"Swings - the little art of joie de vivre"
Joie de vivre is an art that can be learned. Talent is helpful, but practice is crucial. This also includes practising renunciation. To be able to breathe more easily for new upswings and not get fatter, but fitter. Swinging helps with this. Wilhelm Schmid draws a metaphor for life from the real experience of swinging. Life is swinging: gaining momentum, feeling lightness, experiencing highs, hoping for the support of others and learning to accept the dull feeling on the downswing.
The swing allows us to flit back and forth between the different sides of life, for example between exertion and contemplation. Also between the joy of beauty, which gives new vigor, and dealing with the less beautiful. Swinging is the solution to many problems in life and in love. Learning for life on the swing does not have to be a lonely activity: People give each other new momentum. Ten ups and downs to the joy of life: This is what this book encourages.
Bestseller in FOCUS, stern and Börsenblatt, SPIEGEL bestseller
The informative audio report in Deutschlandfunk Kultur can be found here in the link
