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  • Keeping a Mindful Journal

    Keeping a Mindful Journal

    by Philip Cowell

    The health and wellbeing benefits of journaling are well-documented, stemming from work of James Pennebaker at the University of Texas. This book explains the researched benefits of mindful journaling. Drawing on the author’s extensive writing experience, it is a thorough, practical exploration of how to use journaling positively, and how actually to break through the barriers and write. *Topics include*: Where to start Writing your experience Recording key moments – or ‘steppingstones’ Dealing with writer’s block Free writing and how to use it Other techniques such as recording and...

  • Life: A Guide

    Life: A Guide

    by Andrew Fuller

    *Life: A Guide*, a new book by psychologist and author Andrew Fuller, explores this question: Have you ever wondered why some people seem glide through life relatively trouble free while others repeat the same damn patterns over and over again? When people said to you "it's just a stage of life" they were right. Andrew Fuller has spent the last ten years having conversations with over 10,000 people about their lives. The times of delights and opportunity and the times of turmoil and struggle share many similarities. In fact...

  • Mindful Games: Sharing Mindfulness and Meditation with Children, Teens, and Families

    Mindful Games: Sharing Mindfulness and Meditation with Children, Teens, and Families

    by Susan Kaiser Greenland

    Mindful play is a great way for kids to develop focusing skills while learning to regulate their emotions and respond to any situation calmly, with kindness and compassion. Here are sixty simple and accessible games that can bring mindfulness to your daily routine. These delightful games, developed and tested over many years of working with children and their caregivers, are designed for kids, but they can be just as fun and transformative for adults! Susan Kaiser Greenland encourages parents to play these games themselves to develop their own attention, balance,...

  • Mindfulness for Carers: How to Manage the Demands of Caregiving While Finding a Place for Yourself

    Mindfulness for Carers: How to Manage the Demands of Caregiving While Finding a Place for Yourself

    by Cheryl Rezek

    Carers are particularly vulnerable to feeling stressed, worried and worn down by the vast demands that often come with caregiving, be they physical, psychological or emotional. Mindfulness can be enormously beneficial to carers, whether professional or voluntary, as a means of developing greater inner stability, resilience and gaining more control over their thoughts, feelings and emotions. Mindfulness is an evidence-based approach that is proven to help protect against stress, anxiety, depression and burnout. Dr Cheryl Rezek provides an accessible introduction to mindfulness, and explains how simple mindfulness practices and psychological concepts can...

  • Mindfulness for Health: A practical guide to relieving pain, reducing stress and restoring wellbeing

    Mindfulness for Health: A practical guide to relieving pain, reducing stress and restoring wellbeing

    by Vidyamala Burch, Danny Penman

    Pain, suffering and stress can be intolerable - but it doesn't have to be this way. Mindfulness for Health reveals a series of simple practices that you can incorporate into your daily life to relieve chronic pain and the suffering and stress of illness. Clinical trials show that mindfulness is at least as effective as the most commonly prescribed painkillers such as Tramadol and codeine. A recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience demonstrated that it is more effective than morphine. Mindfulness can also significantly reduce the anxiety,...

  • Mindfulness For Life

    Mindfulness For Life

    by Dr S. McKenzie & Dr C. Hassed

    Mindfulness is a form of mental training that has been widely practised for millennia; however it's only recently that science and clinical practice have discovered the profound potential of mindfulness-based practices for increasing our wellbeing. Our tendency to not be fully present in life has vast implications. Being unmindful means wasting our lifetime, missing important information, increasing our risk of physical and social accidents and communicating more superficially with other people. Importantly, it makes us unhappier than we realise and vulnerable to stress and poor mental health. By focusing on what...

  • Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th anniversary edition

    Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th anniversary edition

    by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

    With over a quarter of a million copies sold, Mindfulness in Plain English is one of the most influential books in the burgeoning field of mindfulness and a timeless classic introduction to meditation. This is a book that people read, love, and share—a book that people talk about, write about, reflect on, and return to over and over again. *Author Bio:* *Bhante Gunaratana* is a Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist monk and is the founding abbot of the Bhavana Society. Born in Sri Lanka, he has been a monk since...

  • Mindfulness on the Go Cards

    Mindfulness on the Go Cards

    by Jan Chozen Bays

    Mindfulness is a simple practice with seemingly limitless benefits. And, contrary to popular belief, learning it does not require sitting motionless for hours in the lotus position. You can in fact access it right now—and this little deck of cards is a convenient way to get started. Each of the 52 cards presents one of the exercises Zen teacher Jan Chozen Bays has developed for fostering mindful awareness among her students. It’s as easy as: Observing the sensations of eating “Checking in” while driving your car Taking...

  • My First Book of Mindfulness

    My First Book of Mindfulness

    by Sunita Rai

    *Enhance your child’s social emotional health through mindfulness, art and home experiments* All parents want their child to be happy and make a positive impact on the world. Children learn to be agile and resilient, developing their academic and life skills as well as emotional well-being as they grow. A child depends a lot on their parents and teachers for guidance so they can understand and manage their emotions, as well as set and achieve positive goals. Though not often expressed, all this learning is actually an important aspect...

  • Parenting Your Anxious Child with Mindfulness and Acceptance

    Parenting Your Anxious Child with Mindfulness and Acceptance

    by Christopher McCurry

    Parenting Your Anxious Child with Mindfulness and Acceptance - A Powerful New Approach to Overcoming Fear, Panic, and Worry Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy We live in a chaotic and often unpredictable world, so it's only natural for you and your child to have anxieties. But seeing your child cry, cling to you, or even use aggression to avoid his or her own fears and worries may cause you to worry even more, trapping both of you in a cycle of anxiety and fear. You can interrupt this cycle...

  • Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children

    Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children

    by Thich Nhat Hanh

    Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children is the fruit of decades of development and innovation in the Plum Village community’s collective practice with children. Based on Thich Nhat Hanh’s thirty years of teaching mindfulness and compassion to parents, teachers, and children, the book and enclosed CD cover a wide range of contemplative and fun activities parents and educators can do with their children or students. The activities are designed to help relieve stress, increase concentration, nourish gratitude and confidence, deal with difficult emotions, touch our interconnection with nature, and improve communication. Planting...

  • Psychology Moment by Moment: A Guide to Enhancing Your Clinical Practice with Mindfulness and Meditation

    Psychology Moment by Moment: A Guide to Enhancing Your Clinical Practice with Mindfulness and Meditation

    by Elise E. Labbe

    Develop Powerful, Evidence-Based Mindfulness Protocols for Your Clients As the research supporting mindfulness-based therapies grows, so does the demand for mental health professionals who can develop effective mindfulness-based treatment protocols suited to the needs of individual clients. Psychology Moment by Moment guides clinicians through the process of creating and applying mindfulness-based interventions for a variety of client populations and problems, session by session, to focus treatment even more and help clients make substantial progress. You'll learn the best mindfulness techniques for the treatment of anxiety disorders, depression, chronic illness, pain, stress, and eating...

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