Danny Penman

Mark Williamsi uurimistöö teadveloleku tervendavast mõjust on viinud teadvelolekupõhise kognitiivteraapia (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, MBCT) uuele tasemele. "Sügavama teadveloleku" kaante vahel jätkavad Mark Williams ja Danny Penman lugu, mille esimene osa pealkirjaga "Ärksus. Tee rahuni pöörases maailmas" kadus lettidelt nagu soe sai. Autorite eelmises teoses rajatud tugevale vundamendile toetub lugematute inimeste õnnetunne ja elurõõm ning nad aitasid paljudel leida eluteele uus suund. Samas jäi mitmete lugejate jaoks õhku küsimus, kas on veel juhtnööre alustatud teekonnal edasi liikumiseks ja viimsetele probleemidele vastu astumiseks." Sügavama teadvelolekuga" annavad Williams ja Penman selge ja kõlava vastuse: jah. Teadvelolekupraktikaga on võimalik minna veelgi kaugemale. Kui keskenduda nähtusele, millele autorid on andnud nimeks vedana ehk tunnete toon, paljastuvad ka kõige sügavamad protsessid mediteerivas mõistuses. Kõigest kaheksa nädalaga õpitud praktikate valguses haihtuvad ärevus, depressioon, stress ja üleüldine tusasus koos kõigi teiste ebameeldivate tundmustega. Neist jääb vabaks vaikne ja tüüne ruum elu uuesti taasülesehitamiseks.

Use the hidden foundations of mindfulness to rediscover calm and reclaim your life in our chaotic world. There are moments in life that decide your fate. They ripple into the future and dictate how you experience the world in the moments that follow; either positive and uplifting, dark and chaotic, or flat and dull. What if you could recognize these moments before they seized control of your life? What if you could use them to set sail for a better future? What if all moments, big and small, could be harnessed this way? In Deeper Mindfulness, Oxford Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman reunite to present a new eight-week guided meditation program that takes mindfulness to the next level. Deeper Mindfulness reveals how the latest advances in neuroscience, combined with millennia old wisdom, can be used to transform your life. These discoveries open the doors to a deeper layer of mindfulness known as the 'feeling tone'. This sets the 'background color' that tinges your entire experience of life. It is also the tipping point from which you can reclaim your life in an increasingly stressful and chaotic world. Proven effective at treating anxiety, stress and depression, the practices in Deeper Mindfulness offer a new and more fruitful direction for both novice and experienced meditators. It also allows the rest of us to approach life with renewed strength, vigor and equanimity.

Tietoinen läsnäolo paljastaa joukon yksinkertaisia mutta tehokkaita menetelmiä. Voimme soveltaa niitä jokapäiväiseen elämäämme päästäksemme irti ahdistuksen, stressin, tyytymättömyyden ja uupumuksen oravanpyörästä. Jo muutaman minuutin päivittäinen läsnäolon harjoittaminen edistää mielen hyvinvointia. Kirja pohjautuu tietoiseen läsnäoloon perustuvaan kognitiiviseen terapiaan (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, MBCT). Teos on suunnattu kaikille tietoisen läsnäolon soveltamisesta kiinnostuneille.

"We can intentionally befriend the breath to great advantage. And that is what Danny Penman's beautifully tactile and invitingly pleasing and uplifting gift to us is all about." --Jon Kabat-Zinn You breathe 22,000 times every day. How many of those breaths are you really aware of? For thousands of years, people have used the art of breathing for equally profound effects on the mind and body. In The Art of Breathing, international bestselling and award-winning author Dr. Danny Penman provides a concise guide to letting go and finding peace in a messy world, simply by taking the time to breathe. Dissolve anxiety, stress, and unhappiness, enhance your mind, and unleash your creativity with the simple exercises included. With each little moment of mindfulness, you'll discover a happier, calmer you. Mindfulness really is as easy as breathing. Some known side effects: You will smile more. You will worry less. Life won't bother you so much. This new edition includes a new afterword by Mark Williams, author of Mindfulness.

Work deadlines, to-do lists, family commitments, pressure to perform... Our frantic lives demand so much from us that we can often feel locked into a cycle of frustration, anxiety and stress, unable to tackle the tasks before us or see a way out of our habitual ways of thinking and doing things. Yet there is a way out. The simple mindfulness techniques at the heart of this book can help us lead a more creative and productive life - one that is isn't governed by the chaotic pace of life. They also dissolve anxiety, stress and depression while enhancing mental resilience. The four week programme takes just 10-20 minutes per day. The easy-to-follow programme works by soothing and clearing your mind, allowing innovative ideas to take form and crystallise. This helps you to spontaneously 'see' the solution to a problem, to conjure up new ideas, or to create works that have true insight and flair. The programme helps build the courage necessary for you to follow your ideas wherever they should lead - and the resilience to cope with any setbacks. It will help your mind work more effectively so that you canlive more intuitively and have the inner confidence to drive your ideas forward. The accompanying download link contains 6 meditations that you can use to build an ongoing practice, mixing and matching meditations to suit your circumstances

Alkuperäisteos Mindfulness for Health on valittu vuoden 2014 parhaaksi kirjaksi British Medical Association -kirjakilpailussa. Mindfulness ja terveys -kirja esittelee yksinkertaisia harjoituksia, joita voi tehdä päivittäin helpottaakseen kroonista kipua, stressiä tai sairauden oireita. Kliiniset testit todistavat, että mindfulness toimii yhtä tehokkaasti kuin kipulääkkeet ja edistää samalla kehon luonnollisia tervehtymismekanismeja. Mindfulness voi vähentää ahdistusta, masennusta, ärtyneisyyttä, uupumusta ja unettomuutta, jotka johtuvat kroonisista sairauksista. Kirja perustuu meditaatio-ohjelmaan, jonka Vidyamala Burch kehitti etsiessään helpotusta vakavaan selkävammaansa. Ohjelma on auttanut kymmeniä tuhansia kivusta, sairauksista ja stressistä kärsiviä ihmisiä Iso-Britanniassa ja muualla maailmassa. Ohjelma on kerännyt ylistäviä lausuntoja Professori Mark Williamsilta Oxford Universitystä, mindfulness-pioneeri Jon Kabat-Zinniltä ja professori Lance McCrac- keniltä Lontoon Kings Collegesta. Kahdeksan viikon ohjelma vie päivittäin vain 10-20 minuuttia. Se on todettu auttavan suurimipien kipuja aiheuttavien sairauksien, kuten selkäongelmien, niveltuleh- dusten, migreenin ja diabeteksen oireita. Menetelmä voi auttaa myös muun muassa syöpähoidoista aiheutuviin kipuihin, sydänsairauksiin, krooniseen väsymykseen ja jopa tinnitukseen. Menetelmän tarkoituksena on kannustaa oireista kärsiviä rakastamaan elämäänsä ja nauttimaan siitä jälleen. Danny Penmanilta on ilmestynyt yhdessä Mark Williamsin kanssa Tietoinen läsnäolo -löydä rauha kiireen keskellä (Basam Books 5. painos 2015). Burchilta on aikaisemmin ilmestynyt Mielekkäästi irti kivusta ja sairaudesta (Basam Books 2012).

Developed by two authors, Vidyamala Burch and Danny Penman who themselves have struggled with severe pain after sustaining serious injuries, You Are Not Your Pain reveals a simple eight-week program of mindfulness-based practices that will melt away your suffering. The eight meditations in this book take just ten to twenty minutes per day and have been shown to be as effective as prescription painkillers to soothe some of the most common causes of pain. These mindfulness-based practices soothe the brain's pain networks, while also significantly reducing the anxiety, stress, exhaustion, irritability, and depression that often accompanies chronic pain and illness. Whether you experience back pain, arthritis, or migraines, are suffering from fibromyalgia, celiac disease, or undergoing chemotherapy, you will quickly learn to manage your pain and live life fully once again.

For mange som lever hektiske liv, kan det å slappe av oppleves som enda mer stressende, fordi tankene, følelsene og signalene fra kroppen ikke tar verken fri eller pauser. Mindfulness representerer et annet perspektiv: Det dreier seg ikke om å koble seg fra livet, men å koble seg på - slik livet er akkurat nå. Det kan være prikkende stress over å være for sen til et møte, den uutholdelige kjedsomheten i et møte, grubletanker eller bekymringer som kverner rundt og rundt, spenninger og hodepine som følge av alle ting som burde ha vært gjort. Denne boken lærer deg hvordan du oppnår kontroll ved å slippe opp kontroll, som innebærer å befri seg fra troen på at problemer er noe som må fikses, dyttes vekk eller unngås. Mindfulness er en øvelse i å komme det travle og urolige livet i møte, uten å forandre eller flykte fra det. Mantraet i mindfulness er et vennlig «Hva er dette?», der hverdagen er selve arbeidsbenken.

MINDFULNESS reveals a set of simple yet powerful practices that can be incorporated into daily life to help break the cycle of unhappiness, stress, anxiety and mental exhaustion and promote genuine joie de vivre. It's the kind of happiness that gets into your bones. It seeps into everything you do and helps you meet the worst that life can throw at you with new courage. The book is based on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). MBCT revolves around a straightforward form of mindfulness meditation which takes just a few minutes a day for the full benefits to be revealed. MBCT has been clinically proven to be at least as effective as drugs for depression and it is recommended by the UK's National Institute of Clincal Excellence - in other words, it works. More importantly it also works for people who are not depressed but who are struggling to keep up with the constant demands of the modern world. MINDFULNESS focuses on promoting joy and peace rather than banishing unhappiness. It's precisely focused to help ordinary people boost their happiness and confidence levels whilst also reducing anxiety, stress and irritability.

Mindfulness fokuserer på, hvordan man opnår glæde og indre ro. Bogens fokus er præcis på, hvordan man kan hjælpe sig selv til at fremme livsglæde og selvtillid og dermed reducere angst, stress og uro. Meditationerne udgør kernen i mindfulness, og det er muligt at lære de enkle mindfulness-meditationer ved blot ved at sætte lidt tid af hver dag. Du vil blive overrasket over, hvor hurtigt du kan hjælpe dig selv til igen kan få kontrol over dit liv og finde fred i en hektisk verden. Bogen indeholder en cd med guidede meditationer.

Everyday life is so frantic and full of troubles that we have largely forgotten how to live a joyful existence. We try so hard to be happy that we often end up missing the most important parts of our lives. In Mindfulness, Oxford professor Mark Williams and award-winning journalist Danny Penman reveal the secrets to living a happier and less anxious, stressful, and exhausting life. Based on the techniques of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, the unique program developed by Williams and his colleagues, the book offers simple and straightforward forms of mindfulness meditation that can be done by anyone--and it can take just 10 to 20 minutes a day for the full benefits to be revealed.