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Learn how to harness the benefits of mindfulness to take control of your life for the better.

With simple breathing exercises, meditation tips, and relaxation techniques, Practical Mindfulness will improve your concentration and help you achieve success.

Questionnaires tailor advice to you by enabling you to identify negative patterns of thinking and challenge them using well-respected exercises. Learn how to meditate with step-by-step instructions and gain clarity with expert advice on stress management. The targeted mindfulness exercises will help boost your self-esteem, build better relationships, learn more effectively, and distance yourself from damaging emotions using real-life scenarios, including exams and presentations.

Practical Mindfulness is a life-changing programme that will teach you to relax, build the confidence you need to succeed, and free you from the anxiety that holds you back.

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0: Foreword
1: DISCOVERING MINDFULNESS 1: A beginner´s guide to the here and now
2: New moment, new you
3: Mind full of thoughts
4: Silent witness
5: The power of autopilot
6: A thousand leaves
7: Living the dream
8: Growing yourself
9: Mindfulness and tradition
10: Mindfulness for health and wellbeing
11: Going mainstream
12: The mindful zeitgeist

2: TOWARDS A MINDFUL YOU 1: What do you think you´re like?
2: Disposed towards the moment
3: Wheel and compass
4: Alive in the present
5: Time warps
6: Questionnaire: Time traveller
7: Lifting the lid
8: Can´t help it!
9: Loosening habit´s grip
10: Questionnaire: Authenticity
11: Wandering mind
12: Mindful learning
13: Questionnaire: Concentration
14: Alive to others
15: Questionnaire: Connection
16: Who am I?
17: Seeing your true self
18: Questionnaire: What am I like?
19: Inner circle
20: Within your grasp
21: The bigger picture

3: MINDFULNESS MEDITATION 1: Getting started
2: Mixing and matching
3: Mindfulness meditations
4: Gently does it
5: Body ready
6: Breathe easy
7: Inner clouds
8: Inner winds
9: What´s not to like?
10: I live here
11: What´s happening in your brain?
12: Hello leaf, hello coin
13: Body scan basics
14: Sensational!
15: Your inner rollercoaster
16: Take it in your stride
17: Waves of compassion
18: Mindful imagination
19: The habit of now
20: Suddenly you´re doing yoga!

4: MINDFULNESS LIFE SKILLS 1: Tangled tales
2: Calm within
3: Avoiding avoidance
4: Unquiet mind
5: Steady within
6: Weather warning
7: Shift work
8: Away with autopilot!
9: I can, I deserve
10: Within seven breaths
11: Clear thinking
12: Empathy
13: The mindful connection
14: The mindful couple

5: MINDFULNESS WHEN YOU NEED IT 1: Grow and learn
2: Show what you know
3: Get that job
4: Paid for a purpose
5: Ahem!
6: Mindfulness in motion
7: Playing to win
8: Clinch that deal!
9: Be honest
10: Their turn
11: In crisis
12: The mindful carer
13: Mindful tomorrows

6: Index7: Acknowledgements

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Cheerfully illustrated and easy to follow, the book offers an accessible guide to mindfulness that will help you attain happiness and success. Answer the thought provoking Q & A´s and follow the simple step-by-step exercises to achieve a relaxed, non-judgemental awareness of your thoughts, improve your concentration, achieve success and manage your stress Helen Lederer My Weekly

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Consultant Ken A. Verni, Psy.D. trained under the renowned Jon Kabat-Zinn and has been practising mindfulness for more than 20 years. He is the founding director of the New Jersey Center for Mindful Awareness in the US and now teaches Mindful Awareness and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.

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