The Easy Way to Mindfulness

Free your mind from worry and anxiety

By: Allen Carr

Narrated by: Richard Mitchley

Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins

Publisher's summary

Allen Carr's Easyway method has brilliantly transformed lives all over the world, setting out a wonderful practical pathway to help free millions from a whole variety of addictions.

It strips away the illusions that leave us prey to negative thoughts and behaviours, showing us how to gain clarity and control if we focus on who we truly are rather than being distracted by those things that harm and trouble us. The key to peace of mind lies within.

Mindfulness lies at the heart of Allen Carr's philosophy, and this audiobook shares the proven principles of mindfulness with a wider audience in simple, accessible terms that apply to real life and provide a tangible, practical outcome: your happiness!

©2017 Allen Carr's Easyway (International) Limited (P)2017 Arcturus Digital Limited

Wonderful!

Reread it daily. I didn't want to miss a word!!! Thank God for this method.

Decent, but other Easy Way books are way better!

I came into this book having already read bits and pieces of a few easy way books. The easy way method itself definitely works! Once you understand the method fully, it's actually QUITE remarkable how well it can work.

I highly recommend reading the other easy way books to target your specific addiction(s).

When reading the easy way books, I recommend you to think deeply about the concepts and take notes that you can refer back to later, in case you find yourself with negative beliefs controlling you again (brainwashing is always occuring in subtle ways in your life, and you need an ongoing reliable system to heal negative beliefs that are instilled in you from the various influences in your life).

In regards to this mindfulness book, it didn't specifically target an addiction. I think you could view "worrying" as an addiction (this is to my knowledge what OCD essentially can be), and you could also view "thinking" and "over-identifying with your thoughts" as addictions as well.

The easy way books define addiction as something that gives you a temporary relief that you otherwise wouldn't need if you were a non-user.

Worrying implies psychological distress of anxiety/fretting, and you never NEED to worry, you can just accept the worst possible outcome, and take small actions to prevent and/or prepare. Worrying is a coping mechanism, that doesn't provide any benefits, just distracts and freezes you.

Thinking itself is quite addictive, as I know of many who get lost in deep trains of thoughts about various theories, when they could take one small action in 5 minutes rather than thinking about it for 500 hours. Maybe this is you if you've always wanted to start a business or make a new social relationship, but find yourself reading about it rather than getting started now.

In this book they don't exactly present worry/thinking as addictions, which is disappointing to me, because I was hoping the creators would have made it an "automatic effect" to cure your worrying/thinking addiction. The book instead mainly contains an overview on mindfulness, what it is, what it isn't, and some basic exercises to get more mindful.

I have found the exercises useful, and think they felt more accessible to me due to this being an easy way book (which seemingly all contain some degree of hypnosis effect).

The book also acts as a general primer to other easy way books that actually aim to solve your specific addiction by the time you finish the end of the book. This is the promise of the easy way method: read the book and follow the instructions and your addiction is gone (and yes it actually does work if you do it correctly).

I'd recommend this book if you for some reason aren't ready for reading the more targeted books for your addiction. Maybe you're scared or procrastinating about the process of tackling your addiction? Then this book would be a good starting point because it's not going to force you to change by the end.

If you're expecting to be a mindfulness master spiritual god from reading this book, well that didn't happen in my case. My result from reading this book is understanding mindfulness a tad more, and seeing routes for developing more mindfulness in my life, but it didn't directly make me extremely mindful, or fully eradicate my worries, overthinking, and anxieties. If you're looking for the path towards that, I think it requires a foundational practice of consistent meditation for 30+ minutes a day. I would also recommend a book like "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle over this book, if you want to really challenge your beliefs and see things in a new light.

I'm still roughly the same as before I read the book, I just am a little more aware of trying to be mindful when I get too stressed. I also feel as though I do have more access to mindfulness states, but it's going to take more meditation work to solidify those states to make it my default operating state.

Overall, the book did get boring and repetitive to me at a point, and I would probably give it 3 stars if it weren't for how effective the easy way method is overall, which leads me to add a star.

Great Primer

Even though I've been meditating for over a decade and working on mindfulness, this book is still a gem and brings a lot of concepts down into practical applications. It's a nice listen no matter where you are on your path.

I know some have complained that this is one long Easy Way ad campaign, but for those who have freed themselves from one or multiple addictions using the Easy Way method, this book distills the concept and mechanics of the method. If anything, it only reinforced my decision to free myself from nicotine, alcohol, cannabis, sugar and overeating. You really see how these all essentially work in the same manner.

As is always said, what do you have to lose?! Go ahead and listen and see what it does for you. ;)

very enlightening

i learned a lot of very interesting technics . i believe will be very helpful

Excellent. Must read if lost in life

Read them all if you want to quit any addiction. It’s the only way to the other side. Believe me. I walk the walk

Very helpful and freeing

I’m the type of guy that gets so caught up in my head. Thinking of the if‘s and‘s and butts what might happen and what might not. This book will set me straight.

Thumbs up

I will listen to this book a few more times to really get everything but I thoroughly enjoyed it!
After over 50 pages of notes I still can't get enough!!
LOVE IT!

Not worth it

It keeps talking about past Easy Way books which I’ve already read. Nothing much new here will be returning.

Wall to wall advertisement for the Easy Way brand

If you strip away the constant raving about the Easy Way brand, the concepts and practice sessions in this book are valuable. That said, I couldn’t get over the frustration of having my time wasted by being constantly advertised to.

valuable information presented in a tedious ramble

This book was a struggle to finish but I persevered because the success of this method is well documented and I wanted to see if it could help me. I kept dozing off and every time I woke up enough to listen, it sounded like the same idea. I recommend listening to the beginning and then going right to the last chapter, which summarizes every other chapter. Then you can go back to any chapter about which you want to hear more detailed rambling.