Books : Slowing Down to the Speed of Life: How To Create A More Peaceful, Simpler Life From the Inside Out
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by: Richard Carlson, Josephy Bailey
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9780062514547
ISBN: 0062514547
Label: HarperOne
Manufacturer: HarperOne
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: May 01, 1998
Publisher: HarperOne
Release Date: April 21, 1998
Sales Rank: 118086
Studio: HarperOne
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Product Description:
Feel like you're always rushing but never catching up?Are you doing more, but enjoying it less? The frantic pace and pressure of modern life can take a serious toll on your happiness and your health'but there is one way to step off the treadmill without giving up your career or your activities. The answer lies not in sacrificing your work productivity or your lifestyle but rather in changing your attitudes. By using simple exercises to slow down your mind and focus on the present moment, you can actually achieve greater productivity and creativity-all while maintaining a calmer, healthier state of mind.
Slowing Down to the Speed of Life helps you:
- Slow down your life without downsizing your lifestyle
- Enjoy the increased creativity and productivity that flow from inner calm
- Free yourself from the stressful influence of other peoples' habits, attitudes, behaviors, and moods
- Attain a sense of satisfaction with your life'and be happy!
Amazon.com:
This is the book for you if you've ever had the urge to tell off your boss, quit your job, hurl your Palm Pilot into the trash, and move to a farm. Written by bestselling stress consultant and psychotherapist Dr. Richard Carlson Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, it advocates the cultivation of a personal mindfulness and 'thought navigation' to foster a sense of mental calmness and increased creativity and productivity.
With sage tips reminiscent of those in Jon Kabat-Zinn's Wherever You Go, There You Are, Carlson recommends a 'Psychology of Mind' approach that involves being fully present in each situation and not letting the attitudes of others ruin your day. This way, your thoughts become more organized--wiser, if you will--and you get more work done without even trying. This time management trick is what he says will improve your life--not a cell phone or an electronic scheduler or a personal assistant. Carlson's advice can be taken to heart, as he's used these techniques to improve his own life. While he was working on his Ph.D., he rose at 4 a.m. and 'gulped down ten or fifteen cups of coffee' each day just to get all his work done, and would bristle if family emergencies took him away from his studying.
Not only does Carlson promise to help boost one's productivity, but he says that relationships and intimacy will improve as well. He maintains that disagreements--at home or at work--are less likely to blow up into full-fledged arguments if you're being calm and levelheaded. 'A mind operating at the speed of life can see things as they really are,' he writes. 'Slowing down gives you needed perspective during times of transition and stress. When you operate at the speed of life and your child desires privacy, you'll probably remember that almost all teenagers go through phases of wanting space from their parents....Rather than take it personally, you'll be able to see the bigger picture. If your mind is moving too quickly, events as well as your own thoughts about events become much larger than they really are.'
For anyone fed up with life's chaos, Slowing Down to the Speed of Life should prove to be an immensely helpful mental health manual. --Erica Jorgensen
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A MUST READ !!!
I read this book during a stressful semester of college while I was also running my own business. After I started reading this book my stress levels dropped 80% in just a day...and stayed that way. There's some REALLY great advice in this book about how to think in such a way that you limit stress and enjoy more of life. An AWESOME book!!
Rating: - Helps me feel consistently joyful
Another reviewer was saying that it's repetetive and doesn't give answers. I too was wanting more answers halfway through the book. Then I realized that the one thing not mentioned in the book is how to deal with GUILT. If you practice the concepts taught in the book then dealing with that too will come with time. You come to the realization that you can't get more answers because there aren't any. As others said, it's based on Buddhist concepts. There is no order or closure or answer to your ... Read More
Rating:  - Reviewed by A. Ellingson
Personal Assessment
I am typically not a reader of self-help books or publications, but a colleague recommended this book to me after he continually heard me complain about how I can never seem to get ahead in my life with graduate school in the evenings, a stressful work environment with frequent travel, a 2-year old, while trying to maintain a healthy relationship with my wife. I was pleasantly surprised with the book. I always used to make lists, cross off items on the list which only resulted ... Read More
Rating: - Sometimes Slower Is Faster
As CEO Coach, Poet and author of a leadership book that helps leaders unleash their genius, the genius of teams and the genius of corporations, I have learned to slow down my thoughts and live a more peaceful life. My mentor told me once that slower is faster. This book helped me realize the truth of that statement. I now help CEO's find a slower, peaceful place to lead from and their businesses seem to move faster. Read this one now. Paul David Walker Unleashing Genius: Leading Yourself, Teams and Corporations
Rating: - Buddism? Zen?
Many of the reviews say that the principles are taken from Buddism and Zen. As I read it I kept thinking that's exactly what the bible teaches.
With different names for free thinking and thought attacks etc.
I thought it was excellent and explained in clinical terms what the bible describes in spiritual terms. The ideas are ones that I have found to be true as a christian and was delighted to find that science had discovered the truth about mental health.
focusing on thoughts will lead ... Read More
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