Serenity: Simple Steps for Recovering Peace of Mind, Real Happiness, and Great Relationships

by Jane Nelsen

Most readers know that "happiness is within," but they don't always know how to access that happiness whenever they like, and in all circumstances. In Serenity, Jane Nelsen teaches readers four principles that will help them to stop being a slave to their thought system in order to access wisdom from the heart and from the soul.

The four basic and easily applied principles from
1. Free yourself from the filters of your thought system.
2. Understand how feelings can act as a personal compass.
3. Improve relationships by understanding and respecting differences.
4. Learn how to overcome depression, anger, or any negative feeling.

The chronic stress of modern life often interferes with enjoying the happiness that comes with peace of mind. Joy is needlessly missing from too many lives and from too many relationships. Serenity provides many tools to help readers discover innate feelings of joy, compassion, gratitude, wisdom, and love so they can live more fully every day.

192 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2008

About the author

Dr. Jane Nelsen is a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor in South Jordan, UT and Carlsbad, CA.

She is the author and/or coauthor of the Positive Discipline Series.

Reviews

[Kiki Kranz · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good self help read. Very simplistic reminders that help direct you back to balance. Some examples felt a little too good to be true, and honestly I felt a little distracted by the italicized "understanding" throughout the book. The themes are similar to The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. In the middle, it can seem a little repetitive; I did have a hard time staying engaged. However every time I stepped away from the book, I always found myself drawn back to it. The simple messages were too good to abandon.

Now that I have completed the book, I find myself opening to random pages and reading snippets to settle my mind on bad days (which I really appreciate). Glad to have this as a little reference in my library. 4/5

[Diane · Rating 4 out of 5]

I started this book once and it didn't hold my attention. A few months later I started it again and I found it to be more relevant and to have some innovative ideas. There are some hokey parts, like the fact that she italicizes the word understand throughout the book, but all in all an interesting read.