Mind Time: How ten mindful minutes can enhance your work, health and happiness

by Michael Chaskalson, Dr Megan Reitz

IT TAKES JUST TEN MINUTES a day train your mind – you will feel more awake, more alive and more creative. Using these carefully researched exercises you can increase your attention span, realise your potential and use your mind to its full capacity. Yes, just ten…short … minutes.

Nearly half of our waking hours are spent thinking about something other than what we are doing. We are only aware of a tiny fraction of what we are thinking, feeling and sensing – so we’re barely conscious of how and why we behave the way we do. This book sets out to help you get your mind out of automatic more often.

The human mind is an extraordinary thing. It determines the way we experience and respond to whatever life throws at us. Yet most of us live as though we have no control over our minds. This is simply not true. If we want to change our lives in any way, the most effective way to do that is to change the way our mind is shaped – the way in which we interpret and respond to everyday events as well as to our own thoughts and feelings.

Mind Time contains simple, clear exercises that take only ten minutes per day and our research tells us that if you do these exercises, your life will change. The exercises build three core capacities – curiosity, self-awareness and acceptance. If you do them, and build these capacities, you will become less reactive and more responsive. This will lead to positive benefits in several key your relationships, your ability to deal with unexpected events and your capacity to stay purposeful and to see your life as a matter of choices rather than seemingly impossible challenges.

Just set aside ten minutes each day to engage in a few simple practices, then after a short while you will start to see a transformation for the better. That’s our promise to you. Isn’t it time we learned to shape our minds – not be shaped by them?

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction

226 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 22, 2018

Reviews

[Raju Vusirikala · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great read and practical tips to implement in our daily lives. AIM (Allow-Inquire-MetaAware) is one key concept brings in lot of change on our thinking and behaviours. Author devoted dedicated chapters to apply AIM for various situations/scenarios - happiness, effective work, better health, better work-life balance, when times are tough. On AIM journey for better life.

[B · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book read more like an infomercial, and the authors wrote from an evolutionary worldview which I don't agree with. Overall, the book was not enjoyable and I don't recommend it.

[Julie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Eh, there are much better books on Mindfulness.

[Kaido · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[W Saad · Rating 1 out of 5]

Pushed myself to read beyond page 40 but couldn’t … repetitive & boring in a way. Needed a boost but that book didn’t help at all.

[Lee Belbin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was able to skim read this book in a few hours. Most of it wasn't new to me, but I had come at the key points from a different direction - hardly 'Mind Time', which I found somewhat 'Californian' (apologies to the locals :). So I was amused this was from the UK. There you go. If the concept of mindfulness is new to you, this book could be very helpful. It did come over to me as a hard sell though. As a reference or checklist, it could be good for those like me who need a reminder.

[Oonagh · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed the book but preferred Michaels book with an 8 week course purely because it was practical and built my practice - this is useful if you’ve already started there I think but less useful as a starting point itself.