Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

The life-changing international bestseller reveals a set of simple yet powerful mindfulness practices that you’ll incorporate into daily life to help break the cycle of anxiety, stress, unhappiness, and exhaustion.

Mindfulness promotes the type of happiness and peace that gets into your bones. It seeps into everything you do and helps you meet the worst that life throws at you with new courage.

Based on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), the book revolves around a straightforward form of mindfulness meditation which takes only some minutes a day for the full benefits to be revealed. MBCT has been clinically proven to be at least as effective as drugs for depression and is widely really useful by US physicians and the United Kingdom’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence—in other words, it works. More importantly it also works for people who don’t seem to be depressed but who are struggling to keep up with the constant demands of the modern world.

MBCT used to be developed by the book’s writer, Oxford professor Mark Williams, and his colleagues at the Universities of Cambridge and Toronto. By investing just 10 to 20 minutes on a daily basis, you’ll learn the simple mindfulness meditations at the heart of MBCT and fully reap their benefits. The book includes links to audio meditations to help guide you through the process. You can be surprised by how quickly these techniques will have you enjoying life again.