Live Life as an Optimist

Half Empty, Half Full: Understanding the Psychological Roots of Optimism

 Di Susan C. Vaughan

Why do some people lead positive, hope-filled lives, while others wallow in pessimism? In her groundbreaking book, Half Empty, Half Full, leading psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and researcher Susan C. Vaughan reveals the specific character traits that produce highly hopeful individuals and offers fresh and helpful advice on how to become a more optimistic person.

Examining the origins of optimism in early childhood and presenting new evidence for the role of biology in how we interpret our experiences, Vaughan shows how optimism is a process, not a state, that is within the grasp of everyone. Informative and uplifting, Half Empty, Half Full offers some unusual but proven tricks and techniques to fool the brain's circuitry into looking on the bright side of life.

http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780156011006

The Language of Chinese Painting

Empty and Full: the Language of Chinese Painting,

by François Cheng

Empty and Full: the Language of Chinese Painting, by François Cheng, disciple of Lacan and perhaps the first book of Lacanian aesthetics. The Oriental void, which Cheng will consider neither as a noumenon nor a phenomenon, may grant the possibility of the painting: "the stroke is to extract oneness from the void," yet the void is not only the condition for color, stroke and texture to emerge, but also the "vital breath" animating the body (how to avoid mentioning the topological structure of the body, that Lacan writes with the figure of the torus showing how the human body envelopes the void). It's in 1953 that Cheng speaks of a center exterior to language which has to do with the "presence of death" in speech. http://www.lacan.com/frameXI6.htm

Eating Disorders

Full Mouse, Empty Mouse, Author: Dina Zeckhausen   Illustrated by: Brian Boyd

Full Mouse, Empty Mouse is a story that addresses the complex problem of eating disorders in a language that young children(ages 3-8) can understand. It is a beautifully illustrated book telling the story of two mice who use food in an effort to cope with the stress in their lives. "Mouse stress" involves an ever-present cat, mouse-traps, a dog, and a rat who chase the small mice. The boy mouse, Billy Blue, overeats for comfort and solace. His sister, Sally Rose, undereats in an attempt to reduce her size in order to be safe. While Billy is teased for being fat, his sister is admired for her tiny body. Their parents, though well intentioned, are distracted by work and compulsive cleaning. Their wise aunt teaches the children to listen to their bodies, tune in to their feelings and get their needs met in more effective ways.

Artist and graphic designer Brian Boyd has captured the adventures of this mouse family in lush, vivid illustrations. The rich colors and humorous details will capture the imagination of children and adults alike. This book will serve as a catalyst for important adult-child discussions about body size and weightism, the value of sharing feelings with concerned adults, and the problems that arise when people use food to cope with life.

http://www.bulimia.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1535

Empty Cities of the Full Moon

Empty Cities of the Full Moon, a science fiction novel
by Howard V. Hendrix

The novel revolves around the near extinction of the humanity by an artificial prion originally designed to help the mentally ill but which becomes ashamanistic pandemic of madness, shape-shifting and death. There are 2 plots-lines which each follow the same set of characters before and after this near extinction.

Explanation of the novel's title

The title of the novel comes from both the correlation between the pandemic's symptoms and the full moon, and that the pandemic effectively emptied the cities.

The novel opens in 1999 with a car accident occurring in parallel universes. In Universe A, the universe in which Hendrix's previous novel Better Angels occurs, the accident is avoided allowing 3 of the major characters in that novel to be born. However in Universe A Prime the accident does occur and the resulting deaths prevent those characters from being born. The 3 characters are brothers Jiro and Seiji Ansel Yamaguchi, and their cousin John Drinan.

Years later in 2032 the process of Jiro's transcendence, which occurs at the end of Better Angels, results in John being thrown from Universe A to Universe A Prime. Empty Cities of the Full Moon takes place in Universe A Prime after this.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_Cities_of_the_Full_Moon

Empty nest Full heart

Empty Nest… Full Heart: The Journey From Home to College

Andrea Van Steenhouse

The Journey from Home to College offers savvy heartfelt guidance for parents from the high school senior year, through proms and graduation, the terrible/wonderful summer, then the emotional good-bye at the dorm or airport. Simpler Life Press, Denver, 1998, 2001 (2nd edition).

http://www.amazon.com/Empty-Nest-Full-Heart/dp/0961980621

Words for Empty and Words for Full

My sister’s out of work and my brother’s
out of work and my other brother’s
out of work, these are facts available
over the phone or in person, just as now,
three clouds travel north, one
above another, smallish, amoeba shaped,
and the bottom cloud just died,
and the top two have joined forces
and left me to fend for myself
under a new sky.

Full Hearts And Empty Bellies

It was only 80 years ago, but by our standards, Winifred Foley was brought up in unthinkable deprivation, with no gas, electricity or running water and never enough to eat. Her account of growing up in the Forest of Dean inspired the acclaimed TV drama Abide With Me and is being republished.
Here, in the first part of our captivating serialisation, she recalls how, despite the unremitting poverty, hers was the happiest of childhoods - warm, secure and filled with overwhelming love.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1165418/Full-hearts-bellies-This-Britain-PlayStations-health-safety.html