The Magic Of Mindful Self-Awareness − by Matt Tenny

As the author is not a Dr. Matt Tenny, you may wonder his qualifications. In this case, the answer is summed up in the title of the first part of the book, “How I discovered unconditional happiness on my journey from prisoner to monk to social entrepreneur”. In other words, this one’s about personal experience of changing his life considerably.

Part two, however, is where the actual practical content starts, with such topics as:

• How to be free from your thoughts so you can stop overthinking and enjoy the present moment
• How to clear your mind and make the practice of self-awareness (almost) effortless
• How to transform mundane activities into magical moments and be happy 95% of the time

You may be wondering about the other 5%; i.e. will this not work for some things? The answer is rather that sometimes we will experience emotions that are considered negative, and that’s ok. It need not be much of the time, but if we didn’t experience them at all, we’d just normalize a new set point and consider the least enjoyable 5% of that to be negative.

And indeed, part three is “how to be at peace during the 5% of life that is truly painful, and live a deeply meaningful life”.

Which, honestly, is a very important life skill, and this alone is worth the price of the book if you don’t already have this skill (and if you do, then condolences for however you got it, but congratulations on having it).

The style is quite personal and direct, and—unlike that of a lot of CEO-monk types—surprisingly down-to-earth and (actually!) mindfully self-aware.

Bottom line: if you’d like to be at peace in life with more practical advice than just “practice some mindfulness meditation”, then this book could be just the turning point you need.

Click here to check out The Magic Of Mindful Self-Awareness, and be genuinely happy 95% of the time 🙂