Quiet Your Mind - Softcover

Selby, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844135624 ISBN 13: 9781844135622

Publisher: Rider, 2004

Synopsis

Psychologist teacher and therapist John Selby shows how the non-stop chatter of our minds and our own fear-based thoughts so easily catch us up in negative destructive mindsets such as irritation worry impatience guilt inadequacy hostility shame and despair. Quiet Your Mind provides an easily-accessible toolbox for rising above harmful thoughts and regaining inner peace by shifting at will into a special 'quiet mind' state of awareness where reflective thinking stops and true spontaneous enjoyment of life begins.

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About the Author

John Selby has spent his professional life studying meditation. Growing up in California, he met, and became the student and friend of, Krishnamurti. He also studied with a number of other great living teachers and then turned to an academic exploration of the psychological foundations of spirituality at Princeton and UC Berkeley as well as carrying out mind research for various bodies including the National Institute of Mental Health. He did fieldwork on shamanistic practices with the Hopi Indians and tribes in highland Guatemala, also maintaining his therapy and training centres in California and Europe. He is the author of over two dozen highly successful books, including Seven Masters, One Path; Kundalini Awakening in Everyday Life; Conscious Healing and Immune System Activation. He lives in Kilauea, Hawaii.

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EXCERPT FROM INTRODUCTION:

For hundreds of years now, Western civilization has become more and more engulfed in the thinking mind’s grand assumption that its own mental chatter and nonstop flow of judgments and worries is the most important happening on planet Earth. Ever since Descartes made his intellectual’s assertion Cogito, ergo sum – "I think, therefore I am" – the talkative function generating our stream-of-consciousness commentary on everything happening around us has gained free reign to dominate almost every moment of our lives.

I would like to quietly yet forcefully challenge this ego assumption that we function best, and enjoy life to the fullest, when we’re habitually engaged in nonstop mental reflections, worries, plottings, and judgments. In exact contrast, this book will demonstrate that only through regularly quieting the entire flow of thoughts, images, memories, and reflections that fill our minds can we regain intimate and fulfilling contact with sensory, intuitive, and heart-felt experiences that emerge when we shift into direct encounter with the world around us.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rider
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844135624
• ISBN 13: 9781844135622
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258