Mindfulness (Abridged): An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World Audiobook

" Don't you people realize that mindfulness is SO the hot new thing? So go out and get yo'self some!!! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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... "

" Has some quite useful tools within. However, it's clunky and not very engaging. "

" This gave an introduction to meditation and new ways of looking at things. Not sure how much I will keep from this book. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" comes with an especially useful CD with guides meditations "

" Not a page-turner necessarily, but definitely something helpful while striving to overcome negative self-talk, depression and / or challenging life circumstances. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" loss is unavoidable, observe mood, fear failure fatigue, rumination, awareness mindfulness, yogi. "

" This is well done. "

" One of the best books ever--for me--on dealing with depression. "

" 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. "

" Definitely picking up a copy of this for my personal collection. "