Author: Jacquie Bird Publisher: Jacquie Bird ISBN: Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 33
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7 Daily Thoughts & Mantras 4 Mindfulness Week 2--Keys to Stress Relief & Personal Growth takes us through another week in the Mindfulness Journey. For anyone who wants to begin or deepen a Mindfulness Practice, even if you have very little time, this book is an easy to read step by step guide with vivid images and bold page colors designed to stimulate, support, and empower. 7 Daily Thoughts & Mantras 4 Mindfulness Week 2 gives you a few different ways to practice the daily themes. From Sunday to Saturday, each day includes a bold image, thought for the day, a meditation, and mantra. Gemstone suggestions are also made to assist your practice as well as action steps to put the thoughts and mantras into practical use for your personal growth and to help reduce stress levels.
Author: Jacquie Bird Publisher: Jacquie Bird ISBN: Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 28
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7 Daily Thoughts & Mantras 4 Mindfulness--Keys 4 Stress Relief & Personal Growth by Jacquie Bird is an effusive and upbeat guide on beginning or deepening a Mindfulness Practice. Ms. Bird has crafted a very accessible, easy read, yet it is packed with lots of little 'gems' for the reader; set in a lovely format with bold images, colorful pages and gemstone suggestions to augment your practice--a very appealing presentation with a lovely message--that stress relief and Peace are obtainable with intention and attention to how you roll in the world. Organized by each day of the week, 7 Daily Thoughts & Mantras 4 Mindfulness offers tools that apply to any and every day of the week. Designed as a reader's choice, you can read it through then go back to apply each principle day by day, or jump right in on the applicable day, apply the tools and move to the next day. 7 Daily Thoughts & Mantras 4 Mindfulness has a layout geared for the busy individual who wants to begin a Mindfulness Practice but has a very tight schedule. Days are broken into 2-3 sections consisting of a bold, striking image with "The Thought for the Day" statement followed by the expounding on the theme; the Mindfulness Mantra and Meditation and on some days there is the Action section--concrete ways to put the Thoughts and Mantras into motion. This edition is the 1st of a 4 part series. 7 Daily Thoughts & Mantras 4 Mindfulness has lessons that allow you to realize your Higher Self at a pace that doesn't leave your lower self behind!
Author: Kelly Smith Publisher: Fair Winds Press ISBN: 0760385424 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 162
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Mindful in Minutes: You Are Not Your Thoughts helps readers heal their relationship with anxiety with an eight-week program of guided meditation and journaling that takes just 20 minutes a day.
Author: Rosemary A. Stevens Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 135150617X Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 341
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Despite the increase in meditation studies, the quality remains variable; many of them are trivial, and most remain unreplicated. Research on meditation has been plagued by insubstantial theorizing, global claims, and the substitution of belief systems for grounded hypotheses. Meditation punctures some of the myths about meditation, while retaining a place of value for mediation as a normal human function. In each chapter includes discussion of the major questions addressed, followed by a detailed critique of important theoretical, clinical, and research issues. In several instances the reader may find that questions seem to beget questions: research bearing upon certain issues may be contradictory, or not yet of sufficient thoroughness. In these cases, the author suggests the specific future research necessary to resolve the questions posed, so that claims about meditation are justified, and which are not. The profession of psychology itself is, and has been, in a polarized debate between the "practitioners" and the "experimentalists." The latter accuse the former of being "soft, non-empirical, non-scientific," while practitioners accuse the experimentalists of conducting research which is essentially irrelevant to human concerns. This approach provides a bridge between research and clinical practice. Meditation provides an encompassing survey of the topic--nearly forty tables and figures; sample questionnaires, evaluations and programs and a detailed overview of a controversial field. Shapiro separates self-regulation with self-delusion, to outline questions and possible answers.
Author: Deane H. Shapiro (Jr.) Publisher: AldineTransaction ISBN: 9781412849951 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 756
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Many claim that meditation is effective in the treatment of many ailments associated with stress and high blood pressure, and in the management of pain. While there are many popular books on meditation, few embrace the science as well as the art of meditation. In this volume, Shapiro and Walsh fill this need by assembling a complete collection of scholarly articles--Meditation: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives. From an academic rather than a popular vantage, the volume takes the claims and counterclaims about meditation to a deeper analytical level by including studies from clinical psychology and psychiatry, neuroscience, psychophysiology, and biochemistry. Each selection is a contribution to the field, either as a classic of research, or by being methodologically elegant, heuristically interesting, or creative. Original articles cover such topics as the effects of meditation in the treatment of stress, hypertension, and addictions; the comparison of meditation with other self-regulation strategies; the adverse effects of meditation; and meditation-induced altered states of consciousness. Concluding with a major bibliography of related works, Meditation offers the reader a valuable overview of the state and possible future directions of meditation research. Today, in the popular media and elsewhere, debate continues: Is meditation an effective technique for spiritual and physical healing, or is it quackery? Meditation: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives weighs in on this debate by presenting what continues to be the most complete collection of scholarly articles ever amassed on the subject of meditation.
Author: Jenny Odell Publisher: Melville House ISBN: 1612198554 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 259
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** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time • The New Yorker • NPR • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing • The Irish Times • The New York Public Library • The Brooklyn Public Library "A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."—Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review One of President Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of 2019" Porchlight's Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny Odell shows us how we can still win back our lives. Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. And we must actively and continuously choose how we use it. We might not spend it on things that capitalism has deemed important … but once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book will change how you see your place in our world.
Author: Thomas Zanzig Publisher: Saint Mary's Press ISBN: 9780884892274 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 42
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Learning to Meditate is a thirty-day program that introduces the basic skills of meditation to teenagers and adults. Week 1: learning the basic components of meditation--place, time, posture, relaxation, and deep breathing Week 2: learning techniques for managing mental distractions, using mantras during meditation Week 3: practicing the technique of guided meditation, using guided imagery to meditate on the Scriptures Week 4: learning to use spiritual reading in meditation, concluding the program on a note of gratitude and hope The leader's guide provides detailed instructions for five weekly meetings, designed to introduce participants to the meditation program and assist them in sharing their experiences, to help them learn more about the skills of meditation, and to support other learners in prayer. Learning to Meditate can be used in parish high school religious education, college campus ministry, adult education, or as a supplemental unit in a high school religion curriculum. The learner's booklet includes enjoyable daily exercises of about fifteen minutes each for four weeks. The learner is invited to respond to the exercises in brief journal-writing activities. The learner's booklet is designed for private use combined with small-group gatherings, using its companion leader's guide, but it can be adapted for private use only.
Author: Erik van den Brink Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317653513 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 293
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Mindfulness involves learning to be more aware of life as it unfolds moment by moment, even if these moments bring us difficulty, pain or suffering. This is a challenge we will all face at some time in our lives, and which health professionals face every day in their work. The Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living programme presents a new way of learning how to face the pressures of modern living by providing an antidote which teaches us how to cultivate kindness and compassion – starting with being kind to ourselves. Compassion involves both sensitivity to our own and others’ suffering and the courage to deal with it. Integrating the work of experts in the field such as Paul Gilbert, Kristin Neff, Christopher Germer and Tara Brach, Erik van den Brink and Frits Koster have established an eight stage step-by-step compassion training programme, supported by practical exercises and free audio downloads, which builds on basic mindfulness skills. Grounded in ancient wisdom and modern science, they demonstrate how being compassionate shapes our minds and brains, and benefits our health and relationships. The programme will be helpful to many, including people with various types of chronic or recurring mental health problems, and can be an effective means of coping better with low self-esteem, self-reproach or shame, enabling participants to experience more warmth, safeness, acceptance and connection with themselves and others. Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living will be an invaluable manual for mindfulness teachers, therapists and counsellors wishing to bring the ‘care’ back into healthcare, both for their clients and themselves. It can also be used as a self-help guide for personal practice.
Author: Jr. Shapiro Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351506145 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 744
Book Description
Many claim that meditation is effective in the treatment of many ailments associated with stress and high blood pressure, and in the management of pain. While there are many popular books on meditation, few embrace the science as well as the art of meditation. In this volume, Shapiro and Walsh fill this need by assembling a complete collection of scholarly articles--Meditation: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives. From an academic rather than a popular vantage, the volume takes the claims and counterclaims about meditation to a deeper analytical level by including studies from clinical psychology and psychiatry, neuroscience, psychophysiology, and biochemistry. Each selection is a contribution to the field, either as a classic of research, or by being methodologically elegant, heuristically interesting, or creative. Original articles cover such topics as the effects of meditation in the treatment of stress, hypertension, and addictions; the comparison of meditation with other self-regulation strategies; the adverse effects of meditation; and meditation-induced altered states of consciousness. Concluding with a major bibliography of related works, Meditation offers the reader a valuable overview of the state and possible future directions of meditation research. Today, in the popular media and elsewhere, debate continues: Is meditation an effective technique for spiritual and physical healing, or is it quackery? Meditation: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives weighs in on this debate by presenting what continues to be the most complete collection of scholarly articles ever amassed on the subject of meditation.
Author: Jacquie Bird
Author: Jacquie Bird
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Author: Rosemary A. Stevens
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Author: Thomas Zanzig
Author: Erik van den Brink
Author: Jr. Shapiro