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This book explains how to practise mindfulness, using illustrated step-by-step exercises to help the reader understand key techniques such as breathing, relaxation, body scanning and concentration building. It also includes chapters on using mindfulness to self-treat such specific problems as depression, stress and anxiety, and relationship issues.
Written by a team of practising therapists led by Sarah Silverton, The Mindfulness Breakthroughexplains how to open our awareness so that we can relate to our experiences with a compassionate, non-judgmental attitude. As we progress through each chapter, we learn how to become aware of unhelpful automatic reactions to our emotions, feelings and experiences. Rather than 'reacting' to life as we always have, mindfulness shows us how to observe our experience and as a result behave in a way that is gentler, wiser and more positive.
Practical, accessible and featuring illustrated exercises to help the reader fully understand and adopt the mindfulness approach, this book truly is a breakthrough: the most friendly and engaging title available on the subject.
Author Notes
Sarah Silverton is a meditation teachers working for the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University, North Wales. A trained occupational therapist and counselor, she has 25 years experience of working with people with mental health issues and physical disabilities, including chronic illness.
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Library Journal Review
These two books on meditation take totally different approaches to the same basic subject. Clinical meditation consultant Puddicombe, a former Buddhist monk, primarily uses his own experience to help readers clear their minds by employing mindfulness principles. He offers a variety of ten-minute exercises to direct the practitioner's awareness to breathing and focusing-skills that can improve self-control, performance under stress, and alertness. Meditation teacher and occupational therapist Silverton employs the principles of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and offers a textbook-style approach to the subject. She covers the same territory as Puddicombe but adds helpful diagrams and photographs. She also spends more time discussing the ramifications of mindfulness training in terms of relationships with others and oneself. In addition to the usual problems of stress and anxiety, she covers the benefits of mindfulness practice in rearing children, dealing with illness, and caring for others. VERDICT Silverton's is the clear favorite in terms of breadth and presentation. (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. 6 |
| AuthorsÆ Preface | p. 7 |
| Part I Understanding Mindfulness | |
| Chapter 1 Introducing MindfulnessSarah Silverton | |
| The Development Mindfulness | p. 12 |
| The Mindfulness Experience | p. 18 |
| Mindfulness Brain | p. 22 |
| Mindfulness Everyday Life | p. 23 |
| The Benefits of Mindfulness | p. 28 |
| Chapter 2 Paying Attention Mindfully | |
| Forming Our Attention Toward Our Experience | p. 32 |
| Doing and Being Modes of the Mind | p. 36 |
| Chapter 3 Practising Mindfulness | |
| Developing Awareness of Everyday Life | p. 48 |
| The Wandering Mind | p. 52 |
| Investigating Bodily Sensations | p. 53 |
| Mindfulness of the Body | p. 58 |
| Mindful Movement | p. 66 |
| Part II Mindfulness with LifeÆs Challenges | |
| Working with Difficulty | p. 74 |
| Chapter 4 Mindfulness and DepressionSarah Silverton | |
| Symptoms of Depression | p. 82 |
| Causes of Depression | p. 83 |
| How We View Experiences | p. 86 |
| Dealing with Depression | p. 88 |
| The Mindful Response | p. 90 |
| Chapter 5 Mindfulness for Stress and AnxietyVanessa Hope | |
| How to Deal with Stress and Anxiety | p. 100 |
| Physical Reactions | p. 102 |
| Responding to Stress | p. 106 |
| Chapter 6 mindfulness in RelationshipsEluned Gold | |
| Connecting through Mindfulness | p. 116 |
| Bringing Mindfulness to Our Relationships | p. 120 |
| Chapter 7 Mindfulness with ChildrenEluned Gold | |
| Getting Started | p. 132 |
| Tuning In | p. 134 |
| Helping with Difficulty | p. 140 |
| Chapter 8 Mindfulness for CarersVanessa Hope | |
| How Mindfulness Can Help | p. 146 |
| Chapter 9 Mindfulness and IllnessSarah Silverton | |
| How We Experience Illness | p. 162 |
| Dealing with Diagnosis | p. 172 |
| Further Exercises | p. 176 |
| Further Resources | p. 178 |
| Index | p. 180 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 184 |
