A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled

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A very interesting book but I think I made a mistake listening to the audio book rather than having a real copy.

Most courses/books made the subject so soft and mushy that I felt I am on the path to becoming a monk. I was already having trouble with the author’s rather chaotic style (going off at tangents, and using endless, complicated comparisons that just made things more confusing), when I was shocked by something they said at about the 20% mark. The number one bestseller, with over 150,000 copies sold, which kick-started a mindfulness revolution**'Ruby Wax has written a guide to mindfulness that's as hilarious as it is useful' Arianna Huffington 'We are all frazzled, all of us. in parts of it, which is actually a pretty cathartic affirmation that it's not just me that loses my absolute shit about things.What I enjoyed about Ruby's introduction was her sheer honesty - depression is real, mindfulness will not solve all your problems. The number one bestseller, with over 150,000 copies sold, which kick-started a mindfulness revolution** 'Ruby Wax has written a guide to mindfulness that's as hilarious as it is useful' Arianna Huffington 'We are all frazzled, all of us. Teaming her wit and humour with personal anecdotes on her journey to mindfulness - Ruby Wax tells it like no other. I was a terrible actress, I couldn't sing, I couldn't do characters, I couldn't do an English accent and I lived in England, so I was narrowing it down". In short, I think this is a good, readable introduction to mindfulness, if you bear in mind that Wax's own issues are on the extreme side and the practice is supposed to also be useful for less dramatic situations.

I found parts of this book really easy to read, but faltered at chapter 5 and the mindfulness exercises. I think it's also a big swig of apathy, though, and that's something I think I need to be aware of and actively combat. A more structured follow up to Sane New World, with a little more 'science' behind it and a six week course of mindfulness exercises. She had previously earned a postgraduate certificate in psychotherapy and counselling from Regents College in London. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

So they're interesting, and I suspect relevant to anyone who has any sort of contact with babies, children or teenagers, even if they're not your own.