Calm ─ Secrets to Serenity from the Cultures of the World

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*

When you need to keep your cool...

• Learn to laugh down your fears at Halloween
• Send your worries to Guatemalan worry dolls to look after for you
• Step outside yourself at a Venetian masquerade ball
• Focus on a single target like a Bhutanese archer
• Access theta brain waves with Malian drumming
• Become one with your natural environment like an Inuit kayaker

All around the world people find ways to contend with the stresses of daily life. Here are fifty of these calming cultural secrets as well as methods for applying them at home.

Bring a little slice of serenity to your busy life!

Author: Lonely Planet

About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel.

TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category

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