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

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.