Book description
Mindfulness: Living Through Challenges and Enriching Your Life In This Moment shows how the ancient practice of mindfulness can help us live a fuller and more enriching life.
Presents material through a balance of clinical case work with the author's personal stories of the Dalai Lama, ninja, and Zen Buddhism
Reveals ways that mindfulness can be applied to modern problems based on psychological principles and evidence-based programs
Shows how to apply mindfulness principles to a variety of problems, including stress, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and more
Provides guidelines for readers to conduct their own mindfulness training sessions at home
Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise for Mindfulness: Living through Challenges and Enriching Your Life in This Moment
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: The Need for Mindfulness
- Chapter 2: What Is Mindfulness?
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Chapter 3: What Mindfulness Is Not
- Noticing Our Ideas
- Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies
- Avoiding and Letting Go
- Not Mindfulness with a Capital “M”
- Mindfulness as “Getting Something”
- Practice and Daily Life
- In the Moment versus For the Moment
- How Mindfulness Is Different from Other Methods
- Building Up of Ego
- The Myth of “Advanced” Mindfulness
- Chapter 4: When Things Go Wrong: Responding to Challenges
- Chapter 5: When Things Go Terribly Wrong
- Chapter 6: Enriching Your Life
- Chapter 7: Building Your Mindfulness Muscles
- Chapter 8: Beyond Mindfulness: More Ways to Train Your Mind
- Afterword
- Mindfulness Exercises
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References
- Chapter 1: The Need for Mindfulness
- Chapter 2: What Is Mindfulness?
- Chapter 3: What Mindfulness Is Not
- Chapter 4: When Things Go Wrong: Responding to Challenges
- Chapter 5: When Things Go Terribly Wrong
- Chapter 6: Enriching Your Life
- Chapter 7: Building Your Mindfulness Muscles
- Chapter 8: Beyond Mindfulness: More Ways to Train Your Mind
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Photo Credits
- About the Author
- Chapter 1: The Need for Mindfulness
- Chapter 2: What Is Mindfulness?
- Chapter 3: What Mindfulness Is Not
- Chapter 4: When Things Go Wrong: Responding to Challenges
- Chapter 5: When Things Go Terribly Wrong
- Chapter 6: Enriching Your Life
- Chapter 7: Building Your Mindfulness Muscles
- Chapter 8: Beyond Mindfulness: More Ways to Train Your Mind
- Index
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Mindfulness: Living Through Challenges and Enriching Your Life In This Moment
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2014
- Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
- ISBN: 9781118597576
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