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    Being Mindful: Living in the Now
    Being Mindful: Living in the Now
    Being Mindful: Living in the Now
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    Being Mindful: Living in the Now

    By David Tuffley

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    If you can observe your thoughts, who exactly is doing the observing? It is not the ‘I’ that has a name and a life history -- your egoic self. This simple question is at the centre of the great religions and spiritual traditions in the world. Mindfulness in the Buddhist tradition is one source of answers.

    Beyond the spiritual benefits, there are numerous health benefits for the mindfulness practitioner. At the physical level, mindfulness has been proven by recent research to help reduce stress, lower blood pressure, treat heart disease, reduce chronic pain, help you sleep soundly, alleviate gastro-intestinal problems to name a few.

    At the mental level, psychotherapists are using mindfulness as an effective therapy. It is showing good results in helping with depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, relationship conflicts, anxiety disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    The techniques outlined in this concise, plain-language eBook are easy to understand. You have nothing lose and everything to gain by learning this ancient healing technique to help you towards a happier, healthier life.

    It is surprising how many folks in the world around you are operating at a largely unconscious level, which is to say they are driven by habit and instinct; displaying the same stimulus-response behavior time after time.

    I am not suggesting that people are unconscious in the sense of being asleep. If they are driving cars and walking about, they have enough awareness to avoid accidents -- most of the time. They are unconscious in the sense that they allow their social conditioning and innate drives to determine how they live and act. When something happens, they react in their usual way without much awareness of what they are doing. This explains why people make the same mistakes over and over.
    In this habit-driven state, a person is unlikely to be aware of the web of cause and effect in the world around them. They are unaware of how their actions in the past have created their present circumstances, so they have little sense of control over their lives.

    Mindfulness changes all of that, allowing you to consciously choose your actions, moment by moment, in order to create the future you want. It confers on you that uniquely human privilege of free will; the ability to transcend the primitive instincts that still reside not very far below the surface of your otherwise civilized life.
    Mindfulness opens the door to higher consciousness. For the traveller on the spiritual path or simply someone who want a higher quality life, this eBook can help.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAltiora Publications
    Release dateMay 12, 2014
    ISBN9781311026569
    Being Mindful: Living in the Now
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    David Tuffley

    David Tuffley (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & Socio-Technical Studies at Griffith University in Australia.David writes on a broad range of interests; from Comparative Religion, Anthropology, Psychology, Ancient and Modern History, Linguistics, Rhetoric, Philosophy, Architectural History, Environments and Ecosystems.

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      Being Mindful - David Tuffley

      Being Mindful

      Living in the Now

      David Tuffley

      Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet ― Thích Nhất Hạnh

      Published in 2014 by Altiora Publications at Smashwords

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      David Tuffley PhD is an academic at Griffith University in Australia where he lectures in Applied Ethics and Socio-Technical Studies. David is passionate about helping people to grow into their full potential.

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      CONTENTS

      Why You Should Read This Book

      Mindfulness: A Primer

      You are Not your Mind

      Every Moment Is The Best Moment

      Non-attachment

      Flow as a portal to mindfulness

      Mindfulness is meta-consciousness

      Chain of cause and effect

      Mindfulness and past hurt

      The Four Foundations

      Heightened Awareness, No Mental Chatter

      Mindfulness of Body

      Mindfulness of Feelings

      Mindfulness of Mind

      Mindfulness of the Dharma

      The Seven Factors Of Enlightenment

      The Essence of Buddhism

      If you are alive, you will suffer

      The cause of suffering is attachment

      You can end suffering

      End suffering by following the eight-fold path

      Mindfulness Meditation Practice

      Simple method for meditation

      Practice non-attachment

      About The Author

      Other Books By David Tuffley

      WHY YOU SHOULD READ THIS BOOK

      If you can observe your thoughts, who exactly is doing the observing? It is not the ‘I’ that has a name and a life history -- your egoic self. This simple question is at the centre of the great religions and spiritual traditions in the world. Mindfulness in the Buddhist tradition is one source of answers.

      Beyond the spiritual benefits, there are numerous health benefits for the mindfulness practitioner. At the physical level, mindfulness has been proven by recent research to help reduce stress, lower blood pressure, treat heart disease, reduce chronic pain, help you sleep soundly, alleviate gastro-intestinal problems to name a few.

      At the mental level, psychotherapists are using mindfulness as an effective therapy. It is showing good results in helping with depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, relationship conflicts, anxiety disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

      The techniques outlined in this concise, plain-language eBook are easy to understand. You have nothing lose and everything to gain by learning this ancient healing technique to help you towards a happier, healthier life.

      MINDFULNESS: A PRIMER

      It is surprising how many folks in the world around you are operating at a largely unconscious

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