77 Things Mindful People Do Differently

By Karma Peters

REMEMBER THERE’S NO GATE, NO LOCK, NO BOLT THAT ANYONE CAN SET UPON THE FREEDOM OF YOUR MIND.

This clever phrase by Virginia Woolf rightly sums up the essential traits you will find in mindful people, a behavioral profile this book attempts to deconstruct.

In a category-by-category analysis, the book explains why the very few – the mindful few – can easily whip audiences and followers around the world into a frenzy of adulation, simply by being in tune with themselves and their environment. At a time when millions, if not hundreds of millions, of people ponder the meaning of life, the book comes as a welcome reprieve that can elicit empathy, provide solace and gradually expand the relatively barren field of people with a proclivity for mindfulness.

>>> The book contains a helpful Discussion Guide. Through burning questions, the book gives extensive advice on how to use the discussion guide, how to inform decisions related to the topics at hand, and how to best read it – alone, in reading groups, with your partner, or as part of learning activities, among others.

>>> After reading this book, you will know how to:
* Use a mindful approach to succeed in life;
* Deploy a perceptive ability in to reach personal aspirations ranging from employment and inner peace to marriage and spiritual comfort;
* Maintain levelheaded expectations under all circumstances;
* Blend inner voice and open-mindedness to become a better, more mindful person; and
* Follow a paradigm of lifelong learning to gain experience and improve your life.

>>> Who will benefit from this book?
* You.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Karma Peters
• Release date: Jan 6, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311548603

Karma Peters

I wish to remain anonymous because the ideas I convey in my books are far more momentous than my humble person. Consider me nonexistent – a myth, a modicum of human folklore, a thinking iota in our collective wisdom.Just delve into my books, learn a thing or two...and, if you like the content, try to improve your life (and others’ lives). I don't aim to be a personal-growth guru, a healer, a celebrated self-help pundit, an attention-hungry author. In our publicity-obsessed culture, we don't need another such figure.I see life through the lens of passion and compassion; promise and compromise; happiness; and unwearied altruism, the kind you project when you stare at a newborn and know right away that only you can help him or her fulfill the untapped, God-given potential each of us has.We have that inner passion – so why not use it, enhance it, modify it, channel it while we are here on Earth? As an author, philosopher and life coach, I write books that inspire, motivate and teach you how to reconnect with your inner energy and ignite your outer potential.In an earlier life, I learned the ropes of financial management, organizational effectiveness, strategy, marketing and investment banking, first earning an MBA in Finance at Rutgers University and then working in various roles in the financial-services industry in New York and New Jersey. These positions ultimately enabled me to see how infinite goodness manifests itself in humans, producing pure bliss in unexpected moments and places – and how, unfortunately, sometimes our worst angels lead us to blaze unfortunate and troublesome paths for ourselves and others.These days, I wake up each morning to the sweet, hopeful music of life, and sleep to the adorable, buoyant melody of tomorrow – living one day at the time, enjoying simple moments, appreciating the chance to exist, and feeling grateful for the serendipity of human love.

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REMEMBER THERE’S NO GATE, NO LOCK, NO BOLT THAT ANYONE CAN SET UPON THE FREEDOM OF YOUR MIND.

This clever phrase by Virginia Woolf rightly sums up the essential traits you will find in mindful people, a behavioral profile this book attempts to deconstruct.

In a category-by-category analysis, the book explains why the very few – the mindful few – can easily whip audiences and followers around the world into a frenzy of adulation, simply by being in tune with themselves and their environment. At a time when millions, if not hundreds of millions, of people ponder the meaning of life, the book comes as a welcome reprieve that can elicit empathy, provide solace and gradually expand the relatively barren field of people with a proclivity for mindfulness.

>>> The book contains a helpful Discussion Guide. Through burning questions, the book gives extensive advice on how to use the discussion guide, how to inform decisions related to the topics at hand, and how to best read it – alone, in reading groups, with your partner, or as part of learning activities, among others.

>>> After reading this book, you will know how to:

* Use a mindful approach to succeed in life;

* Deploy a perceptive ability in to reach personal aspirations ranging from employment and inner peace to marriage and spiritual comfort;

* Maintain levelheaded expectations under all circumstances;

* Blend inner voice and open-mindedness to become a better, more mindful person; and

* Follow a paradigm of lifelong learning to gain experience and improve your life.

>>> Who will benefit from this book?

* You.

Résumé

Mindful people are everywhere, not just at monasteries, synagogues, mosques and other sanctuaries around the world.

You find them in your local supermarket, at work, on TV, on the Internet and in your family.

What characterizes these people, first and foremost, is their ability to engineer a personal life course and stick to it, irrespective of circumstances.

They don’t engage in unsportsmanlike behavior.

But they understand the power of empathy and sympathy, and cull lifelong relationships even if it means they lose in the short term.

This book shows 77 essential traits you will find consistently in mindful people.

It revolves around 10 chapters, starting with empathy and how that trait manifests itself in mindful people.

Chapter 2 covers perceptive ability, while the next section explores the notion of contentment and why thoughtful folk seem to display that trait more often than other people.

The fourth chapter discusses experience and experimentation, followed by a discourse on sympathy and mindful people in chapter 5.

The book makes the case for a life of levelheaded expectation in chapter 6, showing, in chapter 7, how alert people use it to reach their life destinations and fulfill their destinies.

The last three sections of the book explore the notions of open-mindedness, inner voice and lifelong learning, explaining how each concept is distinct but interrelates in the behavioral profiles of thoughtful people.

This book is part of a series, "The Wheel of Wisdom," in which I explore topics as varied as love and romance, self-esteem, occupational success, personal bliss, effective communication, fear management, human relationships and spirituality.

The Wheel of Wisdom reflects knowledge I accumulated through personal research, wisdom literature, everyday observation and the testimonies of hundreds of people encountered on my life journey – young and old, novice and experienced, religious and agnostic, optimistic and gloomy.

Like each book in the Series, I’ve made this tome a quick read, easy to understand and filled with as many inspirational jewels as possible.

I hope you will find it as pleasurable to read as it was for me to write.

Empathy

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

—Thích Nhất Hạnh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

We live in a society in which collective wisdom and the idea of the group sometimes is better and wiser than the individual is plummeting by the day.

Yet aware people continue to display empathy and altruism that make them likable and render their own lives easier.

Mindful people generally seek to understand what is going on in other folks’ lives much more often than regular people.

These individuals – whom you can see everywhere, be it at work, the local bar or in your place of worship – try to buck a conventional wisdom that is wiping generations of solidarity and collective acumen.

Being watchful means first and foremost being aware of the other person and his or her feelings, and also being in tune with his or her situation, including the decisions made and vicissitudes faced.

1. They understand that true feelings must be mutual.

Mindful people don’t wear the weary look of an overbooked funeral director when they break up with a lover, friend or other human connection.

They understand that feelings must be shared and cultivated to be real.

Being relatively detached from personal relationships is so much part of their identity that heedful people generally are okay if someone just walks out of their lives, or comes in.

Jodie W., a good friend of mine and a luminary in the New Age movement in the West Coast, usually says that unexplained sadness – sorrow for no apparent reason – means you subconsciously miss someone