(Part 2) Top products from r/ZenHabits
We found 34 product mentions on r/ZenHabits. We ranked the 61 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Riverhead Books
22. Ama Dios: 9 AoL Consciousness Books Combined (AoL Mindfulness Book 111)
Sentiment score: 12
Number of reviews: 1
23. Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
all about the dangers of wheat, carbs, and sugars, the brain's silent killers
25. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
FlowThe Psychology of Optimal ExperienceEnglishFirst EditionPaperback
26. Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Search Inside Yourself The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success Happiness and World Peace
27. Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
Harper Perennial
28. One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
29. The 48 Laws of Power
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
The 48 Laws of Power
30. Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Fully Revised and Updated for 2018
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Penguin Books
31. 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
32. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
The Checklist Manifesto How to Get Things Right
33. After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
36. Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
BusinessNetworkRelationshipsNever Eat AloneKeith Ferrazzi
37. My Voice Will Go with You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
If you aren't being facetious... start with these books:
These are all easy books to blow off. You can dismiss The Compassionate Life as a guidebook for letting other people take advantage of you. You can dismiss Never Eat Alone as the egotistical scrambling of a sleazy salesman. You can dismiss Anger as a hand-wavey tome of feel good nonsense. If you're tempted to do so, I urge you to suspend your judgment and pour yourself into them. Here's why:
From Anger, I learned not to let my fear of feeling and sharing emotions prevent me from opening myself up to other people. The book is about anger, but it applies to everything: jealousy, fear, anxiety, confusion, even joy. It taught me to treat my negative feelings as a part of myself that deserved compassion and nurturing just like anything or anyone else I care about.
From Never Eat Alone, I learned the value of trust and openness. The point of "networking" isn't to collect business cards and shine your teeth at people; it's to establish an extended family of people who you genuinely care about, and thus, through inevitable cause and effect, who genuinely care about you. You don't have to be married to someone or see them every day to love and care about them. You just have to treat them like a human being, and not hide the truth of your human-ness out of fear of being judged.
Finally, from The Compassionate Life, I learned that I'm not the only one walking this path. It gave me the determination to continue walking, even in the face of judgment, ridicule, and skepticism from many people around me. It solidified my hunch that, in the right hands, compassion is a great strength, and not a weakness. It helped me learn to forgive myself and others, even for what felt like irrecoverable wounds or betrayals. More than that, it helped me learn from those wounds, and it helped me learn from the forgiveness. It gave me strength.
That's all I've got for the moment!
I'm definitely not denying the usefulness of skepticism or epistemology (or philosophy). I'm a habitual devil's advocate - I think strongly challenging and testing beliefs plays an important role in discovering where a belief fits in our "scope of truth."
However, when I mention the Matrix, I'm thinking specifically about the brain in a vat problem ("We're all in a simulation!"). It's an interesting idea that plays off of an "obvious" truth (we can't step outside of our minds), but it doesn't provide much practical value beyond intellectual fancying (which is fine, but it's nothing more than that). I feel a similar way about David Chalmers philosophical zombies too.
Don't get me wrong, I think thought experiments can be valuable (I like many of the ones Daniel Dennett describes in his book Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking), but they also have a tendency to come off more insightful than they really are.
I recognize philosophy as very important and very practical to know (in general), but some philosophy is definitely more practical than others. That's the lesson I gain from pragmatism.
Ama Dios (9 AoL Consciousness Books Combined) FREE this weekend. Enjoy exploring all the books and please leave a review or two! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NL6WBFR
Amazon Links to the 9 AoL books
https://www.amazon.com/Natasa-Pantovic/e/B00TUA1528
Ama Alchemy of Love Historical Fiction https://www.amazon.com/Ma-Ms-Natasa-Nuit-Pantovic/dp/9995754193
Mindful Eating https://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Eating-Exercises-Delicious-Mindfulness/dp/9995754029
Conscious Parenting https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Parenting-Mindful-Mindfulness-Training/dp/9995754045
Conscious Creativity https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Creativity-Mindfulness-Meditations-Training/dp/9995754118
Art of 4 Elements https://www.amazon.com/Art-Elements-Discover-Mindfulness-Training/dp/9995754002
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Mindful Being https://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Being-towards-Mindfulness-Training/dp/9995754037
Spiritual Symbols https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Symbols-Meanings-mindfulness-training/dp/9995754126
Tree of Life https://www.amazon.com/Tree-Life-Spiritual-Mindfulness-Training/dp/9995754134
I've read 59 Seconds by Richard Wiseman, the psychologist who conducted this experiment. It's a fantastic and an entertaining book. If you like to read stories more like the one in the post, give this book a shot.
Unfortunately, The Goenka groups tend to be a bit exclusionary, which is a bit off the point of the Dharma. Hence, you are not aware of the extensive number of vipassana centers around the world.
"The" Dharma Organization? You may want to consider a very good book by Joseph Goldstein called One Dharma.
There are countless vipassana centers that are not Goenka based around the world. I cannot name them all, but here are a few:
Great Britian: Sharpham; Gia House.
New Zealand: Bodhinyanarama
Australia: Buddhist Society of Western Australia
Ecuador: Centro de Meditación
Germany, Netherlands, Singapore, etc: International Meditation Centres.
And here are more within and outside the US..
Thanks for the list. I also recommend Search inside yourself. It explores meditation, emotional awareness, mindfulness, attention and unlearning. It's from a Google employee who created their mindfulness program.
http://www.amazon.com/Search-Inside-Yourself-Unexpected-Achieving/dp/0062116932
I would recommend reading this for a full treatment of this feeling: After the Ecstasy, the Laundry.
There are people who stay in the monastery, or the cave their entire lives, trying to see if there is a spiritual peak even higher then the one they just climbed.
If you look for it, there will always be a higher peak. What is doing the looking?
See books like Your Money or Your Life.
The story he references at the beginning gives examples of what you can do with that money. Invest in your own business(es), real estate, or a portfolio.
By choosing to live frugally, you can build up assets that generate income, until your comfortable living expenses are lower than your investments generate. At that point, you're financially independent, and can just keep investing a growing portion of the returns back into more investments.
it's also in Zen Shorts if yo want to share it with children of any age that way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_Shorts
http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Shorts-Caldecott-Honor-Book/dp/0439339111/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
:)
Have you read Jay Rosen's book, "My Voice Will Go With You: The Teaching Tales of Milton Erickson"? Loved it.
I found The Art of Power by Thich Nhat Hanh to be very beneficial, too.
> It is not from a bestselling book — indeed no publisher would want it: even the most eloquent management thinker would struggle to spin a whole book around it.
I'm quite positive a lot of publisher and writers do it and did it. Per example. Another life changing short sentence: 'Feel the fear and do it anyway'.
I like the article. Fits well with the journalling I'm occasionally doing, but put of because I always want to capture all the details.
Save yourself years of meds and conflicting diagnosis: and just drop gains from your diet: http://www.amazon.com/Grain-Brain-Surprising-Sugar-Your-Killers/dp/031623480X
There is a bestselling book on this:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Checklist-Manifesto-Things-Right/dp/0312430000
I use http://todotxt.com/
This: http://www.amazon.ca/The-Laws-Power-Robert-Greene/dp/0140280197
I think everyone should read that.
Yes, and I was completely baffled to see the link gives no reference or credit to the man who has done much of this research. Just because his name is damn near impossible to spell is no reason not to credit the author. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow
No worries!
You should check this book out then:
https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Psychology-Discovery-Mihaly-Csikszentmihalyi/dp/0062283251