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    The Little Book of Mind Health: A Zen Buddhist's ABC guide to living in a stressful world
    The Little Book of Mind Health: A Zen Buddhist's ABC guide to living in a stressful world
    The Little Book of Mind Health: A Zen Buddhist's ABC guide to living in a stressful world
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    The Little Book of Mind Health: A Zen Buddhist's ABC guide to living in a stressful world

    By Rod Tiller

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    In this short easy to read essay the author succinctly outlines three practical steps to improving mind health and overcoming anxiety and stress. Focused on living in a stressful world this is the first short essay to bring together mindfulness, meditation and brain nutrition under one complete approach. Avoiding jargon and complex terms this is a book which is accessible to all readers who wish to strengthen their ability to live in a world of stress and challenges. In a no nonsense Zen-like approach to stress people of all ages and situations will appreciate the simple meditation approach and the holistic approach to mind health by including nutrition for the brain as a key component of stress management.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRod Tiller
    Release dateApr 12, 2016
    ISBN9781311217028
    The Little Book of Mind Health: A Zen Buddhist's ABC guide to living in a stressful world
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    Rod Tiller

    Rod Tiller has studied Zen Buddhism for more than three decades. Now retired, he worked internationally as a management consultant and project manager. His assignments took him from dysfunctional governments to civil wars. With degrees in science, management and international and community development he brought to his work all of the technical know-how expected in a busy and often chaotic world. However it was his Buddhist outlook which gave him the ability to work successfully with diverse cultures and peoples in conflict environments. What he learned from his work and now gives to others is the understanding that simplicity in design, outlook and execution of anything gives a greater chance of sustained success. He believes that we all have much to learn about how to live in today's world and has dedicated the remainder of his time to writing about the essence of Zen and how you too can survive in conflict and chaos.

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      The Little Book of Mind Health - Rod Tiller

      Introduction

      The Mind and You

      In this book you will learn the simple truth of how to change your brain and change your life forever. The lessons in this book are taken from Zen Buddhism’s great store of learning. I have taken these great lessons and simplified them so that they are accessible to you and the many others who will read and follow the instructions in this book.

      Before we start with the three ABC lessons of awareness, breathing meditation and brain chemistry we need to get some background on how we as persons function and why we see and feel things as we do. Because we all know that there is so much angst and conflict around us it is important to come to grips with this and to know why it is as it is.

      The rest of this chapter will briefly describe how we perceive things and how that is processed in our brains. It will describe how mind works and where it arises from. Once we have established these understandings we will then explore in the following lessons the exercises to develop mindfulness, clarity of mind and a calm confident approach to everyday life.

      The first place for us to start this journey is to consider that we as persons are essentially only our brains and minds. The whole of our body exists to support our brains from which arises mind.

      Consider this: if you had no legs you are still able to survive and if you had no arms you would still be able to survive. However, if you had no lungs you would die, no liver you would die, no heart and you would die. All these major organs inside your abdomen are there to provide life to your brain. You can survive on a heart-lung machine and indeed you can survive on a liver machine. Medicine can do wonders to keep your body alive. However if you do not have a brain you are no longer alive. It sounds simple but few people ever consider this simple truth.

      In medicine they describe a condition where a person can be brain dead, but still alive, usually with the aid of machines. Even then the term alive is not really correct. If you are brain dead there is no you. There may be a body but that is not really you, it is only the hardware such as your heart and lungs, liver and kidneys which are there to keep you alive and the doctors’ machines that are keeping that hardware operating.

      So your brain is perhaps the single most important part of your body. Indeed as we have seen your body exists to keep your brain alive. And because mind arises from your brain, you, your mind, arise from your brain. You exist as your consciousness. You are literally your mind. And your mind arises from your brain with all its myriad connections.

      If our mind is really ourselves and it arises from our brain then we need to ensure that firstly, we take care of our brain, and secondly, that we understand and manage our mind. Notice that I said take care of our brain and separately I said manage mind. The two are distinctly different. The brain is the hardware part of it and the mind is the emergent result of that hardware processing

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