Mindfulness (Psychology)

Caring for a loved one with dementia can be extremely stressful. This essential guide provides skills for dealing with the accompanying emotional and physical stress, and offers tools to help you manage your own needs, in addition to the needs of your loved one.

The Daily Bell is a mindfulness reminder - a sort of 'thought of the day' - that mindfulness expert Padraig O'Morain sends out to his 15,000 subscribers every morning, and he has done so for the last 5 years. Following on from the success of this, Padraig has compiled 100 brand new bells and exer...

The exquisite Japanese hikaru dorodango, or shiny mud ball, is created by rolling earth by hand into a perfect sphere and polishing it until it gleams. Not only are the results truly impressive, but this calm and meditative practice, once a playground game, has been rediscovered as a peaceful pas...

Easyway has brilliantly transformed lives all over the world. The message is: you don't need alcohol; you don't need cigarettes; you don't need refined sugar. You are fine as you are. Mindfulness lies at the heart of Allen Carr's philosophy. 'The Easy Way to Mindfulness' shows you how you can fre...

The New York Times bestselling author of 'Essentialism' takes on the holy grail of human performance: How can we make it easier to get the right things done?

More and more we rely on digital connection to fulfil our needs but so many of these needs cannot be met by a smart phone. Skype and FaceTime have taken the place of meetings with people; instead of playing with children, digital devices are used to entertain them; smart phones messages of no rea...

More than 20 years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn changed the way we think about awareness in everyday life with his now-classic introduction to mindfulness, 'Wherever You Go, There You Are'. He followed that up with 2005's 'Coming to Our Senses', the definitive book for our time on the connection between m...

Gardening, like mindfulness, is a way of finding a sense of calm in an otherwise chaotic world, a simpler existence, even if it is only for a few minutes. Both forge a connection to the world around us, to nature and wildlife, which can bring pleasure and peace. In this illustrated guide to garde...

Overwhelmed by the demands of family, work, and multiple responsibilities, many women find themselves feeling scattered, and distracted. In this eye-opening work, co-founder and CEO of the Mindsight Institute, Caroline Welch, takes readers on a mindfulness journey to help them de-stress and culti...

Humans have always used their hands to create the world around them. But now most of us have gone from being practitioners to theorists, from being producers to consumers. What happens to our society when we are so divorced from the act of making? What happens to us as individuals when we limit t...