Mindful Match: Finding Love Without Losing Yourself


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Discover the Secrets to a Fulfilling Love Life In the journey of finding love, it's easy to lose oneself amid the chaos of dating apps, conflicting advice, and the quest for the perfect partner. Mindful Match: Finding Love Without Losing Yourself sets you on a transformative path, offering a fresh, mindful approach to dating and relationships—one that prioritizes your personal growth and happiness. Is your search for love leaving you feeling drained and disillusioned? Do you sense that there's a better way to navigate the complexity of modern dating but don’t know where to start? This book is your beacon of hope. With lucid, empathetic prose, it guides you through redefining your approach to finding love, ensuring that you remain true to yourself every step of the way. Dive deep into the heart of what makes relationships truly rewarding. This empowering guide is filled with insights, exercises, and real-life stories to assist you in: - Identifying and breaking free from unhealthy dating patterns and beliefs. - Cultivating self-love and confidence, making you more attractive to others. - Mastering the art of mindful dating to build connections that are both meaningful and fulfilling. - Navigating the initial stages of a relationship with grace and authenticity, setting the foundation for a lasting bond. Whether you're single and feeling lost in the dating world, or you're in a relationship and striving to maintain your sense of self, Mindful Match offers the wisdom and tools you need to ensure that your journey to love enriches your life, rather than complicates it. Let this book be your guide to finding a partner who celebrates your individuality and embarks on a mindful journey of love with you. Ready to transform your approach to love and find a partnership that encourages your most authentic self? Mindful Match is the companion you've been waiting for.




Sitting Still Like a Frog


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Simple mindfulness practices to help your child (ages 5-12) deal with anxiety, improve concentration, and handle difficult emotions—with a 60-minute audio CD of guided exercises Mindfulness—the quality of attention that combines full awareness with acceptance of each moment, just as it is—is gaining broad acceptance among mental health professionals as an adjunct to treatment. This little book is a very appealing introduction to mindfulness meditation for children and their parents. In a simple and accessible way, it describes what mindfulness is and how mindfulness-based practices can help children calm down, become more focused, fall asleep more easily, alleviate worry, manage anger, and generally become more patient and aware. The book contains eleven practices that focus on just these scenarios, along with short examples and anecdotes throughout. Included with purchase is an audio CD with guided meditations, voiced by Myla Kabat-Zinn, who along with her husband, Jon Kabat-Zinn, popularized mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) as a therapeutic approach.




Mindfulness For Dummies


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Use mindfulness to relax and control anxiety, depression, stress and pain Whether you're looking to control your depression and anxiety levels, improve concentration and reduce stress, or just want to restore balance in your life, Mindfulness For Dummies, 2nd Edition shows you how to slow down, become aware of what is going on around you and react effectively. Focusing on breathing and other self-control techniques, the practice of mindfulness is scientifically proven to calm jittery nerves and free the mind of distracting thoughts, mental clutter and unrealistic expectations. With this easy-to-follow guide, you'll discover how to pay attention to the present in order to change the way you think, feel and act. Covering the latest research on the effect of mindfulness on the brain, Mindfulness For Dummies, 2nd Edition shows you how to break free from a downward spiral of negative thought and action, and empowers you to make positive choices that support your well-being. Use mindfulness to reduce stress and anxiety, combat pain and more Receive guidance on incorporating mindfulness into everyday life Establish your own mindfulness routine Access audio downloads of guided meditations Written by a professional mindfulness trainer, and packed with tips to incorporate this practice into your daily life, Mindfulness For Dummies, 2nd Edition shows you how to reap the benefits of a more attentive life.




Mindfulness for Student Athletes


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Stay in the moment, stay in the game! With this fun and engaging workbook for young athletes, you’ll find practical ways to cope with stress and improve your performance, no matter what sport you play. If you’re like many other high school or college students, you probably feel pressure to perform at a high level—both in the classroom and on the field. Unfortunately, this pressure can cause lots of stress and anxiety. To make matters worse, you may find it difficult to effectively manage all of these demands on your time, energy, and health. This is where mindfulness can help. Mindfulness allows you to stay present, focus, and be calm with your thoughts and emotions, no matter how stressful life gets. In Mindfulness for Student Athletes, you’ll find practical and tactical ways to cope with stress and anxiety in the moment, prevent stress in the future, and experience more satisfaction and enjoyment while playing sports. You’ll also find proven-effective tools to naturally enhance your performance. The mindfulness skills outlined in this workbook will not only help you on the field—but in life as well. You’ll be able to take what you’ve learned and apply it to any situation, from job interviews to scoring a touchdown. What a gift to have!




Mindfulness in Organizations


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This book provides researchers and professionals with an overview of the latest theory and empirical research on mindfulness in an organizational context.




Mindfulness of Intimacy


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Our personal relationship with our loved one is probably the most important relationship in our lifetime. We treasure the relationship. We look forward to seeing our loved ones when we come home. However, we should not take our relationship for granted. No matter how close we might have been, we would experience difficulty in this relationship at time. That does not mean we need to end the relationship and start a new one. We can have faith in the relationship. There are ways we can improve the loving relationship. Mindfulness is an important tool. Pioneered by Lord Buddha many thousands of years ago, it is as relevant now in improving our life, including building a better relationship with our loved ones.




The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness


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The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness brings together the latest multi-disciplinary research on mindfulness from a group of international scholars: Examines the origins and key theories of the two dominant Western approaches to mindfulness Compares, contrasts, and integrates insights from the social psychological and Eastern-derived perspectives Discusses the implications for mindfulness across a range of fields, including consciousness and cognition, education, creativity, leadership and organizational behavior, law, medical practice and therapy, well-being, and sports 2 Volumes




Fostering Mindfulness


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An essential guide to mindfulness activities and strategies that help students cultivate the skills they need for self-regulation, stress management, and learning. Simple activities and practices throughout the book are designed to strengthen areas of the brain that allow students to better manage their attention, emotions, and behavior. This comprehensive resource shows you how to incorporate mindfulness in your classroom practice in just minutes a day. It offers step-by-step instructions, activity sheets, ready-to-use templates, and much more. This highly readable book includes stories from teachers who successfully incorporate mindfulness in their classroom practice.




Mindfulness and Buddhist-Derived Approaches in Mental Health and Addiction


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This book provides a timely synthesis and discussion of recent developments in mindfulness research and practice within mental health and addiction domains. The book also discusses other Buddhist-derived interventions – such as loving-kindness meditation and compassion meditation – that are gaining momentum in clinical settings. It will be an essential text for researchers and mental health practitioners wishing to keep up-to-date with developments in mindfulness clinical research, as well as any professionals wishing to equip themselves with the necessary theoretical and practical tools to effectively utilize mindfulness in mental health and addiction settings.




The Couple's Match Book


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The process of finding and making the best possible match is not an easy one. On the contrary, from an emotional perspective finding, making, maintaining, and enriching an intimate partnership is one of the most challenging tasks an adult faces. There must be an attraction or a "spark" for a true match to be made. When a couple comes for counseling, they come with the hope that their relationship can be renewed-that they can capture the heat and the emotion that they once had together. The Couple's Match Book: Lighting, Rekindling, or Extinguishing the Flame explores relationship theory and research. Including self-assessment activities to help determine what actions to take to improve relationships, this guild offers information that focuses on understanding and respecting personality differences, role perceptions, communication, and problem-solving. The balance of the book shares personal stories written by couples detailing their own experiences in an effort to help others in improving their intimate relationships. The Couple's Match Book: Lighting, Rekindling, or Extinguishing the Flame can be used as a supplemental text in marriage and family courses, as well as a primary resource in couples counseling and marriage and family therapy.