That said, maintaining tight lower abs is such a pain. Even fitness trainers eventually grow tired and let the lower abs get a little soft. That's ok. You don't have to have a full washboard for happy trail grooming to work. You can even have a little bit of a dad bod. What you have to avoid is a full-on overhanging pooch of a stomach. That's just too much, and it should be your priority before you worry too much about this particular niche of grooming. Make a . . . Trail The other, slightly less popular fashion is to go for the hard lines. Go ahead and create a clean, sharp trail that is purposefully designed to add an accent to your lower abdomen. In most cases, this style looks best when you have a full washboard below your chest. It also doesn't look good if you're doing sharp lines on the happy trail and not the rest of your body, which brings us to the next point. Match the Drapes to the Carpet

Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight, and starlight, sunrise and misty and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.”– Edwin Way Teale I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm.” I’ve been up and down the four corners of this big old world. I’ve seen it all and I’ve done it all. – Fritz the Cat 40. “you need mountains, long staircases don’t make good hikers.”– amit kalantriMust practice connection, like building muscles--the more you practice, the more strength you have to change your life. I don’t want to go to the mountains today, said no one ever.”– Inspire with Quotes 80. “There is no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.”– Bill Bowerman Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.”– Paul D. Boyer

But the second half of the book, either Harris got less annoying or either I learnt to look past my annoyances, because Harris starts to make clear that control strategies that do not harm you are not bad and that you should try whatever works for you and let go of the parts that don’t help. And although I haven’t experienced some major change in my life (yet), there is a truth to most parts of ACT, especially that connecting to your values and taking action accordingly will help you create a more meaningful life. I also think it’s true that we shouldn’t always want to fight bad feelings and just let them be instead. But there are some areas in life where I don’t think ACT is enough. I still believe that if I have certain bad thoughts, I should argue with them; not because I want to control them or believe I can’t handle them otherwise, but because in some situations “acceptance” is not the solution. Moreover, I believe that this also lies within ACT — when you have an unhelpful thought or urge and think about whether it brings you closer to your values, isn’t this a form of “helpful” arguing with yourself? The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.”– Jeanne Moreau 95. “On a date with the mountains.”– Unknown Short Hiking Quotes It’s worth it in the end. - That is my first thought that describes this book. When I began this book I did not enjoy it. Honestly, it annoyed me. Well, okay, I'm not actually struggling. Life's mostly all peach these days, but I'm (almost) always interested in self-improvement. We get one go on this globe and studying ways of living well is a worthy endeavor, no matter where we fall on the struggle/succeed scale. So let's say you're not struggling either. Or maybe struggling just in like this one area or two. Let's assume we're all arrayed somewhere along the fat median part of the continuum's arc and doing okay or pretty good or I'm-too-busy-to-even-tell, but maybe sometimes find ourselves on the far downslope, anxious or discouraged or frustrated with ourselves. Does Russ Harris's The Happiness Trap have anything to offer? Defusion: Recognizing thoughts, images, memories, and feelings as what they are – just words and pictures – without fighting them, running from them, or staying too focused on themForgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth Hi! We’re Cat & Joe, two Brits, now living in Australia, with a passion for the outdoors and adventure travel. Don't struggle with the urge, because then it's hard to focus on effective action. So rather than try to resist, control, or suppress it, the aim in ACT is to make room for it, to give it enough time and space to expend all its energy--i.e. to practice expansion. Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.”– Edward Abbey 155. “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”– Friedrich Nietzsche May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”– Edward Abbey

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown for going out, I found, was really going in.” I don’t think most people believe THESE myths. I think they believe truths that are very closely related to these that get twisted. Values: Clarifying what is most important to you in your life, what sort of person you want to be, and not just focusing on external goals – focusing more on the expression of those values (e.g., “I want to practice connection with people” instead of “I want to be married to a romantic partner”) I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”– Henry David Thoreau In the film’s final act, Helen helps realize how much Jake loves her when she reads a poem he’s handwritten for her.The Morning Standard | Dinamani | Kannada Prabha | Samakalika Malayalam | Cinema Express | Indulgexpress | Edex Live | Events Xpress An excellent book I would recommend to anyone interested in mental health, either their own or those around them, or the concept at large. In The Happiness Trap, Russ Harris crafts a persuasive, intelligent argument for why we should stop aiming for happiness and instead aim for a mindful, values-driven life. His ideas in this book come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a newer, third-wave cognitive behavioral therapy that has shown promising effectiveness in research studies. He starts the book by dispelling “happiness myths,” such as how happiness is the natural state for all humans, or how to live a better life we have to get rid of negative feelings. After this first section, he goes on to provide several strategies for increasing psychological flexibility, core principles that help us cultivate a rich and meaningful life. I will provide a super brief synopsis of each one: Through numerous anecdotes and factual data, he has portrayed how life has become unhappiness even after getting all the comfortable items and with development. Then which factor hinders us to make that happiness count in our life. This is what you will witness in this book. The Observing Self: Bringing a pure awareness in which you observe your challenging, unpleasant thoughts and feelings without being hurt by them or subsumed by them