When distracting mental chatter overpowers our attention, we lose our ability to perform effective and impactful actions. This is the same chatter of thoughts that makes us think about work when we are on a vacation, or about the weekend when we are at work. We all have experienced this chatter when we lie in bed, thinking about things we were going to do the next day, next week, or sometimes even next year. What if, I told you that there was a trick that could liberate us from this distracting mental chatter? And that through this book we would embark on a journey to experientially understand how to handle these distracting thoughts and potentially evolve the way we think. Will you be interested?‘Unbox!’ is a practical guide that stays away from philosophical and metaphysical narratives about mindfulness and focuses on how can we deal with this mental chatter that fragments our attention. It uses ‘mind-exercises’ to help us improve our attention as we build the skill of Mindful Thinking that leads to more efficient and impactful actions. The exercises covered in the book are contemporary translations of some the most effective mindfulness techniques across ages. The book uses modern metaphors & humorous illustrations that you will find appealing. It also demystifies these techniques by exploring the logic behind these mind-exercises. In this revised edition the content had been re-aligned based on the feedback received from readers and from participants of Unbox! Workshops. Hope you find these changes helpful.Author Prithvi Raj Banerjee is a Boston-based technologist, writer and mindfulness coach. He has spent many years experimenting with thoughts, thinking & attention and was lucky enough to be guided by masters from great mindfulness traditions in this effort. He was also guided further by a different set of masters at MIT where he specialized in systems thinking - an approach that uses the ‘big picture’ view to solve complex real-world problems.‘Unbox!’ incorporates learnings from the inner and outer worlds, the spiritual and the scientific, with an independent perspective based on author’s personal experiences to help us experientially understand the nature of our thoughts and the trick to liberate us from mental chatter. Prithvi is also the founder of the MindGym Initiative, a non-profit focused on creating awareness about mindful thinking amongst the younger generation. All proceeds from the book is used to support MindGym Initiative (www.thoughtunboxed.com)
