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Mindfulness (Abridged): An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World Audiobook
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Everyday life is so frantic and full of troubles that we have largely forgotten how to live a joyful existence. We try so hard to be happy that we often end up missing the most important parts of our lives. In Mindfulness, Oxford professor Mark Williams and award-winning journalist 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 anyone—and it can take just 10 to 20 minutes a day for the full benefits to be revealed.
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"I highly recommend this book to anyone who suffers from any kind of depression. It is written by a man who used mindfulness training to help chronic pain patients at the University of Massachusetts and published his successful results. If you aren't interested in the religious aspects of mindfulness this book is good because it only covers the process from a practical viewpoint - leaves out the buddhist dogma. I've found it to be extremely helpful. The book comes with a cd of guided exercises which makes it a lot easier to practice the meditations. I'm going to check out his chronic pain stuff next."
— Tawnya (5 out of 5 stars)
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“Want a happier, more content life? I highly recommend the down-to-earth methods you’ll find in this book. Professor Mark Williams and Dr. Danny Penman have teamed up to give us scientifically grounded techniques we can apply in the midst of our everyday challenges and catastrophes.
— Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence -
Peace can't be achieved in the outside world unless we have peace on the inside. Mark Williams and Danny Penman's book gives us this peace.
— Goldie Hawn -
Clarity and simplicity of explanation and instruction is a wonderful plus to those who might want to try this practice. This eight week program is well presented and doable – even for busy people.
— Sound Commentary
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" Don't you people realize that mindfulness is SO the hot new thing? So go out and get yo'self some!!! "
— Liberty, 1/25/2014 -
" Recommended by several people, it helped me understand the concepts of mindfulness, acceptance, and meditation. It was fairly engaging and very easy to understand. I look forward to implementing these concepts in my life and see if they help me keep a better perspective in life. "
— Derek, 1/13/2014 -
" Good eight-week program for starting a meditation practice. The authors base their plan on Jon Kabat-Zinn's work on mindfulness, but add their own ideas. The key of example I noticed was their chapter/week on turning toward difficulties. They still focused on sensations but kept the difficulty in mind rather than bring the focus back to the breath. I will read this book again. "
— L8start, 1/12/2014 -
" It took me quite a while to get through this book, but it was well worth it. It makes you 'stop and smell the roses', so to speak. Reading this has helped me see depression for what it really is, a distraction from being. I recommend this book to anyone who has felt down or out of sorts. It really puts things into perspective in a mindful way. "
— Ashley, 1/2/2014 -
" I have read quite a few books like this, but this is the best of them, and the only one I finished because I wanted to rather than because it felt like I "should." I downloaded the practices and I am still doing this, which for me, is a miracle... "
— Lucinda, 12/24/2013 -
" Has some quite useful tools within. However, it's clunky and not very engaging. "
— Sophia, 9/27/2013 -
" This gave an introduction to meditation and new ways of looking at things. Not sure how much I will keep from this book. "
— Jean, 9/23/2013 -
" Terrific book. This is one of the best introductions to Mindfulness that I have read. It is straight-forward and easy to process, with a practical 8 week step-by-step guide. "
— Steve, 9/8/2013 -
" Een boek, niet alleen voor mensen met depressie/ neerslachtige stemming zoals de titel suggereert, die iedereen eens zou moeten lezen om op een andere, vriendelijkere/ zachtere manier in het leven te staan, zeker in deze jachtige tijden waarin veel mensen druk en stress ervaren. "
— Susy, 8/23/2013 -
" I don't think you ever "finish" this book - it's one which you will take with you forever. Cannot recommend it highly enough. This book really can change lives for the better! "
— Mary, 8/19/2013 -
" This book changed my life. That's all there is to it. I can't tell you how helpful it was and still is. An invaluable resource. Highly recommended. "
— Jen, 7/8/2013 -
" comes with an especially useful CD with guides meditations "
— Jon, 2/15/2013 -
" Not a page-turner necessarily, but definitely something helpful while striving to overcome negative self-talk, depression and / or challenging life circumstances. "
— Stacy, 2/12/2013 -
" Probably dead-on in a lot of respects, but I found the tone a bit too new agey for me & a tad condescending. That being said--it could have been my mood, which is why I gave 3 stars. "
— Eliza, 12/13/2012 -
" I agree with the other reviewers on this one; pretty darn repetitive. It could have been 90 pages easily. However, the excercises and ideas are helpful; just no need to wade through the extra sludge surrounding them. "
— Pollyanna, 7/24/2012 -
" loss is unavoidable, observe mood, fear failure fatigue, rumination, awareness mindfulness, yogi. "
— Don, 7/6/2012 -
" This is well done. "
— Gloriavirtutisumbra, 6/16/2012 -
" One of the best books ever--for me--on dealing with depression. "
— Debby, 6/3/2012 -
" This was a typical self-help book. It had so many different exercises which were all essentially similar. It also had a lot of fluff... The book could've been much shorter. "
— Eric, 5/24/2012 -
" Definitely picking up a copy of this for my personal collection. "
— Michelle, 3/30/2012
About the Authors
Mark Williams is professor emeritus of clinical psychology at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, and the British Academy. With his colleagues at Oxford and Cambridge, he co-developed mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) which clinical trials have shown to be as effective as medication and therapy for depression. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, working on behalf the National Health Service, now recommends MBCT as a primary treatment for depression
Danny Penman is an award-winning journalist and author who worked for the BBC, the Independent (London),and writes for the London Daily Mail. He is coauthor of the bestselling Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan to Finding Peace in a Frantic World.
About Mark Williams
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., has been a student and practitioner of meditation and yoga for over three decades. He is the founder and director of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and an associate professor of medicine. He lives in Worchester, Massachusetts. He is the author of the classic Wherever You Go, There You Are, also available from Audio Renaissance.