Calming Your Anxious Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Anxiety, Fear, and Panic (Paperback)

by Jeffrey Brantley (Author), Jon Kabat-Zinn (Foreword) "If you are reading this book, you are probably feeling some kind of disturbance in your life..." (more)
Key Phrases: practicing choiceless awareness, nonjudging awareness, mindful movement, Jon Kabat-Zinn (more...)

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From this compassionate and nonreligious book, learn to use the principle of mindfulness to relieve a wide range of stress-related conditions. A quality common to all human beings, mindfulness is a receptive, nonjudgmental, present-moment awareness. a state of focusing attention only on the here and now. Learn to become more present in your life experiences. Develop skills for calming and relaxing the mind and body. By putting the exercises into practice, find more power for controlling disruptive feelings in your life. The resources and techniques in this book provide you with a direction that leads to greater experiential learning and dramatically effective, life-affirming attitudes.

Although the focus in Calming your Anxious Mind is relieving fear, anxiety, and panic, the basic concept of mindfulness, as well as the practices taught here, have a demonstrated applicability to a wide-range of health and stress-related conditions.

Mindfulness, a quality basic to all human beings, can be described as receptive, nonjudgmental present moment awareness, practiced by paying attention in the present moment. The approach in this book has been developed specifically to practice mindfulness as stress reduction and health enhancement technique and does not depend upon or require (or dismiss) any specific religious or spiritual orientation. This health oriented mindfulness approach is known as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, which has been successfully learned by literally thousands of people for over twenty years.

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"Calming Your Anxious Mind" is a gentle call to stop and pay more attention to your self and your life, and practice being, not doing. Practicing mindfulness and attending to life, moment by moment, will reduce your anxiety and stress and help you find peace and calm.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications (November 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572243384
• ISBN-13: 978-1572243385
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #149,552 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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112 of 117 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but short on some details., April 6, 2004

By	C. Murdock (Salt Lake City, Utah USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this book to help me deal with Social Anxiety Disorder, PTSD, and depression.

This book could serve as a nice introduction to mindfulness meditation. The first few chapters detail some of the research that has come out concerning the impact of mindfulness on anxiety and anxiety disorders.

It was rather skimpy on some details; specifically, how one can tie all of this mindfulness into reducing or dealing with anxiety. The author takes up an entire one chapter - one - in dealing with this specifically.

Much of the book's content can be found in Jon Kabat-Zinn's wonderful book, "Full Catastrophe Living", which is also much more detailed. I recommend that the customer look into that book first, and then supplement his reading with this one second.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Only half way through, but give it 5 stars already, January 7, 2007

By	joysjane "joysjane" (Casper, WY) - See all my reviews

This book is wonderful. I am only half way through, but it already deserves five stars. It is a great book if you take your time and do the work and pratice the "mindfulness". It can and will change your life. I have noticed during a very unexpected stressful day recently, that several times the word mindfulness popped into my head and I just centered myself in the moment instead of thinking of how behind I was and how mucy more I had to do that day. And at that point, I hadn't even really learned what mindfulness meant. Give this book a try. I don't think you'll be sorry.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A life-changing book, June 27, 2007

By	Douglas Hill (LA, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Along with Jon Kabat-Zinn's Full Catastrophe Living, this is an indispensable book for anyone who suffers from GAD, SAD, or panic disorder. This is compassionate, pragmatic, deep therapy that has great power on its own and can be a great supplement to working with a therapist. There's strong current science behind it, and 2500 years of Buddhist practice. Very simply, if you learn to focus in the present you won't worry so much about the future, or beat yourself up about the past.