10 Mindful Books to Inspire You This Year
What’s on your reading list for 2021? To get you started, here are 10 books (and three podcasts) that help us reflect, celebrate, practice, and find balance.
Sarah Wilson • Dey St.
Anyone who read Sarah Wilson’s
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, her remarkable 2018 memoir about shifting our approach to anxiety and mental illness, will have high expectations for this new book. Her goal, she writes, was to find a way to talk about the feeling that “Something is not right. We’re not living life right. To try to grasp such a pain, to find the beginning and end, is like trying to bite your own teeth.” Instead of grasping too hard, then, she bravely explores what feels so wrong in her unforgettably wholehearted way. The common link among our personal, social, and global struggles climate chaos, environmental destruction, local and global conflict, and our inability to come together to solve any of it boils down, Wilson finds, to
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A recent study suggests that Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy can help improve the perception that patients with depression have of themselves .
A study conducted by Elisabeth Schanche, PhD, of the University of Bergen, Norway, and published in the journal Counseling and Psychotherapy Research, suggests that
mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) may not only help improve self-criticism and self-confidence in patients with depression, but also reduce the chances of a relapse .
What is mindfulness?
The word mindfulness is a translation of “sati”, a word in the Pali language that refers to awareness, attention and memory.
It was used by the Buddha over 2,500 years ago in his teachings . Thus, sati is the human capacity to be in the present and to be able to remember or bring thoughts from the past to the present to pay attention to them.
Findings from a recent study of individuals with depression suggest that Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) can improve how patients feel about themselves in difficult situations in ways that may help protect against relapse of depressive symptoms. The findings are published in Counselling and Psychotherapy Research.