Dont feed the monkey mind begins with a wellwritten synopsis of basic attitudes and mental habits that perpetuate anxiety. Monkey mind is a term that the buddhists use to describe a mind that is out of control, in which the thoughts are acting the way excitable monkeys in the jungle actswinging. A memoir of anxiety, which came out in july 2012, we take the journey through the authors lifetime of clinical anxiety in his sweaty, jumpy, earlyadult body. Daniel smiths anxiety is matched by a wonderful sense of the comic, and it is this which makes monkey mind not only a dark, painfilled book but a hilariously funny one, too. Oliver sacks bestselling author of the mind s eye and musicophilia.
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