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DescriptionHealing the Heart and Mind with Mindfulness is a practical book that provides strategies using mindfulness to manage stress, anxiety and depression, as well as ways to cultivate psychological wellbeing. Uniquely, it combines a traditional Buddhist approach to mindfulness with contemporary psychology and current perspectives. Drawing on the author's many years of clinical experience as a psychologist as well as his personal experience in Buddhist meditation practices, it outlines how the Buddha's four applications of mindfulness can provide a pathway to psychological wellbeing, and how this can be used personally or with clinical populations. This accessible, user friendly book provides strategies for healing the heart and mind. Malcolm Huxter introduces mindfulness as it is presented in Buddhist psychology and guides the reader through meditations in a systematic way. The practices are clearly explained and supported by relevant real life stories. Being aware that mindfulness and meditation are simple but not easy, Huxter guides the reader from the basics of mindfulness and meditation through to the more refined aspects. Author descriptionMalcolm Huxter has extensive personal experience in Buddhist meditation practices and is also a clinical psychologist. Huxter currently works as a clinical psychologist and teaches Buddhist meditation practices such as mindfulness and the cultivation of heart qualities (loving kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity) between his home in Northern NSW Australia and the UK. Table of contentsIntroduction. Four Realities: A Starting Point and a Final Destination. Having Purpose and Choosing Direction: Steps on a Path of Freedom. Meditation: Cultiving the Heart-Mind. Mindfulness of Thoughts and the Freedom to Choose to Engage or Not Engage. Emotions: Taming the Destructive and Cultivating Balance. Reactive Cyclic Patterns and Freedom From the Bind. Presence, Ongoing Practise and Aspirations for the Future. Appendix A. Appendix B. Appendix C. |