The Little Book of Sound

A Lust for Life have created our first ever publication co-written by our team and we think it’s special. Hope you do too.

It’s been written with love (and a bit of craic which is always needed) for you, to help you take care of your mind a little bit better.

If you’re coming to Electric Picnic, come check us out in the Mindfield Arena and we will be handing out free copies of The Little Book of Sound at The Wall of Sound (a lot of soundness going on here, we know…)

The Little Book of Sound which was co-written by Niall ‘Bressie’ Breslin, Dr. Malie Coyne and Susan Quirke and designed by the wonderful Natalie Keville is available from Wednesday November 22^nd in all good bookshops or here right now via alustforlife.com/shop/The-Little-Book-of-Sound-p95950663

Sample from The Little Book of Sound:

If we were to believe everything we read, see and hear in the media we would be forgiven for thinking we are all a shower of horrible feckers – but the reality is this is simply not true. It’s fake news. Most people are sound – and being sound pays off.

But in order to be sound to others we must recognize the need to be sound ourselves. For whatever reason, sometimes many of us can be incredibly hard on ourselves. We can expect so much, trying to live up to what others want us to be or what we believe we should be. If you stop and think about this for even a second, it is easy to observe how this pressure can create an unsettled mind.

So, what is the alternative? How about practicing self-compassion? This doesn’t mean you have to walk around every five minutes high-fiving yourself or attempt to shift a mirror every time you pass one – but the more compassion we can show for ourselves the more empathy we can show to others.

And guess what? Studies in psychology and neuroscience are confirming that there’s real science to support how being sound to others and to ourselves has a huge positive impact on our mind and bodies.