Mindfulness: The Most Effective Techniques: Connect With Your Inner Self To Reach Your Goals Easily and Peacefully (Down-to-Earth Spirituality for Everyday People)

The book was great I enjoyed it.I read the book for self awareness, mindfulness and being in the present.

That's it. Mindfulness. This is one of the books I enjoy reading because it serves the purpose. The techniques here are all practical, and that means you have to put them to work.However, this knowledge is more on the physical you, the basic and useful element where everything starts. Your body is your domain as long as you live in this physical universe.Read this book to know more about your mind. This is your first step into your world, your domain. I recommend it to whoever wants to stay calm in the midst of turmoil.

I just ate one of the most delicious and enjoyable lunches ever. No. Not at a restaurant. Not at a friend's. At home, at my kitchen table. It was a simple lunch,: left over chicken, rice and fresh tomatoes. I've eaten it many times before, but I can honestly say that I have never tasted it with such deliciousness. .What happened?Lunch followed my reading of Ian Tuhovsky's Mindfulness. I just got it a few days ago and earmarked it for an early read. The title caught my attention. Of late it seems that anything to do with the mind, the brain and self discovery catches my attention. I'm so glad I did.I loved it! Kept a notebook beside me and took copious notes - not only because of the content, but because the language drew me in. What can I say, I'm an author and a junkie for a well turned phrase, and of those there were plenty. And it wasn't because the content was mind blowing, I've read it before, but never have I read it written so well. This was not a clinical summary of the author's knowledge, nor was it some quickly thrown-together,collective regurgitation of stuff found online. I found the book engaging, thoughtfully written and authentically presented. This was no flake writing, this was a man who knew the subject well and it was evident throughout the book.So to get back to the lunch. Ian talked of being mindful of the small things, of being in the moment. These are things I try when I go walking, whether on my favorite neighborhood walk, or on the busy streets of the city. But I'd never brought it to the table before, not for a simple lunch made up of yesterday's leftovers and fresh tiny ripe tomatoes.I decided that I was going to be mindful of my lunch. I consciously chewed the food, feeling the texture of the rice, the chicken as my teeth bit into the flesh and tore it off the the chicken leg bone. I tasted not just the chicken but the olive oil and the mediterranean herbs that I rubbed into the chicken leg before putting it in the oven last night. The combination together with the smattering of onions and garlic that I threw into the roaster last night created a lip smacking "jus." The jus was just right for the rice, and those tiny tomatoes burst like candy in my mouth. It felt as though my taste buds had suddenly awakened.I will continue to work on being present in the moment. It makes everything so much more enjoyable.And there is so much more. This is just the one thing and I will return to it time and time again.YOU GOTTA GET THIS BOOK!

This book is a good read for anyone looking to get into mindfulness or refresh your practice with new techniques. Very practical and to the point.

Meditation can change your life. This book is about how you can consciously change it along the way. It's a Western view of meditation that sidesteps Buddhism for the most part, but that's OK. If you are a!ready into Buddhism it will help hammer home the basics of mindfulness. Mindfulness is about doing and not reading, but if you are going to read anyway it might as well be about something meaningful.

This was a really good read. The author did a good job laying out the principals of meditation. He didn't get too philosophical and was easy to follow along. It was very well written and I would suggest anyone new to meditation or curious about meditation, I would recommend this book!

I enjoyed reading this book. It was a good place to start on my mindfulness journey. I look forward to other books from this author. Thank you.

Reading this book turned my life around in my prayer time with God like never before. You see; I'm in the early stages of learning mindfulness, and I can say it really works. My prayer life is great, but you know deep inside there's so much more in just meditation alone. This book gave me the answers I needed to press in deeper when I prayed and meditated with mindfulness. There's no formula or gadget to this, all you need to have is an open heart for the Spirit of God to use for His Kingdom here on earth.Reading this book I got to see and understand that meditation and mindfulness works with each other with the goal in mind that meditation is to bring the body and mind together so they can work as a single unit. I like the definition of mindfulness, which is “paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, nonjudgmental." On the other hand, you can say, mindfulness belongs to those who are focused and steady kind of attention.Practicing mindfulness and meditation for me on the positive side - my whole life changed around like: Emotional stability - Regulating my state of mind (before mindfulness - all I can say is OMG!) - but now, I live in peace - no more stress. I'm in a happy place. Physical stability - Exercise regularly everyday - I've lost over 42 pounds and still losing weight because of better eating habits.You get the picture; all of this is happening because of this book.I recommend this book to those who are at the beginning stages of mindfulness, as well as, meditation. It is written to those who can handle the truth about themselves and want to connect with their inner self to live by that authentic vision inside them. Thank you Ian Tuhovsky for putting it in bite size, so I can understand the basic principle of mindfulness. NEED I Say More!

Ian, I hope you really do jump for joy when you read these because I tell you, that joy is well deserved.My most valuable new addition to my life is the daily reading of personal development books, there is an ocean of knowledge out there and I'll skip the rest of this tired old metaphor. Your book was the first I've read on the topic of mindfulness and I doubt there exists a better piece of introductory material for the uninformed (or dabbling novice)Clear, concise, fun and most importantly it was practical and immediately applicable in an easy and non-intimidating way. Undertaking a new practice can sometimes be intimidating like learning to swim or drive, and likewise with something so simple as sitting with yourself even, can for some be almost nonsensically confrontational. But the material in this book would (I imagine) ease even the most tentative learner into a new daily practice that will change their lives. I read my books on a kindle so it's easy to highlight sentences or paragraphs or whatever as you go and I can say there was at least one highlight worthy bit on every page. What I mean to say is you could take any one of those highlights those, little nuggets of literary gold and present it to a friend as a piece of advise and if they could absorb it, it would make a difference in their life.I'm rambling a bit now but I could truly keep writing all day. Just a couple more things I promise xDI've been practising the techniques provided in the pages of this book for only a few days and already feel a profound change in my life (I'm one of them quick learner types but still!) I intend to make this a part of my day indefinitely and continue learning more in depth about mindfulness.Thank you! for penning this little intro to the mind and the state it's yearning for, please keep writing!Ben, 24, Christchurch New Zealand.p.s to anyone else who read this review remember, books don't change your life. You change your life. Books like this and many others give you the tools or "build your wheel" but you've gotta spin it. I say this because the negative reviews I see on books like this one usually say "uhh this book is rubbish I didn't notice any change at all" well buddy change comes from within so maybe you should write a review on your life instead. Right that's enough keyboard for me for one day sorry for the babbling. Great book. Peace and love to you all.

I have many a self help book, and I'm constantly diving in and out of Ted Talks and clips of Rugby Wax and such like, so I'm well aware and appreciate the processes we can follow to improve our well being. It is, as this book points out, all in the doing though, and I think this is one of its strengths.This is not a big wordy volume, but this is also a good thing, because if you have an ADHD addled brain like mine, it makes the main points easier to digest and remember because it's concise and direct but friendly at the same time.There are no woo-woo terms, religious or vague references to spiritualism either, I just find these concepts impossible to grasp. To me these things are something out there in the ether that I just can't understand.I especially appreciated the chapter on when things go totally wrong, when life send you curve ball after curve ball and the importance of maintaining your practice in these demanding conditions. That is life.This book serves as a realistic, worthy introduction or reminder to those who have fallen off the wagon of the importance and benefits of Mindfulness and Meditation and I would have no hesitation in promoting this to someone who wants to find out more, or get back on the stool and regain their centre.

I really enjoyed this e-book:Easy to read, logical flow. Author has a 'down to earth' writing style.Advises on how to actually apply mindfulness in everyday life (something other books in this genre often miss).Only criticism is I wish it was available in paper form as I would like to be able to highlight/write notes and revisit sections of the book easily. For me it is easier to do this with an actual book as opposed to an e-book.I will look at some other publications by this author. Thanky you Ian!

This book not only backs up the basics, but also goes further into detail with meditation tips and techniques to try. It deals with the connection between mindfulness and success in life, as well as facing set backs and tragedies. It also keeps it real about what you can realistically expect, and doesn't make out that it's some kind of miracle cure for anything and everything.

I knew a little about mindfulness before I bought this book but as I began to read I realised that far from being something difficult to understand and hard to do, mindfulness as explained here, was actually something anyone can do. This little book walks you through the basics, explaining in clear language what to expect as well as what not to expect - this book tells it like it is and leaves you excited and ready to take that first step.