Mental Resilience

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Kamal Sarma C. Mental Resilience

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Praise for Mental Resilience

“This book successfully integrates the lessons learned from thousands of years of Eastern meditation tradition with the latest findings of Western science. For novices and experts alike, it will broaden and deepen your understanding. I have meditated in the peace and quiet of a mountain retreat and as a combat soldier in trenches. Meditation is a powerful tool to develop focus, peace, and clarity. This is the best book on meditation I have ever read.”

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Nothing I did could relieve the helplessness I felt. I tried alcohol, but it just made me feel sick. I contemplated drugs and psychiatric medication but knew that they just masked symptoms and would leave me feeling even hollower. My body seemed to be falling apart; I lost around thirty pounds in less than two weeks. I wanted the overwhelming feeling of depression to go away, but nothing would get rid of it. I thought of suicide on a number of occasions.

I felt as if I were trying to put my mind into gear, but all I could hear was the crunching of the gears. How could I get my mind to bounce back? How could let go of this pain? I did not want to numb my mind; I wanted to regain my clarity and focus. I wanted to regain my mind’s ability to make decisions, to serve me so that I could serve people around me. I knew my mind had been resilient before; I knew that if I could somehow stop this incessant chatter, I could do the things that had been so easy before. But from my viewpoint at the time, I could not even begin to imagine that it would ever be possible.

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