by Kessuda Boonngamanong
You cannot stop having thoughts, but you can shift your focus to what is essential and helpful.
"Peaceful Mind, Awakened Life" provides accessible tools and exercises to help you shift your focus, cultivate concentration, manage stress, and develop self-awareness and emotional awareness. With the concise and powerful TRAIN technique, you can gradually feel confident that you are in control of your thinking.
Your thoughts create your emotions; you can learn to understand and care for them healthily.
The step-by-step practice outlined in this self-help book is natural, intuitive, and empowering. It builds confidence through progressively advanced exercises. Moreover, readers learn to recognize and control unhelpful thoughts, manage their emotions, and take the right actions. This practice fosters inner peace, enhances concentration, and empowers individuals to take proactive steps.
Overcome difficulties, become proactive, and enjoy your life.
The book includes personal anecdotes from the author and other TRAIN practitioners, highlighting the real-life impact and transformative experiences associated with the practice. It serves as a gentle and unique guide to self-understanding and empowerment, making the outlined goals feel achievable and immensely valuable in improving everyday quality of life.
These powerful techniques help you to relieve stress and anxiety immediately.
Additionally, a unique offering called Mahasati (Kayanupassana Sathi) mindfulness practice, offering rhythmic movement, is handy for individuals who find it challenging to maintain stillness in meditation.
Feel confident that you are in control of your mind.
The author, Kessuda, originally a well-known mindfulness teacher from Thailand and a long-time Buddhist practitioner, generously shares her extensive knowledge of mindfulness, skills, and personal experiences in this book. Her deep understanding and wisdom gained from a lifelong commitment to mindfulness make it a valuable resource for cultivating awareness, dealing with difficulties, and finding joy in life.
Lastly, if you love a handy book with a beautiful design, inspired illustrations that help you understand the mind, exercises in the book rather than words, and space to take notes, this book is suitable for you and those you care about.
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PRAISE
“There are many guides out there on mindfulness and its benefits, but few are as clear and practical as Kessuda’s Peaceful Mind, Awakened Life. Especially useful are Kessuda’s real-life examples of the ways that mindfulness can be applied to our everyday lives through the practical exercises at the end of each chapter. These ensure that the reader will not only grasp but apply the concepts they’ve learned, constantly learning and developing their ability to work with their body and mind. An excellent guide for those wanting to learn the practice of mindfulness, as well as for those wishing to deepen their existing knowledge of this powerful tool for transformation.”
—Zuisei Goddard, Zen teacher, and author of “Still Running”