About This Book
Awakening Joy (2012) is a guide to training your mind to recognize and cultivate genuine well-being. It offers simple but powerful practices that help you shift out of autopilot and tap into a natural sense of aliveness that already exists within you. The approach blends practical guidance with insights from Buddhist meditation to show how joy becomes more stable when you nurture it from the inside out.
Who Should Read This?
- People craving more calm in daily life
- Anyone stuck in old emotional patterns
- Readers who want practical joy-building tools
About the Author
James Baraz teaches meditation and has guided the Awakening Joy course since 2003. He co-founded Spirit Rock Meditation Center and supports global peace work through his role with the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. Shoshana Tembeck Alexander has spent decades studying Buddhism and writing about personal growth. She has authored books on single parenting and women’s entrepreneurship.
