Synopses & Reviews
A step-by-step guide to living a more mindful life and becoming happier and more successful in everything you doTo be mindful means to live your life engaged with the current moment—understanding where you are, what you want, the situation you're in, and how to get where you want to go. It means living your life in a more positive way, managing your attention to keep unwanted and unhelpful thoughts from clouding your mind. It helps you cope with stress and approach challenges with calm and confidence. It means managing painful emotions like anger, guilt, and worry so that they don't impede your goals or damage your relationships. It means achieving a level of self-understanding that will help you succeed in your work and your personal life. Mindfulness offers reassuring, practical guidance on living a more mindful life to prevent your thoughts and worries from sabotaging yourself.
- A step-by-step guide that will help any professional achieve more
- Written by the author of How to Be Assertive in Any Situation, Brilliant Emotional Intelligence, and Brilliant Communication Skills
- Ideal for business leaders, managers, educators, entrepreneurs, and even artists—as well as anyone in a high-stress profession
For business leaders and managers, other busy professionals, and anyone dealing with negative emotions that block the path to personal or professional success, Mindfulness offers practical, real-world solutions that anyone can implement.
Review
‘This is a very thoughtful book, full of sensible advice…packed full of practical examples about living in the moment.’ (Hot Brands, Cool Places, July 2013)
Synopsis
There’s nothing mystical about mindfulness. To be mindful simply means to be aware of and engage with what’s happening right now, in the current moment. This book explains mindfulness in a clear, accessible way, making you believe you can do it. You will learn that, whatever your circumstances, mindfulness can bring so much to your life, in any situation.
This book outlines how a mindful approach can help you in your everyday life to:
- establish more helpful, positive ways of thinking and behaving
- be more open and accepting
- manage your attention so that unwanted thoughts cannot crowd your mind; stop ruminating about the past or worrying about the future
- cope more effectively with stress and have a more confident and calm approach to life
- manage painful emotions such as anger, guilt, worry and anxiety
- bring about positive changes in your relationships
- achieve a new level of self–awareness and self–understanding
This is mindfulness made easy; you will learn that mindfulness in not all in the head it’s also a way of being – it’s about what you do; your actions and your behavior.
Synopsis
Be calm, collected and in the momentToo often, life just races by. You don’t fully experience what’s happening now, because you’re too busy thinking about what needs doing tomorrow, or distracted by what happened yesterday. And all the time your mind is chattering with commentary or judgement.
Mindfulness allows you to experience the moment instead of just rushing through it. Being mindful opens you up to new ideas and new ways of doing things, reducing stress and increasing your enjoyment of life.
With ideas, tips and techniques to help you enjoy a more mindful approach to life, you’ll learn how to:
• Adopt more positive ways of thinking and behaving
• Become calmer and more confident
• Break free from unhelpful thoughts and thinking patterns
• Bring about positive changes in your relationships
• Achieve a new level of self-awareness and understanding
Life is happening right now; mindfulness will help you live in the moment, so it doesn’t pass you by!
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
How Mindful Are You? 11
Part One: Understanding Mindfulness 17
1 Why be Mindful? 19
2 Moving Towards Mindful Thinking 33
3 Mindful Thinking and Feeling 59
4 Mindful Doing 75
Part Two: Putting It into Practice 95
5 Managing Painful Emotions: Anger, Worry and Anxiety, Guilt 99
6 Mindfulness for Self-Esteem: Confidence, Self-Esteem and Loneliness 125
7 Mindful Motivation: Goals and Willpower 141
8 Mindfulness with Others: Listening, Managing Criticism, Forgiving, Persuading and Motivating 159
9 Mindfulness at Work: Interviews, Meetings and Presentations 181
Conclusion 195
References 197
About the Author 199
Acknowledgements 201
Index 203