We're certainly living in challenging times. What's the best way to cope? Mindfulness provides one way you can find some peace and clarity. Mindfulness draws from ancient wisdom, but it has been proven to work time and again in modern scientific studies. It's a great way to cultivate peace, presence and compassion. If you're feeling overwhelmed by the current difficulties facing the world, Mindfulness for Challenging Times: A Collection of Voices for Peace, Self-Care and Connection may offer some comfort. This book contains a range of insights from our community of 26 mindfulness teachers, all sharing mindful ways of dealing with the various challenges you may be facing. It provides you with helpful strategies and simple mindfulness exercises to guide you through these unusual times.A wide range of topics for our times are covered, including ways to use mindfulness for dealing with stress, anxiety, isolation and grief; practices like mindful yoga, mindful eating and even mindful cleaning; and tips for mindful parenting, advice for those working in the helping professions, and suggestions for how to work mindfully online and at home.In addition, the book includes access to over 40 guided mindful audio tracks for you to listen to, recorded by 20+ teachers. They're an important part of the book, helping you to experience the mindful exercises that the authors describe.Part 1: Meeting Challenges with MindfulnessFinding Calm in the ChaosStaying Mindful in IsolationFinding Ways to Cope with StressMindfulness for AnxietyManaging Sleep in Challenging TimesMindfulness in the Presence of Traumatic MemoriesBeing Mindful with GriefA Mindful Approach to Managing Your Media ConsumptionPart 2: Practising Self-care, Compassion and KindnessMindful YogaMindful EatingShowing Ourselves CompassionGrowing GratitudeThe Power of Being Kind to OthersMicro-mindfulness Moments: Mindful CleaningMindfulness for Finding JoyConnecting with NatureMindful Movement in NaturePart 3: Connecting Mindfully with OthersMindful Communication in Challenging TimesConnecting with Others OnlineMindful Ways to Work from HomeStaying Mindful with Difficult PeopleMindful Ways through ConflictParenting Mindfully through ChallengesMindful Co-Parenting and Single ParentingMindfulness for Helping ProfessionalsMindfulness for Empathy Fatigue100% of the profits from sales of this book will be donated to help fund the work of the World Health Organization (WHO).Testimonials "I believe this volume will not only remind those experienced in mindfulness of its many benefits, but also will serve as a roadmap to many who may not yet have any experience or understand the value of mindfulness. And remember, these techniques have been with us for thousands of years. The reason? They work! I hope you enjoy this volume as much as I have."James R. Doty, MD Founder and Director, The Stanford Center for Compassion (CCARE) The New York Times bestselling author of Into the Magic Shop"This book is a wonderful gift to the world - a collaboration of voices to offer presence, compassion and hope, all for a good cause. I highly recommend!" Shauna Shapiro PhD, author of Good Morning, I Love You Professor, Santa Clara University "Mindfulness seems so simple to do and yet so hard to describe. Shamash does it brilliantly." Ruby Wax, comedian, mental health campaigner and bestselling author "Shamash gives you the tools you need to guide you through challenging times and come out the other side stronger than you were before. It has his signature style of warmth, genuine care and crystal-clear practical tools. You couldn't find a better friend to guide you through troubled times." Melli O'Brien, mindfulness teacher, speaker, writer and co-founder of Mindfulness.com

Describes a traditional Buddhist approach to suffering and how embracing the painful situation and using communication, negative habits, and challenging experiences leads to emotional growth and happiness.

Take a deep breath. Feeling less stressed already? Bestselling author Shamash Alidina shows just how simple it is to master the proven techniques of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) in this engaging guide. MBSR has enhanced the physical and emotional well-being of hundreds of thousands of people around the world. In as little as 10 minutes a day over 8 weeks, you'll be taken step by step through a carefully structured sequence of guided meditations (available to purchasers for download at the companion website) and easy yoga exercises. Vivid stories, everyday examples, and opportunities for self-reflection make the book especially inviting. Science shows that MBSR works--and now it is easier than ever to get started.

One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heart Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties--stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning. In this heartfelt and deeply practical book, she offers an antidote: an easy-to-learn four-step meditation that quickly loosens the grip of difficult emotions and limiting beliefs. Each step in the meditation practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) is brought to life by memorable stories shared by Tara and her students as they deal with feelings of overwhelm, loss, and self-aversion, with painful relationships, and past trauma--and as they discover step-by-step the sources of love, forgiveness, compassion, and deep wisdom alive within all of us.

Publisher’s Note: This title is now available under a new edition, The Art of Breathing ISBN 9781642970425. This edition will include a new afterword by Mark Williams, author of Mindfulness. International bestselling author Dr. Danny Penman provides a concise guide to letting go, finding peace, and practicing mindfulness in a messy world, simply by taking the time to breathe. With these simple exercises he teaches you how to dissolve anxiety, stress, and unhappiness, enhance your mind, and unleash your creativity. You will start to smile more, worry less, and with each little moment of mindfulness, discover a happier, calmer you. It really is as easy as breathing. All you need is a chair, a body, some air, and your mind. That's it!

The landmark work on mindfulness, meditation, and healing, now revised and updated after twenty-five years Stress. It can sap our energy, undermine our health if we let it, even shorten our lives. It makes us more vulnerable to anxiety and depression, disconnection and disease. Based on Jon Kabat-Zinn’s renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this classic, groundbreaking work—which gave rise to a whole new field in medicine and psychology—shows you how to use medically proven mind-body approaches derived from meditation and yoga to counteract stress, establish greater balance of body and mind, and stimulate well-being and healing. By engaging in these mindfulness practices and integrating them into your life from moment to moment and from day to day, you can learn to manage chronic pain, promote optimal healing, reduce anxiety and feelings of panic, and improve the overall quality of your life, relationships, and social networks. This second edition features results from recent studies on the science of mindfulness, a new Introduction, up-to-date statistics, and an extensive updated reading list. Full Catastrophe Living is a book for the young and the old, the well and the ill, and anyone trying to live a healthier and saner life in our fast-paced world. Praise for Full Catastrophe Living “To say that this wise, deep book is helpful to those who face the challenges of human crisis would be a vast understatement. It is essential, unique, and, above all, fundamentally healing.”—Donald M. Berwick, M.D., president emeritus and senior fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement “One of the great classics of mind/body medicine.”—Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., author of Kitchen Table Wisdom “A book for everyone . . . Jon Kabat-Zinn has done more than any other person on the planet to spread the power of mindfulness to the lives of ordinary people and major societal institutions.”—Richard J. Davidson, founder and chair, Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin–Madison “This is the ultimate owner’s manual for our lives. What a gift!”—Amy Gross, former editor in chief, O: The Oprah Magazine “I first read Full Catastrophe Living in my early twenties and it changed my life.”—Chade-Meng Tan, Jolly Good Fellow of Google and author of Search Inside Yourself “Jon Kabat-Zinn’s classic work on the practice of mindfulness to alleviate stress and human suffering stands the test of time, a most useful resource and practical guide. I recommend this new edition enthusiastically to doctors, patients, and anyone interested in learning to use the power of focused awareness to meet life’s challenges, whether great or small.”—Andrew Weil, M.D., author of Spontaneous Happiness and 8 Weeks to Optimum Health “How wonderful to have a new and updated version of this classic book that invited so many of us down a path that transformed our minds and awakened us to the beauty of each moment, day-by-day, through our lives. This second edition, building on the first, is sure to become a treasured sourcebook and traveling companion for new generations who seek the wisdom to live full and fulfilling lives.”—Diana Chapman Walsh, Ph.D., president emerita of Wellesley College

A new edition of the #1 NYT’s bestseller by Mark Nepo, who has been called “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time” and “a consummate storyteller.” Philosopher-poet and cancer survivor Mark Nepo opens a new season of freedom and joy—an escape from deadening, asleep-at-the wheel sameness—that is both profound and clarifying. His spiritual daybook is a summons to reclaim aliveness, liberate the self, take each day one at a time, and savor the beauty offered by life's unfolding. Reading his poetic prose is like being given second sight, exposing the reader to life's multiple dimensions, each one drawn with awe and affection. The Book of Awakening is the result of Nepo’s journey of the soul and will inspire others to embark on their own. He speaks of spirit and friendship, urging readers to stay vital and in love with this life, no matter the hardships. Encompassing many traditions and voices, Nepo's words offer insight on pain, wonder, and love. Each entry is accompanied by an exercise that will surprise and delight the reader in its mind-waking ability.