Salzberg, an American Buddhist, has practiced Buddhist meditation for twenty-five years and has taught meditation at Buddhist centres around the world. As the Table of Contents reproduced below shows, each chapter begins with a discussion and culminates with one or more meditative exercises that explore the ideas in the text.

1. The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
2. Relearning Loveliness (Exercises: Remembering the Good within You; Phrases of Lovingkindness)
3. Facets of Lovingkindness (Exercises: The Benefits of Lovingkindness; The Benefactor)
4. Hindrances to Lovingkindness (Exercises: Reflection on Happiness; The Meaning of Friends; The Beloved Friend; The neutral Person)
5. Working with Anger and Aversion (Exercises: Forgiveness; Seeing Goodness; The Difficult Person; Difficult Aspects of Oneself)
6. Breaking Open the Loving Heart (Exercises: Lovingkindess for All Beings; Lovingkindness toward Groups; Walking Meditation; The Ten Directions)
7. Developing the Compassionate Heart (Exercises: Meditation on Compassion; Compassion for Those Who Cause Pain)
8. Liberating the Mind through Sympathetic Joy (Exercises: Meditation on Sympathetic Joy; Sharing Merit)
9. The Gift of Equanimity (Exercise: Equanimity)
10. The Power of Generosity (Exercise: Giving)
11. Living Our Love (Exercise: The Practice of Morality)

I really need to finish this book. The parts I have read have been really helpful.