This book looks very intriguing (via 800-CEO-READ blog). Perhaps on the review pile for me...especially as it fits into my awareness/mind training category and upcoming Awareness Mondays.
The Power of Impossible Thinking: Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business by Yoram Wind and Colin Crook with Robert Gunther (July 2004)
"Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience, Wind and Crook explain how one's mental models stand between reality and perception. Learn how to develop new ways of seeing; when to change to a new model; how to swap between a portfolio of models; how to zoom in and out to understand complex environments; and how to do "mind R&D"--improving one's models through constant experimentation."
Mind R&D is a great meme. (I often use analogy of scientific method.) Experimentation starts with observation. Constant curiosity.
So far this is my list of books (off top of my head, could have missed a few) that have made the biggest impact and I would recommend to others (a few books might be too far out on the 'fringe' and certainly not starting points - write me offline or join the awareness-practice Yahoo group) in terms of awareness/mind training/finding your voice.
Caveat: You cannot read your way into awareness...
- Awareness by Anthony De Mello (review here)
- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- The Voice of Knowledge, The Four Agreements, or Mastery of Love by Miguel Ruiz (I actually recommend meeting don Miguel in person slightly above reading his work)
- No Boundary by Ken Wilbur
There's a whole host of other books - including Zen Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu, New Age, psychology, philosophy, yep even Christian - that I gleaned some very good and applicable information but I'm not including in the list purposefully because some may divert attention from pure mind training or may be too incomprehensible without a foothold or a bit of background from direct experience with awareness practices.
For instance, I'm currently reading Travels by Michael Crichton, the best-selling novelist and Harvard-trained physician. He is fairly candid with us about his inquiry into the paranormal and the edges of consciousness. But delving into auras, reiki, crystals, spoon-bending et al while all very interesting (I'm not being sarcastic, it is fascinating) is more distracting than enlightening. Instead...
There is no need to run outside
For better seeing,
Nor to peer from a window. Rather abide
At the center of your being;
For the more you leave it, the less you learn.
- Lao Tzu (via Travels, by Michael Crichton)
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