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FREE GET SOME HEADSPACE: 10 MINUTES CAN MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE PDF Andy Puddicombe | 272 pages | 04 Sep 2012 | Hodder & Stoughton General Division | 9781444722208 | English | London, United Kingdom Get Some Headspace: 10 Minutes Can Make All the Difference - Andy Puddicombe - Google книги Andy Puddicombe, founder of the much publicised Headspace, is on a mission: to get people to take 10 minutes out of their day to sit in the here and now. Here he shares his simple to learn, but highly effective techniques of meditation. Accessible and portable, these powerful techniques promise amazing results. Quiet the mind, feel less stressed, less tired and achieve a new level of calm and fulfilment. By following the daily exercises you will start to experience literally life changing results. The benefits of mindfulness and meditation are now well documented with doctors Get Some Headspace: 10 Minutes Can Make All the Difference their patients to give it a try. Get Some Headspace: 10 Minutes Can Make All the Difference brings this ancient practice into the modern world, tailor made for the most time starved among us. For beginners and seasoned meditators alike, here is the opportunity to harness and develop skills that will combat the negative symptoms of our fast paced world, and that once learned, will last a lifetime. Andy Puddicombe started learning to meditate at the age of 11, and explored various approaches throughout his teens. In his early twenties he decided to act on his hunch that there had to be more to life, and set off to Asia to become a Buddhist monk. He became a fully ordained monk at a Tibetan Monastery in the Indian Himalayas, and spent many years living in monasteries and retreats throughout the world. Andy returned to the UK in with one simple intention: to demystify meditation, to make it accessible, relevant and beneficial to as many people as possible. And thus the seeds of Headspace were sown. Andy Puddicombe. The Headspace Guide to Get Some Headspace: 10 minutes can make all the difference by Andy Puddicombe Andy Puddicombe, founder of the much publicised Headspace, is on a mission: to get people to take 10 minutes out of their day to sit in the here and now. Here he shares his simple to learn, but highly effective techniques of meditation. Accessible and portable, these powerful techniques promise amazing results. Get Some Headspace: 10 Minutes Can Make All the Difference the mind, feel less stressed, less tired and achieve a new level of calm and fulfilment. By following the daily exercises you will start to experience literally life changing results. The benefits of mindfulness and meditation are now well documented with doctors advising their patients to give it a try. Andy brings this ancient practice into the modern world, tailor made for the most time starved among us. For beginners and seasoned meditators alike, here is the opportunity to harness and develop skills that will combat the negative symptoms of our fast paced world, and that once learned, will last a lifetime. Andy Puddicombe started learning to meditate at the age of 11, and explored various approaches throughout his teens. In his early twenties he decided to act on his hunch that there had to be more to life, and set off to Asia to become a Buddhist monk. He became a fully ordained monk at a Tibetan Monastery in the Indian Himalayas, and spent many years living in monasteries and retreats throughout the world. Andy returned to the UK in with one simple intention: to demystify meditation, to make it accessible, relevant and beneficial to as many people as possible. And thus the seeds of Headspace were sown. I imagined it as a place that was free from thoughts and feelings. I received some excellent instruction during this time, but the style in which it was delivered only served to reinforce many of the erroneous ideas I had about it. In no time I became a nervous wreck. But with every extra ounce of effort I moved further away from that which I was seeking. The other monks from the local area looked perfectly relaxed. In fact, there were a few who seemed to regularly nod off. After a little while my teacher realized that I was putting in too much effort and instructed me to try less. But by this stage I was putting too much effort into everything. Even into trying less. This struggle went on for some time until I was fortunate enough to meet a teacher who seemed to have a natural gift for story-telling, for explaining things in a way I could easily understand. The road He began by asking me to imagine I was sitting on the side of a very busy road, with a blindfold around my head. Because of all the background noise in the mind, all the thoughts, it means that even when you sit down to relax or go to bed at night, it still feels as though this noise continues, yes? You see the cars racing by, the different colors, shapes and sizes. Maybe sometimes you are attracted by the sound of the cars, at other times more interested in their appearance. They start to blame their thoughts and feelings on the meditation. Can you believe it? All it does is shine a big bright light on your mind so that you can see it more clearly. This bright light is awareness. I wondered if perhaps I was beyond help altogether, that no amount of meditation was going to help. It turns out that this is a surprisingly common feeling though, so be reassured if you feel this way too. My teacher seemed to sense where I was going and interrupted my thoughts. Sometimes people try to stop the thoughts through force. At other times they try and ignore them, to think about something else instead. Or if the thoughts are very interesting, then they might try to encourage them and get Get Some Headspace: 10 Minutes Can Make All the Difference in them. But all these tactics are just ways of trying to avoid the reality of what is. Sound familiar? Once again, he was right. It summed up my life in general. Seeing the chaos of my mind when I Get Some Headspace: 10 Minutes Can Make All the Difference to meditate had simply triggered the habitual tendency to jump in and take charge, to sort Get Some Headspace: 10 Minutes Can Make All the Difference out. But it turns out no amount of Get Some Headspace: 10 Minutes Can Make All the Difference will result in a feeling of calm. My teacher continued by making a suggestion. What happens then? What happens when you stay on the side of the road and just watch as the traffic goes past? It might feel as if you are simply an observer, watching the thoughts, the traffic, go by. This is what happens when you experience a pleasant thought. You see it, get caught up in it, and end up chasing after the thought. But the moment you do, in that momentyou have the opportunity to take up your position on the side of the road again. This is the process of meditation. It all made so much sense, at least theoretically. If I was just sitting there as an observer to the thoughts, then who was doing the thinking? What about those thoughts? They came to mind. It was almost as if I already knew it at some level, but had somehow forgotten to apply the idea to my life. In the same way that the road was built for cars to journey on, so the mind exists to experience thoughts and feelings. Only you know the answer to Get Some Headspace: 10 Minutes Can Make All the Difference. Do those moments of inspiration come from cold, rational thinking, or do they arise from the stillness and the spaciousness of the mind? If you want to direct your mind and use it well, then good. Every point seemed to be as important as the next. For me it was a radically different way of approaching meditation, and I suspect it may well be for you too. It was a process of giving up control, of stepping back, learning how to focus the attention in a passive way, while simply resting the mind in its own natural awareness. My teacher had explained how it was a skill, an art, knowing how to step back and how not to get continually sucked into the realm of endless, unproductive and often stressful thinking. Over the next few weeks I became increasingly enthusiastic about my meditation. This new way of approaching the same technique had been a revelation. It seemed to make a difference the very first time I tried it. At times the mind continued to be very busy, just as my teacher had promised, but on other occasions it became very, very quiet. It was as if the volume of cars on the road had decreased to such an extent that I could now see the individual cars a lot more clearly. Not only that, but the space between these cars was now longer, wider, bigger. In fact, sometimes there appeared to be no cars at all. As it turns out, though, it is in not doing that those moments arise. It is stepping back and allowing the mind to unwind in its own time and its own way that you will find a genuine sense of headspace. Sure, sitting on the side of the road Get Some Headspace: 10 Minutes Can Make All the Difference fine for a little while, but before long I found myself impatiently waiting for more progress.