A Practical Guide to Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living: Living with Heart b

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE A Practical Guide to Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living by Frits Koster, Victoria Norton, Erik van den Brink A Practical Guide to Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living: Living with Heart is a step-by-step guide for those who wish to deepen their mindfulness skills in order to lead a healthier, happier and more self-compassionate life. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A Practical Guide to Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living: Living with Heart is a step-by-step guide for those who wish to deepen their mindfulness skills with compassion for a healthier, happier life and more fulfilling relationships. It offers a clear structure as well as ample freedom to adjust to individual needs, starting with learning to be kind to yourself and then expanding this to learn how to be kind to others.This guide consists of eight chapters that follow the eight sessions of the mindfulness-based compassionate living training programme. To enhance the learning experience, this book features accessible transcripts and downloadable audio exercises, as well as worksheets to explore experiences during exercises. It also includes suggestions for deepening practice at the end of each session. A Practical Guide to Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living explores the science of compassion in an easy-to-understand and comprehensive manner, one which will appeal to both trained professionals and clients, or anyone wishing to deepen their mindfulness practice with heartfulness. Author Biography Erik van den Brink studied medicine in Amsterdam and trained to become a psychiatrist in the UK. He has extensive experience in meditation and specialised in mindfulness-based and compassion focussed approaches to mental health.Frits Koster is a vipassana meditation teacher and certified mindfulness teacher and healthcare professional. He has taught mindfulness and compassion in healthcare settings for many years. . He studied Buddhist psychology for six years as a monk in Southeast Asia.Victoria Norton is a qualified MBSR and MBCL trainer with a professional background in teaching and communications management. Table of Contents Contents (Practices and exercises are marked with )Foreword by Mark WilliamsAcknowledgementsA warm welcomeThe gift of mindfulnessThe mindfulness waveHeartfulnessHow MBCL beganBased in scienceIs MBCL for you?How to use this book1. Wired to survive rather than thrive Session One: How we evolved – The threat, drive and soothing systemsThe challenge of being human Compassion: not for the faint-hearted The Breathing Space with Kindness The human brain and its flawsLike Pandoras boxInsight: the good fairyThree emotion regulation systemsThe stress of threat and driveRest and digest Contemplating the Three Systems in Your LifeGetting out of balanceRestoring the balance A Safe Place Kindness Meditation: YourselfSuiting your soothing system A Pleasure Walk Calendar: Soothing SystemSummary and Suggestions for Practice2. Embracing inner demons Session Two: Threat and self-compassionExploring inner landscapes Compassionately Dealing with ResistanceOuter and inner threatsThree components of self-compassion The Self-Compassion Mantra The Breathing Space with CompassionTend and befriendMe-first, you-first or we-togetherSurvival of the kindestPathways to self-compassion A Hand on Your HeartWhen compassion itself seems to be the demonA gentle paceWobbles on the wayUsing imagery A Compassionate Companion Kindness Meditation: A Benefactor Calendar: Threat SystemSummary and Suggestions for Practice3. Treating habits kindlySession Three: Untangling desires and patternsUlysses courage Compassionately Dealing with Desire Urge-surfingWhy we cant get no satisfactionHabits and patternsThree basic modesLove thy inner critic as thyselfSelf-conscious emotions Dont kill the messengers Compassionately Dealing with Inner PatternsComfort zones without comfortBefriending inner patternsTaking a more scenic route Kindness Meditation: A Good Friend Calendar: Drive SystemSummary and Suggestions for Practice4. Out of the mud into the lightSession Four: Embodying compassion Flow directions of compassionPretend play Doing as If Embodying CompassionThe Lotus of CompassionFeeding an inner helper Kindness Meditation: A Neutral Person Kindness for The Body Mindful Movement Examples of Mindful Movement Walking with Kindness Calendar: Inner Critic Summary and Suggestions for Practice5. Receiving and giving with every breath Session Five: Self and others – Widening the circleDear Self A Compassionate LetterWho are you?The problem with over-identifyingSelfing on autopilot or by choice Kindness Meditation: A Difficult PersonNotes on Kindness Meditation Challenges in Kindness MeditationA wordless alternative Compassionate Breathing: YourselfBuilding resilience Compassionate Breathing: Others The Breathing Space with Compassionate Breathing Calendar: Inner HelperSummary and Suggestions for Practice 6. Making friends for life Session Six: Growing happinessKissing joy as it flies Revisiting the GoodThree doors to happinessFour Friends for LifeGiving peace a chance Forgiving Yourself Asking Forgiveness Forgiving OthersGratitude: The memory of the heart Gratitude The Silver Lining Your Values Kindness Meditation: All Beings Calendar: Receiving CompassionSummary and Suggestions for PracticeSilent Session An Appreciative Body Scan The Horse Whisperer 7. Heartful mind, mindful heartSession Seven: Weaving wisdom and compassion into daily life A Day in Your Life Draining or sustainingEgosystem or ecosystemFrom formal to informal practice The Breathing Space for Wise Compassionate ActionAction in deed Practical ethics Equanimity Meditation Sympathetic Joy MeditationCaring for the future A Compassionate Prevention Plan Calendar: Giving CompassionSummary and Suggestions for Practice 8. Healing lifeSession Eight: Living with heart A crack in everythingWounded healers The River of LifeAt home wherever you goTending your inner gardenFurther supportSpreading your wingsSummary and Suggestions for Practice List of audio downloadsList of worksheet downloads Further reading NotesAbout the authors Review A practical yet rich guide in living with a wise heart.Tara Brach PhD, meditation teacher, USA, and author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge, tarabrach.com.From the first page of this book it is clear that Erik and Frits have a burning desire to help people ease the pain in their hearts and minds with their MBCL course. Building on the wonderful work of their first book Mindfulness-based Compassionate Living, they have now produced a volume where accessibility is paramount, with the eight-week course clearly laid out to make it easy for the reader to follow and get the most out of their excellent, kind, heart-felt work. They have a gift for synthesising vitally important ideas into an easy-to-follow programme that anyone can access and benefit from. Highly recommended.Vidyamala Burch, co-founder of Breathworks, UK, author of Living well with Pain and Illness (Piatkus, 2008) and co-author (with Danny Penman) of Mindfulness for Health (Piatkus, 2013).Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living is spreading beautifully into the world and touching lives in transformative ways. This new book makes the work more accessible to everyday people. It offers us a personal training pathway for enabling compassion to emerge in our daily lives. The book is a gift to us all. Rebecca Crane PhD, director of Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, Bangor University, UK, author of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (Routledge, 2009).This wonderful guidebook will benefit any reader interested in the healing power of mindful compassion. The authors have dedicated their lives to these teachings and have produced a clear and practical way to integrate the best of science with the insights of the contemplative traditions. I feel this eight-session approach is powerfully innovative and exactly what the world needs right now. I cant recommend this book highly enough.Susan Gillis Chapman, Vancouver, Canada, Faculty for Karuna Training, Acharya, Buddhist teacher and author of The Five Keys To Mindful Communication (Shambhala, 2012).Erik and Frits have crafted a programme that carefully builds on the learning from mindfulness-based programmes such as MBSR and MBCT. From this foundation, they introduce compassion-based practices explicitly. There is a solid and compelling theoretical base to the programme, which Erik and Frits have thoughtfully adapted to make it particularly relevant for clinical settings. The practices and exercises offer the potential for a thorough exploration of compassion in ones life. In this practical guide, each week a menu of options is offered with the encouragement to explore and work with what is needed, possible and helpful at any one moment in time. I have a sense I will revisit its delights often.Alison Evans, founder and co-director of the Mindfulness Network CiC, and core teacher at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice with specialist interest in Mindfulness-based Supervision, Bangor University, UKThis pragmatic and user-friendly workbook brings forth a powerful integration of compassion practices for people who have some mindfulness experience "under their belts" already. Underpinned by evolutionary understanding of why human beings are so driven to bring hurt to ourselves and others, it provides a supported pathway for people to meet and transform distress, and connect with their capacity to feel and express more kindness and compassion moment by moment in their lives. May many be touched by it!Timothea Goddard, Sydney, Australia, Founding Director of Openground Mindfulness Programs and Mindfulness Training Institute - Australia and New ZealandThis is a thoroughly friendly book, in which the authors show great care and respect for their readers, both service users and professionals. The work is very down-to earth and accessible, including vivid and engaging examples, poems and stories to encourage the reader on this life-changing journey. The Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living course detailed here is closely based on mindfulness with the same experiential method of learning, and deepens that knowledge into heartfulness. I very much enjoyed this book and am sure that many will benefit from it by learning how to make the comfort of compassion for themselves and others an essential, fundamental part of their lives. Judith Soulsby: Senior teacher and trainer with the Centre for Mindfulness Research & Practice, Bangor University, UK; Certified teacher and teacher trainer with the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. Review Quote A practical yet rich guide in living with a wise heart. Tara Brach PhD, meditation teacher, USA, and author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge , tarabrach.com. From the first page of this book it is clear that Erik and Frits have a burning desire to help people ease the pain in their hearts and minds with their MBCL course. Building on the wonderful work of their first book Mindfulness-based Compassionate Living, they have now produced a volume where accessibility is paramount, with the eight-week course clearly laid out to make it easy for the reader to follow and get the most out of their excellent, kind, heart-felt work. They have a gift for synthesising vitally important ideas into an easy-to-follow programme that anyone can access and benefit from. Highly recommended. Vidyamala Burch, co-founder of Breathworks, UK, author of Living well with Pain and Illness (Piatkus, 2008) and co-author (with Danny Penman) of Mindfulness for Health (Piatkus, 2013). Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living is spreading beautifully into the world and touching lives in transformative ways. This new book makes the work more accessible to everyday people. It offers us a personal training pathway for enabling compassion to emerge in our daily lives. The book is a gift to us all. Rebecca Crane PhD, director of Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, Bangor University, UK, author of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (Routledge, 2009). This wonderful guidebook will benefit any reader interested in the healing power of mindful compassion. The authors have dedicated their lives to these teachings and have produced a clear and practical way to integrate the best of science with the insights of the contemplative traditions. I feel this eight-session approach is powerfully innovative and exactly what the world needs right now. I cant recommend this book highly enough. Susan Gillis Chapman, Vancouver, Canada, Faculty for Karuna Training, Acharya, Buddhist teacher and author of The Five Keys To Mindful Communication (Shambhala, 2012). Erik and Frits have crafted a programme that carefully builds on the learning from mindfulness-based programmes such as MBSR and MBCT. From this foundation, they introduce compassion-based practices explicitly. There is a solid and compelling theoretical base to the programme, which Erik and Frits have thoughtfully adapted to make it particularly relevant for clinical settings. The practices and exercises offer the potential for a thorough exploration of compassion in ones life. In this practical guide, each week a menu of options is offered with the encouragement to explore and work with what is needed, possible and helpful at any one moment in time. I have a sense I will revisit its delights often. Alison Evans, founder and co-director of the Mindfulness Network CiC, and core teacher at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice with specialist interest in Mindfulness-based Supervision, Bangor University, UK This pragmatic and user-friendly workbook brings forth a powerful integration of compassion practices for people who have some mindfulness experience "under their belts" already. Underpinned by evolutionary understanding of why human beings are so driven to bring hurt to ourselves and others, it provides a supported pathway for people to meet and transform distress, and connect with their capacity to feel and express more kindness and compassion moment by moment in their lives.May many be touched by it! Timothea Goddard, Sydney, Australia, Founding Director of Openground Mindfulness Programs and Mindfulness Training Institute - Australia and New Zealand This is a thoroughly friendly book, in which the authors show great care and respect for their readers, both service users and professionals. The work is very down-to earth and accessible, including vivid and engaging examples, poems and stories to encourage the reader on this life-changing journey. The Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living course detailed here is closely based on mindfulness with the same experiential method of learning, and deepens that knowledge into heartfulness. I very much enjoyed this book and am sure that many will benefit from it by learning how to make the comfort of compassion for themselves and others an essential, fundamental part of their lives. Judith Soulsby: Senior teacher and trainer with the Centre for Mindfulness Research & Practice, Bangor University, UK; Certified teacher and teacher trainer with the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. Details ISBN1138228931 Year 2018 ISBN-10 1138228931 ISBN-13 9781138228931 Format Paperback Imprint Routledge Subtitle Living with Heart Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Author Erik van den Brink Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Affiliation Trainingsbureau Mildheid & Mindfulness, The Netherlands DEWEY 158 Media Book Pages 164 Publication Date 2018-06-26 Short Title A Practical Guide to Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living Language English UK Release Date 2018-06-26 AU Release Date 2018-06-26 NZ Release Date 2018-06-26 Illustrations 32 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 6 Halftones, black and white Alternative 9781138228924 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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