A Mindful Year

Written by two experts in the field of cognitive behavioral therapy—the best tested set of practices for alleviating stress and anxiety—these daily meditations invite you to find contentment, peace, and happiness in place of worry and fear. Each day’s reading reveals how the powerful tool of mindfulness can help you to become more grounded, energized, motivated, and satisfied with your life. You’ll discover in these pages how to be attentive and open to the present while calmly acknowledging and accepting your thoughts, feelings, and sensations. The authors’ deep expertise and clinical experience in the field of psychology lends scientific weight to the mindfulness practices found in this practical and inspirational guide. The daily entries in A Mindful Year will guide you to reconnect with core values: authenticity, compassion, gratitude, simplicity. Each of the 365 readings leads with an uplifting quote from the likes of Kahlil Gibran, Maya Angelou, Alan Watts, Harper Lee, Thomas Merton, Alice Walker, Eckhart Tolle, Rumi, and the Dalai Lama—and is followed by reflections, anecdotes, and timeless insights on all aspects of daily living. Each entry concludes with an invitation, a call to action that will bring the mindfulness practice into your life in a meaningful way. As you spend time each day with the readings you will find yourself feeling less disconnected and empty, and more in tune with what matters most in your life A Mindful Year is a book readers will turn to again and again as it becomes a daily companion in finding wisdom, love, connection, and joy.

"The demands of the day can leave us feeling exhausted and uninspired, while alerts and notifications constantly tug at our attention. We fall into unhealthy patterns that can be all too difficult to break. Written from friend to friend, one day at a time, 'A mindful year' invites you to start a new pattern - one that begins with taking just a few quite moments to reconnect with what is most important, each day."--backcover.

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We all yearn to have time for personal needs and creative dreams — after all, this is our life to make the most of. And we all know how hard it is to remember what really matters. With distractions from jobs, aging parents, and children — not to mention women’s perennial fear of being labeled “selfish” — following our own desires and dreams can become ever more elusive. The Life Organizer aims to help you shift your focus, augmenting traditional goal setting with the ease that comes from steady inner listening and mindfulness. It will become your trusted companion — and maybe the most important book you’ll ever own.

Discover a Mindful Approach to Self Help with Tom Miles's 2 Book Collection Are you dissatisfied with aspects of your health, wealth, relationships and happiness? Do you experience anxiety, fear, and overwhelm on a regular basis? Do you feel awkward in social situations? Are you dissatisfied with where you are in your life right now? Or do you wish you had more direction? All these challenges are covered in A Mindful Year: 2 Book Collection Get 2 of Tom Miles's Personal Development books for $3.99, reduced from the retail price of $6.98 (Save over 40%). The 2 books include: A Year For Change Mindfulness For Beginners In A Year For Change: 52 Simple Steps to Transform Your Life, you'll learn how to create success in 12 broad areas of your life. Within each categories are a handful of actionable habits, truisms and pieces of advice. The total of which is 52, one for each week of the year. In Mindfulness For Beginners: 28 Steps To Becoming More Present Through Mindfulness Meditation, you'll discover how to become more present, stop feeling overwhelmed and let go of fear and anxiety in 28 mindful actions. Everything in it is simple and easy to follow - it contains specific, easy-to-do tips and exercises. This book is meant for the beginner and will start you out on your journey of mindfulness. Tom Miles's A Mindful Year: 2 Book Collection will help you to improve how you control your mind in short, realistic and actionable steps. Buy both books today at over 40% off the cover price!

This book is an accessible companion for all early years practitioners to explore how mindfulness can be integrated into an early years learning environment. It presents topical theory and research, giving practical advice on using mindfulness as an everyday pedagogical tool to improve the emotional wellbeing of children, families and staff members. Providing a step-by-step approach for adopting mindfulness practices, the book offers photocopiable resources, information on mindfulness techniques and opportunities for critical reflection to help create a ‘mindful early years curriculum’. Chapters follows the four pillars of Calm, Acceptance, Relational Approach and Empathy, and include: The benefits of adopting a mindful approach in the early years The importance of staff wellbeing A template mindful curriculum for practitioners to adapt and use Case studies of effective mindful practices Resources, activities and techniques to create your own mindfulness toolkit This delightful book will be a source of inspiration for early years practitioners, early years teachers and those who are interested in introducing and embedding mindfulness into early years practice.

Struggling to slow down and live in the moment? Feeling overwhelmed by constant daily distractions? Seeking a better life balance? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you will find the exercises and reflections in A Year of Mindful Living will help you to regain control of your life - one day at a time. Rather than trying to make over every aspect of your life at once, this book leads you through a programme of subtle change by providing easy exercises and practices to help create moments of mindfulness in every day. You'll break negative patterns, adopt positive new habits, and begin to feel calmer and more in control day by day.

"In this book an anthropologist explores how the widespread shift in popular understandings of mental health have led to the embrace of "mindfulness" as both a form of preventative healthcare and as an ethical practice"--

Ideal for all spiritual explorers and anyone curious about mindful living, the book is divided into the twelve months, each replete with advice and inspiration. Discover your crystal and essential oil, affirmation and meditation, recipe, moon phase, yoga pose, fable and uplifting quote for every month of the year, with each entry perfectly attuned to the season. With so many suggestions and mindful practices to encourage reflection and give guidance, this is the gentle approach to a spiritual life, and an ideal way to begin a new year.