The Person Who Doesn't Strain. The Chinese System of Calmness and Finding Inner Balance

How does an entire nation maintain inner balance in a world of constant stress? Behavioral psychology experts He Shengjun and Zhu Yizhe show that the secret lies not in mentality, but in a well-tuned system. Chinese culture has developed practices of sustainable calmness over centuries - from the Confucian reliance on social harmony to the Daoist acceptance of change and the Buddhist focus on the inner world. Drawing on these traditions and modern knowledge about stress, the authors analyze how chronic tension is formed and why we exacerbate it ourselves. Practices from the book will help reduce anxiety, move out of overload mode, and learn to live in harmony with oneself and others.