Fasting The Mind : Spiritual Exercises for Psychic Detox

Stop planning, stop comparing, stop competing, stop thinking and just breathe deeply for a minute . . . Our undivided attention is something we are rarely able to give for reasons ranging from digital overload to the cultural conditioning of equating busyness with purpose. Just as you might choose a fast from eating to detoxify the body, the best way to overcome this modern mental overload is to periodically fast the mind. Drawing on the spiritual philosophies and meditative practices of classical yoga, Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism, Jason Gregory explains how fasting the mind directly has an impact on your habits and way of being in the world to create peace and calmness in your life as well as allow you to build a firm psychological defence against the increasing bombardment of distractions in our world. Applying psychology and cognitive science to samsara - the cycle of suffering created by our attachment to the impermanent - he explains how overreliance on the rational mind causes