Should be required reading for any MBA student

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	• Mental Resilience: The Power of Clarity: How to Develop the Focus of a Warrior and the Peace of a Monk Kamal Sarma New World Library, 2008 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 4 reviews view larger image
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Should be required reading for any MBA student

Let's face it, we're all inundated by noise. Work is becoming all more consuming, and gadgets like the Blackberry don't help. Work has consumed our lives, making it difficult to balance our thoughts and ideas.

As a businessperson, I too have allowed work to consume my life. My crackberry habits were destructive both from the family front as they were in making me an ineffective decision maker. When a friend first introduced me to this book, my flippant reaction was negative as I neither like Tofu nor do I have any crystals. To my surprise, neither does the author. In fact, he too comes from a similar business background to my own, an MBA as ex management consultant with a global highly recognized name. I could relate perfectly with his "real world" examples in his book.

Regardless of your own background, this book is perfect for any beginner to novice looking for ways to both declutter and find balance. Unlike other books on the subject, this book gives those good introduction as to why meditation is important, let alone offering constructive instructions as to how best to implement. I say this as I admit I was an utter failure my first few times. But following Kamal's voice on the CD, along with the reading, made it all the easier for me to begin. Trust me, meditation may be silence, but for those of us who's lives are consumed by everyday noise, meditation takes practice. This book is an excellent source of information as it is instructive.

I highly recommend this book to other business leaders and decision makers. After you've experienced this, you'll find you too will be recommending this book and CD.

Silence is bliss.

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Mental Resilience

Meditation has been a regular part of my daily routine for quite some time. I find that through this practice, I am far more calm, centered, and productive. In taking just a little time out from the chaos of my day, I realize that a lot of the worries that I fixate on aren't really all that important to who I am, how I live my life, or in loving those around me. Even in the midst of my most difficult life experiences, I gain perspective and find meaning in the situation.

Mental Resilience is one of those books that I wish I would have had years ago when I first started to meditate. This book is perfect for those who want to explore meditation but don't know where to begin. In the first part of the book, the author answers common questions and clears up misconceptions about the practice. Then, in the second portion of the book, the author presents a variety of meditation stepping stones that the reader can practice to become more and more adept. Accompanying the book is a CD with all of the meditations for ease of use.

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Absorbing book, corny subtitles

The book is about meditation for professionals in fields such as software, finance, engineering, and medicine. The book cover is unattractive, the binding feels cheap, the author looks like a dork in the back cover photo and the sub-titles are cliches. Even the title is not catchy enough. However, the book is powerful reading. The author wisely does not use the word "meditation" in the title as some educated professionals are put off by the word which implies giving up sensual pleasure and that too with hard work and concentration that they want to get away from in the first place. The book does not delve on spirituality, peace, faith, bliss, or nirvana; though it is about that and more.

Mental clutter debilitates our thought process. Unwinding helps. However, many a times we are simply numbing ourselves temporarily with TV, alcohol, and diversions without redressing issues with clear thought. This book takes you beyond hedonistic relaxation. The book has exercises to lead you through stages of meditation including relaxation, deeply calm, emotional tranquility, insight and wisdom.

The accompanying CD is sparse but requisite for putting the book's precepts into practice.

I have just started to implement the techniques, so I cannot comment on the results, but I am optimistic.

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Do you frequently feel stressed, overwhelmed, depressed, anxious? Do your thoughts sometimes have too much control over you? What if you could focus your mind and find peace in any situation?

We all face challenges ? complex decisions, difficult personalities, constant demands on our time ? but we don?t have to be at their mercy. By developing the skills outlined in this book, which create what author Kamal Sarma calls mental resilience, we become able to meet these challenges with clarity. Both warriors and monks have for centuries made training their minds, developing mental resilience, a key priority. Through this training, they are able to silence incessant mental chatter and live a life of awareness, peace, and focus. Kamal draws upon his roles as a former student of Eastern spiritual practices and a successful Western corporate advisor to present a step-by-step guide to developing mental resilience. Through a progressive program and a guided-practice CD, Kamal provides models and metaphors that will help you clear your mind of repetitive, unhelpful thoughts and improve your ability to make decisions. You will learn how to reduce stress, maintain clarity in any situation, and discover an abiding calm within.

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