Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                
Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    A Flash of Light
    A Flash of Light
    A Flash of Light
    Ebook37 pages51 minutes

    A Flash of Light

    By Michael Smith

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Stress affects us all at some stage in our life. However stress is ultimately our own choice and is not an inevitable outcome to difficult experiences. Through well established meditation and mindfulness practices we can begin to change the habits that precipitate the stress response and change our habitual behaviour to become a more calm and happier person. This is a handbook that explains how stressful patterns of behaviour manifest and how we can develop new pathways that can result in an alternative approach to difficult situations including relationships, work, financial and health issues.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Smith
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9781311178268
    A Flash of Light
    Author

    Michael Smith

    Michael Smith is an award-winning British journalist and author, having previously served in British military intelligence. He has written for the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times, and is the author of fifteen books on spies and special operations, including the No 1 bestseller Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park. He lives in Henley-on-Thames.

    Read more from Michael Smith

    Related to A Flash of Light

    Related ebooks

    Medical For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      What Advice Do You Have For New Practitioners?

      May 21, 2024

      Remember that the path is made by walking it. You don’t need to leave yourself behind—bring all of who you are, your unique experiences, your pain and messy struggles with life, and your dedication to find liberation for yourself and others. It’s pos

      1 min read

    • Article

      Bookmark This

      Dec 18, 2018

      Practices and Guidance for Uncovering Your Natural Awareness Diana Winston • Sounds True It’s no small thing to take on the responsibility of teaching others how to work with their minds, no less teaching teachers to do that. (It’s not like teaching,

      3 min read

    • Article

      Just Get Out of Your Own Way

      Sep 18, 2018

      If your mind is straightforward, without deviousness, then what difficulty is there to Buddhism? It is just because students do not rely on the straightforward mind that they erroneously produce judgments. This is why there are so many obstacles. —TO

      3 min read

    • Article

      What’s Your Motivation?

      Oct 22, 2021

      What’s Your Motivation?
      2 min read

    • Article

      Imagine You Are A Buddha

      Jan 24, 2023

      Imagine You Are A Buddha
      8 min read

    • Article

      LIVE Happy

      Aug 7, 2019

      LIVE Happy
      2 min read

    • Article

      Heal In Community

      May 18, 2021

      Heal In Community
      2 min read

    • Article

      Drop Into a Mindful Moment

      Dec 13, 2022

      The present moment is where togetherness, play, and fun live. By cultivating presence, we become more conscious of all the goodness in our lives—we discover we have a choice of what we pay attention to in any moment. Even in times of challenge and ad

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Power Of Presence

      Dec 13, 2017

      Words EMMA HIGGINSON Again and again, fad diets have been proved unsuccessful. Diets focus on calorie restriction and the elimination of certain foods and generally do not take into account the dieter’s ability to exercise self-control or regulate th

      7 min read

    • Article

      Energise Your Day

      Mar 24, 2021

      Energise Your Day
      4 min read

    • Article

      Yin Yoga for Emotion Regulation

      May 29, 2023

      Yin Yoga for Emotion Regulation
      4 min read

    • Article

      THINK Yourself Well

      Jul 2, 2020

      THINK Yourself Well
      3 min read

    • Article

      Will You Still Need Me?

      May 21, 2024

      Will You Still Need Me?
      3 min read

    • Article

      Ease Over Effort

      Sep 2, 2021

      Ease Over Effort
      3 min read

    • Article

      THERAPY worked FOR US…

      Oct 20, 2022

      THERAPY worked FOR US…
      6 min read

    • Article

      Ctrl + Alt + Relax

      Apr 27, 2020

      Ctrl + Alt + Relax
      4 min read

    • Article

      4 Ways to Heal Yourself with Love

      Jan 19, 2021

      THE WORK OF HEALING trauma makes us tender and vulnerable as we touch our history of wounds, sometimes from childhood and sometimes from our ancestors. But those who do Buddhist practice come from a tradition that does not shy away from our pain, anx

      4 min read

    • Article

      Trust Yourself to Fail Wisely

      Aug 13, 2020

      CHERYL JONES Founder, The Mindful Path Cheryl Jones became an expert at using mindfulness to navigate difficult times out of sheer necessity. She was in a marriage with a spouse who was “a stressful person” when she read Wherever You Go, There You Ar

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Joy Of Stillness

      Jul 16, 2021

      The Joy Of Stillness
      4 min read

    • Article

      You Are The Nightingale

      May 21, 2024

      You Are The Nightingale
      4 min read

    • Article

      On Stillness

      May 31, 2021

      On Stillness
      2 min read

    • Article

      Mind The App

      Aug 21, 2018

      Mind The App
      14 min read

    • Article

      Rama Speaks

      Sep 27, 2022

      This beautifully organized synthesis of Rama’s core teachings, with commentaries by long-time student Lawrence Borok, has just been published. American-born Rama – Dr. Frederick Lenz practiced and taught a radical pathway to Enlightenment. He adapted

      1 min read

    • Article

      Change Your Inner Script

      Jul 29, 2019

      Change Your Inner Script
      2 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for A Flash of Light

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      A Flash of Light - Michael Smith

      Introduction

      We all have experienced some level of stress at some stage in our life. This could be mild frustration at not getting what we want, when we want it, such as standing in a long queue at the supermarket or experiencing a computer crash just as we have completed a long email. Stress can also manifest as anger and even rage. Some people manage to overcome these events and quickly return to a calmer state of mind. Others cannot seem to let go of the stress and always feel on edge, or annoyed most of the time.

      When we feel frustrated, annoyed or in a bad mood we can very quickly descend into anger and despondency. This is because we are already stressed and any adverse event will trigger an even more stressful state of mind.

      The definition of stress is a physical, mental, or emotional response to events that causes bodily or mental tension. Therefore, stress is a mentally originating phenomenon, which will also have an effect upon the physical body and can manifest in many forms such as: Tension, frustration, anger, weakened immunity, ill health, and poor concentration.

      Prolonged exposure to stress will inevitably have an adverse effect upon the immune system. A fully functional immune system may only be minimally affected by stress. However, major stress events such as; a death in the family, change of job, redundancy, or moving house, can severely compromise immunity, and an already weakened immune system can be further damaged by even small causes of stress.

      It does not have to be that way and there is an alternative. This handbook will explain how stress develops and how anyone can train their mind to follow a different pattern of behaviour to become more calm and open minded and ultimately a happier person.

      So is stress inevitable in all of us? Why do we experience stress at all? Is it possible to avoid stress so that we can become more calm, happier and less agitated?

      So is stress inevitable in all of us?

      As we have already discussed stress is a physical, mental, or emotional response to events that causes bodily or mental tension. What does this actually mean?

      We perceive the outside world through our senses, our visual faculty sees objects, our auditory faculty hears, our olfactory sense smells, our sensory faculty senses through touch and physical sensation and our taste faculty experiences flavour. These are all physical organs and have no ability to discern. For example; the eye sees a tree, the physical organ of the eye can not discern if it is a nice tree or unpleasant tree, the eye can not experience emotion and feel if it is a beautiful tree or not. This is experienced through the mind. A baby seeing a tree

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1