A Mantra Way To Better Living

By Anthony Garot

Personal development that is à la carte!

This book outlines a practical method of meditation that is simple, effective, and wholly under your control. The intent of this book is to help you to help yourself. This book is for anyone with a love of learning and self-improvement.

The benefits of meditation are well documented for reducing stress, controlling anxiety, and promoting overall emotional health. For the uninitiated, meditation can seem like it is elusive and out of reach. You see pictures of Zen gardens, waterfalls, and bald men in saffron robes. Or you see trendy people in breathtaking natural settings sitting in lotus position. Meditation doesn’t have to be this way.

This book offers a novel technique that you can start using immediately. Through the power of repetition of positive ideas, you can program, reprogram, and deprogram your mind.

— You can stop bad habits.

— You can focus on, and fortify, your resolve toward achieving your goals.

— You can improve your emotional well-being and develop inner peace.

Rather than enrolling in a course or sitting with a teacher who tells you “this is how you should do it,” and rather than an Eightfold Path of practices, this book outlines how you can choose the principles and values that you want to infuse into yourself. There are no seminars, no gimmicks, and no gurus.

The methodology is described in a straightforward way using anecdotes, quotations, and examples from the author’s own personal experience.

This is a book for anyone seeking to set their own course through life and enrich it at the same time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anthony Garot
• Release date: Apr 17, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463582121

Anthony Garot

Anthony has always been fond of the written word. He is a self-proclaimed “reader,” who enjoys a variety of genres including philosophy, psychology, motivation, inspiration, trading, leadership, and religion.His first book was a kids book! The characters are fun and simple for kids, but also have full, rich personalities to appeal to the "kid" inside every adult.His first departure from kids books was “A ForEx Trading Plan,” which combines years of market study into a trading plan for foreign exchange trading.In his spare free time, Anthony speculates currencies, shoots photos, reads, does push-ups, and drinks coffee.Anthony currently lives in Phoenix, AZ.

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A Mantra Way To Better Living

by Anthony J. Garot

A Mantra Way To Better Living

Copyright © 2019 by Anthony J. Garot

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ISBN 9780463582121

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Dedication

I dedicate this book to my sister who is always there for me when I need her most.

Table Of Contents

Preface

Introduction To The Cards Book

The Concept

The Steps of the Routine

Book Conclusion

Appendix A—Recommended Reading

Appendix B—Recommended Listening

Appendix C—Sample Questions

Appendix D—Sample Mantras

About The Author

Books By This Author

Links

Preface

At the age of 43, I went through some troubles in my personal life. I did a lot of thinking. Without a specific conscious decision, I began an intense search for meaning. The search for meaning is nothing new—people have been searching for meaning for as long as there have been people.

During these dark months, I digested various books covering such topics as religion, philosophy, motivation, leadership, psychology—and even business. I learned much, and I found some tools that helped me move in a healthy direction.

Many of the self-help books these days have step processes by which you reprogram yourself. These are generally in the form of positive affirmations. The scenario might be, for example, to stand in front of a mirror and read a list that comes with the audio or video presentation. I tried one such prescription for a few weeks, but nothing from their list really stuck. I concluded that their list was too general, too impersonal. I felt that I was being steered by another person’s agenda. Even so, I sensed the power of positive reinforcement and repeated affirmations.

So, as an experiment, I created my own list. (I wish I had kept that initial list—if only for nostalgic reasons.) Over the weeks, which turned into months, which turned into years, I garnered positive results. I am sharing the process I devised with you in the form of this book.

Through this process, I believe that you can:

— redefined who you are

— decisively chose your own goals, paths, and directions in life

— continue to reinforce and revitalize your goals

— enrich your life in many subtle and sublime ways

Since I dislike long prefaces, I will keep this preface short.

Anthony Garot, [e-mail]

http://www.garot.com/

Introduction To The Cards Book

Although the proper title of this book is A Mantra Way To Better Living, I generally refer to it as the Cards Book. That’s what I named the folder on my hard drive that contains the book files, i.e. chapters, images, and supporting documents.

The book is divided into four major chapters with four Appendixes.

A Note On Formatting Within This Book

Before getting started, I will point out that isolated text (meaning on it’s own line) in italics designates any card list item, or mantra, that I have personally written down on a card at some point. Note that I may have eventually abandoned this mantra (see the Abandoned section of Appendix D for examples).

Does This Stuff Really Work?

I will share with you several personal stories in which I feel that meditating on specific mantras has helped me handle life’s predicaments better.

The Nice Pit Bull

I go for a walk everyday in my neighborhood. Along my route live various dogs. As a general rule, I like dogs. I have befriended several of these dogs whom I see daily.

One particular dog was a pit bull. From behind the fence, he would bark viciously at me, but I noticed that his tail wagging! Over the course of a week or two, I began to pause to say hello before I kept going. Introducing oneself to a strange dog takes patience. The tell was the wagging tail. Eventually I felt at ease enough to offer him the back of my hand through the fence. It turns out that this dog was one of the sweetest, nicest dogs you have ever met!

So, on my daily walk, I made sure to stop and pet him. Sure, I got dog slobber on my hand, but if you like dogs, you realize that’s just part of the transaction.

Well, one day, after I had finished petting this nice pit bull, a guy in a red truck yells to me at the stop sign of the street corner opposite the pit bull. I pulled out my ear buds thinking he wanted directions or some such thing.

This guy was angry!—he saw red. He was steaming mad because I pet his neighbor/brother’s dog!

I tried to talk to him. I told him that I like dogs, that I pet this dog while on my walk, etc., but this guy didn’t want to hear it. He yells, Get your own dog! He threatens, I’m going to call the cops! (That would be an interesting conversation with the police. I wonder what the police would say to a complaint about petting a dog.)

Anyway, the point of the story is that no one likes confrontation like this. Many people, including a younger version of myself, would mirror the tone of the confrontation and yell back. I believe this is what he expected, and perhaps even wanted. Of