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Finding peace, calm, and sanity when you need them most - right now! - -Overworked? Overstressed? Overwhelmed? You need this book - today! -Mental, physical, and spiritual strategies that work: simple, potent, practical, and immediate. -Live your life in the moment - and lose the fear and anger that cripple you.

Charles C. Manz is Nirenberg Professor of Business Leadership, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Foreword	p. xv
Introduction: Finding Temporary Sanity and Peace in Turbulent Life Moments	p. xix
Foundational Peace(s)	p. 1
What is Temporary Sanity?	p. 3
The Four Truths	p. 7
The Only Moment	p. 10
The Promise of Temporary Sanity	p. 15
Traveling the Inner Low Road	p. 21
Rerouting to the Inner High Road	p. 25
The Two Key Parts of the Temporary Sanity Process	p. 31
Three Steps to Temporary Sanity in "Normal" Challenging Moments	p. 35
Three Steps to Temporary Sanity in Highly Challenging Moments	p. 38
Finding the Peace(s) of Your Life	p. 42
Mind: Mental Peace(s)	p. 47
Watch Yourself!	p. 48
Choose Momentary Amnesia	p. 54
Just Consider Letting Go	p. 60
Ride Mental Storms	p. 65
Mental Kung Fu	p. 71
The Idea That Can Change Your Life	p. 77
Mental Flow...Catch Your Inner Wind	p. 83
Ideas for Other Mind-Centered Temporary Sanity Strategies	p. 87
Body: Physical Peace(s)	p. 89
Stop! ... And Relax	p. 91
Breathe	p. 95
Perceive in 3D	p. 102
Smile and Laugh	p. 107
Sense Your Senses	p. 113
Sound Management	p. 119
Stretch Yourself	p. 125
Ideas for Other Body-Centered Temporary Sanity Strategies	p. 131
Spirit: Transcendent Peace(s)	p. 133
Watch, Don't Be, the Ego	p. 135
The Question: Can I Feel Inner Peace Right Now?	p. 141
The Statement: This Is the Way Things Are Supposed to Be	p. 146
Wake Up in Your Day/Life Dreams	p. 152
4D Perceiving	p. 157
Die Before You Die	p. 163
Make Peace with Love	p. 169
Ideas for Other Spirit-Centered Temporary Sanity Strategies	p. 174
Create Lifelong Temporary Sanity	p. 176
Endnotes	p. 179
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Introduction: Finding Temporary Sanity and Peace in Turbulent Life Moments When you experience your mind, emotions, and sense of self as somehow separate from everyone and everything else and in need of very high and very thick walls to protect yourself, a strange thing happens. The very walls you create for protection--physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual--become a prison that keeps you from discovering the truth about who you really are. This prison is the source of insanity. Do you agree with the following statement? "The world is a very threatening place in which our personal safety and security are constantly at risk." After all, we are continuously bombarded with news of violence, corruption, natural disasters, economic strife, and frequent disturbing evidence of acts of human insanity across the globe. For many of us, our experience of these potential threats may be mostly restricted to television news reports and newspaper stories, but we still carry the burdensome stress they provoke in us. And, perhaps even more to the point, we continuously encounter less severe but nevertheless disturbing personal challenges in our work and life that can set us off. What about you personally? Have you ever had the feeling that you responded to a stressful situation in a way that later seemed illogical, ineffective, and even a little insane? If you are like most people, and honest with yourself, I suspect that your answer is an unhesitating "yes." Life in this world is often not only very trying but can trigger thoughts and behaviors that don't serve us or others well. In the pressure of difficult moments it can be very hard to put our best foot forward. It's as though we become temporarily insane, making choices that are destructive for ourselves and others. For better or worse, we've all had these moments as part of our life experience--moments, when we responded to challenge with a touch of insanity, causing harm to our careers, our personal lives, and to those we work with and care about. For example, insulting a spouse or co-worker, even if we believe they "asked for it," rarely serves any useful purpose. Nor does getting all worked up about an unpleasant surprise such as a hefty parking ticket, receiving notice of a tax audit, or learning of yet another round of "downsizing" in our organization. Yet some of the time we all find ourselves responding in ways "that we know better than" in the heat of the moment and then suffer the consequences of our actions afterward. Society even has accepted commonly understood terms, such as "road rage" and "going postal" to identify more extreme versions of these kind of destructive choices. And there are many other, less obvious upsetting circumstances, such as simply remembering an embarrassing experience that happened in a meeting last week, which can rob us of our personal effectiveness, peace of mind, and immediate enjoyment of life. It seems reasonable to just let these reactions go and simply chalk up our dysfunctional responses to human fallibility. After all, nobody's perfect. But as the world continues to become increasingly complex and changing, challenging moments fill more and more of our time. This means that learning how to respond well to the inevitable difficulties we all face is crucial for building an effective and fulfilling life. We need to learn how to find our sanity in the face of events and thoughts that pull us toward unconscious insanity. That's what this book is all about--gaining the capacity to live through turbulent moments with calm effectiveness. It's about being able to choose temporary sanity so that we can create instant peace of mind in the midst of a challenging life, including trying circumstances that might otherwise push us toward self-defeating responses. By "instant peace of mind," I don't mean to minimize

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