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  • The Practicing Mind

  • Bringing Discipline and Focus into Your Life
  • By: Thomas M. Sterner
  • Narrated by: Thomas M. Sterner
  • Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (131 ratings)

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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.

©2012 New World Library (P)2014 Thomas M Sterner

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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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A wonderful guide to mindful ease and productivity

A wonderful guide to mindful ease and productivity in the modern world. this book is a great guide on how to integrate mindfulness into daily life and tame the ego for a more peaceful and happy life.

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  • 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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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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Enlightening

I've listened to several self-improvement books, and have taken snippets of gold from many of them. This book is excellent at explaining presence and the how-to's of effective practise using mindful observation (though do not be deceived, this is not a book of 'woo woo' for those who might be quick to dismiss it as such with the mere mention of mindfulness). It even touches on how to teach children its concepts. I look forward to listening to it again to absorb its message more, as it is highly complementary to Atomic Habits by James Clear. Reframes practice (and life in general) in a new way. I hope to implement some strategies to see if I can get past my ego to the good stuff - the practise itself! Let the fun begin 😁

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Useful

Had to speed the book up, a little slow on the narration for me. A bit dated but took a few things away from it, so in my opinion still worth it.

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Really timely advice for me

This book is well worth the time. I highly recommend. I’ll listen to this one again regularly too

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  • 24-09-2021

Listening for the 2nd time

Actually a good book. really good, i listen to a lot of audiobooks and this is one of the few that has created a clear shift in mindset for me. Very informative and well explained. Honestly you gotta listen

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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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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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