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Fully present : the science, art, and practice of mindfulness / Susan L. Smalley and Diana Winston.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Hachette Go, 2022Copyright date: ©2010Edition: First Hachette Go editionDescription: xxiv, 279 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0306829401
  • 9780306829406
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
What is mindfulness? -- Getting started -- Breath and awareness: essential components -- Mindful movement: the body and awareness -- Working with physical pain -- Feeling bad: dealing with negative emotions -- Feeling good and finding happiness -- Pay attention, but how? -- Stressful thinking -- What gets in the way? -- Mindfulness in action.
Summary: "Mindfulness has attracted ever-growing interest and tens of thousands of practitioners, who have come to the discipline from both within and outside the Buddhist tradition. In Fully Present, leading mindfulness researchers and educators Dr. Sue Smalley and Diana Winston provide an all-in-one guide for anyone interested in bringing mindfulness to daily life as a means of enhancing well-being. This new edition, how with a new afterword, provides both a scientific explanation for how mindfulness positively and powerfully affects the brain and the body as well as practical guidance to develop both a practice and mindfulness in daily living, not only through meditation but also during daily experiences. Now, you can wait in line at the supermarket, exercise, or face difficult news with calm and mental fortitude. Ditch the absent-minded lifestyle and begin bringing your full self and your full mind everywhere. With research studies, personal accounts, and practical applications, Fully Present highlights how things like simply breathing, listening, and walking can change your perspective--and your life."--Publisher marketing.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 616.8914 S635 Available 33111010942932
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Excellent.  Fully Present  offers one of the clearest introductions to mindfulness in the field."

-- Library Journal

Mindfulness has attracted ever‑growing interest and tens of thousands of practitioners, who have come to the discipline from both within and outside the Buddhist tradition. In Fully Present , leading mindfulness researchers and educators Dr. Sue Smalley and Diana Winston provide an all‑in‑one guide for anyone interested in bringing mindfulness to daily life as a means of enhancing well‑being. This new edition, how with a new afterword, provides both a scientific explanation for how mindfulness positively and powerfully affects the brain and the body as well as practical guidance to develop both a practice and mindfulness in daily living, not only through meditation but also during daily experiences. Now, you can wait in line at the supermarket, exercise, or face difficult news with calm and mental fortitude.



Ditch the absent-minded lifestyle and begin bringing your full self and your full mind everywhere. With research studies, personal accounts, and practical applications, Fully Present highlights how things like simply breathing, listening, and walking can change your perspective--and your life.

"Second edition"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-264) and index.

"Mindfulness has attracted ever-growing interest and tens of thousands of practitioners, who have come to the discipline from both within and outside the Buddhist tradition. In Fully Present, leading mindfulness researchers and educators Dr. Sue Smalley and Diana Winston provide an all-in-one guide for anyone interested in bringing mindfulness to daily life as a means of enhancing well-being. This new edition, how with a new afterword, provides both a scientific explanation for how mindfulness positively and powerfully affects the brain and the body as well as practical guidance to develop both a practice and mindfulness in daily living, not only through meditation but also during daily experiences. Now, you can wait in line at the supermarket, exercise, or face difficult news with calm and mental fortitude. Ditch the absent-minded lifestyle and begin bringing your full self and your full mind everywhere. With research studies, personal accounts, and practical applications, Fully Present highlights how things like simply breathing, listening, and walking can change your perspective--and your life."--Publisher marketing.

What is mindfulness? -- Getting started -- Breath and awareness: essential components -- Mindful movement: the body and awareness -- Working with physical pain -- Feeling bad: dealing with negative emotions -- Feeling good and finding happiness -- Pay attention, but how? -- Stressful thinking -- What gets in the way? -- Mindfulness in action.

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