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Mindfulness for All

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This is a great book about the principals of Mindfulness and how we can work to incorporate this concept into our everyday lives. This book is easy to read and serves as both an introduction and as a deeper study of the topic. Jon Kabat-Zinn is well known for his work on mental movements and ways to improve one's life, so I was really excited about reading this one!

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Mindfulness for All is great idea , but missed the mark by not including exercises to use in everyday life. The writing is good and I liked where he was trying to go with his ideas.

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In-depth advice for reaching your full potential. This advice is presented in easy to follow language that can be broken up and applied in pieces at a time.

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I enjoyed this book and found it a welcome addition to my library of mindfulness texts. Folks who will benefit from this book the most are those who are familiar with and who practice mindfulness. If mindfulness is new to you, check out one of the author’s earlier works first. For those familiar with mindfulness, this book is a wonderful guide for extension of the practice in one’s life.

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3.5 stars
This book examines the role of mindfulness in politics, engaging with people you disagree with, and the constant negative news stream. Some of the quotes are beautiful, and the rhetorical questions invite readers to further explore their thoughts/feelings on certain topics. I appreciated the reminder to stop personalizing every negative event and instead remember what's right in the world.

It would have been helpful to include exercises or examples to guide readers on how to incorporate mindfulness in these scenarios. Action steps would allow readers to integrate the concepts and make it work in their own lives.

I received an ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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I am working on The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness. I therefore, read this book swiftly as I need to work on myself. I drew the same insights and practices from this book but for global healing. I hope others read this and work with it to heal our world using mindfulness. A great book.

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I received an ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This was really dry and boring. It was interesting how political it was as well. I would recommend his book, Wherever You Go, There You Are.

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I’ve never read a spiritual book, which touched upon politics. It’s a bit unsettling. I understand the author trying to convey his message, but there are other ways to do it.

The premise of the book is very true that mindfulness is very important and should be an integral part of our lives. But most of the people in our busy world don’t pay attention to being mindful. And collectively you can achieve much more when you have a mindful society.

The text is not to the point, missing day-life examples, as a result the read is not engaging.

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