Here's a practical approach to becoming aware of the "five hindrances" to happiness—the negative qualities that can inhibit your life—and to breaking free of them. The Buddha's teaching contrasts the five hindrances to the seven factors of enlightenment. Mitch Abblett gives the teaching a unique modern and secular interpretation, combining traditional wisdom with contemporary psychology. He includes examples from the lives of the real people he has worked with on the hindrances in his psychotherapy practice.