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    How to Quiet Your Mind: Relax and Silence the Voice of Your Mind, Today!
    How to Quiet Your Mind: Relax and Silence the Voice of Your Mind, Today!
    How to Quiet Your Mind: Relax and Silence the Voice of Your Mind, Today!
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    How to Quiet Your Mind: Relax and Silence the Voice of Your Mind, Today!

    By Marc Allen

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    Is an inner dialog always going on inside you, preventing you from getting things done, making clear decisions, and concentrate on tasks at need to be done?

    How often do you intend on completing something, only to suddenly find something else (of far lesser importance) to attend to?

    How many times have you been faced with some task or resolved to learn some new creative skill only to set it aside for some menial activity with no deadline or value?

    At the end of the day, have you ever asked yourself “Why did I do that? Why did I waste so much time?”

    Are you looking to stop this?

    Are you looking for simple ways to quiet your inner voice that you can implement right now?

    If you are, this book is for you! In “How To Quiet The Mind: Relax and Silence The Voice of Your Mind, Today!” you will learn about techniques to quiet this inner voice, relax, focus on the here and now, and get your mind to cooperate with what YOU want.

    This book is intended to introduce to you the many of the benefits you will receive by quieting the mind.

    You’ll learn:
    - Very, very easy techniques that you can use starting today to quiet your inner dialogue and allow you to relieve stress and increase focus
    - What not to do when beginning to quiet the mind
    - Beginner’s meditative practices which focus on proper breathing (do you know most of us have developed some of the worst breathing habits we possibly can?), increase focus and more
    - Additional techniques that can improve your intellectual and creative capacities
    - Meditative positions (both familiar and more advanced ones) designed and developed for the purposes of increased awareness and breathing
    - Exercises that will help you in every aspect of your outward life that will allow your mind to cooperate more with your intentions and get you to focus within

    All of these are broken down into bite-sized, easy to understand areas for you to read whenever you have a few spare minutes, or just need a simple refresher.

    You’ll marvel at the simple yet powerful techniques contained within, when done properly, can dramatically change you. This is everything you need to get started today!

    You deserve the absolute best for you life, and it can all start with “How To Quiet The Mind: Relax and Silence The Voice of Your Mind, Today!”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLucky Leaf Media
    Release dateMar 28, 2014
    ISBN9781632300010
    How to Quiet Your Mind: Relax and Silence the Voice of Your Mind, Today!
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    Marc Allen

    Marc Allen is an internationally renowned author and speaker who studied Tantric Buddhism with a Tibetan teacher at the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, California. He is the author of several important books and cofounder and publisher of New World Library, one of the most successful independent publishers in the United States. He lives in Northern California.

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    How to Quiet Your Mind - Marc Allen

    How to Quiet Your Mind: An Introduction

    You might’ve heard the story before: a man goes walking through his neighborhood at night and comes across another man looking for something under a street-lamp.

    Can I help you find something? The first man asks.

    I can’t find my keys, the second man says.

    I see, says the second man. I’ve dropped my keys out here before. I know what it’s like. I’ll help you find them.

    I didn’t drop the keys out here, says the other man. I dropped them on my porch. I’m just looking out here because the lighting is better.

    As absurd as this story is, how many of us maintain exactly this sort of conversation with our inner dialogue? How many times did you, as a student, sit down to complete some important assignment, only to suddenly find something else (of far lesser importance) to attend to? How many times have you, in your adult life, been faced with some task or resolved to learn some new creative skill only to set it aside for some menial activity with no deadline or value? We’ve all been there. We’ve all been determined to do something important, only to be struck sidelong and taken off-task by some voice in our heads that encourages us to play this game or watch that show, or organize some part of our office that doesn’t need it. After hours in front of the television spent flipping through substandard programming or perhaps even more time on the internet drifting from site to unnecessary site, suddenly it’s time for bed and we’ve lost another day that we began with high expectations. Consider how many meaningful things you’ve tried to do that somehow became lost in a time-vortex of meaningless activity. It’s not uncommon that after such a day we ask ourselves, Why did I do that? Why did I waste so much time?

    The mechanisms that engage our inner dialogue go a long way toward enriching our experience as human beings, to be sure. They give us the ability to plan, anticipate, experiment, and come up with novel solutions to problems. Inner dialogue has been so successful throughout human existence, in fact, that it has devised an endless number of ways to avoid stressful situations in the modern era. The answer to why we procrastinate or otherwise fail to remain focused is actually quite simple: we’re stressed. Some part of our mind suddenly finds itself in a situation of an unpleasant or undesirable nature and bails on us.

    If the voices that distract us from work or otherwise important activities weren’t bad enough, consider the converse situation. We’ve all been here too: it’s the end of a long day, and you’re simply trying to relax and reward yourself for time well-spent and jobs well-done, only your mind doesn’t seem quite ready to shift into neutral. You perhaps find yourself stuck worrying about work when you should be enjoying time with your family or some activity that you take genuine pleasure from. This is the real tragedy of modern life. That same inner dialogue that guides us through challenging times, often with stunning grace and precision, can suddenly become trapped in a particular mode of exchange that no longer serves us once the challenges of the day have been met.

    Most of us spend our lives struggling to deal with matters at hand in the present while half of our inner dialogue is pulling us into the past or pushing us into the future. Our mind is trying to take us anywhere but right here and now. We tend to worry about the future of a task or project before it is finished. We may even find reasons why such an undertaking will be obsolete upon its very completion. Again, how many times have each of us finished something difficult, only to discover it wasn’t as necessary or important as we originally believed it would be? Doesn’t that leave us crestfallen? But what is the point of badgering oneself about the fate of things we’ve completed in the past if there is nothing we can do to change it?

    If it seems impossible to stop this inner conflict, that’s with good cause. As stated before, the inner dialogue is part of the human condition. We’re born with it and we use it so often that we’re not aware of it—there’s no way to permanently dispose of our inner dialogues. They are far too important to us. However, as luck would have it, you can quiet it down. You can work with it, even cooperate with it. You can even get it to cooperate with you, given enough practice. With patience and determination—lots of determination, admittedly—you can learn this skill for yourself, and the benefits of doing so are seemingly endless. It’s more appropriate to ask how quieting the mind can’t benefit you, since it will leave you with a much smaller list.

    This book is intended to introduce many of the benefits derived from quieting the mind. This is commonly done through meditation and other closely related practices. The reader will find it organized so that simpler techniques will be found before the more involved and time-consuming ones are covered. This should by no means discourage anyone from attempting and exploring all of these techniques, as the benefits derived from certain visualizations and mantras can far surpass simpler breathing-relaxation practices and quick stress release exercises. Suggestions and sources for additional information on the topics discussed herein may be found in some sections and readers are highly encouraged to take utmost advantage of their local libraries as well as the internet in order to cover many of these subjects in detail.

    Quieting Your Inner Dialogue

    It is advisable to start with simple changes here and there in order to develop a more helpful and communicative inner dialogue (i.e. one that isn’t harping on you at seemingly every opportunity). Many times our minds are stressed because our bodies aren’t being used in quite the way they were in past eras. In a similar vein, our minds are tackling problems and

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