Sue Breton

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Can't Meditate, Won't Meditate (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Have you heard about mindfulness? Is mindfulness being offered at your place of work? If it isn't already it possibly soon will be. Suddenly it's everywhere. * Maybe it has come your way but you didn't sign up because it all sounded a bit too hippy and sixties for you . . . ? * Maybe you thought it was all very well but you just don't have the time . . . ? * Maybe you've already tried it . . . and given up because you couldn't do the meditations! * You felt self-conscious sitting with others and just being? * Your mind kept wandering and you just couldn't keep it on the job in hand? * You just didn't have the patience? Perhaps you're now feeling cheated because mindfulness is being hailed as the new approach to feeling better about yourself and your life. Mindfulness has been shown to help with stress and anxiety. There is evidence that it can reduce the incidence of depressive episodes in those who tend to have them. You like the idea of it - but you just can't do it! Help is here! It will show you that mindfulness is so much more than meditation. It will take you step by step through basic aspects of the theory and show you how to effortlessly incorporate it into everyday life. It doesn't need you to set aside a special period of time each day to practice. It doesn't require you to sit and meditate for lengthy periods. Once these simple teachings are understood and implemented in your life, you will wonder why nobody told you about it before. This book will enable you to get a good grasp of the basics easily and without hassle so that if you come to find that it really is for you, you will be able to progress to more advanced learning. On the other hand you may find that you are doing just fine with what this book alone has taught you.

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I grew up in the 50's and 60's in a Surrey village but left home to attend University in Swansea. In those days the Welsh universities didn't make you commit to your Honours subject until the end of the first year. I didn't know what I wanted to do. At one time I had wanted to join the Diplomatic Service but when I discovered that women were expected to leave if they married I decided it wasn't for me. Polite society would shun you if you lived with a man to whom you weren't married!

My 'A' Levels were in French, German and Latin. I'd wanted to do Maths but in those days you couldn't mix arts and science subjects. So in my first year I studied French, Politics and took Psychology simply because I was curious about it. And I never looked back. After my degree I went on to do in-service training in Clinical Psychology. I currently work for the NHS.

I raised five children, learnt to sail yachts in races and on long trips across the world, kept and still have horses, ring church bells, and could once do the Highland Fling and the Scottish sword dance. I have just about finished a three-year project renovating an old cottage to be my new home. This entailed learning to do lime hemp plastering among other things as my restricted budget meant I could only employ others for those things which I really couldn't do myself. It was hard work and it felt never-ending at times. But now I sit and bask in the self-satisfied glow that comes from achievement and the knowledge that I personally know every inch of this building I call home.

At one time I attempted to write romantic fiction. I did get one title published by Rainbow Romances but I soon realised that I was unable to make my characters suffer sufficiently so reluctantly I gave up. I do still have a steamy novel about a riding school lurking somewhere on my hard drive and maybe one day I might feel a desire to revisit it and see if I can adapt it at all . . . I have contemplated writing a psychological thriller, but never seem to find a plot that satisfies me. So for now I stick to what I can do writing psychology self help texts when I feel inspired.

Fortunately from childhood I had my own anxiety and obsessive tendencies. These later enabled me to use my own experiences to work out what did and didn't work therapeutically. When Jon Kabat Zinn introduced the concept of Mindfulness I took it up and then later when Acceptance and Commitment Therapy developed I felt I h...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sue Breton
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781310081736
• Artikelnr.: 48019003