This book was born out of a simple desire: to slow down a little.To take time to slow down, read, reflect, and breathe.In my search for ways to live a calmer life, I found Zen stories to be a resource that helped me slow down, stop, and listen to what remains when we make space for silence.Hoping that they might help others, I decided to compile 10 Zen stories that I particularly like in this book, accompanied by my own reflections. Not as someone who ...

In this series, you will learn simple ways to be more present every day, ways to reduce and manage stress in your daily life.This book brings you simple and creative mindfulness activities that will help you calm down and work through anger.In this Book Number 1, Zen Michael explains these 5 creative and simple ways to reduce stress:1. Be Calmer - Walking at Different Rhythms2. Be Calmer - Count From 10 to 1, Not 1 to...

In this series, you will learn simple ways to be more present every day, ways to reduce and manage stress in your daily life.This book brings you simple and creative mindfulness activities that will help you calm down and work through anger.In this Book Number 4, Zen Michael explains these 5 new and simple ways to reduce stress:16. Be Calmer - While Cleaning Your Glasses17. Be Calmer - Watching the Moon18. Be C...

What each one of us has different, what distinguishes us, is precisely the best we have to offer to others.It is the personal and collective acceptance of these differences that can bring greater individual satisfaction and at the same time add something new and positive to the world.Accepting that we are different from others and accepting that the difference in others is a positive thing, is a decisive step towards our rediscovery as individuals and as a society.T...

In this series, you will learn simple ways to be more present every day, ways to reduce and manage stress in your daily life.This book brings you simple and creative mindfulness activities that will help you calm down and work through anger.In this Book Number 2, Zen Michael explains these 5 new creative and simple ways to reduce stress:6. Be Calmer - You’re Not in Control, Accept That7. Be Calmer - C...

In this series, you will learn simple ways to be more present every day, ways to reduce and manage stress in your daily life.This book brings you simple and creative mindfulness activities that will help you calm down and work through anger.In this Book Number 3, Zen Michael explains these 5 new simple ways to reduce stress:11. Be Calmer - Practice the 2:1 Breathing Technique12. Be Calmer - Meditate W...

This Pack joins 5 books of the How To Be Calmer collection by Zen Michael.Use it to save and learn simple ways to be more present every day, ways to reduce and manage stress in your daily life.This series brings you simple and creative mindfulness activities that will help you calm down and work through anger.These are the 5 books included in this pack, that explain 25 ways to reduce stress and how to calm d...

We often like to complain that our life is full of problems.We say that every time we solve a problem, several other problems immediately arise to complicate our life.However, if we look closely at what we call “problems”, we will conclude that many of these problems do not just happen to us, they do not just have external causes. In fact, many of them ended up being expanded, enlarged by our habits of complexifying situations, by our accelerated thinking. This accelerated t...

In this series, you will learn simple ways to be more present every day, ways to reduce and manage stress in your daily life.This book brings you simple and creative mindfulness activities that will help you calm down and work through anger.In this Book Number 5, Zen Michael explains these 5 creative and simple ways to reduce stress:21. Be Calmer - Don’t Let Your Phone Be the First Thing You See in the Morning22. Be C...

If we analyze our usual behavior, we see that our tendency is more to talk than to listen to others. This habit is harmful to us in several aspects, namely because it often takes us to situations of conflict and stress that can be avoided if we practice active listening.On many occasions, we pretend, or think, we are listening to others. However, if we carefully analyze what we are doing, we will discover we are not really listening. Most of the time we are not listening to the thi...

We tend to consider that the friends who can help us the most are those who, in addition to always being available to listen to us, are always ready to tell us what to do. Those who are always ready to propose a quick solution to the problems we share with them.Our starting point, our first reason, is to think that we are going to tell a friend a problem and that he is going to give us solutions to solve that problem. We think this is the role of a true friend.Although this...

We are used to celebrating only specific occasions, such as birthdays, weddings, promotions at work, etc.However, aren’t there many more situations we can and should celebrate?Are we not forgetting us when we ignore the small positive moments? We have to celebrate the little things, our little victories.When we finish a difficult task, it deserves to be celebrated. When we manage to change a difficult habit, it deserves to be celebrated. When someone praises us, tha...