Calm: Calm the Mind, Change the World - Softcover

Smith, Michael Acton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062439170 ISBN 13: 9780062439178

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, 2016

Synopsis

Based on the popular iPhone app, a visually exciting, practical, and playful interactive guide to twenty-first century meditation that provides simple tools, tricks, and habits to find tranquility and focus, improve creativity and productivity, achieve better mental and physical health, and ultimately transform your life.

Achieving mindfulness doesn t require a huge lifestyle shift or special training. It s about mastering simple habits that work with the demands of your busy life. It uses the abilities you re born with: creativity, spontaneity, and awareness of the world around you. There are no rules to follow or break. Everyone can achieve calm including you.

In Calm, Michael Acton Smith combines fascinating neurological research, ancient wisdom, and real-life experiences to demystify meditation and show you the many simple ways to be mindful everyday. Crafted to resemble a journal, filled with beautiful and inspiring artwork, and divided into eight life-balancing sections Nature, Work, Creativity, Children, Travel, Relationships, Food, and Sleep Calm can help you change your perspective and rediscover the pleasures of the world. Each section blends fascinating research, creative prompts, activities, instructions, and insights that will stimulate your senses and inspire you.

Calm can be used multiple times a day or whenever you need it to find a little peace. Take a walk without a fixed destination, savor a piece of chocolate on the tip of your tongue, plant a seed, doodle aimlessly, turn off your mobile phone for five short minutes. Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Calm your mind and change your world."

About this title

About the Author:

MICHAEL ACTON SMITH, OBE, is the founder of Mind Candy and creator of Moshi Monsters, the BAFTA award-winning children's brand. He is the co-founder of Calm and has launched many other entrepreneurial ventures from online retailer Firebox.com to tech networking event Silicon Roundabout. In 2014 he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the creative industries. Michael Acton Smith is frequently listed among the most influential people in the digital industry ("Guardian" '100 Most Powerful People in Media', "Wired" 'Top 100 of Britain's Digital Power', and "The Times" '100 to Watch list." He lives in London and can be found on Twitter @acton.

From the Inside Flap:

Modern life is hectic and relentless: trains delayed, endless emails filling the inbox, kids squabbling before bedtime... There has never been a more important time to rediscover your pause button. Calm is the book that will show you how to take back a little bit of peace, space and all-important calm. This book contains the simple tools, tricks and habits that will change the rest your life. It is a practical and pleasurable guide to twenty-first century mindfulness.

Regular meditation is medically proven to be good for you - it increases focus and creativity, productivity and job satisfaction, mental and even physical health. But in reality most of us don't have time to sit on a cushion with our eyes closed for half an hour every day. And many people associate meditation with hard work and huge lifestyle shifts: you might be imagining Buddhist monks locked in a mountain retreat and living off gruel...

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0062439170
• ISBN 13: 9780062439178
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224