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The Practicing Mind
- Bringing Discipline and Focus into Your Life
- Narrated by: Thomas M. Sterner
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
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The Practicing Mind
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Publisher's Summary
Present moment awareness is an essential ingredient in life if one expects to experience any degree of authentic peace and contentment. It has been acknowledged for centuries as the cornerstone of spiritual awakening in all traditions of Eastern thought. In the West, however, it is still a relatively unrecognized concept for living.
The Western mind is always restless, never content with the moment. Its internal dialogue is always firing off thoughts filled with emotional content and pulling the individual out of the present and into the past or future. But individuals raised in Western culture are becoming increasingly aware of their overall sense of mental exhaustion, their lack of discipline and their inability to focus on demand. They are willing to expend the energy necessary to experience inner peace and a quiet mind that is waiting to follow the direction of their will. They are realizing that the endless struggle to fulfill the insatiable appetite of instant gratification is fruitless and tiresome at best. They are ripe for a new path in life and eager for a new set of instructions.
This is the purpose of The Practicing Mind. It comprehensively deals with helping the individual understand exactly what present-moment awareness is, how we are raised in a manner contradictory to this, and how we change our mindset to make this a part of our daily living. This book is accessible to listeners of all philosophical backgrounds. Regardless of your perspective, you will find the book's insights most compelling.
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- Vindya
- 10-03-2021
Transformational
This is one of the very few books I will re-listen again and again. Loved every aspect of it.
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- Brendan
- 13-07-2020
Nothing ventured nothing gained.
Super insightful book albeit largely common sense. I’m learning guitar at the moment so it relates directly to some experiences I’m having at the moment. I really like the blend of the observing mind connected to habits and the discipline of practice.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-01-2021
Simply perfect.
My takeaway - if you genuinely care about the goal, you’ll focus on the practice. Be content with consistent deliberate practice, the rest takes care of itself.
Wonderful stuff, I need constant reminding of this.
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- Beau Manton
- 15-08-2021
Insightful, practical and helpful
Thank you for this book. Thought provoking and challenging insight into the subconscious. I will listen to this multiple times to make sure everything soaks in
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- MCC
- 04-12-2022
Relevant to life
I enjoyed listening to this book & found it relevant to skills that I needed to learn to live a better concious life.
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- Liana
- 17-07-2022
Great for self improvement
I found this to be a good guide about how applying being present can allow us to have more focus and less overwhelm. I liked the real life examples that showed that by slowing down processes can lead to more enjoyment and gives you back more time because you're not focused on multi-tasking or other thoughts that float through your mind. Great for anyone wanting to have discipline in focus but also to work on self improvement
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- Tam
- 23-07-2015
Insightful and possibly life changing
Thank you so much to Thomas Sterner for this work and putting it together and sharing it with the world. It is simply amazing that a slight mind shift can alters one's perception of the world around us.
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- Alan Westbrook
- 02-06-2018
Clarity Around Two Ideas
This book speaks to me perfectly and has been instrumental in changing how I spend my time and providing me with a method of achieving goals that I hadn't been exposed to before. I'm not a youngster, so have had some fairly engrained procrastination to overcome, but achieved it in 3 key areas that are important to me.
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- Lorella
- 16-12-2020
Loved it!
Simple in its concepts but so so powerful. Easy listen, to be repeated again and again. Loved it!
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- roger lewis
- 03-06-2015
a great book
one of the best books i have ever read and i read 3 books a week. this book really left me with s ome ideas i can apply to my life
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