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  • The Practicing Mind

  • Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life
  • By: Thomas M. Sterner
  • Narrated by: Thomas M. Sterner
  • Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (8,736 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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Exceptional Reading

If you are seeking for a life-changing experience, this book will give you an amazing journey towards it

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Life Changing

Thought the content was amazing and would highly benefit from being shown in a variety of mediums. I think the authors voice was easy to listen to and understand but lacking in emotion and thus only engaging due to the weight of the content.

Overall Im very happy to have found and listened to this book.

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great book, for a self help, it really hooks you

Would you consider the audio edition of The Practicing Mind to be better than the print version?

I have not read printed version... I think this is a stupid question

Who was your favorite character and why?

there are not characters, it's self help, not a novel

What about Thomas M. Sterner’s performance did you like?

well done

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great book, for a short book (3 hours +), I really didn't expect much, but this is a very well conveyed message.

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I really enjoyed this book, I listen to a lot of focus related books, and for a 3 hour book I can't think of any better return on investment for your time. I do recommend The inner game of Tennis as well.

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Excellent

Loved it. A different way to explain the importance of being in the moment that is easy to understand.

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Wonderful book! Brief, insightful and practical

Really great read I recommend it with pure heart. Enjoyed every chapter. The author found a great and simple way to summarize all that wisdom.

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Amazing

if you can master or even grab a few of these principles and run with them, life will be much simpler with less hardships.

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Not bad

The content is not bad - a good review of the benefits of staying in the moment. The author had a number of good examples and insights from his personal experiences which made the book interesting. He should have gotten a better narrator. He made sure to pronounce every single syllable for every single word which got rather annoying. I was distracted a number of times listening to his pronunciation rather than the content.

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Awesome

Mind blowing book and I throughly enjoyed it. Easy to understand yet it's gonna take a lot of practices. This is where the fun begins.

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great book for goal setting

we all set goals but we hardly ever finished them. this book helps you to understand the process of goals, and it helps you to get through them and finish them.

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A MUST READ 📚

I greatly enjoyed and appreciate the content of this audio book. it has relevancy to every day life and we should prioritize accordingly. 😊

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