The Easy Way to Mindfulness · Free Your Mind From Worry and Anxiety by Carr, Allen -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover About Allen Carr Dedication List of exercises Introduction

Your Happiness

Chapter 1: What Is Mindfulness?

Excited? Elated? Sceptical? The Origins of Mindfulness Modern Mindfulness in Different Forms Myths and Mysticism The Role of Meditation Mindfulness in a Nutshell All the Rage Exercise: Mindful Berry Eating Mindfulness and Easyway Summary

Chapter 2: An Introduction to Easyway

Easyway’s “Eureka” Moment “i’m Going to Cure the World of Smoking!” Addicted to Nicotine Nobody Tells You A Method That Works It Works! Not Just a Cure for Smoking No Need for Willpower The Instructions First Instruction: Follow All the Instructions Second Instruction: Begin With a Feeling of Elation Summary

Chapter 3: We’re All Brainwashed

Third Instruction: Open Your Mind Who’s Brainwashing You? The Void Assumptions and Preconceptions Our Own Physical Experience Happiness Instinct vs Intellect Thoughts Are Not Facts Summary

Chapter 4: Addiction

How Brainwashing Leads to Addiction How Addiction Traps You All Addicts Want to Quit How Illusions Keep You Trapped Seeing Through an Illusion Summary

Chapter 5: Unhappiness

What’s Getting You Down? The Box of Flies Mindfulness Pouncing and Hiding Fourth Instruction: Pay Attention to Your Positive Experiences as They Occur Exercise: The Body Scan Summary

Chapter 6: The Incredible Machine

Nature’s Warning Light Sweet Nothing We Don’t Always Realize We Have a Choice Nothing Is Fixed in the Way You Think The Things You Don’t Notice Summary

Chapter 7: How Mindfulness Can Help

Choosing Happiness Proven Health Benefits The Counterclockwise Experiment Exercise: Counting the Breath Summary

Chapter 8: First Steps to Happiness

You Can! Drugs Do Not Help – They Make Matters Worse Changing Your Mindset Recognizing the Tools Available to You They Had Never Thought to Think That Way Practice Makes Perfect Summary

Chapter 9: Fear

A Lifesaver Survival How Fear Affects Us You Do Have a Choice! The Addict’s Tug-Of-War The Fear of Success Real vs. Imaginary Fear Summary

Chapter 10: Accepting Fear Through Mindfulness

A Fear of Things That Might Happen Unhook Your Mind From Worry Fifth Instruction: Whenever You Feel Fear, Question It Is It Real? You Will Be the One in Control Know Your Capabilities Sixth Instruction: Don’t Try to Protect Yourself From Fear Summary

Chapter 11: Burning Questions

Does Mindfulness Mean Suppressing My Emotions? Surely Meditation Is Thinking? Do I Have to Lead a Pure Life? Who Will Tackle My Anxieties if I Don’t? If I Am Not My Thoughts, Who Am I? There Must Be Much More to Who You Are Than Your Thoughts My Eureka Moment Summary

Chapter 12: Personality Change

The Myth of the Addictive Personality “I Am an Addict” The Misery of Addiction Is Not Relieved by the Thing You Are Addicted To; It’s Caused by It The Fear of Success Is Based on an Illusion Seventh Instruction: Let Go of Any Fixed Identityebb and Flow Nothing Is Fixed Seeing Through Illusions No Longer Overwhelmed in Thought Summary

Chapter 13: Willpower

“i Don’t Have the Willpower” Everybody Has What It Takes Herding Frogs Why Does Everything Have to Be a Struggle? The Power of Letting Go Eighth Instruction: Let Go of Your Reliance on Willpower Willpower and Addiction Easyway Removes the Need for Willpower by Removing the Illusion That You’re Making a Sacrifice How Weak-Willed Are You? Facing Your Demons Gently Summary

Chapter 14: Cutting Out the Noise

Questioning Information and Beliefs Ninth Instruction: Question Everything You’ve Ever Been Told and Everything You Believe A Problem Shared The Other Half of Your Problem Disappears Because It Didn’t Exist in the First Place Cutting Out the Noise in the Night Letting Go of the Struggle Exercise: Mindful Listening Summary

Chapter 15: Reconnect

Reconnect With Reality Reconnect With Your Physical Self Exercise: Mindful Walking Body and Mind in Harmony Riding the Changes Summary The Truth About Mindfulness Mindfulness Gives You Choice Time to Take the Controls Exercise: Observing Your Thoughts Summary

Chapter 17: Mindfulness and Addiction

Closing the Void Easyway in a Nutshell Addiction Facing the Problem, Not Using Willpower Summary

Chapter 18: Choose Happiness

Being Prepared Ready Not to Struggle Release Your Grip on Negativity You Have a Right to Happiness Tenth Instruction: Choose Happiness! Summary

Chapter 19: A Mindful Life

Enjoy Doing Nothing Mindful Techniques Normal Service Resumed It’s the Most Natural Thing on Earth Question Everything Summary The Instructions

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