The Science of Happiness: The Way to Personal Fulfillment

Challenging popular conceptions that well-being is wholly subject to one's environment or circumstance, a guide to achieving happiness by harmonizing conflicting brain components introduces basic neuroscience principles and demonstrates how to avoid unnecessary suffering.

"Happiness. Everyone wants it, but not everyone believes it can be achieved. For many it does not belong to this life; for others its would come with the wealth they do not have. Still others believe it possible, but they look for it in the wrong places. Few have the courage to talk or write about it openly, and of these few, not all have actually come close to this experience and in some way savoured it, lived it. Christian Boiron is one of those who has: the clear, direct language that he uses and the examples that he offers show that he has not only studied the matter with attention and perseverance, but he practises it, he incarnates it in his daily experience of life."