The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness is a self-help book written by a well-known and recognized group of authors. This guide book shows how to practice mindfulness in everyday life.
The writers introduce a method to gain access to repressed feelings through breathing exercises. The method is about getting to know your mind and body and accepting them gently. Gentleness and compassion are key in order to create the secure space that allows you to encounter the pain and thus recover from within.
However, the goal of the breathing exercises is not change in itself or even an empty mind, but learning to accept experiences and emotions that are already there. A natural feeling of presence arises.
For those who are lost in depression but also for anyone who wants to improve their quality of life there are concrete and useful findings and advice concerning depression at the end of the book, as well as an eight-week exercise program, supported by a CD. The guidance of a medical doctor, nurse or a group may of course be needed, depending of the seriousness of one's condition.
Williams Mark, Teasdale John, Segal Zindel & Kabat-Zinn Jon: The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (2007)
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