and Well-being tells you what to apply, how to apply and why it works. It is utterly simplistic to wish away external stressors. However, are you taking the best decisions about them? Everyone gets some of their decisions wrong, aver the behavioral economists, as universal distortions are always at work. We can deploy some decision-making paradigms to minimize these distortions. We are beset with individual distortions too, as we are wired with certain tendencies and default modes. As soon as you understand the source and dynamics of these individual distortions, you would begin to heal. Your everyday errors, interpersonal interactions, nighttime dreams and body language, all give useful clues to this wiring. On top of this insight, you can build a fine temperament of mindfulness about your body, mind and interactions as well as your entire life. This would lead to peak emotional and mental wellness. Even as professionals leading busy lives, you would see the signs of progress yourself, in weeks and months. This is what ‘happiness at work’ is all about ER -