Quiet Your Mind: Mindfulness Meditation Practices to Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety and Worry, Improve Mental Health, and Create Inner Peace
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Do you feel overwhelmed by the demands of today’s fast paced world? Would you like to live less stressed or anxious?
Stress, anxiety, and endless worrying are mostly the byproduct of unconscious living.
What are the things that make you anxious? Your lifestyle, your prospects for the future, or the shadows of the past?
If you’re desperate to slow down and find inner peace, mindfulness is the solution you’re looking for.
In Quiet Your Mind, bestselling author, Steven Schuster will help you to find back your way to the present moment following a few simple yet powerful principles. They don’t require more than a few minutes of practice daily. Their impact, however, will last long term.
Improve your focus and productivity.
The book will not only show you what are the best practices to find your peace of mind but also will help you transform these practices into daily, automatic habits. The wholeness you’re so keen to find is already within you. Practicing mindfulness is the key to channel those parts of your brain.
Learn to exclude the information clutter you face each day.
•How to stabilize your attention and presence amidst daily activities
•How to bring awareness in your life and practice conscious living
•How to shift back to awareness again and again all day
•Become more decisive, disciplined, focused and calm
Become aware of the person you truly are.
•Learn how can you "calm your mind"
•The best tips to manage your energy
•The scientifically proven benefits of practicing mindfulness
•How to overcome your discouraging and negative thoughts
Mindfulness helps you experience a deep feeling of happiness and peace. It seeps into everything you do. You can meet the worst that life throws at you with courage, discipline, and determination. Life will make sense because you’ll be in a bigger control of it.
Stop being the victim of your circumstances, be aware and thus prepared to overcome them.
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Quiet Your Mind - Steven Schuster
Quiet Your Mind
Mindfulness Meditation Practices to Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety and Worry, Improve Mental Health, and Create Inner Peace
Steven Schuster
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Contents
1. What is Mindfulness?
2. Proprioception, Interoception, and Mindfulness
3. Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
4. The Mind-Changing Magic of Meditation
5. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
6. Wu Wei - The Do-Nothing Principle
7. Energy Management With Mindfulness
8. Mindfulness in Relationships and Work
Final Words
Reference
Notes
One
What is Mindfulness?
Have you ever walked into a room and looked around in confusion, wondering why you were in there? Have you ever driven your car and arrived at your destination without remembering how you got there? Or when you checked your watch, did you have to look at it again because you forgot the time? What about if you were asked to share how you spent the first hour of your day? Would you be able to remember it in detail? If not, you are not alone. All of us have been in those very situations more often than we would probably like to admit.
If you, like so many of us, find that you can’t remember parts of your day, it doesn’t necessarily signal a memory problem. It may just mean that you aren’t truly present in your head.
Why did you get this book? Perhaps you’d like to be more aware of your everyday life and thoughts. Maybe you wish to reduce stress in your life. Or you’d like to harness some health benefits to enjoy a more restful sleep. Even though they sound simple, everyday problems, for many of us, overcoming these issues represent a great challenge because we are exposed to more stress and feel more anxiety than ever before. We feel pressure on a daily basis to succeed, to increase the palette of our achievements, and become self-critical even self-judgmental when we don’t. We run through our days, trying to catch up with our expectations, and end up falling in the bed exhausted after such a hectic day.
All we can think of are the weekends that would hopefully ease our minds. But when the long-awaited weekend arrives, we can’t stop ruminating on the things we didn’t achieve the past days or getting prematurely anxious about what the next week will bring. This is an unsustainable living condition if we wish to stay healthy in the long term.
The overwhelming living conditions we experience today has motivated many people to turn to practicing mindfulness. This practice helps us to wake up, be aware of the present moment so we can experience life with our five senses. Mindfulness helps us with many other life-improving things like how to communicate in a patient, calm manner, and how to recognize our unhealthy habits. We also become kinder, more tolerant, and less judgmental with ourselves.
What is Mindfulness?
We become in a mindful state when our mind is completely focused on the present moment and attentive to what is happening right now while gently acknowledging and accepting our feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations.
Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us.
- Mindful.org
Focusing our mind for any extended period of time is not something that comes easily and naturally to most of us. The mind wanders more often than we might be aware. The majority of the time, our mind drifts into places of negative thoughts which can cause us to feel stress, anxiety, regret, shame, and unhappiness. Did you know that eighty percent of the average person’s daily thoughts are negative? ¹ Having these negative thoughts as they form an unconscious mental chatter can leave us with a feeling that life is hard, and the struggles we have to go through aren’t worth it.
I experienced this in my own life when my wife was in the hospital with a very serious health condition. When I was visiting her, my mind would wander to all the things I should be doing and was neglecting at work and at home. When I was teaching, my mind was in the hospital. Whenever I wasn’t at home, I would feel stressed, anxious, and guilty about what I should be doing there to be a good father to my children. No matter where I was, I was never completely present.
This period of my life triggered the irreversible desire in me to become more mindful, take meditation more seriously, and live each of my days with my loved ones as if it would be the last. It was not until I