Peace of mind

Give your brain a well-deserved break! We can't control what thoughts we have and how often they occur. But we can change the way we handle them. The brain can basically handle a lot of stress: important deadlines, overflowing inboxes, conflicts, endless to-do lists and packed calendars. But this requires that it regularly gets time and peace to recharge. In this book, the two psychologists Martin Kastrup and Mads Hyldig talk about four simple tools that can give the brain the break from worries and thoughts that it needs. The book's methods have been thoroughly tested by psychologists and doctors and are used by several large companies in Denmark.

Martin Kastrup and Mads Hyldig are trained psychologists, and they have both experienced what it means to have anything but peace of mind. Martin when he was diagnosed with cancer, Mads when he was to be deployed as a soldier in Afghanistan, and they have used their experiences, both professional and personal, to help thousands of others create peace of mind.

“We have also experienced for ourselves how worries can lead to stress and burnout. Although illness and war are stressful, we have both had to realize that what stressed us the most were our thoughts. Or more precisely: our worries about everything we couldn’t control anyway. Martin worried about the operations he was going to have to undergo and whether he would survive. Mads worried about whether he was good enough and about everything that could go wrong in Afghanistan.” From the book’s foreword