The habits and discipline of preparing the mind and body were parallel and complementary.
At their best they are small, valuable essays that prepare the mind and stir the senses.
Companies spend billions of dollars on training and development in the United States alone, but precious little time or money is spent on preparing the mind of the learner.
In the yogic tradition, the physical postures are said to prepare the mind and body for meditation, so reducing external stimuli is a necessity.
While inspiration is not the same as effort, effort is an essential condition for inspiration, preparing the mind for an inspirational experience.
His book presents specific steps in the form of three practical tools to help prepare the mind, see and seize opportunity, and follow through on one's resolution.
"These kinds of exercises prepare the mind's eye to see change when it occurs," explained Peter Schwartz, chairman of the Global Business Network, a unit of the Monitor Group, a management consulting firm.
For this reason sacred texts are sometimes read to the dying person to prepare the mind for the moment of death; similarly, sacred texts may be read to the newly dead, since the conscious principle is thought to remain in the body for about three days following death.
A refined and expectant aestheticism, which their philosophy had inculcated, taught the Chinese to ignore nothing that would prepare the mind for the reception of such experiences, and every turn of path and slope of ground was carefully calculated to induce the suitable attitude.
Writing can, of course, unseat governments, free the soul and prepare the mind and spirit for all possible rigours and joys – but I did not find myself or my vocation especially uplifting as I plodded back from the buffet car to a seriously interfered-with carriage that now smelled both "bad" and "of warm Alsatian".
