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    Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners: Daily Mindfulness and Guided Meditation Practices for Stress Reduction and Finding Inner Peace
    Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners: Daily Mindfulness and Guided Meditation Practices for Stress Reduction and Finding Inner Peace
    Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners: Daily Mindfulness and Guided Meditation Practices for Stress Reduction and Finding Inner Peace
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    Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners: Daily Mindfulness and Guided Meditation Practices for Stress Reduction and Finding Inner Peace

    By Patty Morgan

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    You want to quiet your mind and achieve a greater level of fulfillment and calmness without resorting to unhealthy lifestyle habits? You want to stop thinking about what happened in the past or what may happen in the future and focus on the present moment? You want to enjoy your life to the fullest without getting caught up in your feelings and thoughts?

    If these questions relate to you, your current struggles, your desires and your needs, then you are in the right place. The truth is that everyone, at some point, in his or her life comes across extremely challenging and difficult to handle life events and circumstances, which can put a strain on everybody's mental and physical health state. While you cannot change what has happened in the past and while you cannot control certain things happening in the present, you can change your perspective on your life, you can change the way you see yourself, the way you see others and the way you see the world around you.

    This is exactly what ancient mindfulness meditation practices provide. This ancient practice holds the amazing potential offered to every meditation practitioner, no matters his or her age, cultural or social background. With mindfulness meditation practices, you get to embrace a deeper, unique unity between yourself, other people and the world around you. Moreover, you get to transform your perspective on life, strong build a stronger emotional state, awaken your body and mind by coming back to your senses, stabilize your awareness and attention and finally reclaim your inner potential, power and wholenessby investing only several minutes daily to meditation.

    Inside You Will Discover

    • What is distracted living
    • What are external and internal distractions and their importance
    • What living in the age of information brings
    • What is mindfulness and how it works
    • What are the major mindfulness benefits to mental and physical health
    • What is mindfulness meditation and how it works
    • Why you should learn to meditate
    • How to prepare for your meditation sessions
    • Mindfulness breathing and body scan meditation guidelines
    • And much, much more...

    Get this book NOW, learn how to reclaim the present moment, return to your awareness and build a more loving relationship with yourself and the world around you!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPatty Morgan
    Release dateOct 12, 2019
    ISBN9781393549536
    Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners: Daily Mindfulness and Guided Meditation Practices for Stress Reduction and Finding Inner Peace

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      Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners - Patty Morgan

      Mindfulness Meditation For Beginners

      Daily Mindfulness And Guided Meditation Practices For Stress Reduction And Finding Inner Peace

      By Patty Morgan

      Table Of Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter One: Distracted Living

      External And Internal Distractions

      The Importance Of Attention

      Living In The Age Of Information

      The Real And The Mental World

      The Power Of Self-Preoccupation

      When Distractions Become A Lifestyle

      Self-Examination

      Ever-Present Distractions

      Living Distraction-Less

      Identifying The Presences Of Distractions

      Chapter Two: The Power Of Mindfulness

      What Is Mindfulness?

      How Mindfulness Works?

      History Of Mindfulness

      From East To West

      Mindfulness And Positive Psychology

      Mindfulness And Philosophy

      Why Practice It?

      Mindfulness And Stress

      Mindfulness, Anxiety And Depression

      Mindfulness And Emotional Wellbeing

      Chapter Three: Mindfulness Meditation

      What Is Meditation?

      Why Learn To Meditate?

      The Purpose Of Meditation

      Benefits Of Meditation

      Types Of Meditation

      What Is Mindfulness Meditation?

      Chapter Four: Guided Meditation Practices

      Prepare For Meditation

      Understanding Meditation Experience

      Changing Your Perspective

      What Happens During Meditation?

      Meditation Practicalities

      Common Meditation Obstacles

      Meditation Stereotypes

      Mindfulness Breathing Meditation

      Mindfulness Body Scan Meditation

      Last Words

      Copyright © 2019 by Patty Morgan- All rights reserved.

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      From a Declaration of Principles which was accepted and approved equally by a Committee of the American Bar Association and a Committee of Publishers and Associations.

      In no way is it legal to reproduce, duplicate, or transmit any part of this document by either electronic means or in printed format. Recording of this publication is strictly prohibited, and any storage of this document is not allowed unless with written permission from the publisher. All rights reserved.

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      Respective authors own all copyrights not held by the publisher.

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      Introduction

      The chaotic world we live in is surely unforgiving and can easily strike us down with some unexpected life circumstances if we fail to navigate properly.

      The point of fact is that all of us live in this very much chaotic world where it is extremely hard to actually understand the basic rules.

      Due to negative, often destructive life circumstances and events which strike, we often experience different kinds of pain, stress, and hardships. In these moments we are usually well acquainted with these forms of emotional distress that tends to form when nervousness and anxiety take hold in the stomach.

      Many individuals feel that the struggles and discomfort they go through come as they process the world around them.

      There is a lot of pressure as well as a variety of demands present in the world, and all of them require more than we are able to give.

      Stress, pressure, and demands can often crack individuals due to their inability to deal with nerve-wracking and demanding situations. The main reason for this is a person’s inability to live their life while being focused on the present moment rather than thinking about what may happen in the future and what happened in the past.

      What makes a difference is how individuals deal with anxiety, stress, and fear, which are crucial factors of everyday living.

      What can help is living mindfully as part of your daily routine. In fact, practicing mindfulness in everyday living can help you lower and avoid daily stressors, avoid daily anxieties and finally uncover your own inner peace and calmness.

      Many individuals feel more stressed out and more anxious than ever before due to the violence and chaos present in the world around them.

      Individuals, who are deeply affected by these types of life circumstances and events, have more difficulties when it comes to removing themselves from the sources of stress and anxiety coming from their environment.

      For these reasons, emphasizing mindfulness practices and concepts is more crucial than ever.

      Mindfulness in its purest form is regarded as a completely nonreactive and nonjudgmental form of shifting attention to all experiences and events happening in the current moment.

      This also applies to everyday living and different mindful principles and tasks individuals can embrace in spite of being calmer, less anxious and less stressed out.

      In truth, individuals who practice mindfulness on a daily basis are more prone to keeping their world as calm and stable as possible regardless of life events and circumstances happening around them.

      The majority of mindfulness practices and principles have some rock solid, truly empirical evidence backing their benefits and advantages.

      Mindfulness includes living mindfully every day, reduction of stress, practicing soma yoga and enjoying life to the fullest, no matter what may be happening in the present moment.

      By living more mindful lives, individuals surely become more and more resilient.

      Resiliency is defined as the ability to deal with and overcome daily life stressors and maintain effective levels of healthy, appropriate behaviors and actions when dealing with any kind of obstacles and challenges.

      Mindfulness in its purest form also helps individuals build and maintain a more personal, deeper reservoir, which in the long run helps them fight off both external and internal stressors of any kind.

      With resiliency also comes greater adaptability, and with greater levels of adaptability and a greater sense of mindfulness, individuals gain more control over their lives. Also, a person pursuing this way of living gains more stability over their actions, as well as more resourcefulness.

      Regardless of your spiritual or religious beliefs, your gender or your age, mindfulness living practices and principles offer you tools and strategies you need to take control over your life, to properly examine what you can do and what you need to do by giving you the much-needed wisdom to actually know the difference.

      With this hectic world around us, with so much negativity, pressure and demands, we have to learn to control what we can control.

      We have to take control of our actions, emotions, and feelings. And, there is no better way of doing so than by practicing mindfulness daily.

      Once you have embraced mindfulness as your way of living, you actually advocate yourself towards your inner power, your inner strengths and finally, you are able to live happily in this world without being overwhelmed by your daily stressors, anxieties, pressures, and demands striking from every side.

      This is what mindfulness meditation and practices teach. They teach us how to enjoy everything that life has to offer, how to enjoy every present moment and how to calmly accept what cannot

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