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The Coloring Book of Mindfulness: 50 Quotes and Designs to Help You Focus, Slow Down, De-Stress

The Coloring Book of Mindfulness includes line illustrations of the natural world, from flowers and trees, to butterflies and birds, that are specially designed to be colored in. Alongside beautiful illustrations is a collection of 50 inspirational quotes that will enable you to still the mind, and relax the body, while generating and boosting a feeling of well-being and contentment that will permeate every aspect of everyday life. The perfect gift, this is a practical way to calm the mind, while subconsciously developing self-knowledge, expanding the imagination, and nurturing creativity.

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24 Hour Mindfulness: How to be calmer and kinder in the midst of it all

A fresh new take on modern meditation, 24 Hour Mindfulness shows what life is like when mindfulness becomes something we can do wherever we are and whatever we are doing.

This audiobook short presents 16 different exercises to help us bring that little bit more awareness, calm and kindness to even the busiest of days.

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Mindfulness for Teen Anger: A Workbook to Overcome Anger and Aggression Using MBSR and DBT Skills

Do you ever feel so frustrated with school, friends, parents, and life in general that you lose control of your emotions and lash out? You shouldn’t feel ashamed. Being a teen in today’s world is hard, but it’s even harder when you’re unable to keep your cool in stressful situations. Fortunately, there are things you can do to make positive changes in your life.

Using proven effective mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), Mindfulness for Teen Anger will teach you the difference between healthy and unhealthy forms of anger. Inside, you’ll learn how to make better choices, how to stop overreacting, find emotional balance, and be more aware of your thoughts and feelings in the moment. You’ll also learn skills for building positive relationships with peers, friends, and family.

As a teen, the relationship skills you learn now can help you thrive in the future. With a little help, and by cultivating compassion and understanding for yourself and others, you will be able to transform your fear and anger into confidence and kindness.

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Mindfulness Quotes: Thoughts For Meditation, Inner Peace and Change

These Mindfulness Quotes collected over time by Kenneth Mendel are the little companions the beginner, as well as the mindfulness meditation expert wants to keep in mind, and live by. Far from being an exercise book, these sayings are great principles to rely on when times are tough. Short, powerful and easy to remember, these quotes are designed to make you think, meditate and help you live and feel your life at its fullest. From acceptance and love to learning the truth and liberating yourself, you have in hand some of the essential words of wisdom from ancient and modern thinkers and leaders – from Buddha and the Dalai Lama to Thich Nhat Hanh and Jon Kabat-Zinn. Enjoy, and live the present moment!

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Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 2

Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 2 was designed by Jon Kabat-Zinn as a core training tool to begin and deepen a daily meditation practice, and to bring mindfulness into every aspect of life. Intended to be used in conjunction with his book Wherever You Go, There You Are, these four CD-length programs are a valuable resource that meditators at all experience levels can adapt to their specific needs. They include:

• Guided sitting meditations—the basics of mindfulness meditation
• Mindfulness while lying down—guided sessions for learning how to “fall awake” rather than fall asleep, which, teaches Kabat-Zinn, is what mindfulness is all about
• The Mountain Meditation and Lake Meditation—evokes two powerful images to deepen concentration and expand one’s feeling for the inward gesture involved in mindfulness practice
• Silence, with bells to mark the passage of time—5-, 10-, 15-, 20-, and 30-minute timed sessions

Mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness, a way to connect with a deep sense of comfort, balance, insight, and freedom within our own lives, both physically and emotionally. It is a way to embody sanity, clarity, and harmony, even in challenging circumstances. And it’s a way to heal ourselves and our relationships with others. But it does require cultivation. These guided meditations provide an essential set of tools to help support that process.

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Moments of Mindfulness: Daily Inspiration

This beautifully designed gift book contains many of the best-loved inspirational quotations and passages from Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh. Basic meditation instructions and messages of peace, love, insight, understanding, and compassion accompany two-color illustrations throughout, with blank pages for personal reflections and inspiration. Moments of Mindfulness is a perfect journal for spiritual exploration.

Moments of Mindfulness is intended to be used as a personal notebook or to simply read for everyday inspiration, and to help bring mindful practices and reflection to daily life. With illustrations by Jenifer Kent, beautiful details and design, it makes a wonderful gift.

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Empathy Warriors: Self Empowerment Through Mindfulness

Our brains are hardwired for empathy so you would expect that we would encounter it often in our day-to-day interactions–but we don’t! In Empathy Warriors, an interactive journal workbook for everyone ages twelve to adult, educator Tedi Ware explains why giving and receiving empathy happens so infrequently and what we need to do to access and use our innate capacity for it. She then goes on to teach her readers, in concrete and easy to follow ways, exactly how to practice empathy, teach it to others, and make it the foundation of all their relationships. Tedi Ware shares her own story of a painful adolescence when empathy was missing from her life and how she developed a compulsive eating disorder as a means of coping with her loneliness and isolation. Tedi Ware provides her readers with life-enriching techniques that show them how to empower and protect themselves as they build their own empathy-based communities that nurture and sustain all members. Tedi lovingly accompanies her readers on their journeys of becoming happy, confident Empathy Warriors.

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A Year of Living Mindfully: 52 Quotes & Weekly Mindfulness Practices

In this book,30 renowned mindfulness teachers, including Jack Kornfield, Daniel Siegel, Tara Brach, Marsha Linehan, Rick Hanson, Sharon Salzberg, Sylvia Boorstein, Shauna Shapiro, Kristin Neff, and many others, picked their favorite quote, described the mindfulness lesson for that quote, and created a weekly mindfulness practice. All 52 quotes were independent of each other. They are organized into 8 sections. Each section builds upon the previous section, and the reader develops a good understanding of mindfulness in a fun, engaging, and creative way.

Here are a few of my personal favorite quotes:

Wherever you are that is the entry point. – Kabir, 15th century Indian Poet.

I am the cause of most of my suffering because of the habits of my mind. – His Holiness the Dalai Lama, at 8 years of age.

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. – Pema Chodron.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi.

Each of these, and the other 48 quotes, are analyzed by one of our mindfulness teachers, you are given a mindfulness practice for the week, each week, for 52 weeks. These teachers bring you ways to develop a more mindful attitude, and a better way of being in life.

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Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. For him a ringing telephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves. Dirty dishes, red lights, and traffic jams are spiritual friends on the path to “mindfulness”—the process of keeping our consciousness alive to our present experience and reality. The most profound satisfactions, the deepest feelings of joy and completeness lie as close at hand as our next aware breath and the smile we can form right now.

Lucidly and beautifully written, Peace Is Every Step contains commentaries and meditations, personal anecdotes and stories from Nhat Hanh’s experiences as a peace activist, teacher, and community leader. It begins where the reader already is—in the kitchen, office, driving a car, walking a part—and shows how deep meditative presence is available now. Nhat Hanh provides exercises to increase our awareness of our own body and mind through conscious breathing, which can bring immediate joy and peace. Nhat Hanh also shows how to be aware of relationships with others and of the world around us, its beauty and also its pollution and injustices. the deceptively simple practices of Peace Is Every Step encourage the reader to work for peace in the world as he or she continues to work on sustaining inner peace by turning the “mindless” into the mindFUL.Thich Nhat Hanh’s writing is deceptive in its subtlety. He’ll go on and on with stories about tree-hugging or metaphors involving raw potatoes; he’ll tell you how to eat mindfully, even how to breathe and walk; he’ll suggest looking closely at a flower and to see the sun as your heart. As the Zen teacher Richard Baker commented, however, Nhat Hanh is “a cross between a cloud, a snail, and piece of heavy machinery.” Sooner or later, it begins to sink in that Nhat Hanh is conveying a depth of psychology and a world outlook that require nothing less than a complete paradigm shift. Through his cute stories and compassionate admonitions, he gradually builds up to his philosophy of interbeing, the notion that none of us is separately, but rather that we inter-are. The ramifications are explosive. How can we mindlessly and selfishly pursue our individual ends, when we are inextricably bound up with everyone and everything else? We see an enemy not as focus of anger but as a human with a complex history, who could be us if we had the same history. Suffice it to say, that after reading Peace Is Every Step, you’ll never look at a plastic bag the same way again, and you may even develop a penchant for hugging trees. –Brian Bruya