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26 Ways to Drop Your Mind: How the Tao Can Help Us in Everyday Life, is part Eastern philosophy, part psychology, and part poetry. Philosopher, therapist and poet Brian McDermott highlights 26 key principles he finds operating within Taoism, and his analysis of these precepts is full of wonderful and challenging insights into the reasons our daily lives seem to be so often filled with conflict and struggle. The reader is not simply left to dwell in problems, though. Each essay reflects upon how it is that unhealthy thought processes get constructed, and McDermott offers different ways for us to identify them and to find ways around them. At the end of each observation are questions and poems that show us how the Tao can bring us to a place of greater awareness and understanding of our own lives - if only we can change our stubborn patterns of thinking and reacting long enough to appreciate the peacefulness of the mystery that is unfolding all around...

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