One Day Mindfulness Millionaire: Living Mindfully: A Lighthearted Primer for the Uninitiated

By Abhilash Desai and Faith Galliano Desai

The book explains what mindfulness and meditation are from neuroscience perspective and practical easy approach to developing the practice of living mindfully.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Oct 31, 2019
• ISBN: 9781543989731

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One Day Mindfulness Millionaire

Living Mindfully: A Lighthearted Primer for the Uninitiated

Abhilash Desai

Faith Galliano Desai

ISBN (Print Edition): 978-1-54398-972-4

ISBN (eBook Edition): 978-1-54398-973-1

© 2019. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

One Day Mindfulness Millionaire is all about making mindfulness money (basically strengthening mindfulness networks) and becoming rich in mindfulness. You could be a pauper (in the traditional sense) and be a mindfulness millionaire. You could be a billionaire (in the traditional sense) and be a pauper from mindfulness money point of view. Each minute of mindfulness practice (mindfully engaged in a mundane activity) is given a Mindfulness$ (like Bitcoin - another currency) amount. This helps us share the idea that when we do not engage mindfulness networks (aka we are not being mindful, living mindfully), we are leaving money on the table! We are missing a chance to make ourselves resilient and happy.

Namaste

Acknowledgments

We are deeply grateful to our son Alexander, our parents, siblings, and friends for their love and blessings. Without their love and blessings, we would not have experienced love, gratitude, forgiveness, magic of humor, and value of reflection and practice. In essence, we would not have been able to write this book with our hearts.

We are also very thankful to our editor, Wendy Harris, for her wonderful editing.

Some of the writings are just by one author and the writings will make it pretty obvious. Our book is not perfect in many ways. This is intentional. We are practicing Wabi-Sabi J

Contents

Acknowledgments

One-Day Mindfulness Millionaire

1. Introduction

2. What Is Mindfulness?

3. What Is Meditation?

4. Mindfulness, Well-Being, and Health

5. Restoring the Right-Brain Left-Brain Imbalance

6. Gratitude Deficit Disorder

7. Weak Self-Compassion Mindset

8. Introducing Mindfulness to Children

9. From Knowledge to Skill to Practice

References, Suggested Reading, and Web Resources

Breath-Awareness Meditation

Neuroplasticity-Based Strengthening of Resilience

The Seven Rs of Resilience

Stress Management: The PROZAAC/PROSAAC Approach

Ten Relationship Pearls

To Be Happier Every Day, All You Need Is PSALMS!

The Rainbow Diet

Physically Active Lifestyle and Mind Fitness

Mindful Laughter Exercises

Mindfulness Quotes

Ten Rules of Mindfulness

A Mindful Way to Becoming Wiser

Three Questions Practice

The Five Invitations of Frank Ostaseski

Mindfulness and Spirituality

Harnessing the Seven Forces of Wellness, Wisdom, and Healing

Mindful Physics and Humanity Exercise

Mindfulness in Relationships Exercise

Mantram Repetition Exercises (M-REx)

A Mindful Way through Sadness

Begin Again, Breath Awareness, Breathing In, Breathing Out (BABABIBO)

Benevolent, Loose, and Happy (BLAH, BLAH, BLAH): Loving Kindness Meditation

Relaxed and Alert (RAA RAA)

A Mindful Way through Anger

Breathe, Reflect, and Respond (BRR, as in Burrrr): Anger Management

Anger-Reduction Meditation Exercise

Good News Optimism Maintenance Meditation Exercise (GNOMME)

Anxiety Cells and Calming the Hippocampus

A Mindful Way through Anxiety and Fear

Pop the Pathology of Productivity (POP) Bubble

Silly Networks Firing (SNFs)

Freud Antidepressant Mindfulness Exercise (FAME)

Tears Are Sacred Mindfulness Exercise (TASME)

Understanding Mindfulness from a Neuroscience Perspective

Scale of Unaware Living (SOUL)

COOL Early Morning Mindfulness Exercise

Optimism: Sonja Lyubomirsky Mindfulness Exercise

Mindfulness Training: Moving from Burnout to Joy in Living

Instructions for Self-Training in Mindfulness

Narratives to Delete, Narratives to Re-read

Narratives, the Other Side of the Mindfulness Coin

When Is Enough, Enough? Personal Reflections on the Threats and Ills Facing Persons Having Dementia

COOL Jonas Brothers Song Mindfulness Exercise

The Five A’s of Mindfulness

Enter the Enchanting Universe of Mindfulness

Resilience Rx for Children and Adults

Attention Training: Both Quality and Quantity Matter

Mindful Forgiveness

Hilarious Human Extinction Mindfulness Practice (HHEMP)

Cognitive and Emotional Flexibility: The ABCs of Resilience

Reasons Why We Resist Embracing a Daily Mindfulness Practice

The Psychology of Change, by Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Six Mindfulness Skills, by Marsha Linehan

Hedonic Adaptation, Sustained Happiness, and Mindfulness

Metaphors of Mindfulness

Mature Defense Mechanisms: Sigmund Freud and Mindfulness

Inside Out Movie and Mindfulness

More Mindfulness Quotes

Newton’s Laws of Physics and Mindfulness

Replace Expectation with Aspiration

7 Day GLAASIC Challenge: Injecting Gratitude Loving-kindness Awe Acceptance Self-Compassion Insight and Compassion for others into our lives

Mindful Walking – Walking Meditation

Loving Kindness Mindfulness Exercise (LoKiMe – as in Lucky Me)

Humans and Plants Mindfulness Exercise

Thank You, Pema Chodron: My Personal Journey

One-Day Mindfulness Millionaire

Your mission for today, if you choose to accept it, is to earn one million mindfulness dollars.J

One conscious breathing dose (CBD – LOL) (awareness of breathing in and breathing out) = $10 (mindfulness money)

Minimum daily target: 100 CBDs or the equivalent (see Table 1): $1000 daily mindfulness money earned. Note: Each breath = 1 CBD. So, 100 CBDs a day would take about 15 minutes total time on average. It is best to spread out taking CBDs throughout the day.

300 CBDs per day or the equivalent = $3000 daily mindfulness money in the mindfulness bank = a one-day mindfulness millionaire (more than $1 million earned in a year at this rate).

Table 1. CBD Equivalents