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Give your brain a well-earned break. We cannot control which thoughts we have or how often they arise. But we can change the way we handle them. The brain can generally cope with a great deal of stress: important deadlines, overflowing inboxes, conflicts, endless to-do lists and packed calendars. But it needs regular time and calm to recharge. In this book, psychologists Martin Kastrup and Mads Hyldig present four simple tools that can give the brain the break from worry and racing 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 both have 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 find calm for the brain.

"We have also felt for ourselves how worry in particular can lead to stress and burnout. Although illness and war are stressful, we have both had to accept that what stressed us most was our thoughts. Or more precisely: our worries about everything we could not control anyway. Martin worried about the operations he had 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