Full Description
Mindfulness: The Basics provides a comprehensive introduction to what mindfulness is, how and why it's useful, and guidance for practice.
Mindfulness practice can help reduce anxiety, stress, and low mood, giving way to creativity, happiness, and tranquillity. It also offers us a way in which to acknowledge the limitations and challenges inherent in the human condition. This book covers a brief history of mindfulness, its applications, a review of the current evidence base, as well as some key debates in the field. Divided into three broad sections, this book explores: understanding mindfulness, practicing mindfulness, and future directions. Chapters particularly emphasise the role mindfulness can play in addressing the major environmental, social and political challenges of our time. The book also contains a glossary of key terms, chapter summaries, diagrams and an e-resource of audio-guided practices. This book is essential for anyone interested in learning more about practising mindfulness.
Students of mindfulness, as well as those in healthcare training programmes (such as nursing, medicine, psychology, and psychotherapy) will find this an invaluable guide.
Contents
Section I: Background
Chapter 1 What is mindfulness?
Chapter 2 Where does mindfulness come from?
Chapter 3 How does mindfulness work?
Chapter 4 Why practice mindfulness?
Section II: Practice
Chapter 5 Clarifying intention
Chapter 6 Finding your ground: The body scan practice
Chapter 7 Taking the practice into life: Movement and stillness
Chapter 8 Deepening stillness: The sitting practice
Chapter 9 Weaving it in: Shorter mindfulness practices
Section III: Application
Chapter 10 Mindfulness in the mainstream
Chapter 11 Meeting the meta crisis with mindfulness
Chapter 12 The Human Condition: Beyond suffering and flourishing
