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Mindfulness - An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

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Mindfulness - An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World by  Mark Williams  (Author),  Danny Penman  (Author),  Jon Kabat-Zinn  (Foreword) THE LIFE-CHANGING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER.   MINDFULNESS reveals a set of simple yet powerful practices that you can incorporate into daily life to help break the cycle of anxiety, stress, unhappiness, and exhaustion. It promotes the kind of happiness and peace that gets into your bones. It seeps into everything you do and helps you meet the worst that life throws at you with new courage. The book is based on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). MBCT revolves around a straightforward form of mindfulness meditation which takes just a few minutes a day for the full benefits to be revealed. MBCT has been clinically proven to be at least as effective as drugs for depression and is widely recommended by US physicians and the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence - in other words, it works. More importantly, i