Make Every Move a Meditation : Mindful Movement for Mental Health, Well-Being, and Insight
Publisher,Mango Media
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Format, Paperback
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No. of Pages, 240
Discover the Benefits of Exercise as Meditation
“Let me say it simply. Someone should have written this book a long time ago.” —Shinzen Young, meditation teacher, neuroscience research consultant, founder of Unified Mindfulness, author of Meditation in the Zone and The Science of Enlightenment
Award-winning Finalist in the “Health: Diet & Exercise” category of the 2022 International Book Awards
#1 New Release in Sports Health & Safety, Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts, Cycling, Sports Psychology, Walking, Theravada Buddhism, and Meditation
Transform movement and meditation into the powerful practice of mindful movement
Exercise can be meditation. What do you think of when you hear the word meditation? A quiet room filled with monks? An Instagram influencer? What about moving meditation? Yoga? Tai Chi? For too long, meditation in books has focused on specific periods of meditation, rather than mediation through fitness or daily activities. What if lifting weights, dancing with your love, or walking across a room counted? What if you could use exercise as meditation? What if you could make every move a meditation?
Let's combine the two. In Make Every Move a Meditation, award-winning author, meditation leader, and mental health advocate Nita Sweeney shows us fitness can be mindfulness. She teaches us how to bring meditation and mindfulness into any activity by incorporating centuries-old techniques. Studies show that both exercise and meditation reduce anxiety, stabilize blood pressure, improve mood and cognition, and lead to a deeper self-relationship and wisdom. Movement is medicine, and meditation is medicine.
Inside you’ll learn to:
- Turn exercise into a meditation tool
- Make any activity a mindful practice
- Enjoy the benefits of meditation while getting fit
If you like meditation books and best sellers such as Think Like a Monk, Practicing Mindfulness, or Breath, you’ll love Make Every Move a Meditation.
About the Author
Nita Sweeney is the award-winning wellness author of the running and mental health memoir, Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running with My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink and co-creator of the writing journal, You Should Be Writing: A Journal of Inspiration & Instruction to Keep Your Pen Moving. A certified meditation leader, mental health advocate, ultramarathoner, and former assistant to writing practice originator Natalie Goldberg, Nita founded the groups “Mind, Mood, and Movement” to support well-being through meditation, exercise, and writing practice, and “The Writer’s Mind,” to share using writing practice to produce publishable work. Nita also publishes the writing resource newsletter, “Write Now Columbus.” Nita lives in central Ohio with her husband, Ed, and their yellow Labrador retriever, Scarlet. Head to her website to download your free copy of Nita’s eBook Three Ways to Heal Your Mind.
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