More titles about mindfulness

A while back, we suggested some titles on mindfulness and meditation. If you haven't checked those out yet, you can do that later.

World Mental Health Day may have come and gone, but we believe every day is a good day to start taking care of your mental well-being. To that end, besides our latest selection of titles about mental health, we have a few more suggestions for mindful living...

Deeper Mindfulness Prof. Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman, Ph.D
Little Brown
9780349433202

What if you could recognise fateful moments in your life before they seize control of it? The authors present an eight-week guided meditation programme that takes mindfulness to the next level. See how the latest advances in neuroscience, combined with millennia old wisdom, can transform your life. Proven effective at treating anxiety, stress and depression, the practices in this book offer a new and more fruitful direction for both novice and experienced meditators.

Make Every Move a Meditation by Nita Sweeney
Mango Media
9781642509892

What do you think of when you hear the word meditation? A quiet room filled with monks, or a serene-looking Instagram influencer? What if lifting weights, dancing with your love, or walking across a room counts as meditation? Author and mental health advocate Nita Sweeney shows readers that fitness can be mindfulness. She teaches us how to bring meditation and mindfulness into any activity by incorporating centuries-old techniques.

The Neuroscience of Mindfulness by Stan Rodski
HarperCollins Australia
9781460753811

Cutting-edge studies in neuroscience have in recent years proved that simple, repetitive tasks, performed with focus and attention – mindfulness, in other words – can quieten our noisy minds and help us relax and improve our outlook on life and protect us against a range of illnesses. Cognitive neuroscientist and leading authority on mental performance Stan Rodski sets out the science behind these remarkable discoveries in simple terms, and explains how you can benefit from them.

Mindfulness for the Wandering Mind by Pandit Dasa
Wiley
9781394197620

Get unique insights on how you can focus your mind, become more resilient, respond better to conflict, and build stronger professional (and personal) relationships. It’s all possible when you begin to understand how your mind works and take control of this complicated mechanism. In this book, you’ll find specific meditation processes and actions you can take to help you succeed as you begin or continue your journey.

Now Is the Way by Cory Allen
TarcherPerigee
9780593538500

In this accessible and supportive guide, Allen walks readers through the basics of mindfulness – not as something you should do, but as a tool to achieve greater peace of mind, dial down anxiety and stress, and truly feel like yourself. Informed by a lifelong personal journey, as well as insights gathered through podcast interviews with leaders in mindfulness, neuroscience, and philosophy, this book is a manual for living the life you want, one present moment at a time.

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Dwelling on the past? You can't change what has happened. Frantic about the future? It hasn't even happened yet! The world can feel heavy on our shoulders without all these worries. While you can't change the past, the only time you can do something about your future is in the present. Right. Now.

So savour the present and put all your attention into it. If you're going to change something, plan it now, or do it now.