THE SECOND ARROW: Ancient Indian Wisdom for a Calm, Unshakeable Mind - Couverture souple

Kumar, Shailendra

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798185096963

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

At 1 a.m., your body is in bed. Your mind is still at the office.

You replay a conversation that ended hours ago. You rehearse one that hasn't happened yet. You check your phone one more time, and somehow feel worse for it.

This isn't a personal failing. It's what an untrained mind does - and it's exactly the problem Indian sages spent thousands of years studying, long before "stress" was even a word.

The Second Arrow takes their oldest, most practical discoveries and translates them into plain, modern language. No incense. No mountaintop. No belief required. Just tools.

You'll learn:

• Why the event that stresses you is almost never the real problem - and what actually is
• The difference between the pain that finds you and the suffering you add on top of it
• A breathing technique you can use in thirty seconds, anywhere, that calms your nervous system on command
• Why "just relax" never works - and what to do instead
• How to want something fully without needing it to happen a specific way
• What to do when your mind won't stop comparing your life to everyone else's highlight reel
• A daily practice you can actually keep, built for a real, busy life - not a retreat

Through the stories of a Bangalore product manager who can't switch off, a Mumbai sales director chasing every quick fix, a Kota student carrying her whole family's hopes, and a dozen other ordinary people under very ordinary pressure, this book shows that peace was never something to chase. It was available the whole time - the moment the mind stops adding a story to what's actually happening.

This is not a book about eliminating problems. Problems are part of a full life. This is a book about no longer adding a second, unnecessary layer of suffering on top of the first.

Zero stress was never about a perfect life. It's about a quiet mind meeting an imperfect one.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798185096963
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 121
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