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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalIn addition to being a seasoned corporate professional who has risen from the grassroots to C-suite levels in a career spanning almost three decades, Rajesh Seshadri continues to don multiple hats – that of a coach, mentor, trainer, and therapist. His LinkedIn profile (https://in.linkedin.com/in/rajeshseshadri) encapsulates his corporate career. He is a fellow member of the ICAI–FCMA, in addition to having a dual PGD in Finance & Human Resource Management. His enthusiasm to help people discover and unleash their potential, grow, and develop led him to learn various psychological toRead More...
In addition to being a seasoned corporate professional who has risen from the grassroots to C-suite levels in a career spanning almost three decades, Rajesh Seshadri continues to don multiple hats – that of a coach, mentor, trainer, and therapist. His LinkedIn profile (https://in.linkedin.com/in/rajeshseshadri) encapsulates his corporate career.
He is a fellow member of the ICAI–FCMA, in addition to having a dual PGD in Finance & Human Resource Management. His enthusiasm to help people discover and unleash their potential, grow, and develop led him to learn various psychological tools including Clinical Hypnotherapy, Gestalt and Silva Ultra. He is a Certified Leadership Coach and Certified Life Coach and a member of various bodies and associations, including the APA, AAH, ISTD, AIMA, and BMA.
The author has often relied on stories in coaching, training, and therapy and has found it immensely invaluable, even to the extent of using metaphors in corporate meetings and discussions.
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Strangely, despite the human heart's abject need for the Truth, which is the only thing in which it may find liberation, people typically react to Truth with hate and dread. Therefore, the greatest spiritual teachers, including the Buddha, devised a method to circumvent the resistance of their followers, through stories.
A narrative has the intrinsic power to mould, inspire, motivate, coach, and leave a metaphorical impression on our subconscious mind.
Strangely, despite the human heart's abject need for the Truth, which is the only thing in which it may find liberation, people typically react to Truth with hate and dread. Therefore, the greatest spiritual teachers, including the Buddha, devised a method to circumvent the resistance of their followers, through stories.
A narrative has the intrinsic power to mould, inspire, motivate, coach, and leave a metaphorical impression on our subconscious mind. Storytelling is and has always been an important part of the solution. In a world that is overflowing with negative news, sensational broadcasts and dreadful predictions, the Akhyayika series of books are ordained and intended to stimulate, enthuse, uplift, nourish and enlighten.
This, the third book in the series, is an anthology of Zen stories. Thousands of epigrammatic, instructive tales describing the realizations of past Zen masters can be found in the Zen canon. These stories have been specially selected, edited and embellished from a variety of sources that constitute mankind’s spiritual inheritance.
Pick any story at random – they can be humorous, paradoxical, multifaceted, enigmatic or tantalizing – yet every single one of them will offer a plausible perspective and varying insights. As a spiritual being, allow these stories to sink into your subconscious and emancipate you.
Metaphorical thinking is fundamental to cognition, communication and our ‘narrative mind’. This makes it a valuable tool for helping friends, family, colleagues and clients gain new perspectives on their lives. Using a metaphor is a helpful way of talking about emotional and relational experience.
The mind has the capacity to understand new ideas by relating them to concepts it is familiar with. Using metaphor has been a tradition in all th
Metaphorical thinking is fundamental to cognition, communication and our ‘narrative mind’. This makes it a valuable tool for helping friends, family, colleagues and clients gain new perspectives on their lives. Using a metaphor is a helpful way of talking about emotional and relational experience.
The mind has the capacity to understand new ideas by relating them to concepts it is familiar with. Using metaphor has been a tradition in all the major schools of therapy and is a particularly helpful way of talking about emotional and relational experience.
Using metaphor has been a tradition in all the major schools of therapy and is a particularly helpful way of talking about emotional and relational experience. No number of lectures, power points or vision and mission statements can so pithily and impressively convey what a story can. Each little story in this book will leave a definite imprint on your subconscious mind, changing the way you think and behave, spurring and inspiring you to greater heights.
We have all been brought up listening to stories from our grandparents, parents, and many others. Stories have an innate capacity to mould us, to shape our thinking, to inspire us, to motivate us, to coach us and impress our subconscious mind metaphorically. Storytelling is, and has always been, an important part of the solution for simulating positive behavioural changes. And when the stories are real-life stories, the benefits get amplified manifold.
We have all been brought up listening to stories from our grandparents, parents, and many others. Stories have an innate capacity to mould us, to shape our thinking, to inspire us, to motivate us, to coach us and impress our subconscious mind metaphorically. Storytelling is, and has always been, an important part of the solution for simulating positive behavioural changes. And when the stories are real-life stories, the benefits get amplified manifold. The emotional strings attached to real human stories bring credibility, engagement, and buy-in.
The second book in the AKHYAYIKAS series (Akhyayika means a fable, a short episodic narrative, or an anecdote) is a compendium of 100 short stories of people who dared to dream. Given the rough twist of fate, they decided to pick themselves up and make successes of themselves in their chosen life purpose. All the characters in the stories have one thing in common: they believed in the power of their dreams. The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose!
Even as the contemporary work environment today has turned extremely hectic, the ‘tyranny of the urgent’ has you in its vicious grips and the 9 to 5 job metamorphoses into a 24/7. Yet, activity is not equal to productivity. And your dreams and aspirations, your hobbies and your passions need not recede into oblivion. There is always a way, and this book tells you –
How to avoid ‘busywork’
How to embark on ‘results-based’
Even as the contemporary work environment today has turned extremely hectic, the ‘tyranny of the urgent’ has you in its vicious grips and the 9 to 5 job metamorphoses into a 24/7. Yet, activity is not equal to productivity. And your dreams and aspirations, your hobbies and your passions need not recede into oblivion. There is always a way, and this book tells you –
How to avoid ‘busywork’
How to embark on ‘results-based’ living.
How you can achieve more with less.
How you can enhance your personal productivity.
How you can find the extra time you need.
How to overcome procrastination, and the secret antidote for it.
How you can use the Pomodoro technique to your advantage.
How you can use the secret of compartmentalization to your advantage.
How to use the power of your mind to gain energy and become more productive.
Filled with tools, tips and tricks in every chapter, this simple book, devoid of jargon and technicalities, is meant for every office worker and executive to gain control over his life and steer it in the direction one wants. It includes an easy and simple self-hypnotic meditation technique, that can be practiced anywhere, anytime.
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