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You should listen to this audiobook
- Did you know that a scientifically-proven eight-week course can help you bust common myths about meditation and fundamentally change how you experience stress?
- Have you ever wondered why your mind often feels like a battlefield, and what the clinical secret is to finding a lasting oasis of calm in our frantic modern world?
- What if you could harness the combined insights of a biochemist and a psychologist to finally unlock greater peace of mind without the need for spiritual jargon?
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Key Takeaways from Mindfulness
- Discover how to overcome autopilot thinking to regain control of your thoughts, reduce stress, and stop procrastinating.
- Understand why reacting to your daily moods causes more damage than the emotions themselves, and how mindfulness physically rewires your brain to prevent this.
- Learn to anchor your awareness in the present moment and stop racing thoughts using simple, sensory-focused exercises like the raisin meditation.
- Master the 'body scan' technique to identify where your body holds hidden stress and successfully shift your mind from a stressful 'doing' mode into a peaceful 'being' mode.
- Find out how approaching tasks with a positive, mindful attitude can boost your creativity, and learn to connect your perspective and body through mindful movement.
Mindfulness — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: Mindfulness isn’t what many people believe it is.
Chapter 3: Psychological research strongly supports the claim that mindfulness is remarkably effective.
Chapter 4: To understand mindfulness, you must clearly grasp the difference between doing and being.
Chapter 5: You can cultivate mindfulness by completing a carefully structured eight-week program.
Chapter 6: Weeks three and four emphasize building deeper compassion and heightened sensory awareness.
Chapter 7: Weeks five and six are about examining difficulties and kindness.
Chapter 8: The seventh and eighth weeks concentrate on physical and mental nourishment.
Mindfulness Summary & Overview
Mindfulness (2011) guides readers through eight weeks of meditation specially designed to bring greater peace of mind. The result of a collaboration between a biochemist and a clinical psychologist, this is a scientifically-grounded course that paves the way to greater mental well-being while busting plenty of myths along the way.
Who Should Listen to Mindfulness?
- Anyone looking for an oasis of calm in today’s hectic world
- Rational thinkers who have been put off by the spiritual associations of mindfulness
- Readers interested in the life of the mind
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