Mindfulness

An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

By: Mark Williams, Danny Penman, Jon Kabat-Zinn - foreword

Narrated by: Mark Williams, Jon Kabat-Zinn (foreword)

Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's summary

Everyday life is so frantic and full of troubles that we have largely forgotten how to live a joyful existence. We try so hard to be happy that we often end up missing the most important parts of our lives. In Mindfulness, Oxford professor Mark Williams and award-winning journalist Danny Penman reveal the secrets to living a happier and less anxious, stressful, and exhausting life.

Based on the techniques of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy, the unique program developed by Williams and his colleagues, this book offers simple and straightforward forms of mindfulness meditation that can be done by anyone—and it can take just 10 to 20 minutes a day for the full benefits to be revealed.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

©2007 Mark Williams (P)2011 Macmillan Audio

Takes the guilt out of meditation

Would you consider the audio edition of Mindfulness to be better than the print version?

I could never find time to meditate and always felt guilty. His meditations are short and so relaxing. I bookmarked them all so that I could easily listen to them. The reader has the most peaceful voice.

Which scene was your favorite?

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What’s an idea from the book that you will remember?

Just loved all of the meditations and techniques for being mindful.

great for anxiety- meditations are perfect

I've been struggling wi5y anxiety and this has helped me tremendously. if 9 do the meditations on a regular basis my anxiety is significantly reduced

Great and Practical Introduction to Mindfuless

Clear, concise, and easily digestible introduction to mindfulness meditation. Chapters are short. A practical program to follow with a small time commitment is outlined near the end followed by ten meditations, none lasting more than ten minutes. Reader has an English accent and and calm demeanor that is instantly soothing.

what you need to start

it is a starter book , breaking down how to be mindfull and many walk through narrative on how it is done. I enjoyed listening to it.

Calming effect!

It certainly is better than the paper version. Just to hear Mark William's voice. He has wonderful voice that has a calming effect, at least for me. It helps me to start my meditation just to focus on his voice. Awesome!

Very nice read

I enjoyed this book, but would have really apprecihated it so much if the meditations mentioned in the chapter would play after it states to try them. It moves on to the next chapter, leaving the reader thinking they don't have the meditations in the kindle version. After all chapters are read, then you will find the meditations as chapters themselves. it's hard to get it together while listening & pausing.

Soothing

Terrific and relaxing. Highly recommend. Especially the quality of his voice. Only listened once but I will listen regularly again.

Increibles Audios

Estos audios de meditación me han ayudado a reducir mi ansiedad. Lo recomiendo a cualquier persona. Todos se podrían beneficiar.

Excellent Tool

This audiobook is amazing. It has clear, concise instruction and you can work the 8 week program knowing you are truly growing and deepening from the experience. I definitely recommend!

Surprisingly alarmist; poorly organized

Is there anything you would change about this book?

For a text on mindfulness and stress/anxiety reduction, the introduction and first couple chapters are disturbingly alarmist. It's emphasized that we have to use this technique, as taught by these authors, or we'll be doing it wrong. At one point, the author asks the listener to attune to their body to see they they feel any tiredness. They dwell on these feelings, bringing them to the forefront of the listener's mind, then essentially say, "That sucks, doesn't it? Better let us fix it for you."Also, the text repeatedly refers to numbered meditations, but the audiobook chapters aren't labelled, just numbered, so it isn't at all obvious which "chapter" the listener should listen to for, say, "Meditation 7."

What did you like best about this story?

I think this book gives a good outline of why mindfulness is valuable and how to get started, including some good exercises and meditations. The MBCT approach developed by the authors and partially illustrated in the book has been shown to be clinically effective.