[Blake]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... s&n=507846
"The Miracle Of Mindfulness"

Run, dont walk to your local book-center to study this book. From the cover, you may be turned off by the talk of meditation and zen, but at its heart it is a guide to grounding yourself in reality.

-Blake

"Chance favors those in motion."

 

[falling_free]

wtf man, this is a random coincedance but I was talking to someone about this very book today.

WOW , too weird. and yeh I have this book.

 

[Dreamer]

Interesting Blake. I have to say, I had four months of group therapy, called Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. It is an integration of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and many of the works of Thich Naht Hahn -- Buddhist principles of daily living -- sane living.

Mindfulness is so simple, but it takes a helluva lot of work, but it is "living in the present." Living in reality. Since taking that with a group of individuals with all sorts of emotional problems (@20 in the group), 1.5 hours every Monday, I swear that implementing it has improved my state of mind overall.

I can actually control the DP/DR a bit more. It's still chronic, but it's as though I took another step upwards, a positive step.

I must say, that combined with one on one therapy to discuss specific problems has been very helpful for me.

Best,
D
I'm very lucky to live in a uni town where DBT has been taught to the staff as well has to patients of the uni hospital. Excellent neuropsych department.

http://www.priory.com/dbt.htm
Link to Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. Originally created for Borderline patients, it is found to be effective for many different patients. I have Borderline traits, but my Dx is GAD.

 

[peaceboy23]

All of Thich Nhat Hanh's books are wonderful! I need to go back and re-read some of them, especially the miracle of mindfulness, and Present Moment, Wonderful moment. Isn't it interesting that a philosophy over two thousand years old may be just what some of us need!

 

[enigma]

I ordered it last night (through Blake's link), and received notice today that it has shipped.

I'm very curious about his techniques for 24 hr a day mindful awareness, and look forward to screwing myself up even further through their implementation. (j/k)

My biggest actual concern is that I may be too brain dead for this.

In any event, it can't kill me.

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P.S. Why am I posting at this hour after I swore to myself that I wouldn't anymore?

 

[peaceboy23]

I'll tell you one good thing about Thich Nhat Hanh and other similar works is that they stress that it isn't important to make quick progress, or 100% progress, but whatever you can implement in your life at the time is in itself good.