The Mindful Lifestyle

ISBN: 163135700X

Author: Green, Gary

Condition: New

Product Description The self-help and inspirational book The Mindful Lifestyle describes mindfulness practices in detail, with the idea that everyone can benefit by learning and practicing mindfulness meditation. Many examples and exercises are provided. This book will help you: Understand what mindfulness is and why you should be doing it.Understand how practicing mindfulness will reduce the mental and physical effects of stress.Improve the quality of your decisions.Improve your ability to focus.Improve your sleep. While it is a small and concise book, it covers all aspects of mindfulness in an easy to understand way, and suggests that meditation can be more than a practice one does a few minutes a day. It can be a lifestyle choice. About the Author It has been a long journey from depressed, lonely and alcoholic farm-boy to internationally known, award winning author. Using insight he gained from his own struggle he helped hundreds of individuals move from misery to joy during the many years he worked in the human services field. During his journey he also taught many other care-givers how to improve their ability to help others.During this time he became a practiced listener and a good story teller.Now he divides his time between his small farm and writing inspiring and educational books.His writings have helped many learn the skills needed to: Reduce feelings of worthlessness and isolation Increase feelings of happinessConquer addictionsReach new levels of spiritual understandingImprove relationshipsFind hopeHe has long lived by the motto "Inspire Joyful Sanity". So, what the heck does that mean? Well, the inspire part is obvious. His definition of sanity is to understand and accept the universe and the rules that make it work. The joyful part refers to the idea that joy is the default state of the human mind. The idea is that as you understand and accept the rules of the universe you remove the barriers to being in a joyful state. His goal is to inspire joyful sanity in himself and others.