Zusammenfassung
For centuries, spirituality has told us that the answer to life’s problems lies within us, if only we would realize that we are more than what we imagine. Now, scientific understanding is showing us the way. For humans, anxiety is the background “fever” that never breaks but can often get much worse. Whether the causes are individual, relational, cultural, or pandemic problems, when they occur, they affect our ability to live a joyful and creative life. This often means getting mired in uncontrolled mind loops and incessant circular thinking, making us feel helpless and stuck. In this book, Jaime Pineda shows how the dynamics of anxiety and incessant rumination reflect uncontrolled creativity, and how using simple, time-tested techniques we can learn to control the chaos and recover our creative nature.
The key to the solution is to understand that the intellect only helps to some extent, but by itself cannot solve its own problem. What we need is a mind that can, in a nonjudgmental way, distance itself from the thought patterns that trap us. We are born with an incredible, original mind that quickly becomes obscured by the fever of fear and anxiety. But we can recover this mind quickly. Pineda teaches us how to recognize the basic problem and find the solution through a series of steps and techniques that help bring us out of the loops and recover a cleaner mindset that enables us to move beyond the static of anxiety.
Schlagworte
Depression Zen Meditation student resources personal success self help mental illness Personal growth zen Buddhism original brain mindful methods mindfulness and anxiety mindfulness and depression monkey brain monkey mind runaway thoughts buddhist philosophyKeywords
psychology anxiety mental health mindfulness- Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
- 1–4 Introduction 1–4
- 185–190 Glossary 185–190
- 191–200 Notes 191–200
- 201–210 Bibliography 201–210
- 211–224 Index 211–224
- 225–226 About the Author 225–226
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- „... , self-destructive persona that had taken over and imprisoned her, Stephanie sought help and explored different ...” „... self-centered actions, motives, and thoughts. It causes confusion and helplessness when unmanaged. The solution ...” „... reflected on my actions and saw them as self-deception or confabulation that helped me deal with the problem ...”
- „... self-esteem, fear of failing, lack of a social network offering support, and lack of trust in others caused ...” „... lay not in her own weak self, but in the storyteller’s truthfulness. Questioning that assumption led ...” „... ego-self separation.The second half of this book describes in greater detail the four stages necessary for ...”
- „... exercises throughout the book to help you bring about this change. I call the first set of exercises ...” „... thinking. Self-Parenting the Mind is the second class of exercises to discipline the uncontrolled mind. The ...” „... self-parenting, which means consciously choosing the relationship you want to have with yourself, as if with a ...”
- „... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58Chapter 5 Setting the Stage through Self-Parenting the Mind ...” „... spiritual journey and played a sim-ilar, helpful role. My heart is full for having met and studied with Joko ...”