Understanding Me, Understanding You

An Enquiry into Being Human

Manoj Krishna (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2017
ClearTree Press (Verlag)
978-0-9956833-0-3 (ISBN)

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Understanding Me, Understanding you- an enquiry into being human, is a book on self-awareness. Understanding ourselves and how our minds work brings wisdom. Our happiness depends on it. This allows us to understand others better, and that can bring harmony to our relationships. The website humanenquiry.com accompanies the book.

Understanding ourselves and how our minds work is the doorway to wisdom. Our happiness depends on it. It is not part of our education, so we have to discover it for ourselves.
The book Understanding me, Understanding You, makes it easy for everyone to understand themselves clearly, by observing their thoughts and feelings and then exploring their origin. Each of us can discover that richness of understanding that can transform our lives for the better. We can then cope better with the challenges that life throws at us, and the stress that follows. Because our minds work in similar ways, understanding ourselves helps us to understand others, and that brings harmony to our relationships, which is essential for a happy life.
The aim of this book is to explore the many hidden ways in which our mind works, behind the screen of our awareness, directing our thoughts and actions. The 26 chapters explore inner landscapes that are common to all human beings: like the art of listening, the mechanism of comparison, our conditioning and how it impacts our life, the nature of fear and desire and how they influence our behaviour, our many psychological needs and how they affect our relationships, the human struggle to find love, our many beliefs which bring us comfort but also divide us, our loneliness, our habits which can become addictions, our images of ourselves and how we try to defend them, our sorrow which blocks out the sun from our lives, and so on.
Since most problems begin in the human mind, the solutions to them must also begin there.
The book is part of the non-profit Human Enquiry Project, which aims to spread wisdom, which follows when we understand ourselves and how our minds work. It will lead to a better world.
The website humanenquiry.com accompanies the book.

Manoj Krishna trained as a doctor in Pune, India before coming to the UK to pursue a career as a spine surgeon. He left that career to write this book and launch the Human Enquiry Project. He lives in Yorkshire, England. He has had a deep interest in understanding how the human mind functions all through his life. He has facilitated dialogue groups where people would gather to enquire into the mind we all share. He feels passionately that we all need to be educated not only to understand the world around us, but also our inner spaces and how our minds work. He thinks each person is capable of this richness of understanding, and it can result in change without effort.

1. FOREWORD

2. WHY ASK QUESTIONS OF LIFE?
The Benefits and Art of Enquiry

3. CAN AWARENESS HELP SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS?

4. AWARENESS
How do we begin to look at ourselves?

5. LISTENING
Mastering the art of listening well

6. OBSTACLES TO ENQUIRY
Avoiding common pitfalls

7. COMPARISON
Why do we constantly compare ourselves with others?

8. FEAR
Is it possible to live a life without fear?

9. DESIRE
Why does elation end in disappointment?

10. ANGER
Could understanding anger reduce the violence in the
world?

11. SELF-IMAGE
Are our images responsible for us being hurt?

12. BELIEF
Why are we attached to our beliefs?

13. CONDITIONING
Are we aware how much our past influences our
present?

14. AMBITION AND SUCCESS
Is there a sting in the tail?

15. SELF-INTEREST
Could understanding our self-interest make us more
human?

16. LONELINESS
Is it possible to not feel lonely?

17. OPINIONS
How are they formed and how do they affect us?

18. HABITS AND ADDICTIONS
Overcoming our habits and addictions through
awareness

19. HAPPINESS
Why is it so elusive?

20. SORROW
Why do we get hurt?

21. RELATIONSHIPS
The art of harmonious relationships

22. LOVE
The beauty and challenge of love

23. DEATH
Can we lose the fear of dying?

24. IDENTITY
Who am I?

25. HUMANENQUIRY.COM
A website to accompany this book

26. LETTER TO A FRIEND

Erscheinungsdatum	21.07.2017
Verlagsort	Yarm
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
ISBN-10	0-9956833-0-1 / 0995683301
ISBN-13	978-0-9956833-0-3 / 9780995683303
Zustand	Neuware