PublishedWatkins, October 2019 |
ISBN9781786782748 |
FormatSoftcover, 224 pages |
Dimensions23.4cm × 15.6cm |
Almost every self-help book seems to be about how to be happy but what about recognizing and accepting that we suffer? In this, the ultimate guide on how to suffer, you will discover how to go from suffering in silence to suffering in style, showing you how to walk the peaceful pathway from regret to acceptance and embrace.
What!? A "Self-Help" book on How to Suffer!? You must be kidding. Well YES and NO. YES in that it's a satirical roast of self-help books that promise everything and tell you it'll be easy (and it never is). NO in that it turns out that looking at and dealing with suffering is the Gorilla in the room that everyone avoids, to our own undoing. And YES there is some kidding around, as a humorous approach is the best way to sneak up on the mothership of bad times- Suffering. And NO you won't have to suffer to read it!
Following the 10 Easy Steps (just do the opposite and don't suffer) there is the Suffering Hall of Fame, and then the 6 Slippery Steps to End, or at least change, your suffering state. Chapters include- Buddha Kicks the Habit (of Suffering), The Power of Not-Now, Beyond the Roast - Let's Get Real and The Pseudo Science of Suffering -in which you learn how to construct and use your very own Sufferometer.
It's a lot for one little book, but then again it is a subject which consumes, directs and shapes so much of what we all do, and/or try not to do, in every day life.
