Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan – by Dr. Mark Williams & Dr. Danny Penman

The authors, with their PhDs in psychology and biochemistry, respectively, bring the science that you might expect (and some that you might not!) to this book about mindfulness meditation and mindfulness in everyday life.

The book’s realism comes not just from studies, though, but also from a realistic perspective on modern life, in which many of us have sufficient responsibilities to afford us only limited downtime, and we certainly cannot all take time off for a mountaintop retreat.

What we can do, however, is enjoy this eight-week program for finding peace in a frantic world, while still going about our necessary business in that frantic world on a daily basis.

The eight weeks go as follows:

1. Waking up to the autopilot
2. Keeping the body in mind
3. The mouse in the maze
4. Moving beyond the rumor mill
5. Turning toward difficulties
6. Trapped in the past or living in the present?
7. When did you stop dancing?
8. Your wild and precious life

…with meditations, as well as reframes and other tools, for each.

The style is very easy-reading, with neither scientific jargon nor spiritual arcana, just clear explanations, instructions, and guidance.

Bottom line: if you’re the sort of person who tries to take each day as it comes, but sometimes several days gang up on you at once, then this book can help get things into order.

Click here to check out Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World, and indeed find peace in a frantic world!