Mind Calm

PRAISE FOR MIND CALM:

‘
Sandy has the ability to explain how you can get true calm in mind and body with ease and without struggle.
No matter how fast paced your world is, no matter how chaotic or conflicted your life is
, Mind Calm
will give you all the insights and tools to get what you want, when you want it.
If you want peace, love and happiness
, Mind Calm
is the book for you - read it and digest it all. You will not regret it
.'
JOSEPH CLOUGH, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF
BE YOUR POTENTIAL

‘
Mind Calm is a simple yet brilliant tool for being at peace with our innermost irritant thoughts.
Sandy expertly shares usable techniques for a life-enhancing meditation practice that results in less stress.
This is a book I will recommend over and over to my clients.
'
BECKY WALSH, RADIO PRESENTER, COMEDIAN AND AUTHOR OF
YOU DO KNOW

‘
I'm always inspired by Sandy's teachings. In this practical book, he shows that you don't need years of meditation practice to enjoy inner calm in your life.
'
PHIL PARKER, ORIGINATOR OF THE LIGHTNING PROCESS AND AUTHOR OF
GET THE LIFE YOU LOVE, NOW

‘
Mind Calm reminds us that happiness is an inside job. Filled to the brim with guidance that is straightforward yet profound, Sandy Newbigging has carved the path to finally finding peace with our minds.
This book is a must read for anyone ready to welcome more simplicity, serenity and success into their life.
'
CHRISTY FERGUSSON, AUTHOR OF
HOT, HEALTHY, HAPPY

‘
Sandy writes with such lucidity and calm. It would actually be quite difficult not to become calm while reading this book!
'
DAVID R. HAMILTON PHD, AUTHOR OF
HOW YOUR MIND CAN HEAL YOUR BODY

‘
I love this book. I can see myself using it time and time again to, as Sandy suggests, “surrender to what is”, “go with the flow” and “simplify my life”. Oh the joy of a mind that is calm
.'
RICHARD FLOOK, AUTHOR OF
WHY AM I SICK?

‘
Mind Calm is packed full of fantastic information that not only calms the mind, but elicits a potential that moves us towards “genius”.
The book allows the reader to fully realize that if we only listen to the mind, we quickly tire of its discourse. Whereas if we silence the mind we connect with Source. Hurrah for MIND CALM!
'
STEWART PEARCE, AUTHOR OF
THE ALCHEMY OF VOICE

 

CLIENT TESTIMONIALS:

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Mind Calm offers tools to experience the incredible peace, love and fulfilment that you've been looking for.
'
S. POWERS, CANADA

‘
Mind Calm has brought more peace into my life and people have even commented that I'm laughing more (which I've noticed myself doing, too).
Overall, Mind Calm has given me a greater sense of wellbeing.
'
U. WALSHE, IRELAND

‘
Since learning Mind Calm, I can access my inner peace at any moment choose.
I don't have to be sitting in my meditation practice to do it, but I can be calm at any moment when going about my everyday life.
'
J. BRYANT, UK

‘
The best thing I've got from Mind Calm is the understanding that I can let my thoughts and emotions come and go, and get back to my calm conscious awareness.
It is such a free experience. After years of trying to strive for ‘peace of mind', I can actually live a very serene life by developing a better relationship with the mind I have - it's just fantastic.
'
S. MCLAUGHLIN, IRELAND

‘
Mind Calm has been the best gift I have received in my life - allowing me to move from having boring days at work, always waiting for the weekend, to be able to have fun and excitement about life - every day.
'
M. TSACHEV, BULGARIA

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I love Mind Calm because I have found so much joy, peace and presence in my daily life, and it's just getting better and better.
'
S. BUTTIMER, IRELAND

‘
Mind Calm has given me a real sense of serenity.
I can catch myself when I'm getting caught up in my mind, which allows me to come back to the present moment.
Overall, Mind Calm has given me a better experience of life and I don't know anyone that doesn't want that.
'
J. GRAHAM, SCOTLAND

 

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ISBN 978-1-78180-310-3 in Mobipocket format
ISBN 978-1-78180-309-7 in ePub format

To all Teachers from all traditions who have shared the universal message:

‘Be Still and Know Who You Are.'

CONTENTS

Foreword by Robert Holden

Preface: Chaos Before the Calm

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Silent Solution

PART I: TEACHINGS + TECHNIQUES

Chapter 1
Hidden Causes of a Busy Mind

Chapter 2
The Big Benefits of Mind Calm

Chapter 3
What You Want is Inside You

Chapter 4
Quick Start: Get Mind Calm Now

Chapter 5
The Peace with Mind Miracle

Chapter 6
The Secret to Success is Stillness

Chapter 7
Mind Calm Meditation Technique

Chapter 8
Intriguing Meditation Happenings

Chapter 9
Optimum Meditation Mind-Set

Chapter 10
Peace with Mind Protocol

PART II: THE 10-PART MIND CALM PROGRAMME

Introduction: The 10-part Mind Calm Programme

1 Connection

Including ‘Reality Check' Game + ‘Peace with Body' Protocol

2 Power

Including ‘Noticing Now Space' Game + ‘Peace with Potential' Protocol

3 Joy

Including ‘Inward Gazing' Game + ‘Peace with Emotions' Protocol

4 Peace

Including ‘Heart Watching' Game + ‘Peace with Environment' Protocol

5 Love

Including ‘Loving Pink Light' Game and ‘Peace with Relationships' Protocol

6 Truth

Including ‘Silence Speaks' Game + ‘Peace with Career' Protocol

7 Clarity

Including ‘Enlightened Eye' Game + ‘Peace with Society' Protocol

8 Wisdom

Including ‘Noticing Nirvana' Game + ‘Peace with Time' Protocol

9 Oneness

Including ‘Resonance Revolution' Game + ‘Peace with Yourself' Protocol

10 Presence

Including ‘Air Aware' Game + ‘Peace with Life' Protocol

In Closing: The Splendour of Surrender

Appendix: Overview of the Mind Calm Programme

Next Steps: Making Mind Calm Your Way of Life

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FOREWORD

Have you seen the Monty Python comedy sketch ‘100-Metre Dash for People with No Sense of Direction'? Picture the scene: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle and the rest of the runners are at the starting line. They are impatient and agitated as they wait for the starting gun to fire. Finally, the race begins, and everyone races off in different directions - meaning no one gets to the finishing line, no matter how fast they run. This sketch is a perfect metaphor for our mad-dash world, manic lifestyles and the chronic busyness that repeatedly takes us to our knees and makes us feel there must be a better way.

Where does this pressure come from to live so fast, to be so busy and so manic? Is it from society? Our upbringing? The media? Sandy Newbigging recognizes the external pressures, but he encourages us to look closer to home. In
Mind Calm
, he shows us how to liberate ourselves from the inner mind-made pressures that cause us to race for our lives. What Sandy helps us to do is to stop suffering from our own psychology. He helps us to be the thinker of our
thoughts instead of the victim of our thoughts. He offers us liberation from fear, judgment and attachments.

In my work as a coach I see that
most people don't need more therapy, they just need more clarity.
Sandy sees this too. He takes us beyond the fix-it approach. He helps us cultivate a healthy relationship with our mind. That's his approach:
peace with mind
. Sandy coaches us on how to befriend our own mind, and he does it brilliantly. Step by step, he shows us how to stop suffering from psychology, so to speak, and to cultivate an awareness that makes an inner shift from
becoming happy to being happy
.