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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Mindfulness

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As a long-time mental health counselor/psychotherapist who practices from an Existential-Buddhist perspective, this book is easy to read, explains concepts well, can be a very useful resource for clinicians; especially as a book to refer clients to who could benefit from mindfulness practice as part of their healing work. I'd highly recommend it!

This book provides a complete introduction to mindfulness, making a sometimes difficult and esoteric topic easy to understand. The reader will find practical ways to introduce mindfulness into their daily lives, as well as help with meditating. Although I had some idea of what mindfulness was before reading the book, I learned a lot of new things. I would highly recommend this book as a great introduction to mindfulness that carefully explains this complex buddhist concept in simple terms. Well written.

I like how clear and well written this book is. The exercises help illustrate what and how mindfulness practices can be immediately used in one's own life. It also takes some of the mystery out of it by giving hands on practices to try. As a psychotherapist who has studied and read other text on this issue I find this book to be one of the most accessible of those I have read so far. I believe many people, including my colleagues and clients, could benefit from reading this book.

This is a beautifully written, very thorough and helpful book for finding tranquility and truth in the midst of our crazy, multi-tasking, modern lives. The sequencing and pacing of the exercises and concepts are excellent, as are the extensive resource list and index. I know that I will repeatedly refer to various chapters of this book over time. Thank you to the authors for generously sharing their abundant wisdom, compassion, skills, stories, and ideas to enrich the lives of others.

They were right. Only complete idiots should buy this book. Poor production values in the electronic version make it hard to read. Online references to websites that suggest scientific articles that don't exist are an additional annoyance.

Great book on Mindfulness--the new ~hot~ treatment in mental health. Give good overview in both clinical & everyday language. I use this book with clients in treatment, as well as with clinicians on treatment issues.

This clearly written overview covers a variety of mindfulness topics, and includes exercises so that you can try it for yourself. I knew a bit about mindfulness, but learned quite a lot while reading this book, and just loved having the chance to try out the different exercises -- I learned a number of ways to incorporate mindfulness into my life, like mindful writing and walking meditation. I've given this book to several friends with an interest in mindfulness. It's a great introduction with a very helpful list of resources if there's a particular topic you want to delve into.

This book is very informative and excellent reading, even though the name does not suggest it . I recomend this book.

I bought this book on a recommendation from a counsellor. But I am suspicious of any book entitled 'The idiot's guide to...' I find such titles insulting, because I am not an idiot. I feel that authors should chose their titles more carefully - 'An idiot's guide to....' is a fair enough title for practical subjects, such as car mechanics or computors, but totally wrong for philosophy, art and religion.

That said, The book goves a reasonable treatment of the subject - that's if you think mindfulness is a subject worth pursuing (which I don't).

Use of the authors' first person is sometimes confusing. Also some puzzling chapters are included.