Most of us long to be a little calmer: too many of our days are lostto agitation and worry, stress and discord. Yet we know that we areat our best when we can manage not to panic and take challengesin our stride.Fortunately, a calm state of mind is not a divine gift. Even thoseof us starting from a more agitated position can systematicallyunderstand and lay claim to it. Too many books on this subjectsimply explain what it would be like to be calm. This is a workbookthat takes us through the practical steps required to actuallybecome calm. It is filled with exercises and prompts that deliverthe self-understanding and self-compassion on which true serenitydepends. Furthermore, the book invites us to build calming routinesinto our daily lives so that what we learn can stick with us andchange us for the long term.Based on years of The School of Life's work in the area of anxietyand calm, this is a landmark workbook guaranteed to bring aboutthe calmer state of mind we long for and deserve.