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Practical Mindfulness by Greg Sazima
£16.95
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9781642504378
Published:
19 Feb 2021
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
311 pages
Dimensions:
216x140x28mm
Weight:
0.332kgs
Author:
A no-nonsense, no incense guide to mindfulness and meditation. It explains and trains an essential human capacity: clear awareness in and of our experience of everyday life. Practically Mindful specifically targets smart, curious readers interested in the nuts and bolts of mindfulness, but skeptical of the crystals and granola.
Why This Book Stands Out:
It's irreverent. Bookshelves are bursting with hundreds of sincere, serious books on mindfulness and meditation. Readers are ready for self-help that doesn't take itself so seriously. Practically Mindful is open-hearted, funny, and allergic to pretense. The audience will enjoy a read that's warm, informal, and occasionally snarky, to teach and model the benefits of meditation. The writing style reflects the author's treating and teaching approach: collaborative and nonjudgmental, except when winking at some grandiose tropes of the self-help genre in order to make a point.
Beginning meditation is often made more complicated and embellished than it needs to be. The author knows how to simplify it and ease the way to getting a solid practice going.
He has constructed Practically Mindful to stand out from other mindfulness books in these ways:
It works. The author is living proof. He has been meditating for twenty-plus years, both helping others and managing the peaks and valleys in his own complicated life. In Practically Mindful, he presents the techniques he has used and benefited from and conveys them in an effective way. The book provides practical maps of human "mindscapes" to prepare them for practicing-then moves to get a basic meditation practice launched. The author trains the reader via clear, sequential exercises that progress from introductory breath practices to wide-angle meditation on all experience. He places a special emphasis on practical tools, tips, and troubleshooting for the early struggles that can accompany the "startup." It's no-nonsense. And no incense. As a physician and educator of doctors-in-training, the author's outlook is naturally evidence-based and oriented toward simplifying the complex. From this practical perspective, he offers the science-minded, practical reader a go-to resource on mindfulness. From an innovative foundation that weaves together common aspects of science and wisdom traditions, he demystifies how we experience our minds in the moment-to-moment of living. No New Age accessorizing is necessary (unless you like that kind of thing.)It's irreverent. Bookshelves are bursting with hundreds of sincere, serious books on mindfulness and meditation. Readers are ready for self-help that doesn't take itself so seriously. Practically Mindful is open-hearted, funny, and allergic to pretense. The audience will enjoy a read that's warm, informal, and occasionally snarky, to teach and model the benefits of meditation. The writing style reflects the author's treating and teaching approach: collaborative and nonjudgmental, except when winking at some grandiose tropes of the self-help genre in order to make a point.
About the Author: Greg Sazima, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist, educator, and author, based in Northern California. In addition to a busy psychotherapy practice, he serves as Senior Behavioral Faculty at the Stanford/O'Connor Family Medicine Residency program in San Jose. Practical Mindfulness is his first Mango book, a no-nonsense guide to introductory meditation. He has been a practitioner and teacher of mindfulness meditation for many years, creating curricula for both adults and children. Dr. Sazima has written on mental health issues for newspapers and periodicals, including the Sacramento Bee and the Philadelphia Inquirer. His serves on the boards of directors of Capital Public Radio, Northern California's NPR network, and Snowline Hospice, a nonprofit palliative care provider in the Sacramento/Sierra Foothills region.
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