THE THINGS YOU CAN SEE ONLY YOU SLOW DOWN

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The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm and Mindful in a Fast-Paced World, by Haemin Sunim, self-help book. The collection of some rather short, pithy reflections by a Korean Buddhist monk on finding peace and clarity, despite the chaos in a modern life where one is forced to slow down.

The book is divided into eight chapters, all representative of different areas of life:

Rest: Encouragement to stop, rest, and recover for emotional health and wholeness.

Mindfulness: Reveals how mindfulness helps to cope with stress, live in the moment, and find inner peace.

Passion: It talks about balance between moving forward with passion and maintaining peace without losing balance, to not burn out by trying to follow one’s dreams.
Relationships: Looks at the positive potential of mindfulness in personal and social relationships, ultimately leading to greater lovingness and kindness.
Love: Examines the relationship of love, suggesting patience, understanding, and acceptance.
Life: Presumes to approach life’s little things with intention and happiness.
The Future: Proverbs will be presented in living with uncertainty but also in planning for tomorrow without losing sight of today.
Spirituality: Cultivates inner growth and self-acceptance and finds serenity by developing a deeper sense of something beyond themselves.
The gentle, conversational tone of the book is easy to read, but every reflection is accompanied by simple illustrations that complement what is there about messages. As has been the case with Sunim, wisdom from Eastern spiritual traditions interleaved with lessons of everyday life, it is accessible and speaks well to quite an audience.

Deep down, The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down is a book about slowing down to experience the beauty and gain better awareness of oneself and this compassion for oneself and others. In teaching readers how to lead more mindful lives, it opens the door to the possibility of a more peaceful and fulfilling existence.

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