This book of quotations from Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth (2005) is really designed for those already familiar with the author's work. In his introduction, he recommends reading no more than one chapter at a time, at most, stopping to re-read whatever resonates and allowing the words to sink in.…
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Mindfulness for Health: A Practical Guide to Relieving Pain, Reducing Stress and Restoring Well-Being, Vidyamala Burch and Danny Penman (2013)
This book offers mindfulness practices specifically for those dealing with chronic pain, injury or any other health conditions that feel limiting. Both authors suffered significant injuries themselves and are no strangers to pain. A key element of mindfulness for pain is understanding primary and secondary pain, where primary pain is…
Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World, Mark Williams and Danny Penman (2011)
This is one of the best introductions to mindfulness for anyone wishing to get started with mindfulness practice on their own. This eight-week guide is based on the MBCT programme. There’s enough theory here to be motivating and inspiring, but not enough to get bogged down in. This is a…
Full Catastrophe Living: How to Cope with Stress, Pain and Illness Using Mindfulness Meditation, Jon Kabat-Zinn (rev edn 2013)
In this book, Kabat-Zinn describes the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programme that he originally developed in 1979 and that was (and still is) taught at the Stress Reduction Clinic in Massachusetts. Kabat-Zinn’s incredible contribution to participatory medicine in the form of MBSR is now world-famous, and has led to a…
MBCT for Dummies, Patrizia Collard (2013)
Presented in the familiar and easy to digest ‘for Dummies’ format, this book is a great introduction for anyone looking to start exploring mindfulness, from mindfulness attitudes and practices, to establishing mindful routines to incorporate in daily life . Collard’s passionate and engaged treatment of MBCT includes poems, quotations and…
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, Segal, Williams and Teasdale (2nd edn 2018)
This is the core text for anyone interested in MBCT, but is specifically aimed at clinicians and psychologists wishing to teach the programme. It includes comprehensive coverage of the development and rationale for MBCT, a detailed account of the structure and content of the programme, with examples of inquiry, and…