Overview: Mindfulness and Me: A Practical Guide for Living is an 8-week guidebook to living your best life through practice of mindful meditation practices handed down for thousands of years across space and culture.

Verdict: Are you ready to see mindfulness in a whole new way? As a set of relevant practices for emotional stability, concentration, insight, relaxation, self-control, and mental fortitude, mindfulness was never intended to be shrouded in mystery.

Indeed, current psychological research shows that just 8 weeks of daily mindful meditation practices significantly lowers the activity in the fear (a.k.a. stress) center of the brain.

Mindfulness and Me: A Practical Guide for Living is a myth-busting, philosophy-integrating handbook designed to lead you through 8 weeks of practices for creating a meaningful, empowered, kind, and relaxed life.

To prove there’s nothing mystical or magical about mindfulness, these practices integrate Buddhist, yoga, and Christian philosophy, mental health treatment, modern psychology, and so much more.

In what has already been a massive help to both myself and my partner, this book of strategies and techniques for helping people - professionals and home dwellers alike - is most definitely an able-bodied prose tool for those with the need to declutter their minds from all the world is throwing at them; these mindful meditation practices a Godsend to behold.

Off the bat, and some that we here have tried down the ages, have included, but were never beholden to:

• Pay attention. It’s hard to slow down and notice things in a busy world.
• Live in the moment. Try to intentionally bring an open, accepting and discerning attention to everything you do.
• Accept yourself. Treat yourself the way you would treat a good friend.
• And, focus on your breathing.

And so here in Mindfulness and Me: A Practical Guide for Living, author Markoff offers an informal and approachable style of writing, whilst at the same time never over complicates the messages she is trying to parlay.

Always mindful of providing the reader with a clear understanding of why, and importantly how, to engage in activities that reduce stress and promote well-being, tranquility, and contentment, this well researched guide to bringing awareness to our forefront, thus enabling us to create a personal well-being guide to use throughout each day, will have you living a happier, and more fulfilling life in just 8 weeks.

In short, Mindfulness and Me will take you through the biology of stress, changing thought patterns, managing emotions, and having a better relationship with yourself and others. There’s nothing magical about it. It just makes sense!

About the Author - Kira Markoff, LCSW-C is a licensed social worker and psychology PhD student. She has practiced yoga and meditation since 2018 while working as a mental health therapist. She lives in Chambersburg, PA.

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