Mindfulness without the Bells and Beads: Unlocking Exceptional Performance,

Description: Winner of the American Book Fest 2021 Best Book Award, Management and Leadership; Silver Medalist, 2021 Living Now Awards; Bronze Medalist, 2022 Axiom Business Book Awards for Success/Motivation/Coaching. Use mindfulness to unleash your potential - without adopting spiritual beliefs Mindfulness Without the Bells and Beads: Unlocking Exceptional Performance, Leadership, and Wellbeing for Working Professionals strips away the bells, beads, and hyperbole associated with mindfulness, and explains how you can take your performance and leadership to the next level in just eight weeks, without adopting any spiritual or new age beliefs. Author Clif Smith, a US Army veteran, former diplomat, and CIA-trained former intelligence officer, serves as EY's Americas Mindfulness Leader and Global Mindfulness Network Leader and is internationally recognized for bringing mindfulness to tens of thousands of corporate and government leaders across the globe. In this book, Clif shares teachings and insights to help achieve the tangible benefits of practicing mindfulness as a fundamental part of our professional and personal lives. You'll discover how to: * Enhance mental focus, resilience, and decision-making under pressure * Increase the impact of your communication and leadership * Transcend limiting beliefs, fear, and other psychological barriers to success * Connect, understand, and interact with others more effectively * Effectively incorporate self-care into a high-performance life * Demystify the practice of mindfulness to make it ideal for a corporate setting Perfect for corporate leaders, managers, and executives, and any working professional in a high-pressure or high-performance environment, Mindfulness Without the Bells and Beads also belongs on the bookshelves of anyone who works in a stressful environment and wants to achieve a higher level of success and a better quality of life. Foreword by Tal Goldhamer ix Introduction: A Staggered Start xi Part I My Journey With Mindfulness And An Introduction To The Fundamentals 1 Chapter 1 The Power of the Trained Mind 3 Three Skills That Changed My Life 5 The Three Skills Applied 9 Chapter 2 Why Mindfulness Now? 19 Chapter 3 (Some of) The Science of Mindfulness 31 Mindfulness Changes the Brain 32 Mindfulness Reduces the Size and Activity in the Amygdala 33 Mindfulness Increases Activity in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC) 33 Mindfulness Increases the Size of Your Hippocampus 34 Mindfulness Increases the Size of Your Insula 35 Chapter 4 How Do Our Brains Work outside a Brain Scanner? 38 Chapter 5 Finding the Signal in the Mindfulness Noise 46 Chapter 6 The Fundamentals of Cultivating Mindfulness 54 Focused Attention Meditation 56 Open Awareness Meditation 65 Chapter 7 Your Journey 67 Part II Diving Deeper: An 8-Week Journey To Exceptional Performance, Leadership, and Well-Being 71 Chapter 8 Introducing the Course 73 Motivation 75 What Do You Need to Give Up? 75 Establishing the Practice 76 Dealing with the Excuse-Making, Judging, and Controlling Mind 78 Chapter 9 Week 1: No Trivial Moments: Moving from Autopilot to Aware 80 Waking Up to Your Life 84 Mindfulness and the Body 87 Chapter 10 Week 2: The Mindset You Bring to Your Experience Matters 95 Nonjudging 97 Patience 98 Beginner's Mind 99 Trust 99 Non-striving 100 Acceptance 101 Letting Go and Letting Be 101 Gratitude and Generosity 102 Shifting from Doing to Non-Doing, aka Being 103 Common Themes, Challenges, and Questions 104 Chapter 11 Week 3: Do You Have the Story or Does the Story Have You? 108 Mindfulness of Sounds, Thoughts, and Emotions 113 Common Themes, Challenges, and Questions 117 Chapter 12 Week 4: The Saber-Toothed Tiger of the Modern World: Everything 121 Stress and Our Stress Response 123 Common Themes, Challenges, and Questions 127 Chapter 13 Week 5: Delving into the Difficult 130 Responding versus Reacting 132 Common Themes, Challenges, and Questions 138 Chapter 14 Week 6: In the Same Boat 143 S.P.A.R.R.ing during Difficult Interactions 148 Common Themes, Challenges, and Questions 154 Chapter 15 Week 7: Who Watches (Out for) You? 158 Empathy 160 Compassion 162 Kindness 162 Cultivating Empathy, Compassion, and Kindness 163 Common Themes, Challenges, and Questions 167 Chapter 16 Week 8: Maintaining Momentum 170 A Mindful Day 173 Common Themes, Challenges, and Questions 177 Chapter 17 A Final Word 181 Acknowledgments 183 About the Author 187 Appendix 189 Notes 195 Index 201

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