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Shift Your Mood
from Reactive to Mindful

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"Shift Your Mood combines the science of happiness with an awareness of how emotional distress shows up in your body.
I recommend this book to anyone who wants to experience a happier life!”

–Marci Shimoff, New York Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out

Newly Released!
Revised edition in both
formats: ​ebook and paperback 
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Shift Your Mood provides an easy and active form of mindfulness to calm reactivity.
Rik includes stories from real people's lives that show how you can soothe anxiety and stress, overcome obsessions, and tame your inner critic. As you release emotional tension, you will naturally shift to the source of your own love and inner wisdom.

Reviews

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Manuela Mischke Reeds, MFT
Co-director, Hakomi Institute of California
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Author, Eight Keys to Practicing Mindfulness

“Shift Your Mood invites readers straight into the goodness of their own hearts. I particularly enjoyed Rik’s playful invitations to experiment with a variety of embodied and mindful exercises. This book will help you navigate the inner pitfalls of your body-mind, as you reclaim the organic vitality of your own life.”
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Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
 Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. Co-Author of Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom.

"Rik Isensee has done a masterful job of integrating scientifically-based yet cutting edge material from psychology, brain science, and spirituality into a comprehensive collection of practical tools you can use every day to feel better, happier, and more loving.
Rik's sincerity and warm-heartedness make each page glow. This book is a gem."
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Christopher Peterson, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology,
​University of Michigan

Author, A Primer in Positive Psychology

“This is an engaging book that contains lots of good advice about becoming happier. Informed by research findings from the new field of positive psychology as well as venerable strategies from mindfulness meditation, Shift Your Mood presents a balanced and plausible formula for moving beyond where one is.”

Shift Your Mood: how can it help?

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How many times have you felt hijacked by a bad mood, then done or said something you regretted later? Moods can:

  • Make or break your relationship.
  • Get you a promotion, or get you fired.
  • Help you feel better, or make you sick

Yet once you’re able to manage your moods more effectively, you’ll maintain your emotional balance even when you’re faced with significant challenges.

Rik wrote Shift Your Mood to help you become aware of how moods create tension in your body. You will learn how to: Release physical tension, calm emotional reactivity, tame your inner critic, and shift to the source of your own love and inner wisdom.
Then you’re more likely to follow through on actions that will help you meet your goals.

Shift Your Mood combines mindfulness and body awareness with insights from positive psychology’s neuroscience of happiness.

You will discover how to heal from previous wounds, and follow through on your best intentions. Instead of feeling controlled by your current mood, you can expand your options: not only about what sort of mood you’d rather be in, but also a greater choice in how you live your life.

This has great implications for emotional healing and recovery from compulsive behaviors and obsessions. Yet Shift Your Mood is not just about healing. As you gain more emotional balance:

You’ll begin to thrive in many areas of your life:

* Release emotional tension –
Shift to the source of your own internal wisdom.

* Expand your capacity for love and compassion –
Enhance emotional intimacy and nurture your relationships.

* Develop your creativity and memory –
Work flows more enjoyably, with greater success.

* Reduce anxiety and stress –
Relax and have more fun!

* Cultivate mindfulness –
Be more attuned to the present moment.

* Discover purpose, meaning, and spirituality –
Live life to the fullest.

* Deepen your experience of contentment and well-being –
Be calmer, wiser, and happier!
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You will soon discover how to shift out of the vortex of previous patterns. In the beginning, it may take more than a moment to catch yourself. But as you become more adept at making this shift, you’ll increase your ability to soothe yourself in the face of whatever life throws at you.

Breaking free from negative conditioning unleashes the expression of your natural growth. Shift Your Mood will help you grasp that you already are whatever you’re seeking, not just intellectually, but through a deeply felt, visceral realization:

You can dwell in awareness itself, steeped in grace and heartfelt wisdom.

Throughout this book, you’ll have numerous opportunities to check out what it’s like to shift your mood. So I invite you along on this journey towards emotional well-being, conscious awareness, and inner wisdom. Click here to order: Shift Your Mood. 

Schedule your free Mindfulness Consult with Rik:

    • Get clear on the major obstacles holding you back.
    • Imagine what it would be like for you to move forward without these blocks.
    • Identify the first steps you could take toward the life you would like to lead!
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Location in San Francisco:

Appointments available in person at my convenient Castro St. office; by phone, FaceTime, or other online video!

Soothing relief:

It wasn’t long after reading Rik Isensee’s practical tips to shift my mood that I tried a couple of his techniques. Sure enough, I was able to adjust my mood during a taxing meeting at work, and then again when I was getting impatient with my kids at home. I mentally put myself in the relaxed state that I feel when I listen to music on a sunny day in the backyard. That grumpy feeling I was so tired of just melted away.”
–David Bibus, Seattle


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