Wake up!
Subtitle: a handbook to living in the here and now : 54 playful strategies to help you snap out of autopilot
By: Chris Baréz-Brown
Contributors: Baréz-Brown, Chris
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781615194100
Subjects: Distraction (Psychology); Attention; Awareness
Description: Wake Up! is a series of ideas designed to help people break free from autopilot. It's that feeling of driving a long distance and arriving at a destination with little memory of the journey. It happens because when we are doing routine activities our subconscious takes over to save energy. From climbing a tree to writing a letter, here are over fifty playful ideas that will engage our imagination and stimulate our senses, each broken down into an insight, a plan, and the payoff. Now, we can snap out of it, and truly connect to family, friends, work, and ourselves.
Notes: "Originally published in the UK as Wake Up! Escaping a Life on Autopilot by Penguin Random House UK in 2016"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; 1. Breathing; Learn to Breathe; Kill Your Television; Clean Up Your Act; Travel Into Space; 2. Tune In; Notice What You Notice; Cook From Scratch; Get Lost At Lunchtime; Walkie Talkie; Make A Plane And Then Free It; Spielzeug; 3. Power Up; Bathroom Buff-Up; Draw Life And Get The Picture; 4. Plug In; First Ten Minutes Outside; Spread The Love; Dress The Same; Slow Down; Walk In The Woods; 5. Listen To Your Body; Follow Your Body Clock; Live On Just 5 A Day; Write A Song; Stand Up; Say Yes; Really Feel It; title: Emote Like Elvis; A Little Vacation From Bread And DairyBe Someone Else; Journal; Steal Back Time; 6. Lost In Music; Be Lost In Music; Make A Cup Of Tea; What I Love/Hate About Me; Sunrise Or Sunset; Fight The Amnesia; Digital Detox; Give It Some Chant; Climb A Tree; Eat When Hungry; Untold Story; Do Something New; Just Say No; Dance; Add An Hour To Your Day; Excitement And Gratitude; 50 Million; Stare At The Sky; Live Like A Pig; Own It; title: No Excuses; Giggles And Guffaws; Smile; Right A Wrong; Do Something Big; Guerrilla Gardening; Stay Still And Soak It Up; Write A Letter To Someone You Care About; 7. Why Now?And Soon We Will Die; 8. Wakey Wakey.