El pensamiento profundo y original es uno de los recursos de energía más poderosos que existen. Aprovecharlo, tal y como lleva haciéndolo la cultura tibetana Bön, puede aportarnos gran éxito espiritual, emocional y financiero. El problema reside en que, la mayoría de nosotros, no sabemos pensar adecuadamente para poder recoger los beneficios de estos cambios vitales. Tal y como explica el experto en medicina tibetana Christopher Hansard, lo que creemos que son pensamientos, a menudo no son más que meras reacciones ante nuestro entorno y no tienen que ver con la energía del pensamiento efectiva que tiene el poder de transformar la vida. En esta estimulante obra, Christopher Hansard imparte las técnicas tibetanas tradicionales de la cultura Bön necesarias para tomar las riendas de nuestro pensamiento y crear la vida que deseamos vivir. El autor comparte con nosotros una serie de sencillas meditaciones y ejercicios extraídos de un profundo conocimiento personal de las enseñanzas tibetanas mediante los cuales podemos relacionarnos con la energía del pensamiento positivo. Nos muestra cómo aplicar esta mezcla única de sabiduría práctica y conocimiento espiritual a todas las áreas de la trabjo, finanzas, libertad, amor, relaciones y bienestar. Christopher Hansard ha recibido formación en las tradiciones espirituales y médicas de las antiguas prácticas tibetanas Bön desde que tenía 4 años, siendo en la actualidad un destacado especialista. Asimismo ocupa el puesto de director de la clínica Affairs en el centro médico Eden de Londres.
Anyone who ever read or had interest in reading "The Secret" should give this a read instead. Rather than simply arguing for the effectiveness of positive thought, it delves into the practical and metaphysical mechanics of how thought patterns resonate as circumstances, as well as giving dozens and dozens of useful visualizations and meditative techniques for actually training your brain for positivity thought the same way you train your body for health.
You can actually use this book to build a custom meditation regimen that focuses on your problem areas of thinking, the same way a custom workout regimen nails your trouble spots.
A wonderfully written and easy to understand book on Buddhism. Sometimes in reading sacred texts, ideas and philosophies becomes somewhat of a college course rather than pleasurable reading. This book is very useful in lessons of forgiveness, spreading yourself too thin and learning to have a balanced relationship with yourself. Very easy meditations suggested with visuals that make integrating them as a part of daily life quite easy. You don't have to read this book chapter to chapter. Great advice on work life, friendships and family living. Wonderful read.
Skilful thoughts for successful living. That's what the cover says. On the inside, this book is very clear about one thing: Through Thought we create our world. And yes box, we sure do.
A book I will reread more than once, I already know!
Hansard touches on some great points and speaks about Bön in a light I have never heard before. The stories are greAt and the examples. I enjoyed the end and also the idea of which thoughts you should not harness and why you do. Integrity, identity, thoughts, this book helps you grow into the best you.
book itself is quite good, but maybe this is translation issue, the meditation technique is strange. also author describes one successful example in each chapter, and i would say they are too good to be true.
I like this book. It has a sort of fairy-tale beginning when the author is chosen by his master on some random beach, and his parents actually let him go off and study with the guy.
What I hate about it: the meditations are often extremely confusing, and so sometimes I have to keep re-reading them, which makes it not at all like meditating. Also, the stories at the end of each meditation that prove how amazing that meditation is are really really hokey. Really, he's a fairly bad writer, but you can tell that he's a good teacher (unfortunately I'm very picky about my prose).
Anyone have a good suggestion for a beginner's alternative?
What I love about this book: it opened my eyes to a lot of the issues I never knew I had, and it's helped me to be more mindful. I hadn't heard my heart beat since the fifth grade, I think, and that's in a lot of the exercises. It helped me survive a break-up.
I could not bring myself to trust the author, and ultimately could not finish the book. While I definitely do agree that worlds are created and destroyed in our minds by our thoughts and perceptions, to claim to use the power of your thoughts to change the course of other people's lives or to cause someone to do something that they would not otherwise have done is either dishonest or delusional. We do not control the actions or thoughts of others, but are indeed the masters of our own mental headspace and our own actions.
A nourishing book I would say. The introduction is called “Fire in the Heart”! This book teaches about skillful thinking and how to train your brain to think positive and move away from negative thinking – really good training for me. I loved this book and will read it again and again I know.
This is really a reference book, to go back to over and over again, each time gleaning more wisdom. The thought focus work, like anything practiced repetitively, becomes more powerful through time; one learns to have a trained mind. Fantastic book.
Inspiring book. Deep, with common sense. Budhist chamanism. Realistic exercises. It´s good for a chage in your life. It´s a good book to give to someone as a token of appreciation.
Picked this up in a second hand bookstore for 1 pound ages ago and have now bought it for all my friends!! My go to book whenever I need a life pick me up! Wonderful
Christopher presented some great ideas to think about and integrate into life, but I find many of them difficult and can't really figure out where to start.