Mindfulness: an Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

✍ Scribed by Penman, Danny;Williams, J. Mark G

• Publisher: Rodale
• Year: 2011;2012
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Acknowledgments; Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn; 1. Chasing Your Tail; 2. Why Do We Attack Ourselves?; 3. Waking up to the Life You Have; 4. Introducing the Eight-Week Mindfulness Program; 5. Mindfulness Week One: Waking up to the Autopilot; 6. Mindfulness Week Two: Keeping the Body in Mind; 7. Mindfulness Week Three: the Mouse in the Maze; 8. Mindfulness Week Four: Moving beyond the Rumor Mill; 9. Mindfulness Week Five: Turning toward Difficulties; 10. Mindfulness Week Six: Trapped in the past or Living in the Present?; 11. Mindfulness Week Seven: When Did You Stop Dancing?;From one of the leading thinkers on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, a pioneering set of simple practices to dissolve anxiety, stress, exhaustion, and unhappiness. In Mindfulness, Oxford professor Mark Williams and award-winning journalist Dr. Danny Penman reveal the secrets to living a happier and less anxious, stressful and exhausting life. Based on the techniques of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, the unique program developed by Williams and his colleagues, the book offers simple and straightforward forms of mindfulness meditation that can be done by anyone⁰́₄and it can take just 10-20 minutes a day for the full benefits to be revealed.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn
1. Chasing Your Tail
2. Why Do We Attack Ourselves?
3. Waking up to the Life You Have
4. Introducing the Eight-Week Mindfulness Program
5. Mindfulness Week One: Waking up to the Autopilot
6. Mindfulness Week Two: Keeping the Body in Mind
7. Mindfulness Week Three: the Mouse in the Maze
8. Mindfulness Week Four: Moving beyond the Rumor Mill
9. Mindfulness Week Five: Turning toward Difficulties
10. Mindfulness Week Six: Trapped in the past or Living in the Present?
11. Mindfulness Week Seven: When Did You Stop Dancing? 12. Mindfulness Week Eight: Your Wild and Precious LifeNotes
Resources.

✦ Subjects

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT--Meditation;HEALTH & FITNESS--Diseases--General;MEDICAL--Clinical Medicine;MEDICAL--Diseases;MEDICAL--Evidence-Based Medicine;MEDICAL--Internal Medicine;Meditation--Therapeutic use;Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy;Popular works;Electronic books;Meditation -- Therapeutic use;Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy -- Popular works;BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Meditation;HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General;MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine;MEDICAL -- Diseases;MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based