Living Mindfully
At Home, at Work, and in the World
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Learn to live a life that's good--for yourself and for the world.
Like a wise friend or kind teacher, Deborah Schoeberlein David--educator, meditator, and mother--walks you through a complete, easy-to-follow curriculum of mindfulness practice.
Beginning with the very basics of noticing your breath, David shows how simple mindfulness practices can be utterly transforming. Each practice builds on the previous exercise like a stepping stone, until you have the tools to bring mindfulness into every aspect of your life including sex, parenting, relationships, job stresses, and more.
This is an approachable guide for anyone who desires positive change.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This pleasant but cursory beginner's manual on meditation aims to offer relief from the stresses of life by training the mind and showing how "living mindfully facilitates experiencing reality more comfortably and constructively." David (Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness) starts with the simplest formal practices a single mindful breath, a moment of pause then reiterates the basic cycle of focus-observe-refocus for incrementally more complex practices of bringing mindfulness to breathing, counting, thinking, feeling, listening, experiencing static sensation, and experiencing dynamic sensation. She then transitions abruptly into real-world informal practice in complex interactive situations, starting with mindfulness during sex and moving to practices of sharing kindness and compassion and learning to respond rather than react in the context of romantic relationships, the workplace, parenting, and dealing with pain and loss. David's race to broadly cover everything in life after such a careful, specific introductory path will leave the new student feeling lost.
