Stress Less, Accomplish More: Meditation for Extraordinary Performance

If you remember just one thing from this whole book, let it be this: A deep meditation is no better for you than a shallow meditation. I’m going to say that again for dramatic effect. A deep meditation is no better for you than a shallow meditation.

Not sure what I mean? Consider my favorite passage from the Vedas: “The truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.”

Meditation gives you a means to access the happiness inside you, making you less likely to look to or for a partner to complete you. (Besides, when is neediness ever attractive?)

this happening for me?” By taking just a moment to flip the script, you’re taking the power away from your reflexive responses and putting it back into your own resilience. This is how you come to recognize that you’re a master, not a martyr. And when you become a master of yourself, you become empowered to perform at your highest level.

And that is what stress is: your reaction to the stuff, not the stuff itself. Adaptation Energy: The body’s ability to handle a change of expectation or a demand. Demand: The artist formerly known as stress.

Manifesting: Designing a life you love. The act of being grateful for what you have while simultaneously imagining your dreams as if they are happening now. The process of manifesting is multifold: 1. Give thanks for what you have. 2. Clarify your goals. 3. Take time to imagine one goal as if it is happening now. 4. Detach from any outcome.

your life like poisons, and because you’re human,

As the late self-help legend Wayne Dyer said, “You’ll see it when you believe it.”

this offered nothing more than a stronger immune system and relief from the symptoms of chronic health conditions, wouldn’t it be worth it? Think about the amount of productivity you lose each year due to illnesses, aches, pains, and other physical ailments. What would you pay to drastically reduce—or even eliminate—many of those issues?