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    The Doctor Who Sat for a Year: The twelve-month project of a self-confessed ‘Zen failure’
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    The Doctor Who Sat for a Year: The twelve-month project of a self-confessed ‘Zen failure’

    By Brendan Kelly

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    As a psychiatrist, Brendan Kelly is used to extoling the benefits of a daily meditation practice, but following his own advice is a different story. Finding the time to sit quietly every day isn’t easy when you’re already trying to juggle a stressful job, a busy family life, a cinema addiction, a cake habit and low-level feelings of guilt over an unused gym membership.

    But this is the year he is going to do it.

    Can he improve his life by meditating for 15 minutes every day? Will it improve his relationships with his family and patients? And will he ever be more Zen than Trixie the cat?

    The Doctor Who Sat for a Year is a funny, thoughtful and inspiring book about embracing both meditation and our imperfections.

    ‘An excellent introduction to the path of meditation … The author describes both how difficult meditation can be in the face of daily distractions and, ultimately, how easy it becomes when simple choices are put in place.’ Michael Harding

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGill Books
    Release dateMar 22, 2019
    ISBN9780717184590
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    The Doctor Who Sat for a Year: The twelve-month project of a self-confessed ‘Zen failure’
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    Brendan Kelly

    Professor Brendan Kelly is a professor of psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin and a consultant psychiatrist at Tallaght University Hospital in Dublin. In addition to his medical degree, he has master’s degrees in epidemiology, healthcare management, and Buddhist studies, and doctorates in medicine, history, governance, and law. He has published two previous books with Gill, The Doctor Who Sat for a Year and The Science of Happiness.

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