博客來焦慮如大型傳染病般感染整個社會，人們努力尋找方法試圖遠離負面情緒，有時似乎奏效了，可惜卻維持不了太長的時間，就又回到焦慮的漩渦之中！在《超越焦慮》（Beyond Anxiety）這本新書中，作者分析人們被焦慮籠罩的原因，以及為何我們不必執著於降低焦慮感，而是應該改變思維模式，以更具創意的方式「善用焦慮」，把如影隨形的焦慮，轉化為幫助我們去感知天命、追尋美好生活，源源不絕的另類動力。
本書作者瑪莎‧貝克（Martha Beck），擁有哈佛社會學博士學位，是卓越的人生教練，被歐普拉譽為是她所知最聰明的女性之一；前作《The Way of Integrity》（當行之道）榮登紐約時報暢銷排行榜，奠基於科學知識涵養，具幽默感與同理心的寫作風格，吸引超過三千名讀者在亞馬遜網路書店留下近滿分好評。(文/博客來編譯)
各界好評推薦：
「作者教會我們一個關於負面情緒的重要課題：別把目標放在消除焦慮，而是理解、學習並從中成長。思維上轉變足以改變你的生活。」——哈佛商學院教授、《重啟人生》作者亞瑟‧布魯克斯
「本書作者瑪莎運用她幽默、聰慧、偵探般層層深入的研究技巧，和不拘泥於傳統的思維，探討當代病毒：焦慮，並提出真正的解方，帶來光明和希望，令人為之振奮。」——《享受吧！一個人的旅行》作者伊莉莎白‧吉兒伯特
「身為一個容易焦慮的人，我懷抱著希望翻開這本書，不確定它對我能否起得了作用，沒想到它真的有效！書中的金句幫助我重拾了部分的生命力。謝謝妳，瑪莎‧貝克（Martha Beck），妳又再次做到了！」——《我，不馴服》作者格倫儂‧道爾
From bestselling author Martha Beck, a new path to overcoming anxiety by awakening the creativity within
We live in an epidemic of anxiety. Most of us assume that the key to overcoming it is to think our way out. And for a while it works. But there is always something that sends us back into the anxious spiral we’ve been trying to climb out of.
In Beyond Anxiety, Dr. Martha Beck explains why anxiety is skyrocketing around you, and likely within you. She also tells you how to not only reduce your anxiety but use it to propel you into a life filled with peace, meaning, and joy.
Using a combination of the latest neuroscience as well as her background in sociology and coaching, Beck explains how our brains tend to get stuck in an “anxiety spiral,” a feedback system that can increase anxiety indefinitely. To climb out, we must engage different parts of our nervous system—the parts involved in creativity. Beck provides instructions for engaging the “creativity spiral,” in a process that not only shuts down anxiety but leads to innovative problem solving, a sense of meaning and purpose, and joyful, intimate connection with others—and with the world.
The opposite of anxiety, it turns out, is a wonderful new way of life—one that can calm and inspire us as individuals and help us become a source of healing for everything around us.
