Practical Mindfulness: A Physician's No-Nonsense Guide to Meditation for Beginners

Learn Calmness, Contentment, and Coping Skills

Master the nuts and bolts of meditation, without the crystals and granola. Practical Mindfulness is a no-nonsense, no-incense training guide to the life-changing benefits of mindfulness.

Training exercises that work. Practical Mindfulness approaches mindfulness and meditation from a hands-on, how-to, irreverent perspective-appealing directly to smart readers curious about meditation. By applying Dr. Sazima's training routines, learn to spend more time in real engagement with the world. Cultivate a deeper appreciation of experiences, from the everyday to the extraordinary, and live your life more fully, wisely, and joyfully.

A practical approach to finding "home." We all search for that safe, comfortable feeling of peace of mind-our inner "home." When we face challenges-economic crisis or a life-threatening health problem-we can realize with blinding clarity there is no sustainable outside solution. Those without a more developed interior awareness are prone to suffer stress, anxiety and depression. Practical Mindfulness shows our real home, a place we can always return to no matter what, is actually inside of us. We're practically there.

Meditation training from an author, doctor, teacher, meditator...and survivor. Dr. Sazima is a board-certified psychiatrist, educator of family doctors-in-training at Stanford's Family Medicine Residency, and long-time meditator and meditation teacher. He is also a survivor of a rare bone cancer who has used the powerful practice of meditation to navigate his own medical crisis. Now, he is on a "pay it forward" mission to help us gain a practical understanding and basic mastery of mindful awareness. In Practical Mindfulness, he leverages lessons from his experience in a personal, informal style to show why and how meditation works.

Curious readers of books such as 10% Happier; The Untethered Soul; Wherever You Go, There You Are; or Buddha's Brain, will love Practical Mindfulness.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mango
Published: 01/19/2021
ISBN: 9781642504378
Pages: 312