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 ## Table of Contents
 
 * ⇢ "Search Inside Yourself" book notes
+* ⇢ ⇢ How to Master Your Mind in 100 Minutes
 * ⇢ ⇢ Mindfulness and Personal Development
 * ⇢ ⇢ Three Steps of "Search Inside Yourself"
 * ⇢ ⇢ Even an Engineer Can Thrive on Emotional Intelligence
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 * ⇢ ⇢ ⇢ Practice of Mindful E-Mailing
 * ⇢ ⇢ Three Easy Steps to World Peace
 * ⇢ ⇢ ⇢ Align Meditation with Real Life
+* ⇢ ⇢ MacGyver's Swiss Army knife
 * ⇢ ⇢ Other
 * ⇢ ⇢ Audio Book notes
 * ⇢ ⇢ ⇢ Books to Check Out
 * ⇢ ⇢ ⇢ Videos
 
+## How to Master Your Mind in 100 Minutes
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+If you are thinking of reading the book "Search Inside Yourself," you can also check out a very short summary of it in a book called "How To Master Your Mind in 100 Minutes: Increase Productivity, Creativity and Happiness (Collins Shorts, Book 8)." However, it is not the whole story!
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 ## Mindfulness and Personal Development
 
 Mindfulness is not about reaching a different destination; it's about fully inhabiting your current state and recognizing the power of your complete presence and awareness at this moment. This book is about the potential everyone has to develop an extraordinarily capable mind that is profoundly peaceful, happy, and compassionate. It emphasizes the importance of deeper emotional awareness—the ability to detect an emotion as it arises, observe it as it subsides, and notice all the subtle changes in between. 
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 It is possible to train the brain to overcome even serious emotional disorders; just imagine the possibility of using it to greatly improve the quality of our emotional lives. This also works with physical pain. Suffering can be trained "away." Brain. Trainable. Good.
 
+Social skills are highly trainable and can also help others love you, by the way.
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 ## Train at the Level of Physiology
 
 Every emotion has a correlate in the body. Emotional experiences are not just psychological; they are also physiological. We can usually experience emotions more vividly in the body than in the mind. Therefore, when trying to perceive an emotion, it is often more effective to bring our attention to the body rather than the mind.
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 I want to create a world where meditation is widely treated like exercise for the mind.
 
+## MacGyver's Swiss Army knife
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+There was a study which tested the development of antibodies (flu shots). One control group meditated, the other didn't before they were given flu shots. Those in the meditation group developed more antibodies to the influenza vaccine than the ones who didn't. Another study revealed, that mindfulness can greatly accelerate the healing of a skin condition known as psoriasis.
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+It's also about the ability to pay attention to information for a prolonged period of time where meditation is beneficial.
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+Mindfulness feels almost like MagGyver's Swiss Army knife - it is sueful in every situation.
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 ## Other
 
 I see great people. Walking around like regular people. They don't even know they are great.
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 => http://siybook.com/v/ted_dpink Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation
 => http://siybook.com/v/tdd_jbt Jill Bolte Taylor on her "stroke of insight"
 
-For more resources, including those you can use to bring Search Inside Yourself to your own company, visit:
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-=> http://www.siybook.com
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 E-Mail your comments to `paul@nospam.buetow.org` :-)
 
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