Mental Resilience: The Power of Clarity: How to Develop the Focus of a Warrior and the Peace of a Monk (Includes practice CD) [Paperback]

Kamal Sarma (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 28, 2008

Do you frequently feel stressed, overwhelmed, depressed, anxious? Do your thoughts sometimes have too much control over you? What if you could focus your mind and find peace in any situation?

We all face challenges — complex decisions, difficult personalities, constant demands on our time — but we don’t have to be at their mercy. By developing the skills outlined in this book, which create what author Kamal Sarma calls mental resilience, we become able to meet these challenges with clarity. Both warriors and monks have for centuries made training their minds, developing mental resilience, a key priority. Through this training, they are able to silence incessant mental chatter and live a life of awareness, peace, and focus. Kamal draws upon his roles as a former student of Eastern spiritual practices and a successful Western corporate advisor to present a step-by-step guide to developing mental resilience. Through a progressive program and a guided-practice CD, Kamal provides models and metaphors that will help you clear your mind of repetitive, unhelpful thoughts and improve your ability to make decisions. You will learn how to reduce stress, maintain clarity in any situation, and discover an abiding calm within.

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

“Mental Resilience is a practical and accessible guide for finding peace and clarity in the midst of the pulls and pressures of our busy lives. I enjoyed and appreciated Kamal Sarma’s steady, encouraging, and warm voice.”
— Marc Lesser, author of Z.B.A.: Zen of Business Administration — How Zen Practice Can Transform Your Work and Your Life

“This is the best book on meditation I have ever read.”
— John Gibbons, practicing psychologist for forty years

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: New World Library (February 28, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1577316258
• ISBN-13: 978-1577316251
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #68,419 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Should be required reading for any MBA student, March 22, 2008

By 

R. Prugue "Robmonic" (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Mental Resilience: The Power of Clarity: How to Develop the Focus of a Warrior and the Peace of a Monk (Includes practice CD) (Paperback)

Let's face it, we're all inundated by noise. Work is becoming all more consuming, and gadgets like the Blackberry don't help. Work has consumed our lives, making it difficult to balance our thoughts and ideas.

As a businessperson, I too have allowed work to consume my life. My crackberry habits were destructive both from the family front as they were in making me an ineffective decision maker. When a friend first introduced me to this book, my flippant reaction was negative as I neither like Tofu nor do I have any crystals. To my surprise, neither does the author. In fact, he too comes from a similar business background to my own, an MBA as ex management consultant with a global highly recognized name. I could relate perfectly with his "real world" examples in his book.

Regardless of your own background, this book is perfect for any beginner to novice looking for ways to both declutter and find balance. Unlike other books on the subject, this book gives those good introduction as to why meditation is important, let alone offering constructive instructions as to how best to implement. I say this as I admit I was an utter failure my first few times. But following Kamal's voice on the CD, along with the reading, made it all the easier for me to begin. Trust me, meditation may be silence, but for those of us who's lives are consumed by everyday noise, meditation takes practice. This book is an excellent source of information as it is instructive.

I highly recommend this book to other business leaders and decision makers. After you've experienced this, you'll find you too will be recommending this book and CD.

Silence is bliss.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absorbing book, corny subtitles, June 6, 2008

By 

J. Shah "Jay Shah" (New Jersey, NJ) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Mental Resilience: The Power of Clarity: How to Develop the Focus of a Warrior and the Peace of a Monk (Includes practice CD) (Paperback)

The book is about meditation for professionals in fields such as software, finance, engineering, and medicine. The book cover is unattractive, the binding feels cheap, the author looks like a dork in the back cover photo and the sub-titles are cliches. Even the title is not catchy enough. However, the book is powerful reading. The author wisely does not use the word "meditation" in the title as some educated professionals are put off by the word which implies giving up sensual pleasure and that too with hard work and concentration that they want to get away from in the first place. The book does not delve on spirituality, peace, faith, bliss, or nirvana; though it is about that and more.

Mental clutter debilitates our thought process. Unwinding helps. However, many a times we are simply numbing ourselves temporarily with TV, alcohol, and diversions without redressing issues with clear thought. This book takes you beyond hedonistic relaxation. The book has exercises to lead you through stages of meditation including relaxation, deeply calm, emotional tranquility, insight and wisdom.

The accompanying CD is sparse but requisite for putting the book's precepts into practice.

I have just started to implement the techniques, so I cannot comment on the results, but I am optimistic.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best resource for Meditation!, December 19, 2008

By 

Evelyn Ennor "www.evelynennor.com" (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Mental Resilience: The Power of Clarity: How to Develop the Focus of a Warrior and the Peace of a Monk (Includes practice CD) (Paperback)

This is the best book on meditation that I've read and I endorse it enthusiastically! I teach meditation and relaxation in business settings and have placed this item as my number one recommended resource. It explains the value and purpose of strengthening the mind in a clear, practical and easy to understand way. It's common to focus on keeping the physical body healthy and yet the mind, which has an uncanny ability to go it's own way and get caught up in life's dramas, is often ignored. The book reinforces the view that we each have tremendous personal power to strengthen the mind muscle, see with greater clarity and as a result make wiser choices and decisions in our lives. In today's world especially it's important to learn ways to reduce stress and anxiety and stay present to counteract and balance the negativity about us. The step by step approach the author uses is simple, factual and devoid of religious or mystical connotations. The guided CD which accompanies the book is a helpful way to get started on your own. Be aware though, that there are long periods of silence challenging the listener to stay focused or sleep could be a distinct possibility!. The book provides a major contribution to the field of personal development particularly in the area of stress management.