Don't Believe Everything You Think / Joseph Nguyen

RATINGS

Overall: 4.5/ 5 stars

Text Level: Medium

Entertainment: Medium

Self-Help: High

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Healing

Page Count: 126

Is this book right for me and my inmate?

If your negative self-talk thinking and thoughts are stopping you from having a fufilled joyful life of peace this book offers a guide on how to overcome them.

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Review By: Blackbird (Inmate)

Understanding where our negative thinking comes from and how we can stop it.

What would you say if the suffering you feel in your life is optional and you have the choice to end it at any time? Before reading this book I don't know if I would have believed that to be possible. However, now I better understand it is my own constant thinking about my life worries and fears that create my suffering, not the outside world. Being an inmate it sometimes seems that suffering and unhappiness are requirements for our lives as we live behind bars. I recently had a conversation with another inmate where we shared about the constant flow of negative self-worth thinking that goes through our heads. Especially at night when it is quiet our thinking stemming from guilt, shame and fears for past and future actions becomes the loudest. It is a painful way to live.

This book provides helpful strategies and spiritual perspectives on how we can break the cycle of overly active thinking minds. Joseph Nguyen gives readers an excellent book, using Buddhist principles of nonthinking, on how to quiet the mind. He reminds readers that our natural state is to be at peace with ourselves and this only changes to suffering when we focus our energy on thinking about all the perceived worries that surround us. He teaches us that our thinking shapes our outside reality, not the other way around. Most importantly he shows readers multiple strategies on how they can overcome all of this to find peace.

For me, this book was an amazing tool to help me find a more peaceful mind. I still have lots of moments when my thinking of potential fears, whether it be my court dates or family, fills my mind. Yet, now I have a much better way to cope. One big thing I loved about this book was it related my mental state back to my relationship with the universe I am in with God. Stopping my negative active thinking I see is part of a psychological and spiritual journey. Please try this book.

Book Quotes

“If you want to find the truth, look for simplicity."

“The truth is not something you think, but something that you know and feel deep in your soul. Listen to that still inner wisdom inside of you that knows all of this."