The book is about the human condition: suffering, emotional and psychological distress, identity, existence, and reality. It examines these issues at the physical, biological, psychological, sociocultural, linguistic, discursive, and spiritual levels, comparing and evaluating, as well as integrating where possible, a broad range of approaches and theories to provide a holistic understanding of the person. This book accomplishes the following: - charts a range of cross-disciplinary approaches and theories relating to human nature, experience and behaviour (including biological, psychological, social-cultural, linguistic, spiritual and existential); suggesting, within each of these how they may be seen to relate to the human condition, suffering, and to reducing emotional and psychological distress - discusses current postmodernist/post-structuralist concerns about the essence of what we are (i.e. whether we really are essential and substantial individuals, or whether we are merely sociolinguistic and sociocultural constructs or subjects) - incorporates eastern philosophies and psychologies (e.g. Buddhism and mindfulness)in relation to what we are, reality, the mind, the self, and suffering - identifies, in its conclusion, a number of elicited principles and practices a person may incorporate into their daily living to reduce suffering and increase psychological and emotional well-being - and offers a schematic representation of its general concepts in relation to the human condition, its levels, components, and processes, which can be used to refer to or underpin understanding and for readers' further discussion, exploration and researches

The human condition is the print or manner in which you, human beings, and Humanity as a whole influence those around, the human environment, the entire world, and Life herself. Many human conditions that you leave behind come back to influence you just as well. Many times, you know it well, and many times, you do not. And it is very easy for me to write in these books how wonderful you should be while bringing your most favorable contribution to the world, but you have to interconnect with the world as best as you can, favorably and unfavorably, just the way those around constrain you, only to make it through, to fulfill your needs. And just the way you remain conscious of all environmental conditions influencing your own fulfillment and condition of life, in society, and in the world, you should remain conscious with all conditions that you leave behind you through your own life and behavior. Because just the way life copes with the environment throughout a continuous sacrifice as Science depicts it, this outside environment is always alive, it is part of life, it is made of life, and it has you in it just as well along with your loved ones and your entire contribution to the world. But if you give in and see your environment as a continuously challenging unfavorable condition since this is what Science depicts, then you might be tempted to engage in a win-lose relationship with the environment, unnecessarily. While the environment is alive, formed of not only nature, roads, and cities, but formed of the entire human society. And now, if you become a negative condition of the environmental by engaging in a win-lose relationship with the environment, the entire world has to cope with you exactly as Science teaches, you become an unfavorable condition in the world, and you do not stand a chance. Because you are only one, and they are an entire world. And many times, it feels indeed, as the entire world is against you. And when it happens, you have to look for answers everywhere in the environment and closer to home just as well, within your own human conditions, the conditions that you implement in the world yourself. And it is even more significantly when you implement these alongside others, in organized groups as mobs, armies, bands, hierarchies, brotherhoods, ideologies, and even jurisdictions. Because life, the world, and the human society are very complex, swinging continuously with and against you, since your environment is filled with conditions, good, bad, favorable, unfavorable, natural, and fictitious, and it is meaningful to identify, predict, and control them all. Throughout this book, we study the human condition along with all environmental conditions influencing the human existence, as the human condition of life, the human social condition, and the human higher condition. We identify all favorable and unfavorable existential elements, along with all their consequences in the human life, for a better fulfillment.

”In his philosophical treatise, THE HUMAN CONDITION, author Bob Yari offers a pathway to fulfillment and happiness -- based on a balanced lifestyle, a positive attitude, and gratitude for the world's abundance.”

The book is a manifesto-like essay aiming to redress some globally present drawbacks characterizing current research in the humanities: 1. Fragmentation and thematic volatility; 2. A reluctance to acknowledge that humanities research is a truth seeking enterprise as all scientific research; 3. A certain unwillingness (or inability) to ask clear questions and to provide distinct answers to these questions. The book consists of three parts: A. Introduction, where the problem and the purpose of the book is presented; B. six chapters, each presenting a certain topic that I suggest that humanist scholars gather around with sustained efforts; C. Conclusion with some words of how to proceed and a section discussing what the humanities or should and are not or should not be.

This book gives insight to why we struggle with the circumstances of our life experience. In The Human Condition, we become proficient at failing in part, due to the complexity of our human nature. Our self-definition remains unclear as we are hampered by the influencers of inner and outer conditioning. Our focus and best efforts to live in the sphere of personal dominion has been stifled as we are encouraged to exhaust precious time floundering in the cosmic world of circumstance. Many of us learn and react to countless circumstances with a high percentage of pre-conditioned responses; and why do we cling to this Pavlovian type conditioning? Why does the dynamic of fear and frustration reoccur time and again? How can we live at the height of our potential without possessing the personal assurance of who we are, where we are, and why we are here? We are conditioned to conform to a global mindset which, is designed to heighten our intrinsic need for acceptance, approval, and comfort. We learn to embrace the pain of circumstantial and spiritual aloofness through a multi-layered regiment of global, social, and generational conditioning. As a result, we display the remains of a mutilated and diminished self-image as our lifelong definition. Our fears and insecurities create the perfect environment for debilitating stagnation which, hampers our willingness to pursue and embrace change through personal empowerment. The result is the lack of growth and awareness to the boundless potential lying dormant within each of us. We are discouraged from embracing The Reality; therefore, we remain unaware of The Echoes and their influence within our exclusive domain. The Human Condition. When we learn to embrace our original and true definition, the realization of The Human Condition broadens. We gain a clearer insight into what we cannot see through the darkened lens of our individual reality. The Echoes have always been here in plain view watching, whispering, and influencing the host of humanity. They, The Echoes, are forever serving their Purpose, or Reason, as they migrate throughout the ambiguous sphere of The Human Condition.

An expert on happiness presents an engaging and inspiring guide to making sense of the human condition via brief essays on concepts from action, to love, to thought, to youth. This book offers a guide to human nature and human experience--a reference book for making sense of life. In thirty-eight short, interconnected essays, Shimon Edelman considers the parameters of the human condition, addressing them in alphabetical order, from action (good except when it's not) to love (only makes sense to the lovers) to thinking (should not be so depressing) to youth (a treasure). In a style that is by turns personal and philosophical, at once informative and entertaining, Edelman offers a series of illuminating takes on the most important aspects of living in the world.