Why do we want to train our mind?
The purpose of training your mind is to
- Be clam, collected, and concentrated all the time (especially when making decision).
- Enable the mind to analyze things quickly.
FAQ for Mind Training
Q: How can you find time to meditate?
A: You don’t need a lot of time. You can use the time that you have to wait for something. Five minutes would be quite sufficient.
Q: Do you need a spiritual teacher?
A: Yes, but you should assess the ability of the teacher first. The teacher should use his experience, not just follow the book. Once you have chosen a teacher, you should abide by his teaching. It is important to learn with doubt. Take his knowledge, not his words.
Simple techniques to train mind
The four main meditation approaches are walking meditation, sitting meditation, one-pointed meditation, and analytical mediation
Walking meditation
This is the simplest approach. The purpose is to develop the mindfulness and concentration, and the ability to observe when the emotion becomes active in the brain.
Walking meditation proceed as follows. As you walk, focus your body: Your legs, your feet, your steps, etc. Do not think of the pass nor the future. Focus at the present. Be mindful all the time. When your mind shift, bring it back.
Sitting meditation
Your activity affects your breathing. You hold your breath when you lift a heavy thing. You breathe quickly when you are excited. You can use your breathing to control your emotion and your mind.
When doing sitting meditation, sit with your back straight. Do not lean on anything, or you will be sleepy. Focus on your breathing only. When you breath in to fill up your stomach. Breath out to deflate your stomach. Each breathing should take 4-6 seconds. If you attention shifts, bring it back to your breathing.
One pointed meditation
Similar to the first two meditation. But this time focus your mind on an object such as a picture of forest. Focus on the picture only. Again, if your attention shift, bring it back.
Analytical meditation
Focus on a certain subject. Think and reason with one subject only. This type of meditation helps gain deeper insight into the subject you are focusing on.
Source: THE Leader's Way: Business, Buddhism and happiness in an interconnected world by His Holyiness The Dalai Lama and Laurens Van Den Muyzenberg, Chapter 3 [Read the Book Review] [Read the Next Part].
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Book or Audiobooks?
Personally, I prefer audiobooks. It's fun, and I can listen when I'm doing something else. It also makes other activities (e.g., jogging) a lot more fun. For more detail about audiobooks, please read [this post].
There is one more reason that may encourage you to go for the audiobook version. You can get it now for FREE. Audible offers you a free trial for 14 days. Even if you get the book and cancel the subscription right away (so that you don't have to pay), you can keep the book. And, don't worry if you lost the audiobook file. Just log into audible.com. You can keep downloading the over and over again.About the summary: It takes time to finish up a book. And, when you do, sometimes, you want to review what you learn from the book. If you do not make notes as you read, you might have to go through the book once again. This can be time-consuming when you are dealing with a book. But you can still flip through the book and locate what you are looking for
However, when the material is an audiobook, it is extremely hard to locate a specific part of content. Most likely you will have to listen to the entire audiobook once again.
This book summary will help solve the pain of having to go through the book all over again.
I am leaving out the details of the books. Most books have interesting examples and case studies, not included here. Reading the original book would be much more entertaining and enlightening. If you like the summary, you may want to get the original from the source below.
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