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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 It is a common misconception that certain good things are mutually exclusive. For example, you might think that in order to be successful, you cannot be compassionate, because everybody on Wall Street knows that compassion is for chumps.
#2 The first and most important benefit of mind training is the ability to calm the mind on demand. With practice, you will find yourself able to abide in a calm mind during most sitting meditations. This one skill may be life changing.
#3 The third benefit of mind training is emotional resilience, especially in response to emotional pain. Meditators are able to calm their minds in difficult situations, perceive the process of emotion at high resolution, and cultivate compassion and objectivity, which helps them take all three steps when they’re faced with emotional pain.
#4 The alert and relaxed mind is highly conducive to creativity. I initially found this out in an annoying way: a lot of good ideas and insights came to me while I was meditating. I learned to accept this as a natural process of the mind, and to take advantage of it.

Sujets

Santé et bien-être

Bien-être émotionnel

Bien-être

Personal Growth

Self-help

Happiness

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	10 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798822501973
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

It is a common misconception that certain good things are mutually exclusive. For example, you might think that in order to be successful, you cannot be compassionate, because everybody on Wall Street knows that compassion is for chumps.

#2

The first and most important benefit of mind training is the ability to calm the mind on demand. With practice, you will find yourself able to abide in a calm mind during most sitting meditations. This one skill may be life changing.

#3

The third benefit of mind training is emotional resilience, especially in response to emotional pain. Meditators are able to calm their minds in difficult situations, perceive the process of emotion at high resolution, and cultivate compassion and objectivity, which helps them take all three steps when they’re faced with emotional pain.

#4

The alert and relaxed mind is highly conducive to creativity. I initially found this out in an annoying way: a lot of good ideas and insights came to me while I was meditating. I learned to accept this as a natural process of the mind, and to take advantage of it.

#5

Creativity is the process of generating new ideas. It seems to happen when random ideas arise and the mind perceives them clearly and captures the novel, remote, or unexpected associations between them.

#6

The aha moment and alpha brainwaves are both linked to the relaxed attention that is conducive to creativity. Creative types know that an alert and relaxed mind is highly conducive to creativity, and they know how to activate that state of mind.

#7

Self-confidence can be trained by putting your butt on a meditation cushion. Over time, you will develop a sense of confidence that is different from cockiness. It comes from knowing, equanimity, and resilience.

#8

There are three aspects of confidence that arise from knowing. The first is knowing your stuff, which is simply being familiar with the materials you are going to discuss. The second is knowing yourself, which means strong self-awareness at the level of emotional awareness and self-assessment.

#9

With meditation, you gain some mastery of your mind, and once you have that, you can gain expertise in any subject. That confidence allows you to learn anything.

#10

The second source of your confidence is equanimity. This comes in part from the ability to calm the mind on demand, and from the ability to hold your ego lightly. When you hear people dispensing advice like this, you wonder if they actually practice what they preach.

#11

I was able to apply my training and become tiny in the eyes of the audience, while at the same time being humongous in a wholesome way. I was able to focus on two attitudes: service and humor.

#12

I have three sources of confidence: knowledge, equanimity, and resilience. On days when knowledge fails and equanimity also fails, I know that I can always recover. I have faith that no matter how bad things become, if I lose everything, I will probably go through a period of severe depression, but I will eventually recover.

#13

The ability to bear witness to our own pain and failure is a powerful source of confidence. We must be willing and able to see all our pain and failures, with composure and kindness, for a gentle joy to arise and permeate even in the midst of witnessing all that pain and failure.

#14

I realized that the key ingredient in my transformation was the willingness to bear witness to pain and suffering within myself.