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    Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
    Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
    Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
    Audiobook (abridged)2 hours

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

    Written by Mark Williams, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. and Danny Penman

    Narrated by Mark Williams and Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateOct 14, 2011
    ISBN9781427217172
    Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
    Author

    Mark Williams

    Mark S. Williams (PhD, Ateneo de Davao University, Philippines) served in ministry to Muslims for twenty years (1990–2010) with SIM in the Philippines. He published articles in the Journal of Asian Mission and Missiology and was a contributing author in Missionary Methods: Research, Reflections, and Realities (William Carey Library).

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    • 5/5
      This is by far one of the best books on beginning to find a way just to relax and calm yourself. Everyone should have a copy of this book. Loved it and use it daily

      3 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      May I ask, where can I listen to the meditation clips? I have all the chapters but when Mark says to “do the meditation if I please “ I don’t know where to go...

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      short and to the point. I will need to re read it to stick
    • 3/5
      From my Cannonball Read 6 review...

      Many people find themselves with over-scheduled social lives, or work situations filled with a seemingly endless stream of projects, meetings and deadlines. Perhaps these people are facing challenges at home, or school, or with health. The challenges might seem minor to others, or perhaps others observe and wonder how the person is still functioning given everything that’s happening in their lives. We hear it a lot from women who have children and also work outside of the home – there are demands everywhere, and these women can’t seem to get a break.

      Without going into too much detail about why I found myself drawn to this book (during yet ANOTHER trip to Powell’s in Portland – that place should just take all of my money now), but I wanted something that would help me to be more present in my life, and kinder to myself. My husband meditates, and it really helps him when he’s feeling a bit off. Given that, this specific book appealed to me in many ways – it wasn’t horribly long (about 250 pages), it had a clear plan (it focuses on an eight-week meditation program), and it even came with a link to audio files to guide the meditations.

      I was successful in keeping up with the program for about a week. I did read each chapter, and I really enjoyed the messages within them, but I don’t think this book was what I wanted. I sort of want to meditate, and I mostly enjoyed the meditations in this book, but I found the information within the chapters leading up to the meditations themselves to be much more useful. It was probably not the best book for me given what I was looking for, but I think it was well-written, supported with some research, and not overly flowery. Yes, it the authors discuss self-care, but if you have an aversion to anything that seems new age-y (although meditation is hardly that), you can still read this book and enjoy it. I’m sure I’ll end up referring back to it during challenging days, but it hasn’t turned me into a regular meditator.
    • 1/5
      Hard Work........