Mindfulness Starts Here: An Eight-Week Guide to Skillful Living

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Living a rushed, demanding life and wishing for mental calm to deal with the difficulties you face? Stressed out by tangled thoughts and frazzled feelings? Mindfulness Starts Here offers you a way to ease stress with clear instructions on these points: How mindfulness works using Five Skillful Habits How being mindful can help you deal better with sadness, pain, and anxiety How mindfulness can make your life more manageable In Mindfulness Starts Here, you learn how mindfulness works through simple, clear explanations. The instructions and practices show you how to pay attention to your life so you can make skillful decisions. The examples help you understand: How practicing Five Skillful Habits can change the way you live your life Why living fully in pleasant and unpleasant times can enrich your life How mindfulness reduces reactivity to and increases steadiness under stress.

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Mindfulness Starts Here incorporates the rigor of science, the beauty of art, the wisdom of reflection and years of lived experience. The wealth of theory and practice presented in this illuminating text will be of benefit to clinicians and clients alike, and has the potential to transform our individual and collective lives. I highly recommend it.
Shauna L. Shapiro, Ph.D., Associate Professor Santa Clara University, co-author of The Art and Science of Mindfulness: Integrating Mindfulness into Psychology and the Helping Professions

Whether you have been practicing mindfulness for many years or for you Mindfulness Starts Here is where your introduction to mindfulness begins – you have found a treasure here that you will probably read again and again. This lovely book from Lynette Monteiro and Frank Musten is a beautiful tapestry of wisdom and love that can guide you through life’s hardships and awaken in your life greater joy, loving-kindness and well-being.
Steve Flowers, MS, MFT, has been a mindfulness teacher for 16 years and is the author of The Mindful Path through Shyness.

Mindfulness Starts Here is a ground-breaking contribution to the literature on mindfulness in therapy. It explicitly integrates mindfulness techniques into an ethical lifestyle of respect for our mortality and our limits, and for cultivating generosity, compassion, and mindful consumption. The words of these wonderful teachers embody the practice and…provide a comprehensive program for living fully throughout the ups and downs of our lives. When you’re ready, here’s the trustworthy place you need to begin.
Christopher Germer, PhD, Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School, author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion & co-editor of Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy